Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-04-12
OAKEY HALL 5 BUDGET.
The Dimmick-HarriSOn Wedding Led
Many Other Easter NuptialS.

Home Resting - Wedding Fees
Elopements Are Economical-A
Frigate RaIl-Euchre Playing for
Religion-The Battle Of the Booths.
Presidential Cricket.
From Our Regular Correspondent
New York. April 9-The past week
has been filled with Easter echoes.
Heard at the now crowded theatres,
which have generally discarded dra-
matte childishness, and put into per-
Torrance scholarly plays; heard, also,
i'm the laughter of springJide children
in the city parks around the many floral
beds wherein the cTOcus. The jouquil.
the hyacinth, and the spotted tulip
smile up az them: and above all heard
at the Easter weddings, since every day
in the week thus far has witnessed
throughout the city at least five nota-
BILE weddings Il will be something for
brides to say hereafter during the
years to come. Il was married in the
same week with an eX-President of the
United States and his bride; and they
and / celebrate our wooden, silver and
golden weddindgs together
HOW DIMMICK WILLED AND
BENNY WILTED
perhaps; for Benny, the champion
bridegroom Of the expired Easter week
must become more than a centenarian
in order 10 celebrate his own golden
wedding Mrs. Standardization may,
however. become a charming elderly
matron half a century hence During
the ceremony of last Easter Monday
She showed such a look of proud firm
ness and uttered 81 viii" so emphatic
ally, that if she exercises her will
powers firmly enough she ought to be
able to will herself into a centenarian
The newspaper wags, referring TO
bridegroom Bens 81 wilpinthe cere-
mony, said that he spoke as if he
really was willing The bride looked as
radiently as any bride can who is be-
coming ''an old mans darling"
4 PROSPECTIVE CHILD FLORA.
If the Happy Pair" are ever blessed
with a daughter. she should be named
Flora, for the goddess of that name pre-
sided at the wedding. The church of
the wedding is named after ST. Thomas.
the doubling apostle and ecclesiastical
tradition claims that he had been
gardener, and, of course. fond of flow
ers st. Thomas Church has become
the Mecca Of brides. Very recently il
Witnessed the nUptials of the Duke and
Duchess Of Marlborough. and OF the
Hon. Almeric Paget, an heir presump-
tive to a British peerage, with the
daughter of ex-Secretary William C.
Whitney (and the prospective Presiden-
tiai candidate Of the New York Democ-
racD; and now the nuptials of an eX,
and possible next President, adds TO
the church prestige.
AN INDIANA NESTING.
The owner of the notable hat is now
at indianapolis doing what Henry Ward
Beecher wrote TO Mrs. Theodore Tilton
as the nesting act" And shopkeep-
ers here have been relating wonderful
fairy tales Of the purchases which Mrs
Dimmick made from them of portieres
lace curtains and Persian rugs and
household bric-a-brac for the Indiana
residence, which was to be, and now u.s.
her bridal nest. The police, by the
way, performed feats of ledgermain
in keeping orderly The crowd who
focked around ST. Thomas Church
not few, apparently. fashionable wo-
men ito catch only glimpses Of a
walk of twenty steps from curbstone TO
canopy of the sensational couple Of the
aour. OF all the cities. abroad and at
nome, that ] have visited New York is
the most hysterical, and its inhabitants
the most 0mniverOUs IN curiosity and
gossip. Boston merely thinks about
the affairs Of others; Philadelphia sleeps
over them; Pittsburg and Cincinnati
attend TO their own affairs, but perhaps
Chicago is more insolent in curiosity
than this city
OTHER EASTER FESTIVITIES.
But while the million took most in-
terets in the Harrisonian nupuals Ne
Allister's Four Hundred took more I'm
the many society affairs. Broadway
and Fifth avenue during Easter week
were literally gay with wedding
coaches, the white rOsettes on the bril-
dies Of the horses viaing with rhe white
bouquets inside the vehicles; and the
drivers proudly waving whips adorned
with bows of white ri5bon
TIE HARRISON WEDDING FEE.
The clericals Of tde city have, of
course. boen more or less enriched with
wedding fees: and yer3ciOus. as we'll as
voracious. rumor has it that Bride
groom Harrison's fee 10 the ST. Thomas
rector was a crisp greenbacK containing
five hundred promises Of Uncle Sam S.
and that he. being a sound money man
did not use the promises Of a silver
certificate.
ELOPEMENTS ECONOMICAL.
One of the weddings of the week was
an el0pcment I'm high life IL having
been discovered that the loye-makine
was not objected to by the parents o..
either bride or bridegroom. social Curl
0sity became excited as TO why this
runaway wedlock The father of thc
bride, financial pal i'm economy per-
haDs % say meanness. of Madame
He-ty Green and Russell Sage. when
challenged at the Union League Club
on the incident winkcd his other eye
IA Ia Cissy FitzgeralO to his inJerlo-
cutor, and remarked dryly, "elopements
and runaways save expense" But
when the other, winking booth eyes, re-
Joined. out then, Joshua. the wedding
presents get missed, 90 the miserly parent
unDOttoned the lower button of his vest
to expand a cheap sigh
\ FRlGATE BALL.
Another notable social event Of the
Easter week now ending was ball ou
hnnrd of thn Milf fl.icrntn N-nm hmm