Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-05-21

at least year, and the bridegroom
who is something of a writer, con-
templates gathering materials for a
book upon the social and political con
ditions of the country before they re-
turn.
Another couple will journey slowly
around the world, spending a season
at Nice, a winter in Egypt, a summer
among the Norway fiords, several
months in the orient and Australasia
and leisurely return homeward across
our own continent.
Last spring one happy pair took a
trip through Alaska and returned
home with innumerable souvenirs and
native trinkets.
Another bride and groom spent six
months upon yacht cruising. about
the Pacific ocean, and still another pair
took their Introductory journey into
the realms Of matrimony by means Of a
carriage drive throughout their native
state.
An athletic newly-wedded couple OF
New Haven, Conn, are reported as
having "biked" it through three states,
and one notoriety-seeking pair even
rode to church and back on their wheels
instead Of using the conventional coach
and white horses.
Many men and women have been
united in the bonds of matrimony while
at a considerable altitude from me
ground in balloons, but it remained
for two natives of the Wolverine state
to plan honeymoon in one Of these
ships Of the air. Owing, however, to
the extreme nervousness of the bride,
an early descent was made and the
distance actually traversed was but
tPining.
Down in Alabama, quite near the
city, where the songster "dreamt he
saw pretty yaller GAL" an impecuni-
Gus pair decided on novel wedding
trip. They traversed a considerable
distance, the groom trundling an old
wheelbarrow, which contained their
luggage, and, upon occasion, even the
bride herself.
Another enterprising couple Of our
own city, who, for purposes of econo-
my, combined with honeymonical bliss,
engaged, respectively, as steward and
stewardess on West Indian passenger
steamer, enjoyed their trip so much
that they have retained their positions
indefinitely.
Along our northern frontier and
across the line in Canada, honeymoon
trips on skates, snow-shoes and in
sleighs, ice-boats and toboggans have
become of common occurrence, and
numerous couples have occupied
hunters log cabin in the backwoods
during the joyous season.
1t is interesting to note that a couple
swan the whole distance of Long Is
land Sound as their wedding journey.
When, however, 1t is further explained
they were accompanied by naphtha
launch and were both professional
swimmers, the mystery is not so mYs-
FERROUS.
Another experience that might al
most seem to rival the foregoing in
originality was the case Of the Balti-
more & Ohio engineer who received
orders to take his locomotive out with
in a few minutes after the ceremony
was performed, and, with the aid of
his fireman, smuggled his bride into
the cab and took her to the end of his
run.
But probably the most strikingly
original form Of the wedding journey
that has ever been accomplished was
the one that took place last fall, the
happy pair being married by tele-
phone. The reasons for this were al
most wholly of an economical nature,
the brides dwelling place being in
New England city, while the groom was
engaged in business at Los Angeles,
Cal. After the ceremony the twain made
their respective way to the nearest
railway station, where they took train
and met, as pre-arranged, at Council
Bluffs, Iowa, the groom accompanying
his bride thence back to the home he
had prepared for her.
One admirable feature Of the present
fashion of long-distance honeymoons
is the diversity afforded in choosing
suitable gifts. Thus the couple bouad
to the tropics, the mountains Of India
or the Aztec ruins of Mexico appreci
ate such articles as a camera, pair of
fieldglasses, an alpenstock or half
hundred other similar articles Of real
use or necessity, and the almost inevi-
table duplicate butter dishes and olive
tongs are avoided. 1t is true that an
overplus of Photographic or optical APP
paratus might thus result, but then
these articles are always more or less
desirable, even in quantities, and no
criticism is engendered oy their absence
rom prominent position on the buffet
or dining table.
Some few years ago, when the happy
pair we're accustomed to rumble away
in their coach to take train or boat for
few weeks jaunt to some nearby re-
sort, the minds of the wedding guests
were filed with naught but pleasure
and anticipation Of the joys in store for