The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-07
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! went to o wedding last evening, ant
wlien The groom was queried as to I'll.
direction of the bridal trip he answered
w are not telling that"
This secrecy is one of the newest fash
tons in ~honeymoons. Only one of tn,
family, presumably the brides mother
must know where the couple have taker
themselves.
l think the idea a charraing one. I
shuts out the world and the public. TIL.
people who love company most and soil
tude less feel chat in these two week:
atXlcast they want sentiment undis-
turbed TO run its happy course.
Life with. its public duties ana worldly
cares comes quickly upon the advent Of
the married woman into her home; the
relations to society claim her; the pro-
sale, but necessary %humdrum. of finan-
cial and domestic considerations await!
her attention.
So filed up is the life of the modern
city woman hat two weeks spent in
uninterrupted quiet, away from callers
and letters, are to be desired
When women were less of travellers
and the twenty-four hours sometimes
hung heavily, the honeymoon was a
JduflllflS Trip. Inc papers ANNOUNCED
the cities to be visited at the end of the
marriage notice. When the bride ar
rived at a city where she a friends
she was visited and gayly entertained.
No ike programme suits the up-to-
date bride. The place she goes is kept
secret from the most intimate friends
and she slips off after the ceremony to
some quiet nook, where. happily, the
world is forgot.
And to be in good form it must really
the modern Fashionable brides. If the
groom has a country house there they
go. Servants and provisions and horses
are sent out beforehand. and all is in
readiness for the bridal couple.
Few young women are sufficiently
UNIQUE to follow the example set by
Amelie Rives when she became Mrs.
Gnanler. the marriage was in Virginia
and she requested the other members of
her family 10 go into Richmond to spend
a fortnight while Mr.. Chanler and she
remained at Castle Hin.
One would expect so unconventional a
movement from the Jar virginian. How
ever, they could not have picked out a
more perfect spot in which to spend a
honeymoon than the novelist's home.
sAnd then" as Mrs. Chanler said, .it
gave the family 2 trip"
| believe his was one of the first radi-
cal departures from the usual bridal trip.
Tne idea of avoiding the terrible town"
and going into the country was taken
up by many
A number of the old wayside inns and
farmheuses through New England and
New Jersey came into prominence, and
now it's the exception when a fashion
able couple dc not seek some retired
place.
AT all the smart weddings in New
York, the country place of one of the
couple. or of a relative. was the abode.
The Duchess of Marlborough went
10 idle Hour her fathers
country seat on Long Island;
Mss Whitney did the same; so did the
Countess Castellane and Miss Adele
Sloane. I remember the perfect nest of
a place in New Jersey that Freddie
Gebhardt fxed for his bride. nee Miss
Lulu Morris. of Baltimore. A rather
lovely Southern bride is now spending
the honeymoon al the groom's country
seat near Reseuont.
If the young couples finances allow
them "to take q jaunting trip after
ward good enough, but present Gus
torn yields to their wish for absolute Sc
curity from the world for the first fort
night.
For the groom to keep it from the
bride where she is designed to go is ever
a newer fancy. The scheme is most ro-
msEatic. He arranges everything, keeps
silent, and let's her guess as much as
she will. He doesn't tell her whether
she goes North. East. South or West.
l met a bride at a dinner recently who
had been a party 70 this kind of sur
prise. ct was awfuliy jolly" she said,
"but we had an awfuily hard time get
ting enough to eat the first two days. 1t
was in the dead of the country and he
had forgotten many of the essentials for
the larder.',
Another bit of fashion that deals with
~honeymoons. If you happen to be a
neighbor, don't consider that politeness
requires you to cali. If you are friendly
with the bride or groom you may with
propriety leave your card during their
second weeks stay.
It is one thing to possess jewelry, but
another to understand the care of it. In
these days everyone owns diamonds,
and, in spite of the reputed hardness of
the stone. they require as much care as
other jewels.
Though diamonds do not get scratched,
they are liable to chip, due perhaps to
imperfect cutting along their planes, es-
peciaily those from South Africa. The
old Brazilian diamonds seem to stand
wear better tina Cape diamonds.
Being usually set in silver, care must
be taken hat diamond jewelry should be
wrapped in tissue paper. The safe must
also be lined with wood to prevent the
settings from furnishing.
For cleaning DIAMONDS everyone has
some special recipe; one brushes with
eau de Cologne, another uses whitening,
a third shavings or wash leather, while
many use plain soap and water. All
these are good, but for furnished set
t.ngs the whitening is, perhaps. most eff
fectual. 1t must be put on wet, very
little at a time, and left to dry; after
wards it can be brushed off lightly with
a soft dry brush. The alkaline soap
also removes tarnish; but. whatever lis
used, great care must be taken to avoid
wearing away the points of the setting
BY hard and continued rubbing, as the
stones are only held in place by the