The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-07-24
rHE WEDDING zoe IEE OUTSIDE
some Nsighbarly the Bride,
IIsr Family and sHsr Fate.

Her Family and lHsr Fate.
New York sun; Two mon drove up
to the house. took the frame work and
canvas of a canopy out of the wagon,
and began erecting 1t across the side
walk and up the stoop. 1t was a quiet,
respectable, well-ordered nelshbofhood
where things worth talking about rare
ly happened. So the canopy set the
nelghbors talking.
what can It be?" asked one across
the street
ut can't be that they are going to
give a reception" replied her compan-
ion.
"Wel, should say not" rejolned the
first. "They are entirely too mean to do
anything OF the kind"
A caterers wagon drove up and men
began carrying boxes into the house.
"Oh, come and look" cried neighbor
across the street. Those people are
actually going to have something to eat
you don't mean IT," exclaimed her
companion,
1--WE watched and watched and
watched" continued the neighbor, 'and
I've never seen more than 10 cents
worth of food carried into that house at
one time before"
"Hoow could they manage to liyeT
asked the companion.
II never could find out" replied the
neighbor. "They must have been saw
ing all these years, But what can It be
they are going to haveY"
A florists wagon drove up and deliv-
cred masses of flowers.
DO you suppose It's somebody that's
dead?" asked third neighbor.
well" replied her companion, III any
of that family was dead, should think
their friends would be glad enough to
send them flowers"
A delivery wagon drove up and left a
green and gold chair,
do you know what?" cried one OF
the party of neighbors, IT'S we'd
dingl"
moi" cried the nelghbors In chorus,
yes" continued the first, and that's
one of the wedding presents"
What a horrid. cheap-looklng thing
to send!" commented neighbor.
ut shows what their friends think OF
them II they get presents like that"
But there's nobody in that house to
get married"
Nobody under 40, anyway"
ooh! l remember seeing n wizened,
dried up, red-halred little thing going
into the house"
But she can't be the bride!"
81 thought she was an old maid sis
ter"
And maybe it's that little boy who
has been calling there that is going TO
marry her!"
what a shame!"
More wagons from the caterers drove
up, and smooth-shaven, dlgnifed wait
ers in shirt sleeves began bustling about
the sidewalk and the house.
DO you suppose they can get anyone
to so to the weddlng?" asked a neigh
Dor.
"You can see that nobody around here
would 60" replied her companion "Ev-
erybody here is either peeking out of the
windows or walking up and down the
block to get look at the house and
they wouldn't do that If they had been
invited"
"They know better than to invite u.s."
said the first.
II should say So" replied her compan-
ion. II suppose they will try to make
those walters pass as guests among
strangers"
"They are great deal sweller-look,
ing than anyone they know" rejoIned
the first
Darkness came, and a band. and u
flood Of carriages that blocked the street
and a flock Of carriage callers whose
voices filled the air
Two forty-nlne! Two forty-nIne"
cried a leather-lunged youth, running
down the street.
"The idea" exclaimed neighbor.
There are not 10 carriages here and
they are pretending that there are hun
dreds."
"They have only tickets with high
numbers" said her companion, what
a fraud They ought to be ashamed"
The bride was driven away in a
shower Of rice, the carriages and the
walters gradually disappeared and the
neighbors turned reluctantly from their
windows, tired but happy.
How glad her parents must be TO
have really got rid Of herr" they said.
Yes" replied their companions, "and
how surprised she must be to have
actually caught man. / wonder how
she did It,"