Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-08-04
THE WEDDING FROM THE OUTSIDE.
Some ~Neighborly Comments on the Bride,
Her Family and Her Fate.


ed neighborhood where things worth
talking about rarely happened. So
the canopy set the ueighbors talking.
What can it be-" asked one across
the street.
ut can't be that they are going to
give a reception replied the compan-
ion.
"Well, l should say not,n reJoined
the first. They are entirely too mean
to do anything of the kind.n
A caterers wagon drove up aud men
began carrying boxes into the house.
lob, come and look, y cried a neigh
Dor across the street. ''Those people
are actually going to have something
to eat at last"
you don't mean it2n exclaimed her
companion.
i've watched and watched and
watched" continued the neighbor,
land I've never seer more than ten
cents worth of food carried into that
house at any n time before"
How could they manage to live?"
asked the companion.
Il never could find out,n replied the
neighbor. "They must have been
saving all these years. But what can
it be that they are going to haveY"
A florists wagon drove up and de-
livered masses of flowers.
do you suppose it's somebody that's
dead?" asked a third neighbor.
"Well, replied her companion, IF
any of that family vas dead, / should
think their friends would be glad
enough to send them flowers"
A delivery wagon drove up and left
q green and gold chair.
do you know WHAT" cried one of q
party of neighbors. "It's a wedding"
mo-" cried the neighbors in chorus.
YES" continued the first, "and that
is one Of the wedding presents"
What a horrid, cheap looking thing
to send,' commented a neighbor.
ut shows what their friends think of
them if they get presents like that"
"But there's nobody in that house to
get married"
Nobody under 40, anyway"
"Oh, l remember seeing a wizened,
dried up, red haired little thing going
into the house."
But she can't be the BRIDE"
~ thought she was an old maid sis
teri
"And maybe it's that little boy who
has been calling there hat is going to
marry her."
"What q shame"
More wagons from the caterers drove
up, and smooth shaver, digniied
walters in shirt sleeves began bustling
about the sidewalk and the house.
DO you suppose they can get any
n to go to the wedding2" asked a
neighbor.
You can see that nobody around
here would co. replied the companion.
Everybody here is either peepipg out
of the windows or walking up and
down the block to get a 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 the com
panion. II suppose they will try to
make those walters pass as guests
among strangers"
"They are q great deal sweller look
ing than any one they know" rejoined
the first.
Darkness come, and a band, and a
flood of carriages that blocked the
street, and a flock of carriage callers
whose voices filled the air.
1.-TWO forty nine; two forty nine,"
cried a leather lunged youth, running
down the street.
1.-THE idea" exclaimed q neighbor.
There are not fifteen carriages here,
and they are pretending that there are
hundreds"
They have only tickets with high
numbers, said her companion. What
a fraud. They ought to be ashamed"
THE bride vas 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 her. they said.
YES" replied their companions,
"and how surprised she must be to
have actually caught a man. won
der how she did it?n