The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-08
TINE WEBBING FRoM n OUTSIDE.
Some NeiEhboriy Comments on the bride. Her
Family, and Her Fate.


Two mon drove up TO the house, took tho
framework and canvas Of q canopy out OF the
wagon, and began erecting it across tho side.
walk and up the stoop. It was a quiet, re-
spectacle, well-orderod neighborhsod where
things worth talking about rarely happened.
So tho canopy set the neighbors talking.
what can 1t bef' asked one across the street.
"It can't be that they are going to give q re-
ception," replied her companion.
"Well, / should say not" rcjoined the first.
'Thcy are entirely too mean to do anything of
the kind"
A caterers wagon drove up and men began
carrying boxes into the house.
"oh, como and looki' cried a neighbor across
tho street. "Those people are actually going to
have something to eat at last"
You don't mean It'll" exclaimed her CON-
panion.
"I've watched and watched and watched"
continued tho neighbor. "and I've never seen
more than 10 cents worth of food carried into
that house at one time before"
How could they manage to liver asked the
Il never could ind out" replied the. neigh
hor. "They must have been saving all these
ttS1hl sveI Put what can 1t DO That 'hoy arc going
A florists wagon drove up and delivered
d you suppose it's somebody that's deadi''
that family, was dead, 1 should think their
friends would be glad enough to send them
A delivery. wagon drove up and left a green
and gold chair.
2 YOU know what" cried ono of a party of
MOI. cried the neighbors In chorus.
~, Yes continued the first, land that's one OF
"what a horrid. cheap,looking thing to sendl''
II shows what their friends think of them
- N1Ay ant a., HE chat
But there's nobody in that house to get mar
Nobody under 40, anyway"
ooh, I remember seeing q wizcned, dried-up.
red;haired little thing going into the house."
But she can't be the bridel"
AND maybe It's that little boy who has been
calling there that II going to marry hor!"
More wagons from the caterers drove UP,
and smooth-shaven, dignitied walters in shirt
sleeves began busting about the sidewalk and
De y9u suppose they can get any one to go to
You can geo that nobody around here would
CO." replied her companion. Everybody here is
either ,%peeking, out Of tho windows or walking
and they wouldn't do that If thoy had been in
the sfdh Sssyy know better than to invite u.s." said
az should say 80" replied her componion, ~
any ono they know, reioined the f;st. '1N'
Darkness came, and a band, and a flood of car.
riages that blocked the street, and u flock Of
carriage callers whose voices filled the air.
1.-Two forty-nine! two forty .nine!' cried n
leatherlunged youth running down the street.
The ideal exclaimed a neighbor. There
are not fttoon carriages here, and they arc pro
tending that there are hundreds
.,, They Seyy, have only tickets sts with hiyh ngmbe5s"
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 rcluc-
family 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
O man. i wonder how she did it."