Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-04-21

Hubby.
Bposial correspondonce OF Gnzetta and Journal
New York, April 15 The entire city
OF New York ia nermeated with the
Easter bride. When she hadn't nap.
Iened TO lie married. yesterday In this
very town and to ha hiding her bliss
In big hotel, she was married the day
before out uf town and has come here to
learn how ii is to be callefi MRS. and
10 control a man, She is convinced
that everybody regards her aH an old
married woman. whereas she boars tho
stamp OF newly wedded bliss as plainly
on her countenance as the finest silver
does the.hall mark. The Easter we'd
dings were many, hut all Of kind.
Tho fashionable hrida is after the
Eronch style. She looks az IL her
wiltiest dissipation had been Wow Of
the geological garden and the only books
abe had ever read had been "a Lies in
Wonderland" and those illustrated ny
Kate Greenaway. She ia the moBt in
nocent looking thing tha. ever deceived
a man. 1hs Ia married in white satin
gown very high in the neck, with sleeves
THAI tit her arms closely and come in
valois fashion far down over her hands,
while in one hand she carries either a
white xiii or an ivory prayer book
framed in silver and with spray of
orange blossoms tied on il. And she
looks as if she were frightened to death,
NOT because she is getting married, but
because il is the thing TO have that
Reotle gazelle. scared surt OF look at the
accomplishment OF what You havn been
aiming at for some time. AS a picture
nothing could be more absolutely d.
lightful. IL has had the effect of Gaus-
ing number of wicked old men about
town to weep bitterly, presumably for
their loss of Innocence.
loyo bride, and | pity bride
groom. He is 30 humble. so slavelike.
aud so certain to begin in the wrong
way. The average bride Of to-day who
has come to New York on her wedding
trip may be found almost any afternoon
when the sun shines--and the sun has
fascinating way of shining almost
every day-drinking soda water and
holding on to the young man whose
name she condescends to bear as IL she
were afraid some girl were going TO run
away with him. She walks him up the
streot exactly as il she were exercising
puppy. Everything she wears matches
80 exactly that il you could not tell she
had lately entered the holy state of
matrimony by the glitter of her we'd
ding ring you would know it because
his gloves and hers are of exactly the
Rame tint, while his scarf ia made out
of a piecs of the silk that is combined
with the cloth in her going away frock
lie dues love her so.
She condesceuds to him as If he had
never been any place before, and abe
believes as she walks into the Waldorf
dining room, attired in pale blue
wrapper trimmed with white lace and
swans down, that the SIN les that greet
her are those of appreciation and not of
am usemDnt. She ia Hupremsly diH-
Gusted because he-there is only one be
to hsr-has registered them az "Mr.
Johu Brown and wife" rather than Mr..
Johu Brown and lady," and she tells
him that If ths peuple at home should
see that they would know he thinks
mighty little OF her 10 put her down in
black and white in that way. The poor
wretch may endeayor to persuade her
that what he has done ia right, but she
will lie exultinely indignant for full
hour, and the only way he can bring her
hack 10 her original state of amiability
will he by parading her down street,
staring with her into the shop windows
and eventually buying her new
bonnet.
When they go to walk, she cuddleB up
to him, and the other day, after she
hal advised him about the flavor of hia
soda wnter, she noticed that girl waH
looking at him, and she clutchei one
of his hands as If she feared he were
going 10 be led astray at once by Zone
of thosD wicked, wicked women who are
always looking around for nice men. "
She believes, sweet innocent, that
every woman abe sees enrIes her and
that each one ia laying trap TO induce
the man of her heart to stray from her.
1t is beautiful to sse her in the read
ing room of the hotel when she is writ
ing letter to the people at home,
After one page has been written ii ia
read aloud to him and for tho benefit
of everybody around, and, although he
blushes and whispers that he doesn' I
think she ought to talk so loud, she
has him for the time being so com.
pletely under her control that no doesn I
even dare say his soul is his own and
demand her to keep silenoe, l often
wonder what her next Wait to New
York will be, but general inquiry has
proved that there is no next visit and
that once he gets her home he never
let's her wander from her own firssids,
though for the next 20 years she joys in
falling of what she thought of the great
city. Poor soul After all, she ism t
bride but once in her life-that ia,
generally-and it is only right and just
that she should BIZ the person in power
when she first appears rs MIR. John
Browns lady" She undergoes 10 macy
emotions, There is pathos on her face
at Grants tomb, joy on her countsnance
as she clings to Mr.. Browns arm and
gazes at ths animals in the park and
patriotic swing to her entire person
and an evident desire on her part tr
sing "The Star Spang'ed Banner
when she goes down the bay to see the
MADE up her mind that John shall &C
and fight for those moor, dear sailors
who were killed on the Maine, and il
her heart of hearts abe thinks how per.
fectly lovsly it would be TO be making
up boxes OF lint and Scotch whisky and
pound cake to strengthen him during
the wartime. while she pictures him
as coming back with more gold lace and
buttons about him than were ever worn
of the stage. She never thinks of him
rs being among the killed. None of us
ever thinks of trouble on our wedding
trip. II would lose all of its delight il
We did.
Apropos of Wedding trips, what dc
you think of the latest achievement oil
the handsome young woman who hears
the title of the Countess of Wsrwick,
but who ia commonly known as the
"BRhbling Brook" owing to her Fro
penalty to tell those things she ought