The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-11-10
TWO HEARTS AS ONE.
Miss SIusS and Mr.. Wheeler
Married,
IN THE METHODIST CHURCH
Left for Chicago to Spend
Their Honeymoon.
IN THE METHODIST CHURCH

Miss Myrtle Sluss, eldest daughter OF
Judge and Mrs Henry c. Sluss, and Nj
Howard V. Wheeler were united in mar
rage yesterday morning at the First NJ
Z. church in this city.
The chancel and choir were piled to
altar-top. high with flowers. the sides be-
ing fanked with palms. The main aud
fence chamber was comfortably filed with
invited guests and friends. Miss Daisy
Lynch, who presided at the organ. filed
up the meeting half-hoUr with pretty pre-
ludes and bright. airy snatches Of music.
The family arrived at the church at 9:25.
At the full haIf-hour the grand strains of
Mendelssohn's wedding march in great
volumes swelIed forth from the pipes, fill
ing aisle, transept and ceiling with its
happy flood of musical measures. Stimuli
taneously the doors of the vestry or class
rooms We're thrown open, and from the
north room came the bride, her maid, best
man and ushers. From the south room
the groom, with DR.. Slutz, the officiating
clergyman, and ushers. The ceremony
which followed. in the center-front of the
altar. was simple, yet very impressive, be
ing the ring betrcthal" with prayer and
benediction experimenting the mutual
vows and promises, the latter being rem
dered distinctly by both bride and groom.
a low accompanying refrain. so soft as to
be but mere echo. was played through
out. Miss Gertrude Thomas, daughter OF
w A. Thomas, of ST. Louis. was the
bridesmaid. the brides brother. Clarence
Sluss, acting as best man. The ushers
were respectively. Roy Allen. Bruce Prid-
dy, Elmer Reese and Walter Innes.
The newly welded pair took a carriage
at the door Immediately the ceremony was
ended and were whirled rapidly to the
Rock Island station. followed by the we'll
wishes of the many who slowly filed down
the aisles and out into the open air, the
greater number OF whom had known the
bride since her childhood. The happily
mated couple will reach Chicago this
morning.
The sweet bud of the early morn bushes
full-b,own, responsive Ia the constancy Of
a meridian sun, but the flower being later
plucked the garden is not the same. Won
by love. the nodes maid of yesterday
blooms the bride OF today. The tears OF
the little prattler sitting upon the fathers
knee. or seeking shelter in a mothers
breast, are scarce kissed away ere a
stranger youth claims the superior right
of guardianship, and the prattler of tears
IS spirited away, leaving the home. some
how, not the same. Metamorphosed are
both maid and bud. AS the warmth of
the god of day opens the petals of the
flower. so loves passion expands and re-
fines the soul. II is said love first made
man heroic. It undeniably renders woman
angelic. It eways and rules our world.
Marriage is loves defense, its almoner, in
terweavlng lives and fates. which. like the
waters OF meeting rivers, intermingle. and
thus blended flow on 10 the sea-on into
the ever and forever.
1.-THE parent love the welded love IN
Guides
The one permits the two their mutual
moods,
The two each other know mid myriad
muititudes."