The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-04-16

The entire city or New YORK ID per-
kmeated with the Easter bride. When
khe hadn't happened to be married yes
kerday In this very town and to be hid
Ing her bliss in a big hotel. she was
married the day before out OF town and
has come here to learn how 1t is to be
rallied Mrs" and to control man. She
ps convinced that everybody regards her
ne an old married woman, whereas she
bears the stamp OF newly welded bliss
rs plainly on her countenance as the
nnest silver does the hall mark. The
Easter weddings were many. but all of
. kind. The fashionable bride is after
the French style. She looks as II her
widest dissipation had been q view of
the sociological garden and the only
books she had ever read had been
ssAlice In Wonderland" and those Illus
krated by Kate Greenaway. She Is the
most innocent looking thing that ever
deceived q man. She Is married I'm a
white satin gown very high in the neck,
with sleeves that fit her arms closely
and come in valois fashion far down
pver her hands, while In one hand she
carries either q white kid or an ivory
prayer book framed in silver and with
. spray of orange blossoms tied on IL.
And she looks as II she were frightened
10 death, not because she is getting
married. but because IL Is the thing to
have that gentle gaxelle. scared sort of
look at the accomplishment of what
you have been aiming at for some time.
AZ . picture nothing could be more abb
Uolutely delightful. 1t has had the ef-
feet ef causing q number of wicked
old men about town to weep bitterly.
presumably for their loss of innocence.
love = bride. and I pity a BRIDE
groom. He IL so humble, SO slavelike
and 90 certain to begin in the wrong
way. The average bride OF today who
has come 70 New York on her wedding
trip may be found almost any after
noon when the sun shines--and the sun
has q 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
street exactly a. II she were exercising
= puppy. Everything she wears matches
20 exactly that IL you could not tell she
had lately entered the holy state of
matrimony by the glitter OF her wedding
ring you would know II because his
gloves and hers are of exactly the same
tint. while his scarf Is made out of a
piece Of the silk that is combined with
the cloth In her going away frock. He
does love her sol
She condescends TO him as II ne had
never been any place before. and she
believes az she walks into the Waldorf
tp
wrapper trimmed with white lace and
swans down. that the smiles that greet
her are those OF appreciation and not of
amusement. She IL supremely disguised
because he--there is only one he to her
s-has registered them as "Mr. John
Brown and WIFE rather than "Mr. John
Brown and lady" and she tells him
that II the people at home should see
that they would know he thinks mighty
little OF her to put her down In black
and white In that way. The poor wretch
may endeavor to persuade her that what
he has done is right. but she will be ex-
ultingiy indignant for a full hour, and
the only way ne can bring her back to
her original state OF amiability will be
by parading her down street, staring
with h-- into the shop windows and
eventually buying her a new bonnet.
When they go to walk. she cuddles up
90 him. and the other day. after she
had advised him about the flavor of
his soda water, she noticed that a
girl was looking at him, and she clutch
ed one OF his hands as IL she feared he
were going 10 be led astray at once by
zone Of those wicked. wicked women
who are always looking around for nice
men," She believes, sweet innocent.
that every woman she sees envies her
and that each one il laying trap to
induce the man OF her heart to stray
from her. 1t Is beautiful 10 see her In
the reading room OF the hotel when she
Is writing a letter to the people st
home. After one page has been writ
ten II IL read aloud to him and for the
beneft OF everybody around. and. al
though he bushes and whispers that
he doesn't think she ought to talk 40
loud. she has him for the time being
20 completely under her control that
he doesn't even dare say his soul is his
own and demand her to keep silence. I
often wonder what her next visit to
New York will be, but general INQUIRY
has proved that there is no next visit
and that once ne gets her home he new
er let's her wander from her own fire.
side. though Tor the next 20 years she
Joys In telling OF what she thought of
the great city. Poor soull After all. she
isn't 4 bride but once In her life-that
In, Renerally-and IL is only right and
just that she should be the person in
power when she first appears as MIR.
John Browns lady" She undergoes 10
many emotions. There is pathos on her
face at Grants tomb. Joy on her coun-
tcnance as she clIngs TO Mr.. Browns
arm and gazes at the animals In the
park and a patriotic swing 10 her en-
tire person and an evident desire on
her parf 20 sing The Star Spangied
Banner when she goes down the bay
20 see tie Goddess OF Liberty. She has
quite made up her mind that John shall
80 and nght FOR those poor dear sailors
who we're killed on the Maine. and In
her heart OF hearts she thinks how per-
fectIy lovely Il would be to be maixins