Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-11-27
A DISTINGUISHED PRIVILEGE.
What Happened to n Young Bride
on Her Wedding
Trim.
From the Ladies. Home Journal.

From the Ladies' Home Journal.
1t was a belated wedding trip. Our jour
ney to my new home in Muskaloosa had
been SO disagreeable that We agreed TO for
get it as speedily as possibly and when
Judge Elwyn (of course he wasn't the judge
them had 10 go to New York three months
later to attend TO an important railroad
case L declared | wanted to see an old man
again There was not a man over ~ III
Muskaloosal and some houses not built yes
terday, so Wayne, my husband. SAID We
would call ii our wedding journey.
The last stage of it found US on board the
| steamboat, the Swallow, which ran be-
tween Albany and New York city. We Were
both sound asleep in the stuffy little state
room when IL sudden shock awoke us We
were hurled from our berths and jumped
up to find ourselves grasping each other as
We tried to stand upright on the slanuis
floor.
There were sounds of hurrying feet and
a voice crying Come on deck. everybody.
and as my husband struggled into his boots
| tried TO find my gown. Some one Called
as they beat 4 nasty tattoo on the doors;
Don't wait to Dress and Wayne rape
me in my long green cloth cloak with us
many capes and Erasped his own WhlIe
| caught up my new tan colored beaver
bonnet and hurriedly We made our way OIL
deck.
1t was a very dark night and the slopins
toat rose high in the air over what seerieG
2 bottomless abyss. a few children Whimp-
cred at being snatched from their warm
beds into the chill night. but the women all
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fast on something which was probably dry
land. and after the first scare many wanted
however. WAS forbidden, as there was Il
possibility of the boat parting amidShips
and going down at almost any moment
My husband was a man to whom people
instinctively turned to consult. and the cap
tain and he We're soon attending TO the
transfer of the passengers TO the shore.
Deck hands built bonfires on the sandy
beach and by their weird light women and
children We're lifted over the ratings and
lowered into the arms OF men standing be
low. When my turn came, as the two
burly men held me on the outer side, !
caught hold of the edge with a grip oil
steel: 1 heard Wayne say, Let go, te;
a rough voice say. Hit her over the hands
with Il bit of wood. mate and at the
sharp pain my fingers relaxed ana as
dropped into the waiting arms away feW
my lovely bonnet, which 1 never saw again
Mr.. Elwyn tied his handkerchief over my
mop of curls. and my long coat. which was
buttoned from neck to heels, CovereA mt
completely.
At early dawn a came along
and was hailed. and all except the captain
and the boatmen were put aboard it. Wayne
found a seat for me on its crowded decks
and put me in charge of a gentleman who
had shaken hands with him and made room
for me beside him. / did not catch his namt
before my husband left me and went, tt
look after the passengers who We're les:
fortunate than ourselves.
1 was only IS. and it was my first lone
journey. SO when the boat ran across thu
seine nets spread by the Long Island fisher
men. and ii danced up and down. swayint
and bobbing in a way that made me imag
inc we were to repeat the experience of th,
light before with variations. each time
started wildly to my feet. The old gentle
man. who was u noble looking man, wit
the most wonderful dark. compelling eyes
that seemed soft, stern and sad all at once
tried to calm me. But the experience l ha'
Eeen through did not make it easy to sooth
me, and at last in desperation the dignifIe'
cid gentleman drew me down upon nj
knees, folded me tenderly in his arms, an,
as my excitement continued talked sooth
irgly to me until my husband returned
When he put US into our carriage to. driv
to our hotel he kissed my hand at partin
with the most charming grace in the world
and when wayne told me il was DAME
Webster. who was worshiped by my fathe
and brothers as one of the immortals re
: turned to earth. 1 kissed that hand myseli
: ard my husband always declared that
) treated 1t far better than l did the .othe
hand ever afterward.