The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-11-20
A HONEYMOON CITY, THIS.
THE TOWN JUsT % run OF bride
Am HYDROCARBONS.

They Arc IN the streets, the shops, the Res
tnurnnts and the Places Of Entertain
ment mud All Are E~VtrnNnRantIy Happy
Results of n Day Devoted tO Them.
This town is full of brides aud bridcGrooms.
II Is always SO at this season. but this year
finds an unusually large number Of couples
spending their honeymoon here. They come
from North. East, South and West. Anybody
with eyes can SOC brides aud hridcgrooms
here, there and everywhere. New York is the
place to which all newly married couples in all
parts OF the country want to come on their
wedding journey. Washington and niagara
Falls will doubtless dispute this statement, but
it's truc.
young woman lod an old bachelor friend u
merry chase after n few ot tho brides and
brldeRrooms who are passing their hOneymoOns
hero tho other day. II all came about this way:
She is barely out OF her teens, and Is as viva
clous and pretty II young creature as ono
would wish to meet. She keeps her oars open
and hor eyes open and hears and sees about
everybody and everything going and she ia
theoretically aud enthusiastically Interested
in all. This makes her n pretty interesting
sort of person. Her friend, thu old bachelor.
thinks so. any way. Hos ono OF those old chaps
whose heart is so big and soft Tint he has to
affect sternness and hardness and indifference
TO keep himself at all in hand. These two were
dining at a friends one evening when the girl
remarked. rather at random:
wei, do you people know that this town Is
chock full of brides and bridcGrooms? ] never
saw anything to equal the number. loucan't
turn around but what you come upon a newly
married couple. walked up Fifth avenue this
afternoon and counted nineteen between
Twenty third and Forty-sovcnth streets, and
OF course Fifth avenue isn't nearly so popular
with them as Broadway. l dearly love to see
them and watch them"
"Humphl" snortcd the bachelor. And yet
we say we are improving in this matter OF civ
i~ligation. We actually plume ourselves on
knowing more now than we ever did before.
/ must say that that doesn't give any evidence
OF improved intellect. Nineteen brides and
bridegrooms, indeed! Nineteen silly Billies
accompanied by nineteen silly Nancies. you
mean. Thirty-eight simple. brainless. witless.
shallow. unwise folks. Well. all l can say is
that | hope you'll never follow their example.
Blu what am l talking about? | don't believe
for an instant that those nineteen couples were
newly married. What right have you to think
they we're? You'll never convince me that this
town is full OF bridcGrooms. at any rate. be-
cause l wouldn't permit myself to believe that
men are such FOOLS
You wouldn't. wouldn't you ?" retorted the
girl. We'll. il youll follow me tomorrow I'll
prove to you, that thcre, are brides galore
NlONilu - hlHi " NM z" 'iiA
is an impossibillty without that necessary ac-
compartment, a bridegroom, know he is often
in the way, but he is. one Of the things that a
bride has to put up with in order TO obtain the
delights Of n wedding. II trousseau and u we'd
ding journey. As for my right to think that
these nineteen couples were newly married. it
was as good az yours to know a parsOn by his
coat, a widow by her weeds. an actress by her
air or n lrst-time father by his look of superb
ority. There's absolutely no installing a bride
and bridegroom. and il you'll accept my ,chal-
lenge to go a-honevmooning in a way all our
own tomorrow I'll prove my case
There's no way out of it. old man." said the
host. CHANGING at his wife with amusement.
mo, indeed" she agreed: there's no way
out. of it. This girl has made n fair proposition.
and il you refuse to accept i we'lknow it's be
cause you have no faith in the stand you've
taken. It's true that the town is full of brides
and bridegrooms. for | see them every day on
the streets, in the shops. in the cars. at places
OF amusement and everywhere else that one
can think of"
DO they wear badges ~ asked the s~keptical
bachelor. Surely you don't want mo to let
this girl make . fool Of me dragging me all
as IL we were Il pair of detectivesi p
COOL nun BY Jove. u wish / had such q rare
chance"