Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-04-16

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The entire city of New York is per-
meated with the Easter bride. When
she hadn't happened to be married yes
terday in this very town and to be hid
ing her bliss in big hotel. she was
married the day before out of town and
has come here to learn how II is to be
called Mrs" md TO control man. She
is convinced that everybody regards her
as an old married woman, whereas she
bears the stamp of newly welded bliss
as plainly on her countenance as the
finest silver does the hall mark. The
Easter weddings were many, but all of
a kind. The fashionable bride Is after
the French style. She looks as II her
widest dissipation had been a view of
the geological garden and the only
books she had ever read had been
''Alice In Wonderland" and those illus
trated by Kate Greenaway. She is the
most innocent looking thing that ever
deceived a man. She Is married in
white satin gown very high in the neck.
with sleeves that fit her arms closely
and come in valos fashion far down
over her hands. while in one hand she
carries either white kid or an ivory
prayer book framed in silver and with
spray OF orange blossoms tied on It,
And she looks as II she were frightened
to death, not because she is getting
married, but because II is the thing to
have that gentle gazelie, scared sort OF
look at the accomplishment of what
you have been aiming at for some time.
As picture nothing could be more abb
solutely delightful. 1t has had the eff
feet of causing numbereof wicked
old men about town to weep bitterly,
presumably for their loss OF innocence.
love a bride, and l pity BRIDE
groom. He is so humble, so slavellke
and 80 certain TO begin in the wrong
way. The average bride of today who
has come to New York on her wedding
trip may be found almost any after
noon 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
street exactly as IL she were exercising
puppy. Everything she wears matches
30 exactly that II you could not tell she
had lately entered the holy state of
;natrimony by the glitter OF her wedding
ring you would know 1t because his
gloves and hers are of exactly the same
Unit, 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 so!
She condescends TO him as II he had
never been any place before. and she
believes as she walks into the Waldorf
dining room. attired in pale blue
wrapper trimmed with white lace and
swans down, that the smiles that greet
her are those of appreciation and not of
amusement. She is supremely disguised
because he-there is only one he to her
has registered them as Mr. John
Brown and Wife rather than Mr.. John
Brown and lady" and she tells him
That IL the people at home should see
mat they would know he thinks mighty
little of her to put her down in black
ana white in that way. The poor wretch
may endeavor to persuade her that what
ne mas done is right, but she will be ex-
ultingly indignant for full hour and
the only way he can bring her back to
her original state of amiability Will he
by parading her down street staring
with ha- into the shop windows and
eventually buying her a new bonnet.
When they go to walk, she cuddes In
10 him, and the other day, after she
nho advised him about the flavor of
his soda water, she noticed that n
IL
ed one of his hands as II she feared he |
were going to 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 enyies her [
and that each one is laying a trap to /
Induce the man of her heart to stray |
from her. 1t Is beautiful to see her In (
the reading room of the hotel when she
Is writing letter to the people at
home. After one page has been writ
ten II is read aloud to him and for the
benefit of everybody around, and. al
though he bushes and whispers that
he doesn't think she ought to talk SO
loud. she has him for the time being
30 completely under her control that
ne doesn't even dare say his soul is his
own and demand her to keep silence. 1
OFTEN wonder what her next vi, 10
New York will be. but general inquiry
has proved that there is no next visit
and that once he gets her home he nev-
er let's her wander from her own fire.
side. though for the next 20 years she
joys In telling of what she thought of
the great city. Poor soull After all. she
isn't bride but once In her life-that
ID. generally-and II is only right and
Just that she should be the person in
power when she first appears as Mr.
John Browns lady" She undergoes sn
many emotions There is pathos on her
face at Grants tomb. joy on her coun-
tenance as she cllngs to Mr.. Browns
arm and gazes at the animals in the
park and patriotic swing to her en-
tire person and an evident desire on
her pan Co sling THE Star Spangled
Banner when she goes down the bay
to see the Goddess Of Liberty. She has
quite made up her mind that John shah
go and fight for those poor. dear sailors
VINO were killed on the Maine. and In
her heart OF hearts she thinks how per-
tectly lovely II would be to be rnni.in..