The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-04-17
TConvricht 1881

copyright. 1881
The entire city of New York is per-
meated with the Easter bride. When
she hadn't happened to be married yes
ge1day 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 it is to be
called Mrs" and 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 we're many, but all of
kind. The fashionable bride is after
The French style She looks as if her
widest dissipation had been 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 a
white satin gown very high in the neck,
with sleeves that fit her arms closely
and come in valois fashion far down
over her hands, while in one hand she
carries either a white kid or an ivory
prayer book framed in silver and with
a spray Of orange blossoms tied on it.
And she looks as if she were frightened
to death, not because she is getting
married, but because it is the thing to
have that gentle gazelle, scared sort of
look at the accomplishment of what
you have been aiming at for some time.
AS a picture nothing could be more alb
solutely delightful. It has had the eff
feet of causing a number of wicked
old men about town to weep bitterly,
presumably for their loss of innocence.
I love a bride, and l pity a BRIDE
groom. He is so humble, so slavelike
and so 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 a fascinating way of shining almost
every day-drinking soda water and
holding on to the young man whose
name she condescends to bear as if she
were afraid some girl were going to run
away with him. She walks him up the
street exactly as if she were exercising
puppy. Everything she wears matches
so exaetly that if you could not tell she
had lately entered the holy state of
matrimony by the glitter of her wedding
ring you would know it 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 so!
She condescends to him as if he had
never been any place before. and she
believes as she walks into the Waldorf
dining room. attired in a 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 supremacy Disguised
because he-there is only one he to her
has registered them as Mr.. John
Brown and wife rather than MIR. John
Brown and lady" and she tells him
that if 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
b has done is right. but she will be ex-
tn only way he can bring her back to
her original state of amiabnity will be
by paradiGg her down street. staring
with her into the shop windows and
eventually buying her a new bonnet.
When they 90 to walk. she cuddles up
10 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
FL one Of his hands as if she feared he
were going to be led astray at once by
''one Of those wicked wicked women
Nho arc always looking around for nice
mon She believes. sweet innocent.
thaJ every woman she sees envies her
and that each one is laying a tran to
Induce the man of her heart to straw
from her. 1t is beautiful to see her in
the reading room of the hotel when she
Is writing a letter to the people at
home. After one page has been writ
ten it 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
SO completely under her control that
he doesn't even dare say his soul is his
wv II anu uFtldnu ilcE TO Keep silence.
often wonder what her next visit to
New York viii be. but general INQUIRY
has proved that there is no next visit
and that once he gets her home he new
er lets 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 sculi After all. she
isn't bride but once in her life-that
is, generally-and il is only right and
just that she should be the person in
power when she first appears. as Mr.
John Browns lady" She undergoes. so
many emotions. There is pathos on her
face at Grants tomb. joy on her conn
tenance as she clings to Mr.. Brown :
arm and gaZes at the animals in the
park and a patriotic swing 10 her en-
tire person and an evident desire on
her part TO sing The Star Spanrlad
Banner when she goes down the bav
to see the Goddess OF Liberty. She has
quite made up her mind that John shall
go and fight for those poor. dear sailors
who were killed on the Maine. and in
her heart OF hearts she thinks how per-
tectly lovely it would be TO be making
WOMEN'S WORK Al