The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-06

'sTit Bits" The ascent, extremely haz-
ardous, by reason of terrific snowstorms,
being successfully accomplished, the
bridegroom, in the presence of the guides,
| embraced his young wife, to whom he
swore eternal fidelity, and received from
her lips an equally fervent assurance.
In the nelghborhood of Dobschau, a.
small Hungarian town, there is an ex-
traordinary ice cave. In this cave some
sixteen years ago, a couple named koie-S
sey elected to pass the week Immediately
| following their marriage. They took with
them a plentiful. supply of rugs, blankets,
| and warm clothing, but Notwithstanding
! all precautions their experience was not
! of a sufficiently pleasant nature to tempt
imitators.
A walking tour may make an endurable
! honeymoon, but to convert the latter into
a walking match seems sadly %incongral-
Gus with the Rites of Hymen. Such, how
ever, was not the opinion of one James
Muir and his young bride, who were
united in wedlock last autumn. White
counting they had taken many a long
walk together, during which a contention
had arisen respecting their pedestrians oll-
ity. So high did this pickering run that
| they resolved, as soon as they were mar
ried, to put their respective claims to the
test by walking from london to Exeter,
the bride being allowed to go by train TO
Basingstoke, a distance of 41A miles. no
| sooner had the knot been tied than the
newly married wife took a cab to the sta
ton, while the husband started Off west
ward at a good pace. In the result the
latter was ungallant enough to win by
over two miles, though the lady kept the
lead until Honiton, 1872 miles from the
! goal, was passed.
A. month since a young couple from
Birmingham came to London on a three
days honeymoon. Alighting at Euslon,
they strolled down the Marylebone road,
until they sighted the building that con-
tains Madame T~ussaud's famed collection.
They entered, and so entranced Wee they
by the wonders they beheld that they
, remained till closing time. Next day they
/ were the first to enter the building and
! the last to leave; and SO also on the "
succeeding ones. Then perforce they had
to return home, highly delighted with
their London wedding trip
The writer knows of a couple who
] spent tneir entire wedding day IN Jour-
neying round and round the inner circle
OF the underground railway novel eN-
p~erience that pleased them greatly; and
of a pair, who, in the days of tne old
Polytechnic, forswore the wedding break
fast and affrented all their friends by
going direct from the church 20 hat re-
! sort of scientific entertainment, there TO
indulge in unlimited d~iying-bell aeseeats.
Only two years ago, also, a young man
- - L.- l.,l 10y la ~
wedding day on the Earl's Court Wheel.
Perhaps, however, the most strange and
gruesome idea of ashoneymoon On record
was that conceived by a well-ta-do'
tradesman from Marseilles named Deurer.
who, in the autumn of 1880, on his we'd
ding day, travelled to Paris with lis
young wife to show her the execution Of
the miscreant Menesclou.
The first reason why rich Americans
leave home to be in England is because
! social conditions there are fixed and re-
liable, and because rich and poor alike
do as they please there with a degree CT
liberty that is unknown anywhere else on
the globe, says "Harper's Magazine 1t
lis true that certain rich men and noble
men take advantage of this liberty and
Shut themselves in their parks to spend
Sundaysdn feasting, and outdoor sports
of lively and noisy kinds, and that no one
knows it at the time except their ser
wants. On this account it is said by some
narrow minded critics in America that
our rich who stay in England do 50 be-
cause they can give Sunday concerts on
a lawn behind the Thames, or can dance
and enjoy music hall talent in their coun-
try houses; but that is too microscopic a
definition of the liberty of which l speak,
and too discreditable to our emigrants
for me to adopt it. 1t is simply a fact
that must be thrown into the balance
with the rest of the conditions-this
amazing freedom, this absence of a pry-
ing press with its defilement of the priv
acy of mems homes and lives, this max
ing the home a castle, and enclosing
every garden with a high stone wall. 1t
can be said of all the transplanted Amer
leans that they stay there, as one of them
says he does, because in America any
man who has the means rides in a Puli<
man car, but in England third-class folks
are content to travel with their W kind
in third class cars"
Many of us try to look reasonably at
what seems perfectly natural: that others
are never interested in our own affairs
: as we are ourselves" writes Edward Box,
on sOur Affairs in Others Eyes" in the
May Ladies' Home Journal" How
can they be?' we ask. We don expect
it. And then to even these people some
little incident happens, and they wonder
just a little, perhaps, but still they Won
der-at the lack Of interest of others.
These experiences come to all; to some
more than to others. 1t is a hard, cold
truth, one that almost smacks of the
rankest pessimism, to say that all of us
are selfish in more or less degree. But it
is only a question of degree, at the best.
We speak of some one we know, and he
or she is so unsel1sh, so absolutely free
from self. But, after all, the instance is
only one of comparison. One need not
be a pessimist to believe this. On the
contrary, the absolute belief of the fact
is one of the most valuable lessons we
can draw from life. We al extract the
lesson of care n consideration from it.
For it is the kindest consideration pos
sible to extend to even our best friend, to
recognize his right to a limitation of in
terest in our affairs. Politely interested,
even sincerely interested, our friends may
be, as friendship warrants. but never to
| that @ q 4 doUrao 40 Wa are interested.