The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-08

This Easter week will long be re-
membered as one of great gaiety, dis
tnctlve in unusual elegance of its en-
tertainments and exceptionally favor
able as to sunshine. After the long
winter. remarkable for the assorted
varieties of bad weather, to have four
bright, unclouded days in succession,
with sunshine and stars for the Easter
bride and debutante is to be especially
blessed. SO far as recorded, no cry OF
a child or howl of dog in the house
of the wedding feast gave the omen OF
a dire future to any happy bride. the
young people danCed-the whole week
through and the swift round OF en-
joyment leaves apparently no regrets
in it's train. The motto of Scranton so
Ciety should be "a short life and a
merry one" for verify that theory Is
fully carried out in the spasmodic rush
which characterzes the crowding in or
social events in a brief space OF time,
and the long and weary season of dull-
ness which follows. The city Is full OK
visitors this week. an unusually large
number of young women being guests
Of class mates in town.
Scranton people are very slow to
adopt the custom of rising at church
wedding as the bride enters the door.
They do manage to struggle to their
feet more or less irregularly as the
service opens but the graceful. pretty
tribute to the bride as she walks down
the aisle so universal in most cities
is not in vogue here. 1t is to be re-
GREETED. for in that trying moment as
she passes between the divided
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and delight to her heart If the friends
who come to see her take the marriage
vows would rise in a mass, thus giving
a silent, expressive greeting as she
steps out into a new life, leaving her
girlhood behind. A seated throng at
a wedding seems to partake of the
character of cold curiosity, standing
congregation of friends has a pleasant
atmosphere of dignified respect and
affection. Please everybody rise for
the sake of the fair bride as she en-
tiers at the next church wedding.
The marriage of Miss Frances Win
ton the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. B.
NJ. winton, to Mr.. Arthur Twitchell on
Wednesday at the Green Ridge Pres
byterian church was an event which
attracted more than local attention
and will long be remembered for it's
many brilliant features. Rev. DR..
Lansing performed the ceremony. The
wedding music which was to have
been rendered on the organ, was given
by Bauer's orchestra, which at the
last moment was ordered from the
home of the bride because of a sudden
detection of the organ. The bride was
given away by her father.
The bridal party, which was unus-
ualy large, was composed of Miss
Dorr,' of Saginaw, Mich, who was
maid of honor; Miss Helen Winton,
sister of the bride, who preceded the
procession as flower girl; Miss Lowe,
of Dayton, o.; Miss Twitchell, of
Portland, Me-; Miss Eleanor Ander-
son, Miss Augusta Archibald, Miss
Alice Belin, Miss Frances Hunt, Miss
Eispeth Winton and Miss Ethel Boies,
and the ushers: Messrs. d. L. Bird,
Gordon Brown, New York; Harry
Hyde, Syracuse; Harry Fenton,
jamestown, N. Y; G. NJ. Alden, Troy,
n. Y; l.. WintOnBarry, John Mairs,
Williamstown, Mass, and Mortimer b.
Fuller of this city, with the best man,
Mr. Robert Brown, of Portland, Me.
Many out-of-town guests and friends
of this city filed the handsome family
residence on Sanderson avenue, where,
at the close of the ceremony, the we'd
ding breakfast was served by Purssell,
of New York. The floral decorations
were exquisite. The gifts to the bride
were many and beautiful and We're
shown in an upper room, making an
elegant and costly array.
Upon their return from a journey,
Mr.. and Mrs. Twtchell will occupy
DR.. C. r. Parkes residence on Quincy
avenue.
The Entire Nous club held a sale on
Saturday afternoon and evening at the
home of Mrs. E. II. Ripple for the BEN
eft of the Home for the Friendlcss.
The club is composed of number of
young girls, who have worked hard for
this purpose and their efforts were a
great success.
Miss Mary Nicol and her Sunday
school class of the Green Ridge Pres
byterian church gave a delightful sur
prise to the old ladies at t.e Home for
the Friendless last Saturday afternoon
in the shape of an Easter entertain
ment, when the matron and each of
the ladies We're presented with a potted
plant. The young ladies sang several
numbers.
Miss Dorr, of Saginaw Mich, the
maid of honor at the Wnton-Twit-
chell wedding, and Miss Lowe, of Day
ton, o., one of the bridesmaids. are
two of the fairest young women who
have ever visited Scranton. They have
been guests OF Mrs. II. Nj. Boies dur
ing their stay this week. YESTERDAY
Miss Lowe was obliged to submit tc