The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-22
STRANGE HONEYMOONS.
How Some Couples Began Married
Life.

A short while since an adventurous
couple spent their first days of welded
life on the summit of Mont Blanc. The
ascent, extremely hazardous by reason
of terrific snowStorms, being success
fully accomplished. the bridegroom, In
the presence of the guides, embraced
his young wife, to whom he Swore eter-
nal fidelity. and received from her lips
an equally fervent assurance.
In the neighborhood of Dobschau, a
small Hungarian town. there is an ex-
traordinary ice cave. In this cave, some
sixteen years ago, couple named
Kolcsey elected to pass the week imme-
diately 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 sufficiently
pleasant nature to tempt imitators.
\ walking tour may make an endur-
able honeymoon, but to convert the lat
ter into walking match seems sadly in
congruouS with the rites of Hymen.
Such, however. was not the opinion of
one James Muir and his young bride,
who were united in wedlock last au-
tumn. While counting they had taken
many a long walk together, during
which a contention had arisen respect
ing their pedestrian ability. So high
solved. as soon as they were married, 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 forty-Seven
and three-quarter miles. No sooner had
the knot been tied than the newly mar
ried wife took a cab to the station
while the husband started off westward
at a good pace. In the result the latter
pnnnQh
two miles. though the lady kept the
lead until HOniton. sixteen and one-half
miles from the goal, was passed.
A month since young couple from
Birmingham came to London on three
days honeymoon. Alighting at Eus-
ton, they strolied down the Marylebone
road until they sighted the building
that contains MINIS. Tussauds famed
collection. They entered, and so en-.
tranced were they by thu wonders they
beheld that they remained until clos
ing time. Next day they We're the first
to enter the building and the last to
leave; and so also on the two succeed
ing ones. Then perforce they had tc
return home. highly delighted with
their London wedding trip.
The writer knows one couple who
spent their entire wedding day in jour
neying round and round the inner circle
of the underground railway-a novel ex-
perienee that pleased them greatly; and
of a pair who, in the days of the old
Polytechnic, foreswore the wedding
breakfast and affronted all their friends
by going direct from the church to that
resort of scientific entertainment, there
to indulge in unlimited diving bell des-
cents. Only two years ago, also. a
young man named MARI and his bride
spent their wedding day on the Earl
court wheel.
Perhaps. however, the most strange
and gruesome idea of honeymoon on
record was that conceived by a Welt
to-do tradesman of Marseilies. named
Dever, who, in the autumn OF 1885,. ON
his wedding day travelled to Paris with
his young wife to show her the e2secu-
ton of the miscreant Meneclou.