The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-02-21
A Bit Of Wedding Cake.

But what shall do with it?'' he asked
helpIessly.
She looked up at him and laughed as
he stood dangling the square, white box
by its satin ribbon.
| There's a certain inanity in treasuring
another fellows wedding cake. Won'I
you take it-as gift?''
Thanks no. she answered IT have
a sufficiency: besides, the charm is bro
| ken II you give II away"
| Charm" he echoed. What charm
has an infinitesimal piece of cake that
would not stay the appetite of mos
! quito? Silly custom this, anyhow, Of
| DO you mean to say" she interrupted.
| solemnly, that you have attained unto
years Of discretion and have never tried
| the charm that lies in a brides cake?'
| Neveri' ne averred-
She looked so bewiching III her bride
maid array that he would have sworn
70 any fact or fallacy whatsoever could
he thereby proIong the tete-a-tete. In
seeking a spot where perchance that ubi-
quitous best man might be eluded, he had
found this curtained corner of the porch.
Then You must try it before you are
night older" she said, with a pretty
air Of authority. "Cut a card into seven
slips and give me a pencil and I'll do
the rest
He obeyed with unwonted docility.
This is merely a short and sure way 10
find out whom you are to marry" she
resumed
I know whom I want 10 marry. don't
need piece of cake and seven slips Of
paper 10 tell me that"
Whom one wants TO marry and whom
one marries are not always the same in
dividual"' she replied sententiousIy.
or was his only audible remark
Now" she went on, II shall write
name on each OF these six pieces and
leave one blank-for bachelorhood, you
know"
''Um"' he assented
Then you will place them under your
pillow, with the wedding cake, and draw
out one each morning; the last one"
with pause of emphasis.
Il understand" he broke in. 1.-The last
shall be first. But 1 can't think of six
names; one is so indelibly written on my
heart that
20, I can arrange thatr' she interrupt
ed, blithely. You know they must be
written by some one else, anyway-some
disinterested person.
"O!'-humblv.
But as he watched her brows wrinkle
in such perplexity he concluded that it
was not such a bad thing after all, this
idea Of tying up wedding cake in boxes.
and he became convinced that weddings
on the whole, were not such a bore when
he saw the ubiquitous best man peer into
the half-Hght of the veranda and retire
precipitately.
There's one thing I forgot" she was
saying; leach slip must be destroyed as
it is drawn out. and only the last one
read"
'Humph, Strict requirements, these!
1t would give a fellow some satisfaction,
perhaps, to know whom he had escaped"
20, but the charm won't work unless
you do! Promise now"-imperatively.
And he promised. Then
80, 1 say" he cried interrupting the
writing again. You'll put your own
name down. won't your"
Shall II" she queried doubtfully
well, rather" And though the light
was dim she saw something in his eyes
that made her add hastily:
20, well, since it is by request"
On the eighth day thereafter she re-
ceived the following telegram:
Your name seventh. Has charm
worked?''
And it was not till their honeymoon was
at its zenith that she told him-confiden-
-ially-that each bit of cardboard had
borne the same name, and there had been
no blank-Exchange