The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-11-02

/ ..As unto the bow the cord is,
So unto the man is woman,
| Though she bends him,
She obeys him.
Though she draws him,
Yet she follows
| Useless each without the other"
/ -Hiawatha.
The two popular young people, so
happy in the pride and strength OF
young manhood and young woman
hood, standing on the charmed
threshold of new existence, looking
out into the uncertain and untried
future, bright with hope and golden
with many sweet promises no
introduction to the people of ArdI
more. They have lived among us so
long and are SO we'll and favorably
known, that I shall find nothing to
say of them which has not already
been said.
By old and young alike they are
respected and loved, having been for
the past five years useful as well as
ornamental" members of Ardmore's q
social circles.
The groom, now a successful cot.
ton buyer of Ardmore, halls from
/ that aristocratic old Southern town,
Shreveport, and bears the marks OF
good breeding and liberal culture we
expect, and seldom fail to find in any
gentleman born and reared among
the refining influences of the "Sunny
South"
| AS to the bride, need only name
her native state-Kentucky. 'Tis
enough-the world already knows
of her fair and gracious women,
famed alike for their beauty, good.
ness and purity-a triplet of gracea
which, if woven into a diamond
would adorn the brow of a queen
Those who know the bride need NO
; other description of her trousseau
than that it has been selected
throughout with an eye single to SIM
plicity, elegance and good taste alone
all that is cheap and tawdry beng
conspiciously absent. Being an ar
tist herself in everything that per-
tains to dress, it goes without say,
ing, that every article from the boots
TO the dainty lingerie, is "up-to-
date" an6"just the thing" Long be.
fore the appointed hour the church
began filing with their friends, and
a glance around at the smiling audi.
ence, showed that those who had
been hidden had found no excuse to
stay away, and there was no need tc
: 60 out into the highways and
!, hedges' and compel them to come
to the marriage FEAST" Amid still
ness 'soft as silence in velvet slip
pers shod" they watched and waited
for the coming of the bride. and wher
at last the triumphant strains o.
"Wagner's Lohengrin," SO ably
rendered by Mrs. F. G. Barry, float
ed out on the f1ower-scented air
hundreds of expectant eyes were
turned toward the entrance of the
church to greet the bridal party, ant
az they came down the aisle keeping
step to the measured beat of music
rarely, if ever have we seen a prettiel
sight.
First came the ushers, Messrs
Bruce anG Henly, immaculate ir
"black and white" Then Miss
Townsend leaning on the arm of Mr.
Wortham. Then Miss Trask and Mr.
Cook. The groomsmen looking al
groomsmen always look-as if they
would like to be next" Miss TowD
send tastefully dressed in a white
organdie over pink silk. Miss TrasE
in white organdie over blue; eacl
carrying a large bouquet of pink car
nations and maiden hair ferns, ant
wearing large picture hats, making
: an artistic and beautiful ensemble
fit for the brush of Rembrandt
Next came Mrs. Love, sister to tn,
groom, as matron of honor, wearing
> dainty pink silk trimmed in cut jet
> and peculiarly adapted to her petit'
and winsome figure. Mr.. l.. III. Low,
. was best man. Then came the brid,
leaning on the arm of her brother
Mr.. Jack Crouch, and as she cam'
slowly down the middle of the aisl,
with downcast eyes and modest mien
wearing an exquisite bridal gown o
white organdie and real lace over
white taffeta petticoat and bodice
made entrain and sweeping the car
pet with soft swish-swish, as i
whispering gently of music, flower
and love, the audience resolved it
self into eyes" and took last affec
tionate look at the womanly, graceful
girl they had known and loved al
Olive Crouch, but whom they wouls
know as such no more. She wore 1
bridal vail foafanad NTH a nm hisn a or