The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-24
OUT AND ABOUT.


There is one young woman who is
getting ready to be married in June
who has decided upon an original kind
of wedding. Her people have plenty of
money and she had only to choose what
she would have to have it. In the first
place she is going to be married from
her fathers house.
she said, because 1 was born in this
house, and 1 want all who care for me
to see me married" She has made it
understood among her friends that no
wedding gifts are to be sent, except a
simple bunch of flowers. Her wedding
gown is a simple, white MULE, with
white ribbons and garden flowers.
Her family and her graduating class
will stand around her during the early
ceremony, which will be performed by
the clergyman who has baptized and
confirmed her, and the service will be
followed by an informal evening with
dancing. From her fathers house she
goes to her own in the country near
university town, and here she will
build within the year home for the
young women students at the college
who are striving for an education,
which will also be a summer home for
young women artists. music students
at the college who are striving for a
vacation at the expensive places, or
who cannot pay for a vacation at all.
II found" said the practical bride,
that for the price of an expensive
wedding / could furnish my students
home" Her husband-to a profess
or in the college, indorses her. plan full
ly and two happy young people start
out in life with a practical plan for
making others happy.
An increase in common sense on the
subject of weddings is noticeable, and
people are showing greater independ-
ence than they dared to few years ago.
1t is a pretty variation upon the time
honored engraved invitation for the
bride to write the invitations herself,
beginning MY dear Mr.. and Mrs.
Blank" instead of in the more formal
mode. Perhaps the time will come
when a church wedding will no longer
stand for a fashionable crush, but for
the simple wedding in church which
it often means with the English, among
whom home" weddings are unknown.
In England, people, unless they are
swells, and care expressly to make a
show, simply go to a church with their
family connections and get married,
reserving for the wedding breakfast
their display and social gayety. You re-
member how Dorothea and Giles
Brandon got married, in "Off the
Skilligs?" She wore a white muslin
she had and they sat down on bank
and pulled on some new gloves, and
then they went into the little church
and were married by Dorothea's old
friend, the rector, and Giles had for
gotten the ring, so they borrowed one
from a good soul who had strolled in
out of friendly curiosity, and the old
parson slipped it on Dorothea's slim
finger, and Giles and Dorothea were at
last married and lived happy every
afterward.
The tendency toward simpler, less
formal wedding ceremonies is marked
1t cannot well proceed too far, provided
it proceeds along legitimate lines. The
home" wedding is on par with a
marriage by a justice of the peace.
Noon is the proper time to get married
If you are going to be married at home
at $50 o'clock in the evening you may
as well wear denim and telephone the
invitations around at $50 o'clock the
same day, so far as the decorum of the
thing is concerned. Americans often
make the mistake of mixing good and
bad form together, of lavishing money
and taste upon wlMt is simply pre-
posterous, viewed from the point of
social sanction. Home" marriages are
an instance.
The Gerikes and the Kneisels will
at Blue Hill, Me.
The members of the executive com
mittee of Bancroft Chapter, Daughters
of the Revolution, held a meeting at
the residence of the regent, Miss Kath-
crime NJ. Bent, SO Fruit street, yesterday
afternoon. Arrangement were made
for the annual excursion of the chap
ter which is to occur this year, June
6. The historic Wayside Inn at Sud-
bury. immOrtalized by Longfellew, will
be the objective point. The chapter
will go by way of Oakdale. continuing
the journey from South Sudbury by
barges. The round trip fare, including
dinner at the lin will be $500, and
each member of the chapter is at IL
berty to invite friends. The ancient ta-
vern is rich in colonial association ana
since its purchase a few years since by
Herbert Howe of Boston, has been
stocked with many antiques and curios
so that it is today a veritable museum.
Albert Bowman Wood gave a dinner
for his ushers and best man, Monday
night, at the Worcester CLUB.
Mrs. Walter Fargo Wood of New
York is visiting the Misses Waite of
road
A pretty novelty is the electric light
shade, which is modelled upon the can
die shade It is made Of silk petals.
and fastens upon the light with little
brass snep which holds 1t securely. Fas-
tened to the light. with the jet illumin-
ating the centre. It looks like the most
sunerb and at the same time delicate