The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-03-16
SWEET FEMININE DIPLOMACY.
Dreaming on Doctorcd Wedding
Cake and What Came of 1t.

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Cake and What Came of 1t.
Montreal Herald: But what shall
do with IT." he asked helplessly.
She looked up at him and laughed as
he stood dangling a spare white box
by It's satin ribboa.
There's a certain inanity in treasur-
Ing another fellows wedding cake.
Won't you take lt-as gift?"
Thanks, no." she answered. 81 have
a sufflclency; besides, the charm Is
broken II you gave 1t away"
'Charm?" he echoed. what charm
has an inhnitesimal piece Of cake that
would not stay the appetite OF mos
quito? Silly custom. this. anyhow, OF
DO you mean to say" she interrupt
ed solemnly. that you have attained
unto years Of discretion and have never
trie the charm that lies in the brides
cake?" ~
"Never!" he averred
4 She looked so bewitchins in her brides
maid array that he would have sworn
to any fact OF fallacy whatsoever could
he thereby prolong the tete-a-tete. In
seeking spot where perchance that
ubiquitous best man might be eluded.
he had found this curtained corner of
the porch.
Then you must try 1t before you
are night older" she said. with a
pretty air OF authority Cut 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
to find out whom you are to marry"
she resumed.
Il know whom am to marry.
don't need O piece OF cake and seven
slips Of paper to tell me that"
Whom one wants one to marry and
whom one marries are not always the
same individual" she replied senten-
tiously.
Obi" 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"
UNI" he assented
Then you will place them under your
pillow, with the wedding cake, md
drew out one each morning; the last
one" with pause OF emphasis
II understand" he broke in THE
last shall be first. But I can't think
OF six names, one Is SO indelibly written
on my heart that"
"Oh. can arrange that !" she inter-
rupted blthely. You know that they
must be written BY some one else, any
way-some dis!nterested person."
oh" very humbly.
But as he watched her brows wrinkle
in such pcrplex!ty he concluded that it
was not such q 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 halfi!ght OF the YER
anda and retire precipltately.
There's one thing forgot" she was
saying. Each slip must be destroyed
as 1t is drawn out, and only the last
one read"
"Humph! Strict requirements these!
1t would give a fellow some satisfac-'
ton. perhaps to know whom he had es-
capped"
"Oh, but the charm won't work unless
you do. Promise. now" imperatively.
And he promised. Then
"Oh. saw" he cried. interrupting
the writing again. You'll put your
own name down, won't you?'
Shall II" she queried doubtrully.
well. rather" And though the
light was dim, she saw something In his
eyes that made her add hastily:
"Oh, very well. since It is by request"
Oh the eighth da thereafter she re-
ceived the following telegram:
Your name is seventh. Has charm
worlsed?"
And twas not till their honeymoon
was at It's zenith that she told him
contidentially-that each bit OF card
board had borne the same name, and
there had been no blank.