The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-15

vent stifly and sorrowfully down
stairs, reinforcing themselves for the
trial before them by calling upon the
shades Of their YANKEE ancestors for
help.
Charles Hartig, looking so hand
some and bOyish that his mothers well
schoOled heart, in spite Of itself.
warmed toward him, presented his
bride. She was Undeniably pretty IS
far as face was concerned, but her
clothes aud her mannersi Mrs. HaT-
tig sank into the nearest chair, for
getting to invite her guests &c be
seated. The Misses Hartig hurTiedly
applied their vinaigrettes to the sit
uati0n.
''Eiow-dee-do!" said the bride shrilIy.
shaking their hands with pump-handle
effect and kissing each explosively.
Charley turning 20 the bridegroom,
gCur folks are all right"
Charlie laughed explOsively. The
bride ignored him.
I seen your picture lots o. times.
He" pointing toward her husband,
showed il 20 me. 1 tell you I thought
that diamond tee-arra you wore was
great
Silence, oppressive and bOding, fol-
lowed while the new relatives sur
Veyed each other The bride from the
west was grOtesqUely gotten up.
Homemade" was written ali over her
clothes. The hat was an atrocity ser
travelling, an sbortive Gainsborough Of
blue velvet with yellow tips. Her III
fitting travelling dress was of soiled
biscuit elotA. Her cloak was a velvet
p "dolman," beaded extravagantly The
times at which even the iron nerved
lose their possession. Mrs. Har-
zig turned rep-oachful, teaT-Glled eyes
upon her son. He, meeting her eyes,
laughed again.
The bride rambled on. Charlie
asked me If I dreaded meeting his
folks and I said. ] amt never seen
anyone yet that I was afraid Of, and
guess ] won't begin now
he Misses Hartis offered TO show
her 10 guest chamber. but she said:
No, / amt no need Of gOin. Ny
Eair's all right, amt it? And Charlie
said my face was clean. I'm too hum
cry to think of primpin'."
So they went in to dinner, the bride
stumbling over rugs as she went Ever
since the death OF good Deacon Har-
tig his widow had asked a divine bless
ing upon each meal The bride rat
tied on To Miss Lucy Hartig about an
engine that had run into theirs on
the road" until that suffering young
woman had TO beg her to stop. There
was q quaver in Mrs. Hartig's voice
and her 20 Lordi" had the note OF a
wall IN If.
''Speakin' of jokes" remarked the
bride as she guiped her soup, we
heare funny one the night before we
wuz married. Charlie and I and Paw
and Nav went 10 a music hall They
C he6 it 'Dinky Dams because the feI-
low who kept il was a dwarf. There
vas one fellow that wore women's
clothes and tried 10 ride a icrse around
q circus ring. he fell OF and that
made him mad. He was a terrible
looking fellow, with red hair about like
yours Lucy, only yours is SO slick
. do yen use anything on it?-and he
was afraid the ringmaC sF would dis
charge him. so he said. That horse
has been drinking How do you
know" said the ringmaster. Because
I smell the whisky on his bre ith.'
Amt that the funniest thing you ever
heard in all your born days ?" The
bride laughed until she ch0.Ved, and
begged someone 10 hit her awful hard
on the back"
They returned TO the drawing room.
where the bride yawned widely and
said; "Tm goin' back to the hotei to
get these tight things of. I hain't used
to en- I mostly wear Mother Hub
hards al home"
You stay here till get back. zhe