The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-07
HONEYM0ONS LlVELIER NOW.
4 RAGE ron PLAYING TRICKS
on BRIDAL COUPLES.
Ingenious WAys of Causing Embarrassment
Their Clothes StOicn--A ShOeiess
Bride and = BRIDEGROOM Win Evening
Dress Ai0Ue--NArratiye ~ q ,c wedding

soleutn ana sherlock Holmes combined,
not to mention Lord Chesterfield and a
Romeo, to pun OF a Successful weddir-
pSwadavs
Our papas-papas are one generation
younger than fathers-had to hc up in
the Romeo. Chesterfield combination, but
they did not have to do any of the dark
scheming which falls 10 the lot of the marry
ing man Of to-day. When they had made
love behind the scenes ard had done In.
polite thing to the family and friends they
had dono their whole duty. Their troubles
ended with the bang Of the carriage door
when they started for the station.
Those were palmy days for brides and
bridegrooms. But they are past.
change has come over tho spirit Of loves
young dream. It's a little like n night
mare now. az can he seen from the fol-
lowing faithful tale of one recent we'd
ding. though this one is pale and unirter-
Getting beside the accounts Of SOME others.
The wedding took place in good--iled
town in this State and was quite the fash
ionable event Of the fall season. The bride
was dainty, refined. rather Dresden
china sort of girl The bridegroom wa-
past his skittish days and thoroughly
fine, ikable fellow.
mere was tne usual array OF brides
maids from out of town, the usual visiting
beet man. the inevitable minister who has
a traditionary association with the family
from the cradle to the grave. There were
overflows Of guests In all the big houses
In town.
Moreover, everybody was good form
They were intelligent. educated, refined
people, the sort from whom one would
expect and receive both dignity and
delicacy.
But dignity, delicacy and all the other
cardinal virtues of breeding go down before
the modern mania for guying a bride and
bridegroom. Knowing this, tn" about-,o-
be-married young people We're on their
guard.
For a week or two before the arr, al of
the bridesmaids, tho rousseau had been
on exhibition TO intimate friends. No
sooner had the guests begun to arrive
however. than the brides mother was
forced to make soto vocc explanations
after this manner;
I'm sorry l can't show YOU the two
prettiest night dresses. but Martha" Ia a
whisper, has begun TO slip the things off
% rs to get them safely into her trunk
Or: Just wait a minute and III bring
Martha's blue negige in for you to SET.
It's under the bed in the cooks room
4 was mistaken she whispers on re-
turning empty-handed. , The ncglige
wasn't there. 1t was her travelling hat
think the neglige is in the attic--or next
door. l don't remember which"
Or: You really ought to see Martha
wedding stockings. but they're inside tho
piano and as the young folks are in the
room now, Of course l darent get them
out"
In fact. though the bridegroom has his
troubles, the bride comes in for the lions
share. The grand point in all this foolihg
seems to be to put the young IN arried
couple to as much embarrass and
trouble as possible. Tampering with their
clothing goes to the extent ev n Of hiding
II so that the newly mated pair must go
away shy Of even the most necessary things.
One bride In this same town. on going TO
her room after the reception to dress for
the train, found trouble at the very outset
Her shoes were missing
Not only We're her own shoes gone, but
every pair OF shoes in the house had van
fshed, except, of course, those which other
people Were wearing Unfortunately. she
could not wear her mothers shoes, nor
her little sisters, nor the cook ;. and no.
body else would offer her footwear Of any
description.
So the poor girl went away in travelling
costume Of tailor-mado gown and hat and
white satin slippers, Luckily il was a
night train and III the morning they could
take a cab to hotel. But a white cle-
plant ON her hands would have seemed n
pleasure to that girl in exchange for rose
white satin slippers on her feet.
At another wedding the bridegroom
travelling suit was stolen and hidden away
during the reception so that he was obliged
TO 60 away in his evening clothes The
next day, In the city, he shrouded himself
In an overcoat and went ont early to buy
q hand-me-down suit Of clothes in which
to face the public until the arrival of his
trunks.
As for that interesting incident. the
arrival OF the trunks, nothing in married
lie Ii more Of a lottery, II the bridegroom
leaves to a friend the checking Of the lug
gage, or II he let's the checks gu, of his
hands, nobody not in the conspiracy can
give anthing but guess as to where the
trunks will 60
Sometimes as a result Of this pleasant
little attention on the part Of their friends,
bride and bridegroom do not get hold of
their luggage for week or ten days after
they start on their wedding Journey OF
coursS, this means a good deal Of expense
in addition to the worry and Inconvenience
But to 60 back to the wedding Of which
faithful account was promised. As the
day OF the ceremony drew near, the bride
surreptitiously installed her trunks in the
cooks ROOM and little by little. stealing
away now with this article. now with that;
sometimes meeting a bridesmaid in the hall
and with her heart in her mouth and her
best pettic,at behind her back. siding hy
as II she were pickpocket; again in a panic
OF terror because, having forgotten that the
wedding stockings were at the bass end of
the piano she was looking for them in the
neighborhood of high c: in trouble and
terror. with fear and fretting. the bride
packed her trunk.
As soon as the bridesmaids realized hat
the part of the trousseau which was To go on
the wedding journey had been spirited
away they woke mp to their duty. their duty
according to the standards OF the prevailing
mania.
hey poked into corners. peer-d into
closets. mounted TO the aui', descended
TO the cellar, invaded the woodshed They
did not tackle the cooks room because.
Bridget assured them the trunks were not
there. At least, when they asked Bridget.
that g,,iicful young woman exclaimed:
In my room! Dye think now mourn
fully. that Id liver have SIGH luck az that?
Faith, list We wanst put thin TRUNKS in
Bridget McFarley's reach an III show Miss
Martha what me powers Of invintion rally
are!A
There was a leak somewhere. however
and In spite of Bridget's loyal evasion the
trunks were discovered. Next followed