The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-04
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GOLDEN WEDDINGS will be going
VY out of fashion soon. We do get
~ married later in life-and oftener
than they did fifty years ago The only
way some of us will be able to cele-
brate a fiftieth anniversary of welded
bliss will be to count as did a certain
lady n few years ago. She wanted to
have a golden wedding, so she had it.
The husband to whom she had been
married fifty years before had long
been lying in his grave. So had her
second, but she had a third husband
and while he really didn't belong to
the celebration, she celebrated her
golden wedding just the same. She had
been married fifty years, and they had
beautiful! time at the festivities
l don't believe the present collection
of young married folk will, in the ma
jority, ever celebrate their golden we'd
ding day. If they don't wear each
other out in their anxiety to be up-to-
date and lead the procession and thus
die before their time, they will wear
each others patience out and want to
try a change.
There was picture among the
golden wedding gifts the other night
which held Il sweet, yet pathetic in
terest. 1t represented wide. old
fashioned fireplace. with the embers
burning low and two aged people nod
ding in their chairs on either side. The
fragile old lady's head rested wearily
against the chimney piece, and some
how the tears almost rose to the eyes
as one gaZed
But there will soon be no old people
like that--unless, perhaps far back in
some country homestead, away from
the busy life of the world.
You won't be able to tell the grand
mothers from the daughters. Nowadays
there are few white-capped, white-ker-
chiefed old ladies, They do their hair up
in stunning pompadours and frisk
blithely off to balls and card parties If
the hair is a little gray, it is all the more
fashionable and enhances still further
the fresh, pink cheeks beneath. They
have no need for kerchefs, for their
neck5 are still plump and white. and
their granddaughters never get
chance at their fine old cobwebby laces,
for they wear them all themselves,
with garments of the latest style The
grandmother of the oncoming years is
a very canny and worldly individual,
and she doesn't propose to give up the
good things of life and become an anti
quated nursery maid, whose views are
secuted because she is so old. Not
bit of it. She holds the reins of gov
ernment herself, and there is great
deal of kow-towing among her rela-
tives before her shrine.
Why, there aren't any old ladies any
more, with spectacles and the Bible
and their knitting work. They read
the newest novels, and their knitting is
in the way of art in needlework, and
mostly, they disdain spectacles, unless
in the shape of a jewelled lorgnette.
Not to say that they don't read the
Bible, for they do-in French and other
tongues. 1t Keeps up their languages
so well, you know.
They don't grow decrepit, these
pretty grandmothers. Some day they
go away and never come back, and we |
all look shocked and say Dear me, |
and she wasn't old. at all!' But some |
how it would be nice TO see a dear old |
fashioned grandma now and then.
A housekeeper friend of mine writes |
her woes about the country fashion |
employed by the delivery people and |
many other kinds of people. who win |
persist in ringing the front door, bell, |
instead of going to the side or the rear,
as they should. / have written volum-
lnously and feelingly ON this subject
before and have quoted as horrible
example the baker gentleman, who de-
rlares that II his bread is not good to
take in by way of the front door II is |