The age-herald., 1902-04-06

Washington, April 5.-(Special )-Cupid's capital throughout all this Easter week has been this splendid capital of our vast level, and even those of us who have out a holding acquaintance with the some- times cruel little god have yet found com fort in his domineering sway over this inn perial city of the bridegroom and the bride.
 The bridegroom and the bride!
 These roysterers of joy have lent to that airy nothingness which the pagan and the faithful alike dream as the love-sod a local habitation and a name-Washing- ton! They come not as double-spiee upon mischief bent, but in whole battalions' regiments, armies. With fierce f1erceness they look unuterable unutterableness In the hotels, in the streets. in the great palaces of the people-everywhere; and their child-like and vain efforts to appear as not having been married yesterday or even the day before. is not the least pleas ing feature of their Monte Christonian assumption that the world Is all their own.
 Yet that Is not a mere assumption Of world-possession 1t is a silent assertion of A plainly existing coalition. You are mine and I am yours, and therefore the world ia ours" aid the bridegroom to the bride, and he said truly. Observation alone has taught me this, 1t Is scarcely needful to say. Perhaps experience might have colored the glasses through "nich these eyes som etimes do but see truth vastly magnified. If so. so much the pet- ter for ones comfort. The sunny side or the road is better for whosoever walks the road alone. That Is the side whereon the children play and philosophers laugh; it is the side for peace on earth to men of good will.
 One wouldn't give a green fig for the bridegroom and the bride who do not know that all the world and much or paradise constitute their possession 10 which they have severaily endowed them selves with to their own joy, not to say superlative selfshness.
 The bridegroom and the bride-may their tribe increase, multiply and replen- ish the earth and incidentally may they continue to brighten the places where toll other folk who are poor even In thanks
 Next to the senseless nuisance of the terms clever and elegant most tire some of all slang, one abhors most per- haps the phrases happy couple" bril- liant marriage" happy wedding" '.bridal tour" "going-away gown," and the like. Every man and woman who wed one another are presumed as mat ter of course to be happy at the moment and therefore all weddings are assumed to be happy; but brilliant marriages, bridal tours and going-away gowns pro- duce headaches, to say the least Still that class of nonsense Is here, there and everywhere-and so is wearness.
 One palpable fact of present moment Is that bridegrooms and brides have cap tured the capital and transformed it into Cupid's City. Capricious Cupid-what jolly little chap he is. even though he be a god of mythology to whom the faithful oI today bend the knee, bend the world, bend all life as we know 1t here and much of life as we may know it shall be hereafter
 Oh, we here in Washington have them confronting us and around and about us by the thousands-the beautiflc bride grooms and the beauteous brides Mighty power of the altar-how 1t fills this town with love and laughter and gladness! There was never yet bridegroom who was not manful, never bride who was not beauteous. With the physical faillngs of nature love works miracles. And these are facts more evident in Washington than in any elsewhere whatever.
 Flowing nobly by the Capital is wide river of water. slowly sweeping on to the wider sea. Flowing sweetly through the capital is a veritable Potomac of matri- mony, sweeping rapidly on to fill with gladness a new world of new-made homes between the encompassing shores