The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-07-05
\ VIEWS OF
Y A WOMAN

ITO THE average man, getting mar
| ried under any circumstances
| / would be serious enough busi-
ness without daring to be a, Daniel and
beginning matrimony in a den of lions.
| A young person who was looking on at
that prepOsterous ceremony the other
day at the Elks' carnival, remarked in
awed tones: "Think of it, Getting
married, and the lions thrown I'M"
Another remarked that there are some
women who would be married in nest
| of rattlesnakes if prize of a tin dipper
| and a kitchen range were offered, while
| another speaker declared that man
who would marry woman who would
marry man in lions cage must have
nerve. A very young man was heard to
conf1de seriously to friend that he'd
| awfully hate to get married, but if 1t
was a choice between marriage or going
into lions cage, he would chance mat
| rimony.
The funny part of that lions cage
wedding was that the romantic couple
and the sensational clergyman were as
| safe as if they had been in a dogs
kennel along with three young puppies
| whose eyes as yet were unopened upon
a wicked and unregenerate world or
were sitting in basket full of kittens.
Old and experienced animal trainers
know very we'll that lions are great
towards and that they never attack
anyone in cage A tiger is another
breed of cats, but lion is so spectacu-
lar in his makeup that he deceives al
most all the people all the time and
| they quake at the very thought of being
In the same block. Hence the lion is a
very useful animal for the Snowman
and as long as there are enough idiots
in the world to be willing to help ad-
vertise the show by making a travesty
Of rite, popularity believed to be SOL
emn. Why, some of the wise ones even
assert that Daniel was in no sort of
danger when he performed that noted
feat in animal tanning.
About one-half the people who saw
that ceremony the other afternoon be-
lieve that the bride and groom belong
to the show and had probably married
each other or somebody else, more or
less frequently every season. That
white pique dress with stitched laven-
der inset pieces and that yard square
bridal veil We're too good to be truly
bridey. However that may be, 1t
seemed sacriligious to hear words
usually considered sacred pronounced
under such circumstances by min
lister of the gospel. Perhaps it was no
worse than some of the spectacular per-
formances in the churches. when the
bride is stared at by curious, gaping
throng, through which run half-audible
comments about the endowment of all
his worldly goods by the groom, and
the question of whether she means it
when she promises to obey, but 1t Is
less startling because we are used to
the spectacle.
If you want to read the prettiest
story of this year or almost any other
year, try that one by Mabel Nelson
Thurston in Lippincott's Magazine for
July, ION the Road to Already" In
these days of foolish novels, of tire
some historical atrocities, of veiled
suggestiveness and over-exploited weak
fiction in general, the beautiful story
throbbing with the life of sum
mer, sweet with a wholesome, love in
terest and teeming with the richness of
nature. is something to read'more than
once. Lippincott's Magazine has pub
lished two really great novels which
belong in the category OF nature stu
dies now so popular. The other was
I'm the Heart of the Ancient Wood"
1t Is story OF woodcraft and the dear
familiarity with nature that isn't a
mere pretense in which a woman and a
garden trowel are the chief ingredients,
such as characterize mature studies"
just at the present. One does grow
deadly tired of the woman and her
trowel and the ready-to- wear garden.
Saucy Bess.