Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1903-01-08
THE FIRST WEDDING
SIMPLE CEREMONY IN THE GAR.
DEN OF EDEN.
Bridal Outfit Of the Young Lady No
Tax on Adams Pocketbook-How
Misfortunes Finally Came to the
Happy Family.

Happy Family.
A great many years ago. long before
II entered the mind of man TO con-
struct the Tower of Babel, or to lay
out the city OF Buffalo or to do many
other foolish and wicked things
there resided in a distant land gen.
was First Man, who became enamored
of a beautiful young lady, known as
Eve b. Guiled. His attentions appear
to have been reciprocated by the lady.
and she became convinced he was "the
only man she could ever love-" If we
may Judge from the following com
munication which she made to John
Milton, who followed the rather singu-
lar vocation of advertising things
Lost and Found" upon her Fathers
Estate. Confirmed, then / resolved
Adam shall share with me in bliss or
woe; so dearly | love him, that with
him all deaths | could endure, with
out him, live no life"
This being equivalent to the modest
declaration that the lady is willing
that her lover should begin to pay
her board" arrangements were i'm
mediately made to have the union as
sured, and in the absence of an Off
cial clergyman the ceremony was per-
formed in the most simple and unos-
tentatious manner, in the beautiful
garden of Eden.
The outfit of the groom was plain
and simple, perhaps the most notice
able thing about it being absence of
the dress coat, prescribed for such &C.
casions by our best society" The
bridal costume was marked by perfect
simplicity and absence of all expensive
and extravagant adornments. There
must have been something very be
coming in this costume, as certain
ladies in fashionable life at the pres
ent day, initiate it as closely as posi-
bic when in full dress.
Dispensing with the practice now so
prevalent of indulging in a wedding
tour, and not caring publicly to pro-
claim themselves as newly married by
the occupancy of the bridal chambers
in the hotels and on steamboats,, the
happy couple settled quietly down to
the joys and cares of married life in
the Garden of Eden, and were noted
for their plain and unpretending man
ner of living. They kept no carriage,
hired no opera box, gave no costly en-
tertainments, but contented them
selves with the simple, inexpensive
and satisfactory pleasures and enjoy
ments incident to the circumstances
and surroundings.
Adam was a good husband; he spent
his evenings land a good many of his
days. at home, he had no business en-
gagements down street" nor did he
belong to a club. Undoubtedly he was
an early riser and loved the "dewy
morn"-as we are sure he did the
gentle Eve" Eve was doubtless a
very beautiful woman. She deserved,
II any of her sex ever did, the credit
of caring little for the Establishments
eminently domestic, and for her, in
truth, there was no place like home.
Eve, so far as we know, spent little
of her time and money shopping"
and it Is not prof able that she had
ever heard of Stewards, that Mecca Of
American women. She never sent
Adam to a restaurant for his meals
Mondays, because they were washing
days, nor made his life miserable by
reason of semi-annual housekeeping
She was not heartless woman of the
world, nor did she ever affiliate with
Mrs. Grundy and kindred spirits, and
never troubled herself about the own
ership of an extra pair of stockings
dangling from her neighbours clothes
line.
We regret to add that misfortunes
eventually came upon this happy fam
lily. Eve unfortunately became in
volved in transaction of fruit-ap-
pies, principally-in which Adam was
involved, and their property, including
the homestead, passed out of their
possession. and they were obliged to
seek a residence elsewhere. From this
time we know little about them ex
cept that Adam, with careful attention
to his diet, managed to live and reach
the age of $50, and died in the prime
of manhood, his days being shortened.
doubtless, materially, by the loss of
his property. Whether Eve survived
him or deceased first, we cannot say,
but presume she did.-Exchange.