Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-08-03
HOW TO TAKE PAPER TRIPS.


Newly WEEDS Are in SecIusion.
Lack of money with which to buy
the necessary tickets and pay hotel
bills need no longer hamper bridal
couples who desire to impress their
friends with the fact that they are
travelling in Europe, Asia, Africa or
any other place which issues picture
post cards. says the Minneapolis Trib-
une
If John and Mary want to go to
Honolulu and are unable to buy rail
road ticket which will take them far
Their than one of the trolley suburbs.
they can engage board at 81 a week
and recuperate fr9n the pre-nuptial
functions with a serene mind and n
consciousness that everybody in their
set knows they are in the Hawaiian
Islands. How can they think other
wise when every mail brings souve-
mir post card in John or Mary's writ
ing, neatly stamped with the Hawaii
an stamp, and telling Low balmy the
climate is and what a perfect -ispo-
sition John has? They would be
skeptical, indeed. in the face of this
evidence, to harbor the suspicion that
Jayville, not Honolulu, is the destina-
ton of the bridal couple.
1t is the Honeymoon Club, in an
Eastern city, which has made this
possible, and several Mlnneapolis
young people have been much amused
to receive, shortly after their engage
ments We're formally announced. cir
culars which had on the letter head.
in addition to the name of the organi-
cation, the impressive phrase: I'VE
furnish the trip: you remain at home,
the envy of your friends This is
balanced on the other side by the
words. Worlds fair trip, st. Louis.
our speciality in large type
Our method of operating" the gen
eral manager says. lis IS follows:
You and your prospective husband
map out trip you would like to take,
naming such towns and places of in
terest you would visit. Send lis an
itemized list of these places, the num-
Der of friends you desire to have noti-
fed and we will advise you as to the
cost of the supposed trip. When sat
isfactory arrangements are completed
we mail you a set of souvenir cards
illustrated in colCrs. On these cards
you write the names and addresses of
your friends to whom you desire to
make it known that you are in that
town. with a message, and then re-
turn the cards TO US. We forward
them to our correspondents with in
structions to mail them on, the date
designated, when it is supposed you
viii be in said town. Naturally these
cards when mailed viii bear the post
mark of the town and with the fact
that you have addressed them will be
sufficient evidence that you are in real
ity perhaps at no great distance from
home and friends Our price is mod
crate and is based upon the trip you
outline and the amount of labor neces-
sary for its preparation and compile
tom
The advantage of being the envy
of your friends is supposed to com
pensate, in the opinion of the general
manager. for the time spent in hiding
near "home and friends" and running
to cover if one of the aforesaid friends
comes in sight.
For you would be sure to run across
some one you knew laughed one of
the prospective brides who received
the circular. lust imagine the
string of stories you would have to
tell to make things straight. A wed
ding trip under ordinary circumstances
IS something of an ordeal but can't
imagine anything more appalling in
regard to what it might lead to than
one under the auspices of the Honey
moon Club. Think of showing souve-
Mrs brought by some one else. of an
swering all of the questions you would
be sure to be asked and having your
suit cases and bags covered with la
bells forwarded from a New York Of
flee and pasted on within ten miles of
home! 1t may be a modern method.
strictly up to date and cheap. but
what would be the pleasure?"