The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-16
BRIDAL TOURS
MADE 50 EASY
SOCIAL FLINI-FLANIS NEGOTI-
ATED BY EASTERN FIRM.
The Newly Welded Couple Goes Into
inexpensive Seclusion While the
Honeymoon Club Makes 1t Appear
That They're En- Tour Abroad-Cir-
culars Follow Engagement An
nouncements.

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.
If John and Mary want to go to
Honolulu and are unable to buy rail-
road ticket which will take them
farther than Anoka, they can engage
board at. 81 a week at some Anoka
home and recuperate from the pre-
nuptial functions with. serene mind
and consciousness that everybody in
their set knows they are in the Ha-
waiiain islands. How can they think
otherwise when every mail brings a
souvenir post card in Johns or Mary s
writing, neatly stamped with the Ha-
waiian stamp, and telling how balmy
position John has? They would be
skeptical indeed, in the face of this
evidence, to harbor the suspicion that
Anoka. not Honolulu, is the destina-
ton Of the bridal couple.
It is the Honeymoon club, in an
eastern city which has made this pos
sible and several Minneapolis young
people have been much amused
to receive, shortly after their en-
gagements were formally announced,
circulars which had on the let
ter head, in addition to the name
Of the organization the impress
sive phrase 1--WE furnish the trip; you
friends" This is balanced on the other
side by the words Worlds fair trip,
st. Louis, Our Speciality in large
type.
A Trip on Paper.
"Our method of operating" the gen
eral manager says, is as follows:
You and your prospective husband
map out trip you would like to take
nanaing such towns and places of in
terest, as you would visit. Send US an
itemiZed list of these places, the num-
Der of friends you desire to have mott
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 IL.
| Illustrated in colors. On these cards
| you write the names and addresses
of your friends to whom you desire tt
make it known that you are in tha
town with a message, and then return
the cards to us. We forward them t.
our correspondents with instruction:
| to mail them on the date designated
when it is supposed you will be in sale
town. Naturally these cards wher
mailed will bear the postmark of the
y
addressed them will be sufficient evi
dence that you are visiting the places
mentioned when you are in realit.
| 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 nee
essary for it's preparation and compile
| ton"
A Premium on Prevarication.
The advantage of being the envy o
your friends is supposed to compen
Lager, for the time spent in hidin
near "home and friends" and running
to cover if one Of the aforesaid friend
come in sight.
For you would be sure to ru
across someone you knew" laughe
one of the prospective brides, who re
ceived the circular. Just imagine tn
string of stories you would have
tell to make things straight! A wed
ding trip under ordinary circum
can't imagine anything more appal
ling, in regard to what it might lea
to, than one under the auspices of tn
Honeymoon club. Think of shown
souvenirs bought by some one else, {
answering all Of the questions 70
would be sure to be asked and havin
your suit cases and bags covered wit
labels forwarded from New Yor
!, office, and pasted on in Hastings {
. Wacouta! 1t may be a moder
' method, strictly up-to-date and chea
but what would be the pleasure?"