The Colfax chronicle., 1904-10-15
IT WAS TOO MUCH WORK. /"
And Yet, the Wedding Came OF to
the Wonder of Many Gu
rious Friends.

Roxanna Brent had come back from
days shopping in company with two
OF her intended bridesmaids, and as
she lifted a great heap of silk ruffies
out OF chair and dropped into it, her
face wore the look of one who finds
her responsibilities too heavy to bear
Her mother was just basting the twen-
ty-hfth tuck in deep fiounce of gauzy
white material, and the dressmaker,
close to the window. was running the
sewing machine at top speed, relates
Youths Companion
We'll, we three girls have spent
this whole day looking at model
gowns and trying to decide how the
bridesmaids dresses shall be made, -
began Roxanna. 1T was so hard to
fix on style that would be becoming
to all six of the girls! Then, at the
last minute, we discovered there
wasn't enough of the piece we had
chosen, and it's doubtful whether any
more can be got! And here's Joseph
Inc, OF in Vermont, writing that if
want her for a bridesmaid, must send
on the dress material with trimmings
and directions for making it, in q
hurry, because she can't get her dress
maker after next week! Isn't it dread
ful, mamma? I'm so tired! And you
look ready to drop yourself! And only
think, I've got to write an exact de-
scription of the flower girls costumes
for their mothers this very night. /
promised"
The machine stopped suddenly. and
the dressmaker gave gasp.
I've had a terrible accident" she
said. and held up the skirt of Roxan-
mas filmy wedding dress. The front
breadth, covered with infinitesimal
tucks which it had taken Mrs. Brent
nearly all day to haste, had caught in
the swift wheel underneath the ma
chine, and had wound round and
round until 1t was twisted into
black, oily rag =
The three women looked at each
other despairingly. Mrs. Brent and
Roxanna tried to be comforting, but
the dressmaker knew as well az they
that the goods were an imported nov
city, and that Roxanka had bought It
because it was the only thing of its
kind in the city, and could not be du-
plicated.
But they did have few yards
more" suggested Roxanna.
IF you can get 1t, I'll stay Lutte to-
night and work." promised the dress
maker. because, you know, positive
ly cannot come after tomorrow"
Two minutes later Roxanna was at
the telephone. The salesman assured
her that he had four yards more of
the goods, and in less than an hour a
special messenger placed it in her
hands. She united the package with
trembling fingers and shook out the
shimmering folds. 1t was the same
goods, but it was the blue-white in
stead Of the cream-not possible to
use!
At that instant Roxanna was called
downstairs. In the front hall, glowing
with the joy of surprising her stood
the man she was getting ready to
marry. He had Travelled 100 miles to
spend one day with her, but instead of
the welcome he had expected, he met
a misunderstanding maiden who flung
herself into chair at sight of him.
and sobbed Historically.
"Oh, Dick, it's no use. can't marry
you! It's-it's oh, it's too much
work."
That was one of the times when
mans crude ideas about what is and is
not necessary in a wedding saved the
day To be sure. a few dozen. people
wondered, when the quiet ceremony
took place. why Roxanna Brent had
been so cbangeable in her plans about
her marriage. but except for that the
world went on just the same; and
Roxanna, well and happy, is to-day
radiant witness to the truth that a
wedding need not necessarily be ~tou
much work" after all.