The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-23
YELLOW HIGH LIFE.

If the members of that circle of so- ciety sometimes described as high life really wish to escape the unwelcome attentions of the uniwted at weddings they must make up their minds to forego publicity and arrange the cere- mony for some unexpected hour. The conduct of the women at the Roxburghe marriage in New York led to the not unnatural conclusion that in the coun- try such disgraceful proceedings might be avoided. But it was in the country that the marriage of another member of the Goelet family took place on Tuesday, and the attending circum- stances were even more vulgar. It cannot be, of course, that episodes of the kind are agreeable to the persons most concerned. The fashionable we'd ding is usually made the occasion of luxurious display, but this, it is to be presumed, is for the benefit of the guests, not of the gaping populace; or if the latter are expected to admire they must do so decently and in order. { When the gown is almost torn from the bride in the crush of iDtruders ad- 14tAA dNAO4i ID NNAbdA4lAy bSO NAOAIAltlS ClA- pressed.
 1 The people of the town of Wayne and the surrounding country made the wedding of Tuesday festival It was like the circus. Peanut vendors came, and men with pink lemonade, sellers of souvenirs-were they pictures of the bride or pieces of the wedding gown ?- men, women and children. Carria ges and omnibuses were gayly decorated in honor of the occasion. A squad of mounted police from Philadelphia add ' ed to the viyacity of the scent. Thus all the elements of g mob of sight tseers were present Nor were the colnmer- cial aspects of the day forgotten. We made the wedding cake was the legend borne by a bakeshop-an honor which presumably increased business. The buses and barges were named ill com memoration of the great event" Hon. eylnoon, Wedding Bells, Sweet heart." Surely it was q great day for Wayne.
 And did not the spectators get their moneys worth? Every woman was a fashion-plate, and for daylight af- fair the display of jewelry was some thing dazzling" Some persons might regard this as in bad taste. But what are jewels for? Shall they shine only at night? The value of the black pearl necklace worn by the mother of the bridegroom was twenty-five thousand dollars-s valuable and important de- tail But the bride had an emerald necklace worth three times as much. There was time when such an orna- ment would have been deemed unfit ting. That, however, was a long time ago, ill a simpler state of society. Per- sons of wealth did not then realize what their duties to their fellows were They did not dream of entertaining with gorgeous displays. That was left Ito the circus. But the spirit of self sacrifice is abroad to-day. It could not have been pleasant for the bride to Istep from her carriage into a mob of struggling women. Nevertheless she Idid her duty loyalty. You can't keer Jus back now!" cried the women, fore ling their way past the police. Of course mot. This was the supreme moment.
 How sad and bad and mad it was lbut then, how it was sweet" On rushed the women, and even the bride llquailed. They held her by the gown ''and seemed ready to pull her to pieces" But it was only the strength of their emotions that drove them And did not they, too, suffer? One lost iher false teeth--"oln, insupportable and touching loss!" Surely there has never been a yellower day in high life. It all seems to be a part of the game. Ii there are still among "our best people those who wish for quiet wedding they will have to follow the example set by MT. Wemmick and marry in Q casual way. "Hulloi' said he to Pip < Here's a church. Let's go in." And there they found the bride But what 3 selfish way that would be of treating the public. Exalted American million
 aires have a higher conception of the responsibilities that attach to their sta ton in life.-Providence Journal.