The Irish standard., 1905-01-28
WHEN ABOUT TO MARRY.
Hints to Br;degooms That Nay Prove
Of Value.

Hints to Br;degooms That Nay Prove
Of Value.
They're talking about what the bride
is to wear;
They're talking about how she'll do up
her hair;
They're quarreling over the bridal bou-
quet-
l listen in silence to all that they say,
They treat me as though was chained
to my doom,
Alack! What am L? 1 am only the
groom!'
Thus runs a verse of 'The Bride
groom's Song 1t is quite true. From
her youth up until the time she stands
at the altar n girl has chow to behave
at wedding" as part Of her education,
until she is permeated with it to the
very fingertips. Hitherto nobody has
taken the luckless bridegroom gently
by the hand and guided his lettering
footsteps in the proper path, speaking
tisuratively, says the Chicago Jorunal.
Always take walk in your wedding
shoes the night before the ceremony.
If you do not their raw newness will
be apparent to everybody in the church
when you kneel down, and if, as is
often the case, the price is marked on
the shoes in ink, that fact will be pat
ent also. You would't care for every
body to know that your wedding shoes
We're warranted solid leather, $780,"
would you?
Invite rs many of your bachelor
friends as possible to the wedding
breakfast. 1t costs you nothing-the
brides parents have to provide-and
they are sure to give you more sensible
presents than saltcellars and standard
lamps. Such useful things for the
home as smokers companions and
spirit cabinets.
Do not lounge against the wall with
your hands in your pockets while
awaiting the arrival of the bride The
attitude would, of course, convey to
the congregation the fact that you are
cool and collected but it is not one
adopted at the best society weddings.
Even if YOU are noted for your origi-
nality in the matter of ideas, be con-
ventional for once, especially in the
matter of dress. Your bride will be
far happier to see you at the altar in a
frock coat than she would if you don
ned Il golf costume and a red hectic.
Please her in this little thing for once,
even if you never do anything to merit
her approval again. Remember there
are many Jealous eyes in the church
burning to pick holes in the tout en-
scmhle
Speak the responses in level, me-
dium voice. If you utter them softly,
some of your BRIDES girl friends are
sure to say YOU were frightened from
the start; while if you give vent to
them in clarion tones, they are sure to
say that your voice is that of Il man
who will not allow his wife to call her
soul her own, and that it is evident
that poor Jessie has been bullied into
it.
Don't, for goodness sake, sign the
marriage certificate with Il trembling
hand as folks do in novels. Think that
YOU are signing receipt for an asset
which represents millions of dollars in
love and comfort. N. BIT requires
Il powerful Imagination to do this.
Always wear a high collar when get
ting married. 1t enables you to walk
down the aisle after the ceremony
with your bride on your arm in the
radiantly happy style so much appre-
ciated by connoisseurs ut weddings.
Furthermore, keep your head up
when YOU reach the church door and
the confetti commences to shower. If
you duck, as most silly bridegrooms
do YOU are certain to get several hand
fuls down the back Of your neck,
whence it percolates intentionally
through the whole system to the boots.
\ very high, tight collar is true
friend in such a situation.
DO not talk about the weather to
your wife on the way home from the
church. There are far more attractive
subjects-such as the war and pros
poets Of the football season.
DO not let any sense of false mod
esty prevent you from making hearty
wedding breakfast. 1t will probably
he the last free meal you will have the
opportunity of partaking of for some
time. Joy in the possession of your
wife may detract from your appetite
to some extent, but remember you will
have her with YOU all your life, while
wedding breakfasts do not come every
day.
In replying to the toast of the bride
and bridegroom do not say that you
hope this may not be the last time that
you may see their smiling faces gath
cred together under similar conditions.
Your wife may misconstrue your
meaning
1t is the correct thing before starting
on the honeymoon to kiss your mother
in-law good-by. You may also, if you
wish, kiss the bridesmaids-in fact,
kiss all the ladies. Such chance will