Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-08

lace-trimmed VEIL but those fifteen giddy
girls of the cortege dance in their picture
hats with fifteen husky male victims of the
same bright-rninded innovation; and the
merest casual acquaintance, munchng his
pate de-foie-gras sandwich and tossing off
his flute of champagne, gets an almost true
impression that he has danced at the we'd
ding" of the young couple thus launching
themselves socially. l will not pretend that
he feels called on to run out and buy
wedding gift; but something of an oblga-
ton is established and this is what the
modern bride desires.
You see, now, why she puts the money of
the wedding tour and carriage blowout into
something practical. And. note, the whole
| the profounder the couple always had on
| the guests of the wedding dinner-on the
| contrary. The buffet lunch guests who have
seen the bridesmaids dance in picture hats
know vaguely that there is a dinner "for
the intimates.' and that is all; while the
twenty, thirty. forty couples of the cor
tege go home. rest. change to dinner
gowns-and come in their own cabs to the
family function that must make them debt
ors of the couple all through life.
Indeed, l heard the business friend of a
young man about to marry actually cuss-
| ing because he had been asked to be of the
cortege.
oh. the chameau, 1--WE might say 'mut!D
He has put me in his wedding cortege; and
l dare not refuse, because of the bride s
family he was grooming.
Why do you groan?' l asked. rs it for
the present you will have to make them?"
"Oh. l don't mind that, he answered.
but I'm in the automobile business. and
he makes automobile lamps. They are no
good. Yet l will be bound to take a lot
of them from him every month. now"
Just because you are of his wedding cor
tege?" =
Yes the Partisan nodded gloomily, and
said it was the doings of that little "rosse,"
the bride.
Brides tact, We are hearing a lot about
it of late in Paris. 1t begins before the
wedding in the wise selection of a numer-
Gus and influential cortege, and it continues
bilious girl all tingling with desire Of
achievement bursting with untapped
ergy. determined to advance herself and
husband
1t is this kind of Paris bride who gaily
cuts out, not only the wedding tour, but
even certain superfiuties OF house furnish
Ing to launch her little barque with
big splash from church to dancing lunch,
from dancing lunch to wedding dinner.
Brides tact! In June she will be mar
ried. In July she will be receiving her
day. Then the cortege victims-and the
casuals of the dancing lunch in less degree
will take to show up at intervals;
because Paris business men have never
imagined themselves exempt from attending
5 o'clock teas-as part of the whole duty
of husband
l could not but smile the other afternoon
at the maneuvers of a month-old bride be-
side her own tea table. The victim
architects first clerk; her husband Is in the
paint business Now. about that paint"
l heard her saying, and in five minutes she
had shown him vague vista of social bust
ness possibilities ending in rich marriage,
while returning always by short cuts to the
paint.
Two afternoons later 1 met her talking
paint in the pnk-lt parlor of one of her
bridesmaids mother. Her husband was
there with her, making himself agreeable to
a lady old enough to be his mother. The
whole duty of a husband. Yes, Parisians
understand it! Twice a week, they jump
into a cab and give a business hour to
making calls with their smart wives. They
find it pays! STERLING HELLO.