The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-06-06
DREAMING on WEDDING CAKE,
MODERN Way Seems, to Make Marriage
More Thap Ever a Lottery.

My sisters said Brother Claude, "are
now busily dreaming on wedding cake.
Three days q we all went to q we'd
ding and OF course each OF us got a
nice little box Of wedding cake, and every
night since then sisters have been putting
these boxes under their pillows nights and
dreaming on them to see who they are
going to marry.
There is an old saying. You know, that
marriage is a lottery, and from what my
sisters tell me about the modern way Of
dreaming on wedding cake ! should say
that marriage is now n greater lottery
than ever. 1t seems that the custom
once was to put the cake under your pillow
three nights in succession. and then the
man you dreamed OF two out Of the thnee
nights was to be your future husband.
That was the old, the simple way, before
things had taken on their modern present
day elaborate complications, In these
days dreaming on wedding cake appears
20 De carried on like this:
"You take seven little slips of paper
and on each Of six Of these you write
the. name OF a sutton, leaving the seventh
slip blank. So here you have siS slips
with names on and one blank slip, and
now without looking at them you mix
theso slips all up together so that you
won't know which is which. and then
you put all seven slips together in an
envelope.
by this modern method Of dreaming
on wedding cake, with tho envelope sys-
TEN, you dream on tho cake seven nights
in succession. and in the morning OF each
following dlv you draw a slip from the
envelope, and tho last slip left in the
envelope after tho seventh nights dream
ing indicates your fate; If it's got n name
on. why. that's the mar YOU are going to
marry: if it's tho blank slip. why. then o
are going to be an old maid.
You see that by this method there is
introduced a vastly greater amount Of
doubt and uncertainty. and the period
OF excitement. suspense and interest is
very greatly. prolonged: but while the
old and simple way was certainly tanner,
the modern way. though far moro ex-
citing and interesting, may be not without
it's disappointment in the end. Just see
how 1t may work out:
Among the men whose names YOU
put on the six written slips there is pretty
sure to he n whom YOU prefer to all
the rest; but his may be the first name
you draw ont of the envelope after the
first nights dreaming. thus, alas! putting
him ont Of the question. On the other
hand it might he that the first slip you
draw ont would be the blank. the old
maid slip. and in this Won would find
perhaps reason for citation and self
congratulation.
Again. the first slip drawn might
I've neither the blank nor the slip bel ring
tho name of him you preferred. but a
slip with the name of q MN for whom you
cared less; and so might the agony be
day after day prolonged and growing
all the time more narrowing. to the very
end of the week.
Such is the modern method OF dream
ing on wedding cake, as my sisters ha We
so kindly explained it TO me. | believe
there is n reservation. il you don't like
the way one weeks dreaming comes out
you can dream again. on another piece,
you get at the next wedding you
happen 10 attend"