Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-08-04
GLOBES AUGUST BRIDES

In the title gross libel IS implied. Our local adorables are far from being august. They are the same gentle, bushing little creatures that one always holds bride to be, even if she stands six feet, has the physique of Sandow and the prowess of an Amazon. Wiy-nilly, we must speak of her as little" and ''lovely" just as we always insist upon the sweet girl graduate,' when in very truth, she may, as likely as not,-and likelier,--have the appear ance of rare and fearful monstrosity just es- capped from dime museum or lunacy ward.
 But, hold! it is surprising and shameless to see to what dire and uncontemplated lengths ones thoughts will lead. So, to abandon sac riege for deusion, let us agree that the bride, whether she be of June or August, or even of the ''bleak December" is yet vision of love liness unqualified of sweetness ncomparable, of-but what's the use, when one has nothing but merest English to work with
 But to take up the thread of the narrative at the point where it was snapped by the en- trance of the Amazon and her erstwhlle sister, the graduate let us hasten to remark that the number of August brides in Globe is peculiarly gratfying,-to the clergy and the justice. Hardly day passes that does not bring with 1t at least one wedding and sometimes several.
 Now the acme of nuptial excellence has been held from time mmemorlal to be the June bride and her companion at the altar But log ic doesn't tell us why we should consider the August brand in the matrimonial market as having any lesser opportunities for happiness lever afterward' than the elusive creature who has heard the ceremonial words pro nounced beneath the June se-arbOr "where a rain of pinkish petals punctuated every phrase" No the August bride, despite her austere name, has just the same chance for hap piness,-or msery-that her sister of the June wedding enjoys.
 But to just what romantic cause we can as cribe the growing popularity of the August wedding we are at a loss to know, never having had ample experience of both. The June and August varieties. Wedding, like birth and death is not accorded more than once to the av- craze commonplace individual and when a per son attempts to get more than his share of haz- ardous iov through the medium of the divorce court he is simply tempting the Fates to play him some scurvy trick on his second effort for connubial felicity.
 However in seeking the romantic cause, we would be by no means surprised, II 1t wash t romantic at all. As a matter of probable fact, the loveorn swain in the contract finds on con sulting his employers ideas on the subject that he can not conveniently get his vacation as signed to any month but August, and so thls trivial circumstance causes him to set the sec ond greatest event in his life for the month of hav-making and watermelon harvest. 1t IS barely possible too, that the hot weather, al ways credited, either with making one amenable to courtship, or with leading one to acts of sheer desperation, causes the midsummer sui ferer to take a hurdle "out of the frying pan v of Nature into the fire of conjugal hostilities. So here we are once more brought up against the dilemma of the whereforeness and the why. And however unsatisfactory our conclusions may be, further speculation on the subject leads to no oracuar decision, and beside being sheer waste of time, might tend to discourage the timid in their August quest,o Cupid.