The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-08
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ny DOLLY DALRYMPLE.

"rhere was Aunt Betty-she of the cork
screw curls-Aunt Sophronia says that
she was belle and beauty In her time,
and was so sweet and unselfish that she
was bridesmaid TO everybody who asked
her. Aunt Sophronia says she had suitors
by the score and lots who were marrying
beaux, too-but that after the third brides
maid escapade they fell away like leaves
from a withered rose and she was lett
high and dry an old maid"
"Superstitions, of course, are not made
out of whole CLOTH" I said, land no doubt
this one originated by some one making a
mental inventory of the fact that several
women who had been bridesmaids three
times never married, hence the axiom
well, being bridesmaid is a very ex-
pensive luxury, anyway" said my friend.
when a maid OF honor for Mariana
my gown, muff, Shoes gloves and hat
cost over S275 and afterwards when 1
asked Tom (my husband now how l
looked he said he didn't notice as he was
SO busy looking at Marianne. And that's
usually the way. The bride gets all the
attention, and she should. It's her tea
party and nobody else's."
And the bride has an enormous ex-
pense on her hands, with lot of brides
maids I suggested FOR think how
much it costs for pins, bracelets, rings or
gold purses, the BRIDES gifts for a half
dozen attendants. Why, it would help
to furnish a house."
Indeed, if 1 were girl again" said
my friend, I'D promise to dance at a
wedding, cry, laugh or anything the
bride wanted-only I couldn't be brides
maid for the third time"
Especially If you had a promising
suitor,' 1 laughingly suggested, the
chances being that he would act as the
others whom you have spoken OF in re-
gard to the third time superstition
Precisely" said she, land by the way.
speaking of bridesmaids let me tell you
the very funniest thing L ever heard
about a girl who was a bridesmaid not
long ago. She had the most gorgeous
flowers for the occasion-all the brides
maids bouquets being showers of roses
and carnations and each girl looked like
a flower pot as she stood enveloped In
party arrived in front of the church
door this particular bridesmaid was
pushed to the edge of the curbing, and
with her bouquet hanging unexpectedly
across her arm she didn't notice at all
that one OF the nice, friendly horses
to one of the bridal carriages had turned
his head In her direction and while she
-,aff 81
her perfectly good bouquet"
How ridiculousr ] exclaimed, con-
vulsed with laughter.
"She didn't notice the accident until
she started down the aisle" giggled my
friend, land then she nearly collapsed"
And I suppose it was her third time
as bridesmaid said sarcastically,
thence the bad luck
-'Thats the moral of the story" she re-
piled undaunted. "She first thought she
was doddering IDIOT, and then that per-
haps after all there never had been any
blooms on her bouquet, when all at once
she remembered the horse at the curb.
and that 1t was her third time as brides
maid, and the problem was solved
Clear case before any jury of absent
mindedness and carelessness," I declared.
well. at any rate, you couldn't make
her believe that, nor an hundred other
girls l know" said my friend emphatical-
ly And everybody will be just tickled
to death il the English custom is in
augurated here. In fact. they will hail
with delight, bridesmaids Furnished
While You Wait"