Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-01-14
Odd Honeymoons.


riage, just marriage III itself, is sufficient
~ charged with chances and uncertain
ties 10 satisfy the average couples taste
for variety People with experience Oft
en- feel that way. On the other hand,
young men and women who haven't tried
it bur are about to do SO are likely 10
think that merely getting married is COM
mouplace. The queer plans that have
been tried with the object of making the
wedding ceremony and the honeymoon
different from any wedding and honey
moon that ever happened before would
ill Il volume
Before air travel became 50 common,
getting married in balloon was con
sidered about the most unusual thing
that could De done, and even as recently
as last summer there was a great to-do
about a couple who tried It in MaSSa-
chuSettS. Five thousand admiFing fellow
citizens assembled 10 watch them float
off after the ceremony was performed.
They drifted about in the upper regions
for u day and a night, but then they de
cided that the wings of love We're enough
for them. and they gave up ballOoning.
This bride had more pluck than another
Tho tried the same sort of wedding
Journey later on. She sailed bravely up
with the man - ,ier choice for a hun
bred yards or SO. Then she decided that
that sort of married life wasn't settled
landing in rive. She was rescued be-
fore she was drowned. but life must have
been agitating for that deserted husband
until lie got to earth and traced his
spouse.
The woman who married her husband
in n lions cage-it was in a ''zoo'-must
have had great faith in him, or in the
keeper. who kept the indignant lions
at bay with heavy whips. Not quite 50
thrilling, but agitating enough for the
bridegroomS taste, was the experience
of the New York couple whose auto
mobile broke down just at that point in
their eopement when the bride $ mother
had discovered them and was giving
chase in her stocking feet.
Honeymoons in automobiles are very
popular just now, and probably will
remain So until airships are sufficiently
tanned to SuperSede them. y yacht is
a delightful thing to take a wedding
trip in and even better IS hOuseboat.
HoneymO0ning on the backs of burrOs
has been found interesting by more than
one couple In the Rocky mountains. but
no one in this country has been ven
turesomc enough to initiate the Euro
peap prince and his bride who set out
clad in sheepskins for walking tour in
the Alps.
One American couple though, showed
courage enough courage most people
will think instructed. They stood neck
deep in the icy waters Of a mountain
stream. and were married, their teeth
cbattering 50 they could hardly respond
TO the queries Of the officiating minister.
\ couple with taste for theatrical
effects began married life on a. trunk
drawn by traction engine. gaily dec
Grated with flags. and followed by
procession If friends in motor cars.
One Of the most surprising honey
moons ever spent was that 4 ~ elderly
v,;dower who took affectionate leave Of
his young wife-his thjrd-on their we'd
ding day. and started on q le5suraly we'd
ding trip accompanied by his young
dauchter,-New York Tribune.
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