Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-02
LBy Rlehard Henry Little.l )

By Richard Henry Little.)
 CHICAGO, July 1, 192l-A review oi the old files of Chicago papers bacH in 1911 reveals how much progress has been made in the last ten years in the matter of giving the bride and groom a proper sendoff after q wedding. In 1911. according to the newspapers, the methods in use on wedding occasions were bright and originsi but crude. At that far of day bridesmaids. ushers. groomsmen. loving friends. and relatives confined themselves to merely hurling rice in the brides face and ears. stealing trunks, or passing the We are just married" cards around on the train or which the newly welded pair had started on their honeymoon trip.
 These simple tricks seem to us very amateurish. To be sure, the rice sometimes put the bride's eyes out or broke her ear drums so that she really would always remem- ber her wedding day without too much Of an effcrt. and sometimes a well aimed old shoe stuffed with lead pipe would stretch a bride groom senseless-but not always.
 Still it should he recalled that the great advance made in the mat ter of giving a proper sendoff to brides and gr0oms really begur in these primitive fl somewhat child ish pranks of 1911 Our progress in this matter may be best observed by taking a number of clippings from newspapers of today and comparins them with the accounts of wedding in 1911
 For instance. on yesterday after noon Miss Vera SimpUl was welded to Mr. l. R. Harried at the brides home on Sheridan road. After the ceremony the new Mrs Harried was carried to the lake by her bride maids and ducked ten times It was enextremeiy laughable event. Mir Harried made a frenzied attempt to rescue his wife, hut was seized by his jolly groomsmen and, after being tied with a rope to the back of an automobile was cUmpeIled 10 run all the way to Waukegan Mr and Mrs. Harried have given up their plans for the bridal trip Mrs. Har- Tied will spend her Honeymoon in thei we'll known Neurasthenia sanitarium and Mir Harried will be at home to his friends in the Rogers Park hos pital.
 Other accounts clipped at random showing how much progress has been made in the matter of giving the bride and groom a pretty send off are as follows;
 .RoHo. H.. June %, SEA- very pretty wedding took place in Rollo yesterday afternoon. Miss Lulu Nicer being welded to Mir. Percival Dubb. the son of Mayor Dubb of RolIo. After the ceremony, which took place on the wide sweeping lawn of the Nicer residence. the happy young couple went in an automobile to the railroad station to begin their jour ney 10 Niagara Falls. Mrs. Dubb was seized hy her bridesmaids and a beau tiful bird in three colors was tat tooed on her forehead Mir. Dubb was seized by his friends and relatives and after being tarred and feathered was riddn out of town on a rail behind the justly famous Silver Cor net band. The event was one of the most amusing and delightful we'd diEgs that ever took place in our It. tie village.
 6fd1aNiilcf llQ."MiSS IEutT IONEiT was married here today to Mir. John de Smythers of Chicago, the well known young portrait painter. While the wedding was announced. to take place at high noon, it was not until evening that the bans uniting this splendid young couple were finally pronounced owing to the unusual cleveTness Of rhe bridal attendants Some of the fun loving relatives of the bride set fire to the First Meth odist church just as the contracting parties were walking down the aisle to the inspiring strains of the we'd ding march from Dohengrin.' which was beautifully rendered on the or gan by Miss lma Wonder. Mir. de Smythers rescued his bride from the flames with some difficulty and then repaired to the home of the bride and attempted to have the ceremony on the veranda. Tn groom's best man. however, exploded a charge of dynamite under the veranda inst as the bride was about to say will and the ceremony was naturally in-. terTupted.
 The groom finally pIayel a neat trick on his friends by escaping with MIss Lovely to the county jail, where the two were locked by the sheriff in a cell and the msrriagei ceremony performed by Justice of