Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-15

teract the i'll influence of the former.
| The belief is that widows and widow
ers denote early separation by death.
The belief appears to be common In
England and America that a bride
who chances to eat pickles at the bri-
dal meal is doomed to unrequited
love.
One of the old beliefs is that at the
wedding meal everything must be
passed to the right. There is even an
| historic aneCdote to show how this lit
tie superstition, which has long since
made itself q custom, Influenced man.
ners Henry of Navarro, when he
found his great minister. Sully, in a
dilemma of love, said to him half In
fun: IF you wish a good wife, turn
to the right" Sully entered the cham
Der door at the right Of TIE corridor
where he and his monarch had been
| walking and found there the young
woman Henry had chosen for him.
| History is so little sentimental as not
to record the outcome, past the fact
| that they married.
How and where these singular be-
liefs originated is a study of limitless
complexities, yet authorities have been
able, so far as many Of the common
American superstitioEs are concerned.
to trace them to the places or districts
where they appear to have originated,
since they are then most in vogue.
For instance, three times brides
maid, never a BRIDE" Is ascribed to
New England.
IF you try on your wedding gown
before the ceremony, you will never
be happy" came from Massachusetts,.
1.-The bride should wear a borrowed
garter and also a yellow garter" ap-
t.
From Alabama came the saying
that it is bad luck for the bride to
keep any Of the pins used in her bri-
dal dress.
You will be unhappy If you lose
your wedding ring, is common to all
parts Of the United States.
The old couplet,
Marry in Lent,
Live to repent,
is said to have originated in New
York.
Happy the bride the sun shines
on" is ascribed to northern Ohio.
Talladega, Ala, has the same idea
incorporated into IF it rains on the
wedding day the bride will weep all
her married life."
And Peabody, Mass, has the same
superstition, ITO marry in a storm
betokens stormy married life.'
Omaha, Neb., appears to have had
time to discover that 'The pair to be
married should stand in line with the
cracks of the floor and never at right
angles to them"
"a bride must step over the sill
Of the church with her right foot, "
say the wiseacres Of Orange County,
n. Y.
Generally in Massachusetts, 1t is held
that a double wedding is unfortunate,
since one Of the pairs certainly will
be unhappy.
Naive parents of New York state
long since discovered that runaway
matches are certain to prove unlucky.
Do not, in the name of all the hap
piness we toast, tell living soul where
you're going on your honeymoon. This
may be a hard prescription to observe
since railroad tickets must be bought
and baggage shipped, but do your
best. To tell where you shall honey
moon is to court unhappiness-
may we add, practical jokes.
And you, blythe wedding jokers,
kindly observe that 1t is the best OF
omens and signs to tie the brides
trunk with white ribbon. Be advis-
ed, however that to get the trunks
mixed and affix such a decoration to
certain disaster. Especially If the
groom has a temper.)
Be advised, anon, brides, that the
truly lucky color for the travelling
gown is gray. Brown isn't so bad, but
gray is the thing worth brides hap
piness.
1t Is, be you aware, excellent luck
for the bride to kiss a baby If she
chance upon one in the nuptial pill
grimage. The sign, so the wise say, is
for happiness.
But-shudder with fear-under no
circumstances, real or fancied, permit
another bridal party to get on the
same train with you. Disaster is GER
ed, fault which all trains have in
common.
And now, having reached this inte-
rior point on the journey in quest of
the reason for winning honeymoons
let us pause to determine, ere we reach
the goal, just what, why and whence
is this honeymoon. If you will read
back over the superstitions quoted you
will notice that. while those referring
to the bridal are old and gray as the
world, those dealing with the honey
moon speak Of such modern convent
ences as trunks, trains, travelling
GOWNS, etc. Inc QeuuCIlOIl Is lIldl the
honeymoon is a modern institution,
and this appears to be the case.
AS recently as the reign Of Queen
Elizabeth the honeymoon was practi-
cally unknown. 1t was not the GUS
tom for the bride and groom to go on
journey, nor even to seclude them
selves from friends and callers for any
period such as now has come to be
custom. In those balcyon days the
guests, even at the marriages Of the
high nobility. were told that the new
pair would be home and receiving
within two or three days. This little
period of seclusion was then only be-
ginning to be observed and it may be
looked upon as the dim beginning OF
the honeymoon.
The season of spooning and moon
ing alone is thus an outgrowth Of mod
ern travel facilities. Not only Is 1t
easy to get away for a visit, but it is
generally felt that the new wife ought
to have a season of preparing her
home before friends obtrude their at
tentions.
But, comparatively new as Is the
honeymoon, 1t has spread to most ma
tions. In parts of England it is call
ed "treacle MOON" The French have
their lune de miel (moon Of honey
and the Germans their 'hockZeits-
reise." or bridal tour. They have been
too deferential to taste to literalize
honeymoon into Hongimond.