Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-12-10
Editorial
for All
Women
Barbaric Fashionable
Wedding.
ny DOROTHY DIX.

THE prettiest girl In Dutchess county
has proved that nature has furnished
the Inside OF her head with good gray
matter as well as ADORNED the outside
with luxuriant tresses. by stepping into
her best young man automobile. and
being whirled 10 the parsons and mar
about IL.
1t IL to be hoped that her example will
be followed by other girls and that mar
rage a la minute will become the mode
and that that horrible survival OF saw
agery. the fashionable wedding, Will soon
take its place along with the rack and
thumb screw. and the other instruments
OF torture which we have grown en-
lightened enough to discard.
OF all fool customs on earth none has
so little to recommend 1t as the show
wedding. stripped OF all disguises It IL
nothing but combination OF nervous
preparation, bankruptcy and blackmaii,
ana why any young couple should de-
lioerately choose TO start new hfe with
that sort OF a curse wished on them
passes comprehension.
40 begin with, Tor months and months
before the wedding the brias and her
accommodating an over-supply OF clothes,
AS II on the weading gay me shops would
be closed forever. and there would never
pe another opportunity 10 buy sar-
ment. The poor little bride has been
puned and hauled about by dresSmakera
and miliiners until she "a worn To a
IraBsie. ana her nerves are raw.
IL il a common remark that girls never
t,..l ,,,Ikf ahgN do. ~ h.saR RgayA
weddings. IL 10 because they are 30 worn
out geLung ready Tor the Dis show that
they are litter for a sanitar,um than
they are for marriage. II Is also why
most Homogeneous are ghastiy affairs OF
tears anu nyslerIcs and qua rels instead
OF being the dream OF pi.ss 70 which
two young hearts had looked forward.
| Then the expense OF the display we'd
dingl Bankruptcy for both father and
iiancoe unLess they have long pocket
books. Many a poor old father works
himself TO oeatn paying for his daugn-
tsrs white satin, ana orange blossoms
snd flower girls ana rang bearers.
| Many a poor young man never really
RECEIVERS from the ueot he was plunged
! into at the time o. has marriage for taxi
caDs, and souvenirs Tor bridesmaids and
groomsmen. and ushers. and bachelor
Dinners, and all the Tlummery attendant
on display wedding.
And the presents Regular holdups at
the point OF card, ana with such hor-
rible results Clocks by the score, vases
by the bushel, pieces Of furniture that
swear at each other, Junk-junk-Junki
AND every piece OF It got to be pad
back at somebody's else fool wedding
that can Le guaranteed 10 happen at
lust the moment when you need new
uress or baby has the measles.
Why should any man ana woman about
to take the awful plunge into heaven
or heh want to do II In The presence OF
a gaping, curious. criucising crowd2 II
| over there Is a time for privacy It -
at a wedding. 1t would be no more in
congruous to invite people 10 come and
see you die than It Is TO ask them to
come and see you married.
In reality to elope ~ the only dign1-
!, fled way oil getting married. and " girls
will ADOPT the sensible plan Of mercy
pinning on their hats and strolling
around to the clergyman with their own
Tom, Dick or marry, instead OF dragging
him up TO the altar to the tune OF that
Lohengrin rag. II will do much TO boom
matrimony. For it's the high cost OF
marriage that keeps many young man
frosa marrying.