The log cabin Democrat., 1916-05-18
TOO MUCH WEDDING FJNERy

we sacrifice to dress till household 1oys And comforts cease. Dress drains our
 cellars dry
 And Keeps our larders lean; puts out our
 fires
 And introduces hunger frost and woe where peace and hospitality might reign.
 Ask the average man who is soon to wed what he thinks of ceremonious weddings and he will be pretty apt to tell you that he would cut all that out II he could have his way about it. However, as neither of them expects to be married but once, it is but right to permit the bride to have just as good time over it, as much fuss and feathers as she craves for the great occasion.
 The average bride-to-be insists upon having her fling. She orders twice as many gowns as she actually needs dresses to walk in, to dance in, tc lounge in. to eat in. lingerie pink rib. boned, blue ribboned, mauve ribboned. and beribboned in every other color. She buys the town shoemaker out. though he had an excellent stock of white boots. gray boots, bronze boots, and kid slippers of every color of the rainbow, from green to silver and gold. There are hats, veils, parasols, gloves and silk stockings to match everything she has and the things she wishes she had.
 It isn't every young man who has the forethought to ask his fiancee to give him little hint of the number of trunks she intends to take on their honeymoon. remarking that two suit cases will be all that he requires for his belongings. Woe unto the man who forgets to find out this important matter. One bridegroom who had been too bashful tc inquire about the num- Der of trunks faced direful dilemma when he discovered to his dismay a ver1table mountain of trunks acccmpa- nying them to the railway station, fully score or more. It took him so long to check them he nearly lost his train, to say nothing of nearly having a hand-to-hand set-to with the check ing master on account of excessive baggage The train hands tcok them for theatrical vaudeville team, their bid for public favor being the lightning changes of costume - hundred changes in twenty minutes. When they reached Washington that mecca for brides and grooms, he found that he was obliged to secure an extra ad- Joining room for accommodations for the trunks.
 During their two weeks stay it was a continuous battle between his bride and himself with those formidable trunks. If she wanted a costume to promenade in, they were usually obliged to go through the entire num- Der of trunks, finding it at last in the bottom of the very last one tackled. The same performance was gone through to find shoes and gloves that went with it.
 Of course the average exasperated man would say something scarcely dig nlfied to ears polite, only to te recalled to his senses by burst of tears from his bride weepingly protesting she was going straight back to mother, adding how could one know just what to take and what not to take or a honeymoon trip, when enc had not been married before, and that if he had wanted an experienced person he should have | picked widow for wife, etc.
 To settle matters amicably, both concluded to have an experienced | packing woman come in and put in one trunk the things that would actu- ally be needed for a fcrtnight's longer stay. One trunk was all they retained for the belongings of both. The other nineteen and the ten suitcases were shipped back home, and he had to en- gage an entire baggage car.
 But it was cheap at that. for his nerves and his almost broken back. Too much wedding finery turns out to : be delusion and snare usually.