The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-05
TOO MUCH WEDDING FINERY

we sacrifice to dress till household
 joys
 And comforts cease. Dress drains our
 cellars dry
 And keeps our 1arders lean; puts out
 our fires And introduces hunger, frost and woe Where peace and hospitality might
 reign
 wed what he thinks of. ceremonious weddings and he will be pretty apt to tell you that he would cut all that out if he could have his way about it. However, as neither of them expects to be married but once, it is but right good a 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, to 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 every thing she has and the things she wishes she had.
 It isn't every young man who has the forethought to ask his fianeee to give him a little hint of the number of trunks she intends to take on their honeymoon, remarking that two suit caces will be all that he requires for his belongings. Woe unto the man who forgets to find out this in1por- f317 1oS-s J1a been to bashful to inquire about the number of trunks faced a direful di- lenma when he discovered to his dis may a, veritabIe mountain of trunks accompanying them to the railway sta ton, fully a score or more. It took him so long to check them he nearly lost his strain, to say nothing of nearly having hand-to-hand set-to with the checking master on account of exces- siye baggage. The train hands took them for theatrical vaudeville team, their bid for public favor being the lightning changes of costume-a hun dred changes in 20 minutes. When they reached Washington, that mecca for brides and grooms, he found that he was obliged to secure an extra ad-s Joining room for accommodations for the trunks.
 a continuous battle between his bride and himself with those forni1e 7ole trunks If she wanted a costume to promenade in, they were usually obliged to go through the entire mum 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 nothing scarcely dig nif1ed to ears polite, only to be recalled to his senses by < burst of tears from his bride weeping1y protesting she was going straight back to mother, adding how could one know just what to take and what not to take on O honeymoon trip when one had not been married before, and that if he had wanted an experienced person he should have picked a widow for wife, etc.
 To settle matters amicabIy, both concluded to have an experienced packing woman come in and put in one trunk the things that would ac- tually be needed for a fortnight's longer stay. One trunk was all they retained for the belongings of both The other 19 and the 10 suit cases were shipped back home, and he had to engage entire baggage car.
 But it was cheap at that for his nerves and his almost broken back. Too much wedding hnery turns out to be a de1usion and snare usually