Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1916-10-27
PO0LE-MEEk MARRIAGE
IN BURKE'S GARDEN

(Burke's Garden Correspondence
Sometime among the ancients an
imaginative brain painted Father Time
as an old man with grim features
and muscular mein swinging q scythe
The suggestion is that of a mower,
moving and moving and moving, as
he stalks about over the fields. That's
Father Time in the somber role of the
Reaper Death. A very versatile dra-
matist is Father Time. All the worlds
his stage and all the ages the scenes
of his comedies, farces and tragedies
But If Father Time an actor he is
also q magician. His scythe is mag
lcal wand. He waves it over youth
and hearts throb and live. He waves
1t over armies and hearts grow still
and cold. He waves it and it becomes
painting the picture, Life, for the gal
leries of Eternity. He waves it and it
turns to the baton of u wonderful
Conductor, leading vast orchestra,
the hosts of earth playing the SYM
phony of spheres. 1t isnta cheap
metaphor to think of this same wiz
zard, Time, with his magical wand
ever and ever projecting before our
wondering eyes marvellous photo plays
until we feel that as the days fit by
we are gazing spell-bcund at the un-
rolling of an endless film and we sigh
at the passing of scenes that will re-
appear, never. Some of the scenes
are somber; some are gay. Such is
Life. Unrolled out of Eetemity it's
pictures roll back into another Eter-
nifty. The figure is too real to be fig
urative. The acts of our lives are
moving pictures. Some such thoughts
must have been in the eXpectant finds
of the waiting witnesses to the beau
tiful marriage play in real life enact
ed in Burke's Garden on October IS,
in late afternoon. So prettily was
everything planned; SO smoothly was
everything executed that the guests
could easily imagine the very actors
only pictures on screen. You wont
call it sacreligious, will you, to think
Of the church as a playhouse. Psy-
chologically, it is, you know, anyhow,
playhouse where the scenes of the
great Spirit Drama, are being contin-
ually presented. The church, then, is
for the time being. at least, a play
house, and this is the moving picture
we saw.
The lights are dimmed. The tile is
announced. A Rainbow Wedding. Of
course in rainbow wedding" the
dominant note must be color and so it
was. Autumn leaves and fall flowers
furnished the pastel tints for the back
ground. Two elaborate curtains hung
from wall to wall, one glowing with
miriads of soft-hued maple leaves,
the other artistic traceries of ever
green ferns on white ground. Three
white arches gracefully trailed with
Uinac md cr1ottr ,ryifh
tapers gave direction and position to
the procession. Six musical numbers
began the program. Mr.. Kirchensleg-
er, Of Williamson, w. Va, friend of
the groom, in rich and cultured bar
itone, sang feelingly, "At Dawning,
Oh, Promise Me-" and "Perfect Days.
Mrs. A. S. Higginbotham, in the
sweet notes of a lyric soprano, inter-
preted beautifully the tender senti-
ments of '"Today. All For You, and
Because I Love You. The skilled ac-
companist, Miss Katrina Gose, softly
and dreamily drifted into the peerless
love march in the picture marriage
scene of Lohengrin and Elsa. Then
the film began to unroll. Rev. Mr.
Bunts, of Williamson, friend of the
groom, and officiating minister, and
Rev. Mr.. Anderson. resident pastor OF
LHe Lutheran cnurcn, with measured
and dignified steps came down the
aisle, met and took positions under
the BRIDES arch.
In stately harmony marched in re-
luctant time the handsome grooms.
men in conventional attire. Mr.. Kirk.
ensleger, Mr.. Thomas, Mr.. James
Mr.. Harry Stuart, Mr.. Walter Stuart
Mr.. Nick Fuqua. Then all too quickly
passed across the screen the bewitch.
ing rainbow procession Of girls. 1t hat
been the eirlish pride and dream Of
the bride that-if she ever did get
married, the conventional prelude tt
girls dreams-she would have the
home girls for her bridesmaids Ant
SO it came true Miss Dora's dream
First, gracefully marched and coun
termarched Miss Poole, with Mis-
Mary Moss in pink gowns and carry