Evening star., 1916-08-27
BY ANNE RITTENHoUsE.

70 GAR or no war, there will be
Nh\H marriages. If one had the
NH knack of gathering up sta
tistics, 1T might be proved
that war produces more marriages than
peace.
No one who was in Europe in 1914
suddenly arranged weddings that took
place throughout all the belligerent
countries.
The Americans could not understand
1t, but, evidently, they are quite as hu-
man as the rest of the world in the de-
sire for mating at the approach of
danger. The day that the National
Guard was mobilized for the Mexican
border ministers. fashionable and
otherwise. found their time fully occu-
pied. and even if wedding bells did not
ring and brides did not white
satin, there were marriages aplenty.
September Wedding Month.
All thoughts of an elaborate trous-
seau and whether the bridesmaids
gowns should be after the fashions of
colonial days or after those of Louis
~
led the way. dropped from the mind
overnight, and weddings We're as
sensible as a great majority of folk
think they should be-quiet. unpreten-
tious affairs. celebrated before the fam
lily and intimate friends, with solemn,
religious atmosphere.
Yet, depite the vast number of we'd
dingS that took place at the mobiliza-
tion of the guard. there are plenty
more to come. Septem Der VIII be Ia
yorite time for those who are to be
married at their country places, for the
fashion has come about in America TO
have the important events of young
woman's life take place in the country
home, rather than in the city, where
one may have only AN apartment or
live in a hotel.
With transportation made easy by
motor and electricity, the American
people are going back to their early
manner of living, holding estate in
the country as the real center of their
life and considering town as an cpl
Sode.
More and more the younger set wish
to live in the country all the year
round coming into town for few
weeks during the worst of the win
ter weather and the best of the social
activities; and even the older people
find that they go to the country earlier
each spring and return later each
autumn.
1t is not that we're English; it is
that were human.
A Bride and Her Wedding.
The call to the altar will sound
through all the social corridors on this
continent when September leads the
way into October. There will be
church weddings. house weddings and
weddings in the garden, which the ar
lists admire and which they are con-
stantly urging upon our young
With the growth of real gardens IN
this country modelled after everything
that Europe has offered for. centuries.
and leaving nothing undone that
money can obtain, the artists do not
have difficult task in persuading
girls to be married in pergolas, beside
artificial lakes. under splendid trees
and against line hedge:
Art offers much to the bride of the
season, and tradition little. She has
grown impatient with the set form of
going to church preceded by string
of bridesmaids. the vital change being
in the name of the man on whose arm
she leans.
1t is a day when all traditions are
challenged, not only by the philoso-
pliers and scientists, but by the young
women. 1t may be the fashion. as
current writer says. to look like
startled faun, but even II this feminine
type is most successful during this
summer season, no one who has mingled
much with these startled fauns fails
TO come away with deep impression
that for sheer bravado, defiance and do
as-you-piease they would set an insur-
rectionist to thinking of his inferiority.
An English Wedding.
The bride who will become matron
in September and October is looking
about for all kinds of ways in which
TO break up the tradition of the stately
procession to and from the altar.
The much-talked-of English wedding
of Miss Tenant. who belongs to the