Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-27
CHORDS AND
DLSCORDS
A WEDDING.

wedding which is sample OF what Is
turned into the editorial department OF
a newspaper, and We are going to re-
gale our readers with it, substituting
fictitious names, to prove to contribu-
tors the embarrassment editors occa-
sionally save them by declining to
print their items In the form they are
written:
"A Beautiful Wedding-The fortu-
nate Mr.. Jones wins the heart and
hand of the most beautiful belle In
this county-Miss Bertha Smith. They
were married at the home Of the brides
parents. Mr.. Jones is a stock dealer
and also an up-to-date farmer. He is
from one of our wealthiest families
He is six feet tall and weighs 210
pounds. He has black hair and gray
eyes and is considered good looking
young man by everybody. The bride
is beauty, charming belle and a
social favorite in her home county.
She is % and the groom is So. At s
o'clock p. N. Feb. 16, Mr.. and Mrs. John
G. Smith gave in marriage their charm
| ing daughter, Bertha. to Tom Jones.
The home was beautifully decorated
| for the occasion with ferns and white
bride roses. The sitting room, where
the ceremony was performed, was in
deed an altar of loneliness. Festoons
Of ferns and white bride roses were
suspended from the ceiling in grace
full bowers, caught at intervals by
white wedding bells. Rev. Johnson
used the impressive ring ceremony
that he can so wonderfully and i'm
pressively say, which made the two
young people one, and the happiness
that radiated through the whole an
fair was so strongly felt by those pres
ent that it made the occasion one Of
great joy. The bride was daintily
gowned in beautiful white satin over
draped close mashed white silk over
lace with silver and pearls. The
brides trousseau is magnificent and
combines all the expensive elegance
Of eastern and American workmanship,
with the dazzling and brilliancy of
oriental skill. The bride carried a
shower bouquet of white bride. roses
and wore a magnificent white silk
brides veil which was trimmed in
silver and seed pearls 1t was two
yards and half long and was two yards
wide. 1t laid in beautiful folds on the
floor. TO say that she looked beautiful
hardly does her justice, but as all the
| county knows the charming young
belle an imaginary picture can easily
be painted by them of her loneliness,
for she was the most beautiful and
popular young lady of her county. She
is held in eyeryones heart as a great
favorite. She has played with all the
young mems hearts and been wooed
by many. The bride has had 1900 pro-
posals, not just from her home county
and the United States, but from South
America, South Carolina and Canada
Well, to make a long story short, you
might say she had the cream of the
world throwed at her feet. The young
men OF this county are at loss to
know how the fortunate Mr.. Jones
ever made her stop and listen to Gu
pid's tender call The bride was made
popular over the world by being in a
proposal contest in which she was
prize winner, but that was not all. She
was always popular which her home
people all know Now the county
hates to give this beautiful and popu-
lar young lady up, but who would take
the happiness of loves young dream
away? So with life full of the great
est happiness We let her go, wishing
her success and prosperity untold from
the many friends of the county.
After the two young people were
pronounced man and wife the wedding
march was played, then all went to the
dining room, where a handsome sup
per was waiting, and 10-pound noun
tain angel cake, and ice cream and
other refreshments, and just as the
second table took the chairs to eat
there was a violent clap of thunder
which caused them to jump to their
feet. About one hundred guns were
fired at once, and bells and horns, until
you could not hear your own ears.
Then the door opened and young Jones
and his wife shook hands with almost
five hundred men and women. Old
men 20 and so years old were out. The
entire county was there. 1t was like
a real army. Young Jones looked to
be the most happiest man on earth.
He was dressed in handsome dark
blue serge with a white necktie and a
diamond tie pin that glistened in the
moonlight like dew drop in the morn
ing sun. There was over four hundred
cigars given to the young men and
old grand dads and 62 sacks of candy
given to the young ladies and old
women. Some of the old ladies were
in their 70's. There was never such a
time in our county nor such a grand
affair."
Pointed Paragraphs.
It is easy to keep cool when the
furnace fire goes out
The bigger man is the less his wife
is afraid of him