The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-27
RELATED WEDDINGS.

There is an hour when angels keep Familiar watch OCT men,
 When coarser souls are wrapped in sleep
 Sweet spirit meet me then!
 There is an hour when holy dreams Through sIumber fairest glide,
 And in that mystic hour it seems
 Thou shouldst' be at my side.' It is usually the ardent hope of every engaged girl to be married In
 June, the month of roses and of we'd dings. There seems to be a mystic
 spell connected with the very thought
 of becoming bride, on a June day
 when the world is flooded with golden
 sunshine and the fair earth is. car peted with flowers The ancients con-
 sidered it the 1uckiest in all the twelve
 month and the notion slipped down, challenging contradiction during all the years that have followed. So why shouldn't the betrothed maiden be eager to be a June bride? But, alack and alas, as to planning, "the best laid plan of maid and man aft gangs aglee.''
 It sometimes happens that some un- expected circumstance transpires to prevent the ceremony being performed in the rose month. What then! Shall the disappointed couple wait until it rols around again or cast their chance | of happiness with July or even Au- gust? The superstitious pack away the wedding fnery in perfumed boxes not to be opened until November
 Those who laugh at the notion of one
 month being more mckier than an- other, snapping their fingers at hear
 say handed down from goodness
 knows where, go right ahead with the
 wedding quite as soon as the obstacle
 which prevented it can be removed. It is not always grave and warrant able reasons which have staved off the happiness of the waiting pair. Some
 reasons are, as amusing as they are
 unique. In a score or more cases where the weddings did not come off
 on schedule time, the reasons were
 found to be as follows: One bride
 groom lost the wedding ring
 which he had been carrying in his west pocket. The bride-to-be refused substitute because she had heard it
 would be disastrous to her future peace. Several months slipped by ere I 1t was discovered in far corner of the vest whither it had slipped through Ian unnoticed, tiny hole in that unfor- tunate pocket. His fiance was so ans gered at his seeming carelessness that she broke the engagement at once. She would not take the contract to Keep his pockets in good condition when he could be so careless of them. Another case: A village clerk, hear ing his sweetheart had accepted his
 r1val, agreeing to wed him providing the marriage could take place in June-the last of which was but three
 days off-hastily packed his grip, clos ing '1e office which contained all the documents necessary for the license
 locked carefully in his safe, thereby preventing the distracted rival from complying with the condftdions dur ing the town clerks weeks vacation.
 This strategy won the clerk the girl
 who could not help admiring his cool
 impotence and daring to outwit his adversary. The clever young man succeeded in convincing her that July or August was really just as delight full and quite as lucky for a marriage month as June Another wedding also scheduled for
 June was help up on account of the bride-to-be whose name was Bridget but vho had given herself the fancifuI
 name of Bridey, insisting that the
 name of Bridey and no other should
 appear on the marriage Scertificate
 Her obdurate lover postponed the
 nuptials to give Bridget as much time
 as she wanted to think it over. Her
 stubpornness lasted two days. Whats
 the d1nerence as to what month you
 marry in as long as you wed the one
 you love?
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