Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-05-26
TOO MUCH WEDDING FlNERY.

We sacrifice to dress till household joys
And comforts cease, Dress drains our
cellars dry
And keeps our larders lean puts out our
fires
And introduces hunger, frost and woe
Where peace and hospitality might reign.
Ask the average man who is soon
to 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
to permit the bride to have just as
good time over 1t, as much fuss and
feathers as she Graves for the great
occasion.
The average bride-tobe 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. wells, parasols, gloves
and silk stockings to match everything
she has and the things she wishes she
had.
1t isn't every young man who has
the forethought to ask his fiancee to
give him a little hint Of the number
Of trunks she intends to take on their
honeymoon, remarking that two suit
cases will be all that he requires for
his belongings. Woe unto the man
who forgets to find out this important
matter. One bridegroom who had been
too bashful to inquire about the mum
Der Of trunks faced direful dilemma
when he discovered to his dismay a
verItable mountain Of trunks acc6mpa
nying them to the railway station
fully a score or more. 1t took him sc
long to check them he nearly lost his
train, to say nothing Of nearly having
hand-tC-hand set-to with the check
ing master on account Of excessive
baggage. The train hands took then
for a theatrical vaudeville team, thei
bid for public favor being the lightning
changes Of costume - a hundred
= changes in twenty minutes, Whel
they reached Washington, that mecct
for brides and grooms, he found tina
he was obliged to secure an extra ad
Joining room for accommodations 10
the trunks
During their two weeks stay it wa
a continuous battle between his bird
r and himself with those formidabl
trunks. II she wanted a costume
promenade in, they were usual
Obliged to go through the entire nun
Der Of trunks, finding 1t at last In tn
i bottom Of the very last one tackled
r The same performance was gon
+ through to find shoes and gloves tht
went with It,
OF course the average eXasperate
p man would say something scarcely di
S nifled to ears polite, only to be recalle
IL to his senses by burst of tears fro
II his bride weepingly protesting she WI
h going straight back to mother, addir
If how could one know just what to tai
/: and what not to take on honeymot
" trip, when enc had not been marie
Ie before, and that If he had wanted
}; experienced person he should ma
Id picked a widow for wife, etc.
at To settle matters amicably, ho
Or concluded to have an experience
Of packing woman come in and put
to one trunk the things that would ACT
m ally be needed for fortnight's long
y, stay. One trunk was all they retain
u. for the belongings of both. The 9th
"a. nineteen and the ten suitcases We
Ia shipped back home, and he had to
at gage an entire baggage car,
in But 1t was cheap at that, for
ill nerves and his almost broken ba'
nd Too much wedding finery turns out
he be a delusion and snare usually,