The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-29
NOVEL HoNEYMOONs.
Some of the Romantic Beginnings of
Welded Life.

The aeroplane honeymoon of Major f.
l.. Williams, r. A. F., and his bride, who
recently began their welded life i'll this
unconventional fashion, was not the first
example of eloudland wedding trip.
As long ago as 1879 when aeroplanes and
airships were probably not even dreamt
of the late Sir Henry Colville, then
dashing young captain in the Grenadier
Guards, and his bride startled society by
opening their honeymoon in balloon.
Probably one of the most romantic and
enjoyable of these aerial honeymoon trips
was that of NJ Camille Flammarion,
famous Belgian astronomer, and his
charming and daring bride For thirteen
hours they sailed together ''in company
with the sunset-kissed clouds and later,
under a canopy of twinkling stars
My delight Madame Flammarion says,
was ineXpressible; to sit beside my newly
made husband--here in the sky, travel
ing l knew not where. We were in the
starry skies, having at our feet clouds that
seemed vast mountains of snow; an i'm
pressive unearthly landscape-w white alps,
glaciers, valleys, ridges, precipices. 1t was
a scene beyond all words!"
At one time there was quite a craze for
freak hoheymoons; they were spent on tan
dem bicycles, III caravans. on motor tours,
while an American took his bride from the
church to his small boat in which they
were to cross the Atlantic.
An adventurous pair of Swiss lovers, both
keen momtalneers, chose the summit OF
Mont Blanc (which is 1872 feet above sea
level as the place for their honeymoon
and there, amid the snowclad peaks, they
braved it together for over a week
Even moro strenuous and hazardous was
the honeymoon of the Comte de Leslain
and his bride, who left the altar on a
perllous journey from Pekin to Calcutta
climbing mountains 10000 feet high, tramp
ing through desolate regions where for two
months they saw no living soul, escaping
drowning IN swollen rivers as by a miracle
living on the game they could shoot, and
wandering for days on vast deserts and
mud plateaux
1t was the fear of boring honeymoon
that inspired Max Flcisch, the American
millionaire, to spend $4,000 on an after
wedding trip to the Polar regions. A
special ship was chartered and manned by
crew of 49, When Mr.. Fleischman re
turned with his bride to Cincinnati he de
clared the honeymoon worth every penny
he had spent.
1 'Forty-seven days he said, I'VE spen'
running steadily against the gathering ict
IN an effort to land on the northeas
coast of Greenland Very fine sport wa.
had, and the happy couple, dressed il
leather-lined sheepskin, were lucky enough
, to kill thirty head Of reindeer, 100 seal
ard % polar bears
When Major Powell-C otton' led his brid
to the altar at Nairobi in British Eas
Africa, it was the preliminary to perhap
the most remarkable wedding journey eve
undertaken. Turning there faces west
wards the brave couple plunged into tn
very heart of darkest Africa" makin
their way through hundreds Of leagues 0
dense forest, hobnobbing with pigmies am
cannibals, who had never before set eye
on white woman, exploring the wilds Q
Congo Land and Unganda, and after
year and moro of such adventures as mad
, civilization, travel-worn, but vowing tina
they had had an ideal honeymoon
Quite different was the honeymoon eT
JoSeu by Nell-hnOWH cScilSt ana III
bride. This resolved itself into a ri
across Europe, via the Balkans, to Cor
stantinople by motor bicycle and trailer,
trip which, although successfully con
pleted would have daunted most youn
couples. Needless to add, this happene
before the war
i It was Scottish couple who hit upon tn
uncommon idea of spending their honey
moon in a furniture van, which they hire
and had fitted up for the purpose. |
this somewhat ponderous vehicle the
made their way leisurcly from Glasgow
: Aberdeen.-Ex