The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-31

| New York City, Dec. 29.-Wed-
dings, with bridesmaids and best
men and Lohngrin and orange bios
| SONS, are going out of fashion. The
younger generation is exhibiting a
F, marked distaste for them. They
are by no means extinct, OF course,
as anyone may see by glancing at
the society columns of the news
papers, but even the wealthy, who
rarely miss an opportunity for
/ elaborate display, are losing inter-
est in them. 1t is considered much
| smarter now to be married in a
casual, unobtrucive way.
Thus, in the days news we find
that an attorney of international
fame and his fiance have been mar
ried by hardware dealer, who
also happens to be a justice of the
peace. A young heiress casually
informs her family that she has
married certain youth in Con-
necticut a few days before, ad-
hitting that she had kept the mat
ter secret because she was afraid
they would make her have big
wedding" And there is the still
more modern case of a young man
who, finding that he lfas oversight
on his wedding morning and will
be late for his appointment at the
city magistrates, hastily dons an
overcoat and is married in his
pajamas.
II simply cannot understand the
young people nowadays" complain
ed a society matron who has re-
Gently had two ultra-modern mar
rlages in her family. when 1 was
young we were perfectly delighted
TO have attractive weddings-why
We looked forward to them as the
greatest events of our lives and
knew exactly what color our brides
maids would wear from the time we
were 14-but my daughters have
such strange ideas. I did manage
to get my oldest, Elizabeth, mar
ried in church., but she refused to
have more than one attendant, a
maid -of-honor, and she wouldn't
wear my wedding dress-I had al
ways kept it for her. She insisted |
upon a plain travelling suit, with a |
large bouquet OF yioIets, and she |
made US limit the invotations to 25 !
people. She didn't intend to be a |
martyr for the benefit OF her rela- |
tyes and friends, she declared. +
She didn't feel she owed them that |
much,
Il thought Elizabeth was rather |
hard and inconsiderate at the time, /
but she was the soul of gentIeness
and good humor compared to my
younger daughters l didn't know !
q
told me she was going to Green
witch to be married one morning.
oh, naturally 1 gasped, striv-
ing to be modern, and would you
consider it an impertinence if we
asked who it is you are going TO
Now, mama, don't get upset
she pleaded. It's Jack, the one
with the nice brown eyes, you
know, who's just come back from
China IL
But he isn't a Chinaman, is hep
inquired
oh, mama, please be decent,
she said. You know Jack He's /
been here to dinner at least three
times. l just knew you'd fuss
about my getting married sudden I
" this way, because you're so old
fashioned, you think everybody
ought to be married in church.
Well, l won't go through that bar
1aric ceremony. and l won't prom {
Sc TO obey my husband, and | won't
send announcements to all my sec
md cousins and friends intimating
hat the house is open for wedding !
PRESENTS
We'll, now that l IooH back upon !
t, the matron continued refiec-
lively, "GeneVieve does not seem I
10 startling either. We both cried
Ifter awhile, and finally she agreed I
o let me go to Greenwich with '
hem. But when we came home
md announced the news to Laura. t
ny youngest and most modern {
laughter, she announced that she
vas married too-had been married {
week before in Wilmington. {
But it really isn't important, {
mama she explained calmly when t
asked her why. l had not been I
old I'm going right on living {
lere at home, because, you see, &
'eter has to live with his mother
he needs him so-and / could q
ever get along living with both of &
hem. Just because l want to Y
marry Peter is no reason why l q
hould make myself miserable
SOciologists, who like to comment r
pom the significance of things. tell t
s that this modern contempt for (
he conventional wedding is only '