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[ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.] LOVE, COURTSHIP, AND MARRIAGE,
BY
REV. E. J. HARDY (Author of “How to be Happy Thongh Married," &c.).
VI.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PR “SS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23RD : 1^01
THE WEDDING AND THE HONEYMOON Au'elderly unmarried lady of Scotlal, after reading in her newspaper the births, deaths and marriages began to moralise. She said: Birth, death, marriage, these are splein ersits but ye ken they are what we must all conesto ?!- Then her inpadont young sister looked op and said, "Ah, Miss Joanie, but ye have been tang sparel" We cannot spars the engaged young people of whom we were thinking in the last paper any longer. We must bring them to what they had to come--to their sonrrings day,
Not long ago, a man who was only a fort night distant from bis marriage reran kail to the
We are instareed a man who said that he had beginning, to show so little interest in Iwas too busy to come to his own wedding. The her husband's work; but little quarrols are sort of person would have appreciated a marriage sure to take place when people hausymoon ceremony as brief as that which was employed not wisely hat too well. It is a mistake in the colebration of 1. mariage in Iowa, United also to have too much excitement in a honey. i States. The bride and bel-iogroom were told to moon to undertake, for instane?. to so in a join their hauds and then fisked-- Do you trustshort. menth all the Churches, all the pictury | one another?" Both replied "Yos.Well galleries and all the waterfalls in Europe. ! then, have one another," and the couple were Trunks are troublesome to pack, trains de not mn and wife.
go at the hour wished, and thiare avo many little mishaps trying to the nerves and causing quar- rels which would not have taken placs nearly so soon if the honeymoon liad bean spenzin a calmer way. We know the ridklie: What is the difference between a honeycomb and a honeymoon? Ono consists of many xamall cells; the other of sno big sell. This newl not and ought not to bo the case.
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The eating passion is not felt stronger in death than in marriage. Dr. Johnson displayed the sturdiness of his character as ka journeyed with the lady of his choics, from Birraingham to Peely, where they wore to be married. Their ride thither, which we give in the bridegroom's own words, is an mousing bit of iterary is toy: Sir, she had read the old romateus,
HOW WEDDING CUSTOMS ORIGINATED. and had got into her ind the fantastical notion
We are so accustomed to the different natri that a woman of spicit should so her lover like a dog. So, sir, at first she fold me that I rode monial customs and ceremonies that we do not too fast, and she would not keep up with an inquire about their origin. And yet they all and, when I rode a lith: slower, she passed me had a meaning ones. The office of the best man," for instance, thungh now a sinijenro was
ERO when marriage by capture, prevailed. 1981-31 and complained that I lugged behind. I was not a lado the stars of caprice; and I re- solved to begin as I want to end. I therefore Thon a bridegroom seized the girl he fancied pushed on friskly till I was fairly out of hor without troubling about the consout of her
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was sure she could not miss it, and contrived in the operation, making sure that the cust was clear or kouping it by the infuriated that she should won corun up with me
parents. From the same primitive times dates the etytoin of the bridegroom giving presotita to the bridusable. The presónts in these days constituted a bribe or toll which was given to blind the eyes of the girl friends and attendants of the maid to be pagatared.
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had to be gone through before getting married he never would have attempted it. My friend and thought that it was *us ousy os kiss" to marry, but he found that kissing was the only easy part of it, rettenonts had to handle. banns pat up, in Church, a hon taken and farnishal, a honeymoon tour planted, a ring Views,hought, Isokete for the bridesmaids choven, anderemony in the Church, the guests used to pol
The honeymoon, which is now or ought to he himself hrought at the appointed hour and day to the home of the bride atit partake of
Vory fine old taway: aliort 3 years in wood to Lhurch in his right wind and clothed in wedding breakdist at which almod every one only a pleasure trip,, was in these marriage-by-"
Shipped respectively by HUNT ROOTS & CO, and GONZALF? wedding gartentis, not forgetting gender made gispeech, and the more ridiculous the capture days almost a neressisy. It was the
Oporto, every bottle seiring their time on the label and guaranteed to conta speaker was t'e more he was appreciated time of discroot hiding from the wrath of a
AlGr the mouth of Good Vintag
A GOOD SELECTION OF OTHER WINER AND SPIRITS gloves. If over we should pay it over w should be grave and anxious, it -yor we should Even when accompanied by champagne, family father-in-law and of a father.
PROMPT D. LIVERY OF ANY QUANTITY FROM ONE BOTT abstain frou vain show and vainor decbatan-jokes are dry and uninteresting do outridors had expired it was generally found that plate.
For Prieu Lisi, apply to- tion surely it is when two people are giving who are naturally mable to s their point.sophy had given way to reyonge, and siter a
13$87 Now weddings generally take place in the after few more possopts had been judiciously hostow- theanseres to ack other, for better for worse,
Hut et Sainty noon and a followed by receptions. As only, and explanations given, the laying compis til death part them. says we cannot allow the young people to sunak light refreshments are given at there a great were reseivel into the bowen of their relgating ing pair for lucit." tai it is peorably a survival into the comforts of married life without giving crush of people sine asked, all in fact who give family. A shoe is now then after the depart. as some fan first-hure the fashionable weder sħin-aro exported to give presents.
The only annuent supplied at these fof misées lurked aftertier robber of the britie ding. This is all very well for the bride. She
fions is the examination of the presents, lot for anything but pound burd knows her way abont as well as if she had bein
this always annoys me becanes. I think that it The practice of throwing rice is of Eastern often married: Sles Hikes to Im furnedoo![" well, for it arouses the mix of for gitt trian is those who cannot settle thanselves in life origin, whore rics is the ggubal of berility. "It who should get consolation prizes and not those is intended to payers the hope of the wedding but the pour iridegrosa! be on that comsion
who eas, nail cause it would be bettuj ko leerp | guests that the beads may beregne a happy feel as if leur soing to wake a fool of
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play the parts upon the stage of matrimony, Navy Contractors, Shinchandlers, Sail for the love of a woman allowid his eyes to i
Tu Norway wedding presents are not of tim makers. Provision and Coal Merchants, put out, and he seems to hear a large ongrega-expansive but useless kind that flew are "with |
Traya Central, Rest longong ction of female Philistines railing upon man lus. They consist of such things as pois and. muko sport for theal. The great difficulty pans plites, and dishes, a feather bed, half a BISMARCK & CO.
Navy Contractors, Ship Chandlers, women have in the marringo stavite vems to dozen sleep, a senis of potatoos and so forth
Provision and Coal Merchants, Buil be to get their long new cound the word "obey." Parlage the best form which the dattery of
muskers, Sr. Fresh Water vapplied to Briles konst, tha thay exured the word "ober " felenda run fasts on film scension of our marriage,
́and substituted “ggo,gay" or words of similar is the tiraquial one..
There was a nice citom in the parish of
Wher In Siberia Oves is a proud eustom that- a--Wyoflow Nottinghamdir e
aans of saund. After her welding a lagly of this kind Stripchandleras Suilinakes, Hardwazenarked-to-the-di-c-3. Fe Magándido. coming to her husband's longe, less to marriage we read out in church a person tires) Fugineer Toos. Bra sul fron Morrad the ceremony, * Naw. Mr. Mauris 1. give a disnes preparet with her own had as vonely selected stood up and spidi mun., "God
chands, 1. Das Vieux None..
call you to wit nows that I love my intention of a test of the i domation she has reolved. If she speed them well!" and the enek kuswzred
buying." Muurien unenured with hit suisvest annen da je preutifying her preds, it is taken na MONE & SHIMUND,
Band 45, Dk Velar Rod. Shipchanders, mule: "Ah, dom, vidlittle her the Missede en praat, not only of the your women's oka
Suitmunkacs, Marco re, Comimis don Agent Lames of obedience"). What world has bee leve
esenitems, batetan a newnemendation of her and Gere forhropods, Gula Agents done if she had met her match in a beilegen: | whole family by winny, she was instructed so
for Street cumposition ("Hreys
honn Brandad Blaudellike the cue who, when the wouin Lesitated af usefully,
Spenes & Cer's Composition word "obry," tall, “Go on. parsou. I'll make her! The curely had not a- : TAILORS
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In India id-costs altaost as unch for a min to urry his daughty well as bahre bis house burned, al in Ireland there is much mare to
they Gloves ued to be given as wedding was ased to be gives at funerals Honick wrote in lus Hesperident
***What posios for our wedding adgan What gloves we'll give, and ribbonings. and Pepys records in his dary that being at a marriage service, he hot two pair of gloves like all the rest.”
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Daded inese clerks of vi kartal (a bu yogy bugg Bu bakaragus. Olsol then, jetons on the sapunĮ - Cem it work at which they were, ingagal an or the building in which they werescatie: one teadly to wöönpas way were making a pos mature attempt to budalgo in ovalytory
going to be mare:1, 15 at bar for the new be thought of than the priest's fo much fut practices: vow, then, beare yourselves!"
de was evidently of the opion of the man end drink have to be provided- laskin's and
who said, "there is only on thing worse fant Tavin's of ivery thing." Cheetos pa such an
*Another quares in gablic that is caress." peension is considered a social sín. "Aurah. if
clerk ventured not loss boldly'le class tits mamuuli I wor getting married," a womu indignantly for the plating parsol. That goalan, DR wedding. I'd sell every stil-h off any hack, and they occasion referred to, substitut for de astai exhoriation & longgar homig of his own.. go maked in order to get married ducently!"
The gair apon whom he was upending a ritud
fchuren as the month after marriage which posed with
"The honeymoon has been defined by Dr. or east neted, and at fust the odors inges Please to cut it short, sir tiny've
THE HONEYMOON,
woman." Who wenging about des service the Archbishop of anterbary asksi Her Majesty who lug it tavoli Le desirable to oust the word day," and she answered, "I wish D. S. DADY BURJOR, Lcs Free to be married as a wokal, not as a Queen." Foxclaimed when she saw a poor display at s
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wedding, when the clergyman end the worla to love, cherish and to obey," the bridegroom interrupted him, and said: "Read that, agis, sah read it once mo', sa's de lady kin ketch do is full of tenderness and happiness." That isot the ib by the hour!" The cleak who full solemnity of its manning; I've in married what it ought to be but oven the hopeymoon nippel in the bad caresses that were preumue befo." That the bridegroom sometimes (ds may be spoiled. This is done when it is either would have been pleased with the discipline in this respect that was shown at a marriage in a it difficult to got the ring out of the receptacle too long drawn nat or filled to full of excitement.
Yorkshire vilinge chutch. It was once a Local where he placed it for safety, as the brids iloe-
Do our readers remember the honeymoon or i H. F. CARMICHAEL |the word "obey" out of her mouth, was shown
rather honeyyear that was enjoined in the custora Luvre that the parson who porformand by another widower.
When told to place the pastoral days of the Old Testamend? When urile. A strange dorgy mun, not knowing that the wedding ceremony should Gst is the ring on the book he looked for it in lis gloves,
2 man faboth a new wife he shall not go out in
this was his perginsite, wondered why the party turned out all his pockets and at last remirabored the host, neither shall he be darged with any that for fear of forgetting it bo had placed it in } basiness; he shall be free at komt one year, and
id not begin to go away at the conclusion of the service. What are you waiting for " the heel of oue of his Wellington boots. As an shall cher his wife which he kath Uken".
Le asked at far. Please, sir," was the brido- apology to the tittering ongregation he said, Deuteronomy XXIV-V As a "new wifa` when taking off his boot on wat ex well for polygamists often mean an additions! groom's answer, "Ye've no kissed Mollie; au
i masn't do at until ye have." me as it is so long since I was married before."
one, matrimony must have brought to people TOO BUSY PRIDEGROOMS!
thon a great deal of leisure. far more than wo The bridegroom may seem et smail account
can get in our rapid competitivo aze. Few of in comparison with the bride, but still it is in-
us possess sufficient oxen, and skeep and man- convenient when he does not turn up at the servants and maidservants to strike work for
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imaginary smugglers: I have heard of a busi ness man in the city of London who, growing weary of a prolonged honeymoon, telegraphani to his office for cue of his ledgers to be sent down to him and amused himself with it. Of course he was a brute, for all his books should
Not long ago, ou the day uppointed for a wed-old sailor searching all day with a telescope for ding in Ipswich, everyone put in an appearance except the bridoyroom. After considerable dolay a messenger came on a bicycle and an nounced that the bridegroom said he was too busy to go to the Church. The ceremony was postponed until the next day. On this occasion the bridegroom went but not the bride, and it have been the looks of the lady, still there was was only after much persuasion and after keep a great deal of human nature in Punch's ing her "Luy" ausband-to-be waiting for a sketches of the waning of the honeymoon. In long time that she was induced to go to the one of them a bride says “Wouldn't it be nice, church. The waiter had lately in his house Algy dear," or "Algy darling" or whatever ·
sho called him, “if an old friend wurs to tarn servant who was engaged to a well-to-do me. chando. A few days before her marriage shoup1"Yes," he growled, “or oven an enemy!" got into low spirits and said that she wished she so it is that we may have too much of a good Was staying in her situation and were not going thing and that a honeymoon may become a to be married, for she was afraid that the mat treacle moon and pall from excessive sweetness. might develop a bad temper. It was all that During his honeymoon Walter Bavare we could do to comfort her and bring her, on Landor was reading some of his poetry to his the marriage day, to "the sticking-place" bride. The lady seems to have been a Ettle
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