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Show I SHORT STORIES. Marshall P. Wilder has a friend who, according accord-ing to the- humorist, is much averse to display or ceremony. This spring the friend of Wilder became engaged en-gaged to a charming young girl many years his junior. When the time came tc talk over the de- tails of the wedding Marshall's friend was for I having things done as quietly and unostentatiously as possible, disliking, as he does, "fuss and feath- I The girl held out against the idea. For her 1 y part, she was anxious to have a swell church wed- ding, with all the publicity and ceremony that such an event entails. I w Finally, however, the prospective bridegroom I gained his point. The girl relinquished most tear- I fully many of her ideas as to what goes to make I up a wedding. i "Come now, my dear,' 'exclaimed the benedlct- to-be, 'don't take it that way. We're going to be I just as happy after our quiet little wedding as I we would be if we had the mast ostentatious af- fair in the world. Really, for sensible people I there's no need of ceremony." I The girl bridled up instantly. "Now, see here, i Tom! I've given up the Idea of a big church wed- I ding; I've given up the idea of bridesmaids, and I've given up the idea of lots of other things that I a girl going to be married sets her heart upon I but, understand me, Tom, I shall certainly insist I upon a ceremony!" jj dt & & I The Peacock inn is one of the quaintest and I most picturesque of the old inns of England. It is at Rousley, within a few miles of Haddon hall 8 the Haddon hall of "Dorothy "Vvrnon" and many I Americans, since the appearance of Charles Ma- I jor's novel, have stopped at the inn on their way to the old home of Mr. Major's heroine. |