Show I HER MOTHERS STOCKINGS I Brides Amusing Story of Her llarch to the Altar j A good story is being whispered around about one of the beautiful brides j of last week She was married in a big church on the avenue with the usual I accompaniments of flowers and pretty i bridesmaids Everyone remarked how I i perfectly beautiful the bride looked a I she walked up the aisle on the arm of I i her father to meet the bridegroom waiting I wait-Ing at the altar j After the wedding breakfast and just as the bride was preparing to start for I I the depot to catch the afternoon train I for her honeymoon an old school friend of her mothers came to her kissed heron her-on both cheeks and said My dear child you were the most perfectly lovely bride that I have seen this winter As you walked up the aisle to meet the man who was so soon to be your husband everyone could se from the half frightened yet trustful look upon your face and the firm yet tender smile about your mouth that you were thinking of the serious importance I im-portance of the step thatyou were taKing taK-ing Ypur very look seemed to say I 1 I am leaving my girlhood behind me and I going forth upon an untried sea but so great is my trust In him whom I have I chosen that I step forward without fear and in perfect confidence Tel me my dear just what the thoughts were which brought that lovely expression upon your face this morning Very well I will tell you said the bride exactly what ray thoughts were a I walked up the aisle My other who as you know is a much smaller woman than I a for some sentimental sentimen-tal reason insisted upon my wearing at the altar the very silken hose in which she was married to my father twenty years ago They were so tight for me that at each step I kept repeating to myself This time they will surel split And when I reached the altar without Accident I was so much relieved lieved that I probably did wear the look tioned of bliss which everybody men |