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Show THE PICTURESQUEM,DESMQ. Different Style, of Cctnine. W x- The fashionable wedding of todav fc,. wmch the bridal procession is a glitter- costumes. The bridesmaids in dressy anS thf Podirectoire toe ef Lo,a. XIV alternate, and vie girls who are attended by Little Lord bridfrf 16 ma- at he Mr ert dT l S intoth3 church ported by a bevy of fair maido.i,s who are arrayed n the hu, of the rainbow, and shining m red, yellow and blue. Others again are preceded in their passage pas-sage down the aisle by a seeming flock of snowbirds in theit- frocks of white J ' w'th white fox furs and silver braid. Another bride will choose 17 r Z maidB Wh0 8ha d" gowns of golden yellow, carry bunches of yellow chrysanthemums or roses, and altogether lend a gleam of Kmshine to even a rainy wedding day; while one bride u recorded as having clothed her maids in wedding garments of dust colored broche figured with piuk and red roses, and hats of dust colored folt hidden beneath claret tipped plumes crowned their pretty heads, while tiny pages dressed in ruby plush danced ea vlv along. Formerly the bridesmaids.like the bride, were "clad iu robes of shining white," and their beauty and elaborate array were supposed to be to her as the palo beauty of the moon to the radiance of the sun, as the modesty of the violet to the elegance ele-gance of the rose, as the limpidness of water to the richness of ruby wine; nowadays, now-adays, the bride, the central figure round which clusters all the love and joy and hope that a wedding ring can hold the bride is apt to be in her conventional wedding gown, the fashion for which varies but little from year to year, thotigh she may substitute roses, hyacinths, chrysanthemums or lilies of the valley for the old time favorite, the orange blossom and flower,- is somewhat overshadowed over-shadowed by the gorgeousness of her attendant at-tendant maids. She may have them handcuffed hand-cuffed together with floral links, she may have them bound with chains of roses which shall fall asunder as she falters forth her solemn vow to love, honor and obey, or she may have them ready to strew flowers in her path as she turns, a newly made wife, from the altar; but in all these picturesque fashions and quaint ideas, she detracts from the interest which should center round herself alone, and instead in-stead of one interesting and beautiful figure for who ever thin ks of the groom? there comes a group of lovely maidens, a galaxy of beauty in which eacli star it of equal brilliancy. It can hardly be gainsaid gain-said that in their picturesque array the bridesmaids are fast stealing the honors from the bride, who must confine herself to the regulation snowy garments of silk, satin and tulle, while her maids brighten and beautify the wedding pageant with sweet artistic fantasies and raphsodies in raiment. So long as they are thus attired the truth of the old adage that "Every wedding makes another," is quite sure to be proved; and the charming maid, in addition to her gifts of pin and locket and bangle and buckle, may count among her trophies a captured heart. Boston Herald. v--y |