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Show SENDING HER HONEYMOON ALONE. Economy Preents a Hrldegroom from Accompanying Hit llrlilfl. Wedding tnura are expensive affairs. It sounds like treason, but the honeymoon honey-moon usually costs a good deal more than it is worth. A young Pittsburger who Ml into matrimony the other day hit npon a novel plan to reduce the expense-of expense-of the wedding trip. His bride to be and lie, before the wedding day came around, talked as most young lovers do of all the places riicy would visit during tho honeymoon. The drew up a new itinerary every evening and altered it the next night as others in the same delightful stale of imbecility have done. Lint as t'ne fateful day drew near the young man fell to counting his pile and estimating how much it would cost to to to Niagara Falls nnd to New York city and the rest of tho places that had ; figured in love's young dream. Then he footed up the cost of furnishing a little home, and no matter how he tried to keep the figures down, paring off a dollar dol-lar or two from a tablo hero and a carpet car-pet there, and economizing on plates and other pro.-aic tilings which' lovers very seldom think of at all till the collector col-lector rings the l;eil nnd will not go away without that little amount no matter how he clipped and lopjied and pinched, tin? tot.il expenditure for honeymoon hon-eymoon nnd the In duo nt tho end of it; covered all tho assets, and laiped over I into the bargain. j This would never do. ho thonght and i then ho went on thinking. The boldest fact of nil that stared him in the face was the cruel in difference of tho railroad rail-road companies and hotel proprietors to the needs of the newly married, Though a minister or a magistrate declare tv. j people to bo one, (ho railroads and the ; hotels insist upon charging for two. 1 Contemplation of this cruel condition led the bridegroom-to-be a solution of the tiroblem. When next lie visited his beloved ho spread the minutes of his self communion com-munion before her and boldly (suggested that she should lake the tour they had planned nlone, while he remained behind be-hind to prepare the home. She demurred de-murred at lir.t warmly, but he persisted that she needed the change of air and scene she was a hard working;' girl-that girl-that he did not. She had set her heart upon tho trip and she should have it. At last sho gave in. They were married, and she went to Niagara and the other places alone. They belonged to a sphere where Mrs. Grundy is not a power, and very few of their friends to tins day know the unique character of their honeymoon. It actually ac-tually occurred as has been told in Pittsburg, too, and not a great while ago, either. Pittsburg Dispatch. |