Show I fL t AN AL FRESCO WEDDING I It 1 Hl 1 I Novel and Charming Ceremony Suit I I able for Summer Weather I I j I I J Hildas al fresco wedding is described I I I a In the July Housekeeper in the series of Twelve Pretty Weddings 1 I Though it was August we had plenty I 1 flowers to work with says the writer i There was groat old garden extending ti r behind the house for mote than half an 1 1 r acre and here were all the sweet fragrant 6t l i frag-rant WossomB of poetry and country 1 f 1 memory with paneies running riot through everything Katherine took tI command and under her tuition we r gathered the latter and making cornucopias r cornu-copias of glazed paper we filled them t s with water and strung them up and r li down the spindle posts oC the front porch and along tho outside frames of tho little windows These were filled with pansies arranged loosely so that I j they seemed a continuous mass and i concealed their receptacles admirably J I The porch was then enclosed In green I i netting for hero is where the wedding supper was to be set and we feared the lights would attract the thousand little I Hying things of tho night which arc abroad from sunset Along thespread r Sag branches of tho old oak we hung i r garlands of wood flowers white starry I blossoms and a few poppy and wheat I Bhcavea to make tho green dusk under i the tree seem brighter It was unique j certainly and it was rarely beautiful I i When wo finished late on the afternoon I t of the wedding day the lawn with Its I i I flowerhung oak and pansywreathed i I porch and long double line of sweet peas arranged for our bride to walk I I I l between looked fit for the very queen tI I I oC flowers I i The sun had Just set and a silvery twilight was sifting down over the 1 world softening the distances wrapping I J I wrap-ping the hllla with blue and touching I trees and flowers wIth a mysterious I I i lovely shadow We girls stood close to the tree while Hilda nnd Horace stood I before the old minister who had come to marry them and all the other guests I I I grouped themselves around as near as possible yet far enough to leave an 1j open space like a fairy circle around I the pair of lovers Over In the west a few long clouds were flying like pink I i pennants of the sun and In tho east on the very edge of the gray night a great I luminous star hung like a torch held I up by angel hands Hilda and Horace I i I both looked at It as they stood wafting I and I saw Hildas lips form themselves J i Into the words our star of love when I she saw it I The ceremony proper was very brief I i i and simple and tho two made their re i i eponseg In clear unwavering voices butt but-t by the time the minister lifted his hands u I I to give the blessing the last vestige of I light had flown and only the soft sliver J I of the twilight hung over us like a veil |