Show ill 1 BRIDES WHO SPEND j HONEYMOONS ALONE i I One cannot but admire the nerve of I the man who would suggest to his bride r to be a few duys before the wedding I cerenlony that she should take tie I honeymoon trip alone as owing to I t iness of business matters It would be J impossible for him to accompany her And n soupcon of admiration must also I be felt for the bride who Instead of being i be-ing offended by such a suggestion cheerfully agrees and sets out by IICT 1 self on a solitary bridal tour I That such Instances of honeymoon I lug alone ore not so rare as one would I I suppose is shown by the marriage of ii I George Chapman and Mrs ICmlly Hart i land which took place at MeKeesporl I on the Hudson river Owing to office worries Mr Chapman suggested to his wife that If she were dclsrous of having I I I n honeymoon trip she should take t i alone as It was advisable that In i 1 I should remain In McICeesport to look I I after his affair 9 Instead of getting gloomy over the r I 1 prospect of so lonely 1 honeymoon the 1 bride who had been married before and 1 therefore knew what she was about I agreed with unflattering alacrity and I in informed her husband that she would r accept his proposition on two conditions i i Via that the trip should last < three I months and that it should be spent in Europe Mr Chapman was a bit thunderstruck j thun-derstruck at the cool manner In which f his proposal was luceived but nevertheless never-theless acrccd to the two conditions hj and Mrs Chapman toured Europe alone 14 until she reached London where she 1 was Joined by her husband a A similar case occurred I short lime ago in Berlin In this Instance the tt newlymade Benedict whose name was I i Paul Krhardt was nol pressed by business busi-ness matters his simple and sole matcl Rlllle ant excuse ex-cuse for not accompanying his wife being I j be-ing that he detested ing let traveling Though n muil of 15 he hud never I been ten 1 miles from the German capital and ii saw no reason why he should alter this R Plate of things simply on account nf 3 jI i having muvrled He thought to get f over the t difficulty by not haVing a I honeymoon a till but to this the bride c f objected 1 there were no honeymoon L trip she trp declared there should be no It wedding tercmony i Then Mr Erhardt whoso bump of un I BOlftshncsB hud evidently contracted In h his syoutb thought that a wedding trip t without the groom would be something of n novelty and suggested this unique t 1 method of solvip the difficulty to his wife who after some expostulation I I L agreed to take a couple of weeks bolt I day in the company o her sister IP 1 Inrnlny to her husbands house at the end of that lme Shs had i happy trip and gave glowlng an account or all 1 she hud seen nnd dOt that her 11 ni band has agreed to accompany her over I the same route next year Illness was the cause of Mrn Henry H Fish of Los Angeles taking a Cay < C-ay honeymoon alone She was married I mar-ried to t man who was so III on the i day oC the wedding that ho could i t scarcely make the I responses He knew I that he would not he able to undertake I J I I take a honeymoon trio but t being < a I man o some thVght he made hla wife i promise that she would go for thee th weeks nleusuiv to Hie j mountains in 1 company with her brothel 1 To this she reluctantly agreed thouph t 1 when she saw how ill he was she f 1ki did her best to withdraw her promise v i a The bridegroom would not hear plollltc however and became so Insistent that I the doctor Informed the bride that the I SA th excitement of being contradicted was PiL a I having a bad effect on her husbniulH constitution and that he had hotter jjp S Mrs Fish and her brother therefore stalled but she had been goce only three days when the bride received a telegram informing her that her hus band had died suddenly from heart disease dis-ease A carious honeymoon In which near ly the whole 91 the time vis spout by the bride and bridegroom looking for each other happened to a couple who were married at Syracuse X Y After the wedding ceremony Mr t and rjc 1 Edward Thompson who were both Ucaf and dumb started on their honeymoon trip with ev ry prospect of having a lone and hunny time Mr Thompson was voallhy nnd ihe couple had decided to go tf California but for sonjo reason the husband Jofi lof the train at one of the iiumorou stops mid only turned up JH It I t was dteappear l int J 1 the newlymudf wife being cnirlid a hundred miles before he discovered xarShe her husband was not 111 LH smoking She tried her best Jo make t heoffi cal undMHland her but as no one I comprehended the dour and dumb language lan-guage and she was unable to write she WUH unsiiaeessjlul Meanwhile the hus land was in much tho name predicament predica-ment NOM > of the peripln it the littk roadside sacion understood his gesticu lations and su he did the most sensi ble thing he could have done under the crcuiTistancS took that next train for Chicago wlcro they had decided to slop for n few days The train which he boarded overtook his wifes train and lassed it When he arrived ill i l rhicago he waited for the appearance of the Klowor tin In but his brldJ had left It some 300 miles 1ack and was ret urnlng to Syracuse under the I Impression I that Mr Thomp son had rcyretted his matrimonial I step and VllsayiKrrod I was more than p week bofore tha wninh finally met l and lien I they welt so llrml I of their honeymoon tour that they decided to hunl forego taking the rest Chicago Til |