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Show " HASHFUL imillEOBOOu's. OIRLS ABS BSAVOt TlfAN IEN tVIIKN THE sIISlSTEIl 8AVS ''WILT T1IOCT" jllul-ters declaru that la cine caes cut of ten bride ore much uoru aelf-poiSc&sul than arts-bridc-Krjcnis wlieu this marriairei ceremony cere-mony la beln t.-erformed. tays Uxe littroti tree frets. 'A shy, modest-looking llltle crea-UiruroDinl crea-UiruroDinl IrTwIiitu will stand per-fettly per-fettly erect, looking Uie minister calmly aaiKiquarely In the eye, without for au instant losing her jeli-polse, while tlio big, blunt sli-footerof sli-footerof a bridegroom by her side is pale, nervous and trembling. Ills llngersare'Iikely to twitch nervously, nervous-ly, and he may hitch at his trousers 'tis or twist a corner of his coat skirt. l was once '-best man" to a stalwart, stal-wart, middle agul bridegroom noted for his courage and feats of daring, ami when the time came for us to o down to meet the bride and her attendants he nearly bad a fit, and ne luuked lika a walking corpse all through thu ceremony. I had to keepraylng, "Brace up, old boy," and ''Come, come, you've got to go down," to get him started at all, and tt the door lie was Idiotic enough to clutch at me and say: ''Say, KreU, liuw vvoulj it do to have Mary and thu preacher slip in litre and nave it a!! over H ilh before we o down at all? I can't go through ,vitti It before all that crorfd." "Idiot!" I said briefly ami pointedly point-edly enough to leive in ddubt as tqniy meaning. "3Iaty.won'tcome i heie ncd'you will go down this Instant:" He got through it at last without doii gorsayiug anything ridiculous, in uiiii'ti resist ha iraj luckier than another stalwart IirlJegr jom of my acquaintance, who was so dazeu tnd orercomo that he held out one jf his own flngursfcr the ring when the minister said: "With tills ring I then wed." Another bridegroom I Unotr lost his head to sucii a degree that when it cunie time for him to say: "I, sior.ve, take thee, Annie, to bo my lawful wedded wife," he sal J In an unnaturally loud tone: "I, Mary, dku thee, Horace, to be my lawful wedded wife," and when the time came for him to introduco his LnJe oeumeof his friends who had not ,-et seen her. lis did it by saying awkwardly, "Ah, er Miss Carter, ids is my wife, Miss Ilarton," sxllin; her by her maiden name. Few men say "I tvllJ," ca-lly and naturally the flrtt time (Iiry use the words In public. A funny case was Hut of the badly ratttedbrldcrroom whottared lankly at the minister until asked If he took ''tilts woman to hs his lawful, wedded wife," when he started suddenly and iuthe blandest maimer said: ''Alitb;unIoa wereyuitspeak-Intu wereyuitspeak-Intu iiu'.'" A vilbgo preacher says that he ince married a rural couple at the hsme Cf the bride's parents in the nceticeof.a large campauy of in 'iti-d i;ut5. Tile bridegroom was l big, bony, red faced young fellow lm looked as though he could ave felled an os with Ids fist; but ie sidvered and turned alu at the 7?gitm!i!g of the ceremony, anJ at he cIom: be fell doivti in a dead 'aint, to the inanlfratanuoyauce of lis bride, who had beuu "as coal an i cucumber"' throughout the whole -ertnioDy. |
