Eureka Reporter | 1905-09-15 | Page 6 | Has Set New Fashion

HAS SET NEW FASHION becent br degrood rose superior to conventionality As a rule weddings like most mod ern plays are constructed around a single actor i the ande plays the leading part and the bridegroom and the rest of the company are permitted to walk through the performance for her greater glor her costume and her picture hat and her armful of flowers may be described in a column and the humble man she Is making happy for life be lucky if he Is barely named as an indispensable character alongi with the clergyman they are beginning to have a strict er sense of justice over in elizabeth N J A bridegroom with a proper sense of respect for the dignity of his sex has asserted himself the bride of course went to the altar the same charming figure all brides are but the bridegroom was not a mere man he was a revolution disdaining what the western newspapers call the conventional black he paraded before the dazzled onlookers in full panoply of white white serge suit white scarf and white shoes even his best man and the page were clad in white it has been the privilege of german duke or english who came to carry off an american heiress to appear in church la glittering but the plebeian american has gone along obscurely by the bride s side in of raiment now that the path of his emancipation has been blazed at elizabeth it lies between him and his tailor to emerge from the obscurity to which the eter nal feminine has consigned him