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Show CUPID AND DOLLARS. Tmv laughs at the Expense, and Uorfcs at Money. g Cupid cannot always be smothered by dollars, and youth will assert itsell and lads and lasses will sometimes have a good time even in millionaire-:f!fsr&!3He,wediing millionaire-:f!fsr&!3He,wediing of young Mr. Have-. Have-. v , - ;niej'er;"so'ttf-Ote-siaFing, and Miss ' , . W-MUng at Newport the other day was regarded xather as the union of .two' .'great fortunes than of two young and .,. loving'- hearts. Everything was est!- - mated in dollars. The bride's dress - and- the gift of the groom to the bride r " '.rwere daly appraised in dollars and : cents; the cost of the decorations and of the wedding breakfast were all estimated es-timated and there were the usual man- ifestations of vulgar curiosity, . and this in the face of the fact that one of the families was in "half-mourning" and the wedding was to be a quiet one. The dollar mark assumed the place of Cupid's bow as the emblem, and as Mr. Dooley would say, the holy bonds of wedlock were government 4s. But all the solemn parade of vanity did not suit the young people of the settle-" settle-" : ment . After the wedding breakfast , . the bride and groom were to start 1 , upon a bridal trip. Their young friends . ' . -' took the horses from the carriage and two milk white ones were substituted. The carriage was decorated with ribbons rib-bons and surmounted by a gigantic i.t'T ahoe which emitted -a stream' of rice' from a hole in the toe like pebbles and . bread crumbs falling from.Hop-o'-my-. ' V Thumb's' pockeC when he took to the woods. The bridal party organized a - procession. to escort the happy coupie . to the landing. An usher rode oh top of their carriage, blowing a big din- y ner .horn, a .brass band playing rag . time music following In an express wagon. Then came carriage loads of' . laughing and shouting boys and girls. . One of the carriages broke down and its occupants seized a fish wagon and oontinued on their way to the land-' land-' Ing, where the assembled company showered rice upon the bride ind groom and then executed a Cakewalk- . Youth will assert itself' against the most unpromising conditions. The ,.. merry heart goes all the day, while a '.-sad one tires in a mite. Baltimore , Son. ' - |