Show So 50 They Were 1 ere c 1 Married j at nt her first rRt postnuptial ton tell tho matron solemnly eyes the girls girl who clustered about tho table abo and her tones yore wore weighty and portentous Girls she sho said laid the tho most agon agone morning of at my mr life lICe was my mj bridal morning and Georges Its really quite a long lon story stor You Ton see Just as soon as my wedding day was decided upon and publicly announced all my m friends seemed Beamed to fool foe that It Il was up lip lipto to them to holp help celebrate Forthwith began a n succession of showers card carel parties dinners and theaters which was harder physical work and a 1 big bigger Ker ger mental strain than anything Id idever ever Cor known knob I would reach home about two to in tho the morning from some Homo northern suburb to meet myself start starting startIng startIng ing out for tor a luncheon down neat near tho the Indiana line During the sand course of that luncheon I would have to ex ox excuse cuse CURC myself to my to m outraged hostess and make tracks for Evanston there thero thereto to grace with my presence a library shower given In my m honor At six I was wall duo due at Oak Park where a distant cousin couRin was to give a dinner for tor me and amid following that ordeal was waa wasa a theater part party A midnight supper supper downtown downton came canto next and rand tho the hour and a halt half that hunt were loft lott to me out of the 24 were passed with the hair hairdresser hairdresser hairdresser dresser who repaired the rno of ot orthe the days hilarities It was vas very cr evident that if I con continued continued tinned at the samo sarno rate reefs would have hae to be lie taken In all the tho garments garment of my m trousseau went on tho the brand new nt matron George Geor e wanted me to togo togo togo go to a sanitarium hes lies so unselfish You know enow It would have hao killed him if It ItI I had gone away awn awa from him The night before we were marS mar married ried went on the matron mother gave tho the bridal party dinner The crowd of UK us danced and had mu music muRle music sic and talked till most three thre And at nt nine nIno next morning I was to be married and George It bo be bon boa a n bit later for the tho only train we could take loft left at ten And I was deter determined determIned determined mined and BO so was George to go no nowhere nowhere nowhere where but butt to Bols Bois Rouge House Canada where wo we had bad tho the dearest little muo log cabin right in the heart of a forest rarest forestI I 1 was too exhausted when I turn tum tumbled bled Into bed to realize that on ou the be morrow I was to be married to George Gor e I fell asleep like hike a clod with no more romance about me than tItan if I had been a lump hump of mortar I was de do determined to get every minute of my allotted hours of sleep There would be bc plenty of or time to dream beautiful poems up at Bois Dots Rouge with George Goorge Perhaps you ou girls girla can imagine my m consternation at feeling myself yanked ruthlessly ruthless by b the arm In what seemed to be about five minutes after aHer I had gone to sleep and then seeing mother bending over oer me Child its eight she gasped Tho The words were like an electric shock I leaped Into my m old shoes s oes at atone atone one ono bound I nabbed my comb and wound my hair in an antique coil cell at atthe tho the nape of my mr neck though my rn hat had been specially designed for tho hue latest style of turban turhan haIrdressing Tho The girl guests appreciated the tho ca en catastrophe catastrophe and looked profound sym Bym sympathy sympathy pathy My M color suit was the tho handiest went on the ma nia mathon mathon thon than and I slipped Into it without so much as a glance In the tho mirror I slid down the stairs gulped a n swallow swallow swallow low of coffee correo in the tho kitchen and then rushed down the street putting on a pair of soiled white while chamois gloves which I had grabbed In my excite excitement ment I quaked as I neared tho the church but htmL with the courage horn of or desperation I peeked in nt at the door Girls there were ere no ushers In evi el evidence dence hut but scattered about the tho church even in tho the ten tea front scats seats on tho the middle aisle were visibly excited spectators The organ was playing and I nearly lund had a fit on time the spot shot for or fear some ono one would recognize me mo anti and give the tho signal sl nal for tho the wedding march marchI I wonder yet et how I had the strength to get around to the rectors which adjoined the chancel However when I accomplished the lie feat teat there thero 1 I found George disheveled and wild eyed arrayed in a shiny old blue sergo serge suit stilt and a spotted tan spring overcoat with an nn automobile cap on the tho back of or his he head d and crumpling crumplin in his hands a J gray glove and rand a reddish brown ono one He nearly expired from row pure relief relict when he ho saw me rae By Br that time into it Jl was a quarter to nine and It Il was evident that there was no time limo to lose Wo We called In a passing and a maid who was hurrying to tho corner grocery with an apron thrown over her heath head With these as tuB witnesses wo mar married ned ried And after altor the tho splurge wo we had bad prepared I George called a taxicab and anti just justas ns os wo we 0 were making for tho train wo we met the best bost man n an nn automobile urging on a chauffeur who was break breaking breakIng ing lag the speed limit scandalously It If luck hold the thue rest of my m bridal party parl and Georges probably gathered by noon Tho The matron stopped to laugh But my troubles wore all nil over ever So were were Georges Georgos Just as an our train pulled out we telephoned mother moth or to tomake tomake tomake make all necessary explanations Poor mother It was rough roush on her But you would have hae thought hought tho the people would bare havo had bad sense enough not to bang bans around that church till un one you ou I |