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Show .4 : . , A Point in Wedding Etiquette By K ITCHED PIXDKY (Our Own Special Correspondent) MOGADORE Dec. 5. Ono of your lady "Constant" readers has got yours truly mixed up with your Cynthia Cyn-thia Gray, I guess, for I got this with I "urgent desire for a speedy answer" to wit. "Are such songs as "Oh, Promise Me.' sung Just beforo tho bride enters ! tho room ," Cynthia's mall Is out of whack, it seems, and I ain't a fellow to let a lndy go thirsty for a "speedy answer." Such songs as "Oh Promise Mo" aro sung a long time, and frequent, before the bride blushes up to tho altar, al-tar, beginning' right after tho brido-groom brido-groom has knelt at the lady's feet, slipped a $2 ring on her finger and announced that ho and all he has arr herS From that point till after the weddin' he'R apt to hear "Oh. Promise Me" 40 to 60 times In most cases that song has a cold larater effect on him when ngara I Sprung Just before the bride enters the j I room, and there aro ether songs Just as songful and with more variety. In a long married life I've leiirncd 'that hurlln' appeals for promises at a fellow grows monotonous, sung, spoken spok-en or written. But your lady "Constant" reader Is right In wantin' to feel proper and safe about the bridal song. Not everything every-thing will do, sure enough. I remember remem-ber that Just as Spinster Polly Dobbs age 89, hair red, cross eyed and bow-b'gged bow-b'gged far as one could see in her flapper trousseau, entered to Join hands with Postmaster Olbbs' halr-witted halr-witted son, John, our male Beethoven Quartet struck up "Johnny Oct Your j Gun." The effects was gloomy all through . ' the ceremonies. Polly liked to have wilted and John had wits enough to b so rattled that he kissed PaStpr Jones Instead of his bride, when tho minister pronounced "She's yourn." |