HONEYMOONS OUT OF FASHION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 75, 24 April 1909, Page 3

HONEYMOONS OUT OF FASHION.

THEY CAUSE TOO MUCH KCSII. j The honeymoon is going out ol J fashion. j For years women of advanced thought have spoken and written against it. Only the woman who has! gone r through the process of getting a trous-1 seau ready, no matter how simple it is < ( in detail, of looking after the wedding ' arrangements, of writing the necessary ' notes of gratitude for good wishes expressed—an almost herculean task :n • ] j itself-and of doing the thousand ami! 'one things which ru-h in upon her atj 1 I the last moment—know how tired the;' ! average bride linds herself when "I will' j has been said, and the excitement of the [ wedding is pa»t. j TRIED TO KDIIOKT. | "My one aim in life." said a little bride J a few weeks at't .T her marriage, "'is to * • <;» i back over the road, to visit all ihei j folk I met on our honeymoon, and show i , tIv.MU I am neither bear nor demon, how ! ever hard it may be to convince them of the facti" j I <Shf was one of the army of'brides ■ who have sallied firlh in a brand-new' ••going-away" dre<.- for one of those joy- , veneeied journey-, afle:" having been , worn In a >hred with the getting ready. l ; Naturally «he was I. i without an ounce, of the Tartar in her j mak. -up. iiud she »pent tile re*t of h"r .days tr\ing to hide from memory those 1 i lirst dav- when she had expected to soar ] to the height* of hnppine»s. | | As a mailer of fact. they were simply' , a memory nightmare. j I A woman who had Occasion to see ' many newly-married couple* on their, travels siys the bridal trip i- more or ' less of a fraud in many respects. | Bride* and bridegroom- are not always the ecstatically happy persons they are' supposed to be. and tears on a honeymoon are not by any means unknown. EVERYTHING HI'STLKI). i Tip' wedding-day Uan awful strain and often np*eU tampers for da vs. The young people arrive al the hotel just, iu time for dinner after a Journey of hours. The bride i.- pale and tired, the bridet grgom harassed and worried to see her so; and making a great fuss generally, i Then follows a hurried unpacking and j frantic preparations for dinner. The maid holj-' ; the bride to dress, and . the groom in the meantime discovers his ■ | evening coat has been left behind or some kind and practical joke-loving ' frie.nl has pxdmnged suit-eases with him. So nowadavs it has come to be the ,] custom to go direct from the church to a I country home, either one's own or a friend's, and to pass the honeymoon In \ \ seclusion impossibb to tourists.—Pear son's. Weekly,