A MAGNIFICENT WEDDING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2397, 11 September 1886, Page 2

A MAGNIFICENT WEDDING.

1 plicity given CleVeland at his Wedding. his position, is,' it. However, teeing. is;;idi.9tri--buted iri the old world; flch perwiis who have not greatness should not imitate the Chief Magistrate of the United States. This is why I feel disposed (saya.'Truth's Paris correspondent) to pat on the back an Argentine Nabob of Irish origin—Mr Thomas St George Armstrong—for the oppenness of hand he showed .on tho occasion of his marriage >Jast week with the daughter of Vicomlfe Faria, Consul Goneral of Poitugal here. The Armstrong fortune was mado iliJhid around Buenos Ayres—the classic; laud of atrachm camis. No bride. &f high standing had ever, perhaps; 'a more sumptuous display of presents frj3(se bridegroom oii her gift tlxjfFthe lady who is now Mrs Armstrong. ' What do ynu think of a string of pearls which cost6o,ooof, and was just long enough to go once round a slender neck; of a diamond riviere, to which ,'co'iild ,be attached a drapery of filigree work, studded and fringed with brilliants j of snlitairo earrings large as hazelnuts, to which tassals in brilliants might bo adapted, with, to watch them, a brooch of one immensu poarl, encircled with brilliant#, a bouquet of roseß in brilliants, a bunch of wheat-ears idem, and a diadem surrounded with a star? There were, besides, sets of turquoise and of pink coral ornaments,, .of sapphires, and other rich and rare gems. Of course loving relatives and friends were anxious to contribute to the show on the gift table. Although tho bride is Portugese, she has beauty enough of face and figuro to be a blonde Cuban. There was a humyrf admiration as she entered.the ChurcSpf St. Phillippa de Roule, roliod so completely in Alencon point that the white faille of the Bkirtand traiu were not visible. The veil was very pretty—tulle bordered with alengon lace, and worn in a somewhat Spanish mode. It had richness, lightness, and a touch of Tliore are some bolles who boautieß, and others who are gentlemen's beauties. Tho former may have knitting ueedle arms, a long attenuated neck, a face with nothing in it, and a figure expressing in its- goneral outlino race degeneration, but which somehow, looks well dressed up in falbalaa and the sort of toilette's one sees in prints of tho fashiou. The gentleman.'s . beauty is hardly mrfadc, although ladies have a notion that the weaker sex aro prone to run after wax dolls. The bride, in this instance, pleased every one, - she being well-grown, well formed, lithe, straight without bolt-uprightness, and promise of physical splendour in tho matronly phaso of her evolution. Three younger Bisters came in behind her; Two of them wero in blue surah-tho softest kind of silk tissue—and Valenciennes, withxtooire sashes, forming big bows and endswfoch Btood in lieu of improvers: Their hats in straw, of the cream shade, were, as tho modo now is, audaciously high, aud wero trimmod with cream feathers embedded in a capriciously-twisted frilling of Meohlin lace. The third sisteri a miss just entering her teens, was in white, surah, with a white hat and feathersetWlndian muslin. The bride was not urocr the temptation of keeping the boot and shoe part of tho trousseau out of sight: In tho orders sent to the glovore Limorick was forgotten ; but I daresay this oversight will be repaired, Mr Armstrong not being disposed to turn his back upou the Green Islo, The fans were things for a fine art exhibition. French and Spanish artists excel in the sort of pictorial decorations best appropriated to the fail,