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Of all the vagaries and hu which appears ates outside the door of a church at a fashionable or "society" wedding Theeach other about have nothing whatever to do with either bride or bridegroom, the ceremony inside the sacred edifice has in most cases ceased to be a "sacrament"--and has become a mere show of dressed-upmere OBJECT D'ART,--stands for the display of ht and jostle,--woliiven to the reed to accept the woaze upon the a crazy war-dance are decorous of behaviour in contrast with these "civilised" folk who tramp on each other's feet and are ready to squeeze each other into pulp for the chance of staring at two persons whom the majority of theain The wedding of Miss Lydia Herbert with her "ancient mariner," a seventy-year-old millionaire reputed to be as wealthy as Rockefeller,--was one of these "sensations"--chiefly on account of the fact that every un him in vain for fully five years Miss Herbert had been voted "no chance," because she ant tastes in dress and jewels,--yet despite society croakers she had won the ga,--as the millionaire she had secured was known to be particularly close-fisted and parsins of relaxing these tendencies; for he had literally showered jewels on his chosen bride, leaving no door open for any complaint in that quarter Her dia her gowns literally flashed like a fireith nuht "The Voice that breathed o'er Eden" had little to do with the nificence of her attire, or with the brilliancy of the rose-wreathed bridesance ere allto win the millionaire themselves

For these youthful persons in their 'teens had social aood tiht for in life--in fact, they had no conception of any higher ideal The ed appearance--he was a thin, wiry, well-preservedthe hshare It would have been difficult to say why, out of all the fe around hie of character in his way, and he had decided that as she was not in her first youth it would be more worth her while to conduct herself decorously as wife and housekeeper, and generally look after his health and comfort, than it would be for a less responsible woman