Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1890 — A Shower of Rice. [ARTICLE]

A Shower of Rice.

They were trying hard not to look like a bride and groom, but an incideu f happened that gave them clean awaj. They stepped out of the Ebbitt House for a walk. The young man looked at. the threatening sky, and then, with the solicitude peculiar to young husbands, concluded that he had better raise his umbrella, and then his beloved would be protected when the rain did come. So he unfastened the band of his natty umbrella, gave it .a little flirt, and raised it. About a pint of rice showered down on his head and scattered over the pavement. The spectators roared, the bride giggled nervously, and the young man beat a hasty retreat into the hotel to get the rice out of his hair.— Washington special.