Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1881 — Eight Cream-Colored Bridesmaids. [ARTICLE]

Eight Cream-Colored Bridesmaids.

London Truth. . The number of bridesmaids at fashionable weddings seems to be increasing. Eight cream-colored ladies attended Miss McGarrel-Hogg to the altar on the occasion of her changing her name to Saumarez. Ten of the same tint supported Miss Rose Nicholl during the ceremony necessary to her to become Mrs. Kennard, and a like number (of a different hne) saw Miss Foljambe and Mr. Arthur LevesenGower through the operation. No one objects to these numbers, except it be the bride-groom, who has to give a present to each fair maid of the bevy. Marriage becomes more costly every year, even as regards the initial ceremony. Is it any wonder that men are unwilling to take the plunge? Last season a slight revulsion in favor of simplicity at weddings was apparent, the very sanguine thought it might lead to a permanent reform. AMs! no. A few sensible girls were married in travelling dress, without fuss or display; but common sense is ever a drug in the market, and until quiet, unostentatous weddings are made fashionable by prominent leaders of society, people will continue to spend on one morning sums sufficient to keep the newly married couple in housekeeping nqoney for a twelve-