A Sensible Wedding Tour.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6542, 8 December 1892, Page 4

A Sensible Wedding Tour.

It was the young husband who suggested that he and his bride should remain at home forthe honeymoon, and send the old folks off for a tour in their stead. The idea was discussed from all points, and settled upon as just the loveliest arrangement possible. ' For,' said the bride, ' mamma and papa haven't had a real long holiday since their wedding tour, and mamma needs rest sorely, after alt the bother over my trousseau.' At first father aud mother did not see how it could possibly be managed, but they were overruled at last, and packed up their trunks with a feeling of youthful exuberance upon the eve of the wedding, which occurred in the drawing-room. A simple affair it was, with only a few intimate friends for guests. The bride wore an exchantingly pretty tea-gown, and carried a golden keybasket filled with roses on her arm. Her parents were drc3sed in new travelling suits, and at ten o'clock they bade the wedded couple a jolly good-bye, aud went their way rejoicing to catch their train. Nobody cried. How could the mother weep over the loss of a daughter she was going to leave safe and sound beneath her own vine and fig tree? The result of this wedding journey, wherein the parents did the journeying, was entirely satisfactory to everyone. The young husband suffered no iuconvenience from bad cooking, for his mother-in-law luft a competent corps of servants, and the domestic machinery moved on golden wheels. It was the beginning of summer, and nearly everybody had left for the country, so the happy couple were left unmolested. And I am sure, should you ask their advice about a honeymoon trip this very day, they would answer that the best way to take a wedding journey is to stay at home,

A careful French astronomer, M. Trouvelot, has been observing and .sketching the changes which periodically occur on the surface of Venus since 1876. A very large and curious grey patch occurred in that year, and it re-appeared in ISOI. What can it mean ? It resembles those areas on the moon's surface usually called seas, although we Know there arc no seas on the moon. Venus goes through similar changes (lo us) that our satellite furnishes us with — new, quarter, half, and full. Careful watching of each and all of these for nearly twenty years has enabled JI. Trouvelot to study the physical changes in the north and south polar ice caps, which on Venus as well as on Mars seem to repeat the extreme climatal conditions we are familiar with on our own planet. A go<*d election story is to hand from Belfast, Ireland. Four voters, all married to Roman Catholic wives, and opposed to (Jladstone's party, woke up on the morning of the poll to find themselves locked in and every stitch of clothing removed. The plot, however, failed. In each case they were rescued by viligant Unionist workers, who broke open the doors and, having, swathed the men in blankets, carried them off in carriages to the poll. When a young man first meets an experienced coquette he is apt to think how artless she is ; before she gets through with him he is pretty sure to think how heartless she is. Don't rub a woman the wrong way of the fur. A woman's smile is the little poem wo find in the prose of life. A little nonsense now and then is relished by the best of ■women. Itesult of observation. — He : " I don't sec how a girl can marry a man she's known only two weeks." She : " And I don't see how she can marry one she's known longer."

A young lady at Stratbdownie (Victoria) whilst playing on tlie piano, was startled to observe two unexpected but apparently interested spectators in the room. They were tiger snakes that had neatly folded themselves up in the doorway. Ovviug to the extreme nervousness on the part of the hostess, both the visitors escaped.