Judge — April 1, 1911 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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What “Punch” Thinks of Intemational Marriages. The Great Comic Paper of England Tells About the Mull-Klaw Wedding. (Daeribed by its New York correspondent.) HAVE just returned from witnessing the most superb scenic happening in the whole annals of the New World. The wedding of Miss Melisande Semir- amis Klaw to the Marquis of Mull was solemnized to-day at the First Church of Rarer Thought, Flatbush Avenue, Dr. Van Pelt Blotters officiating. Though the Marquis of Mull had re- ceived many sinister, threatening let- ters, no untoward incident occurred to mar the harmony of the nuptials; but special precautions had been taken to guard against accidents, and it was noted that the principal actors in the ceremony wore a strained expression which hardly accorded with so blissful an occasion. In addition to a force of five hundred police, armed with Mauser pistols and sandbags, who mounted guard outside the Marquis’s hotel, the carriages of the bride and groom were closely guarded by a squadron of Pinkerton’s mounted detectives, each horseman holding a Cu- ban bloodhound in a leash, the baying of the formidable quadrupeds blending ad- mirably with the salvoes of artillery which were discharged at intervals by a battery of the Mull -Territorials, who had crossed the Atlantic to do honor to their chieftain. The church, which is a splendid speci- men of Flamboyant Rococo architecture, was profusely decorated with golden rod and thistle, typifying the significance of the union, and banners emblazoned with the names of the protagonists of Rarer Thought, such as Ulysses Opp, Hendrik Van Boogaard, and Volney Streaker, were tastefully disposed along the nave. Shortly after the Marquis of Mull ap- peared at the altar rail with his best man, Lord Ian Pluseardine, the bride entered the sanctuary, leaning on the arm of her father, Mr. Schenectady P. Klaw. She was preceded by two flower girls, the Misses Gloriana and Polyxena Klaw, and two pages, Master Jared Oel- streich and Master Agag Naselheimer, bearing wands of twenty-two-carat gold with electric-lighted tips. Behind the bride marched the chief maid of honor, Miss Aphrodite Klaw, followed by the six bridesmaids, the Misses Volumnia Vandercrup, Artemis Chew, Jeanne Dare Pogram, Araminta Cromwell Bangs, As- pasia Conger, and Miriam Otaheite Stodge, the last-named replacing Miss Sonora Schlumbacher, who is suffering from Californian mumps. Rumor cred- its Miss Stodge with being engaged to Mr. Bolossy Klaw, a brother of the bride, but no official announcement has yet been made. Miss Stodge’s mother, it may be mentioned, was the former Peruvian Princess, Dadapalona Fuflunga, in whose veins runs the bluest blood of the Onoto Incas.’ The Princess was con- Spicuous among the five thousand guests in a superb robe of Peruvian pemmican, Set off by a conical talc helmet, with a Phosphorescent peak and puma-skin ear- flaps. The service was partly choral, Partly orchestral, but altogether bio- tcopic. Mr. Pinkerton presided at the Grand organ, Mr. Samson. Bangs had charge of the instruments of percussion, and Professor Rooseboom operated the contrabass tonkophone. I had almost you do drink. drink Trin awyne® V;, ble * Come fill your glass, and fill t And drink with me to the heals of ie Whofeels, as he kisses its contents away, ‘That it was made to gladden and not to tray.” HENTZ & CO. ad New. York Whiskey Green Label. es ESTABLISHED 1793 forgotten to add that the ushers num- bered eight, including Lord Archibald Kingander, Mr. Otis Slott, Mr. Nahum Titus, Mr. Ignatius Loyola Schloss, and Mr. Peabody Greathead. The wedding cake is generally ad- mitted to have been the richest and largest example of matrimonial confec- tionery ever constructed. It was ten stories or one hundred feet high, and weighed twenty tons. The confection- ers state that it cost $100,000, but this is obviously an underestimate. It was profusely embellished with cupids, far- andoles, ghibellines, gobelins, abacots, holophotes, marabouts, and other appro- priate figures. Ten detectives, disguised in angelica uniforms with almond-paste buckles, were concealed in the interior, to prevent depredations on the part of sweet-toothed kleptomaniacs. Although the presents were of un- paralleled sumptuousness and splendor, they were naturally eclipsed by the chief exhibit of the collection, Mr. Klaw’s check. This was displayed on a special stand, under a crystal magnifying glass, and was guarded by a special posse of detectives dressed as noblemen of the courtof Louis XIV. The amount of the check was so portentous that the re- sources of wireless telegraphy are un- equal to an accurate record of the fig- ures into which it runs. The bride’s wedding dress was of old Clos Vougeot satin, with mosaic insertions of pea- cock’s feathers imitated in precious stones. She wore a triple diamond tiara illuminated by a radium fountain, and her shoes had belonged to Marie Antoinette. —LondonPunch, Save a day each way between New York or Boston and Chicago Lv. New York 4.00 p.m. Ly. Boston 1.30 p.m. Ar. Chicago 855a.m. The most famous train in the World. LINES Ly. Chicago Ar. Boston Ar. New York 9.25a.m. 2.30 p.m. 11.50 a.m. In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. comicbooks.com