him. With the Make-Up, she did not look a
Day over 47.

He did not hear any of the Service, but those who were more fortunate
told him afterward that it was a very Pretty Wedding, and that the
Presents they got were Simply Great.

MORAL: Too many Trained Nurses discommode Cupid.

THE DREAM THAT CAME OUT WITH MUCH TO BOOT

Once there was a provincial Tradesman who gave his Yokemate a
Christmas Present. It was a kind of Dingus formerly exhibited on the
What-Not in almost every polite Home.

By peering through at the twin Photographs and working it like a Slide
Trombone, one could get ravishing glimpses of Trafalgar Square, Lake
Como, and the Birthplace of Bobby Burns.

Nearly every evening the Tradesman would back up to the Student Lamp
and put in a delirious half-hour with the Views.

[Illustration: Nearly every evening the Tradesman would back up to the
Student Lamp and put in a delirious half-hour with the Views]

While gazing up the Rue de Rivoli or across the rice paddies at the
snowy cap of Fuji, his Blood would become het by the old boyhood
Desire to sail across the Blue to Foreign Parts.

Those who saw him mowing the Lawn little suspected that he was being
inwardly eaten by the Wanderlust.

The Tradesman, Edwin by name, and his Managing Director, Selena,
formed the magic-lantern Habit away back in the days of Stoddard. They
never missed a chance to take in Burton Holmes. Sitting in the
darkness, they would hold hands and simply eat those Colored Slides.

Selena belonged to a Club that was trying to get a side-hold on the
Art and Architecture of the Old World. She had a smouldering Ambition
to ride a Camel in the Orient and then come home and put it all over a
certain proud Hen who had spent six weeks in Europe.

One visit to Niagara Falls and a glorious week of Saengerfest at
Cincinnati had simply whetted her desire to take Edwin by the hand and
beat it all the way around the Globe, via Singapore. To prepare
herself for the Grand Tour, she took 12 lessons in French and read up
on the Taj Mahal.

She had to wait patiently until Edwin was threatened with a Nervous
Break-Down. At last the Happy Day arrived when the Specialist told him
he must make his choice between a long Sea Voyage and a slow ride to
the Family Lot.

Selena used Hydraulic Pressure in packing her Wardrobe Trunks. She
took all her circus Duds and a slew of Hats so that she could make the
proper Front, while being entertained