The Press: Inept Headline

FLORENCE MILLS

WEDS F. E. ALTEMUS

So said a headline in The New York Times one morning last week. Readers who cast a breakfast-table glance at this announcement were suddenly possessed of a curious emotion. Their eyes raced down the column. "The bride," they read, "wore a gown of white satin trimmed with old rose point lace and cut with a court train. Her veil of tulle was held with orange blossoms and she carried a shower bouquet of white orchids and lilies of the valley." An amazing picture rose in the minds of the...

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