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 SI MARRIAQK and brown hoUand riding skirts. Wide- brimmed hats are necessary. A MEDITERRANEAN TOUR A pleasant winter tour in the Mediter- ranean would be by the Ellerman Line. The trip lasts five weeks, and includes Gibraltar, Genoa, Leghorn, Naples, Bari, Ancona, and beautiful Venice. Here the passengers leave the steamer, and have the option of three different routes to London. The fare is £2^, first class throughout. On all these steamships there is separate accommodation for married couples, and in winter, when there is less travelling for pleasure than at other seasons, it is not difficult to secure a deck cabin containing three berths. This is a very convenient arrangement, giving more space than the ordinary two-berth cabin. One of the R.M.S.P. trips would commend itself to many for the honeymoon. Take that leaving London on November 4th, and fortnightly up to the close of the year. It includes visits to Gibraltar, Tangier, Mogador, Las Palmas, Teneriffe, Madeira, and other places of interest, lasts just three weeks, and costs from twenty to twenty-five guineas per passenger, according to the position of the berth. Instead of taking the whole trip travellers may go aS far as Gibraltar, Iq los. ; Tangier, a very pleasant winter resort, {j^ ; Teneriffe or Madeira, £=y 15s. These fares include board, of course. THE TYROL The snows of Tyrol might deter those who have never visited it in winter, nor sxperienced the exhilaration and sense of well-being that are inseparable from the splendid mountain air. One feels the cold in England far more than in the dry, spark- ling air of Innsbruck. The fare from London is about I'] first class, and ^5 second class ; and there is a considerable reduction on return fares. Innsbruck is a favourite resort of English people, and if the bride and bridegroom wish for amusement they will find here dances, concerts, skating parties, sleighing parties, and ski-ing excursions continually going on. A merry party of this kind gives a zest to solitude. LESS EXPENSIVE HONEYMOONS Continental visits are always rather costly, and there are many places in our own England where a wmter honeymoon may be passed less extravagantly. There is, for instance, THE CORNISH RIVIERA, with its mild climate and its sunny winters. The journey from London could hardly be made on the wedding-day unless the cere- mony were arranged for an inconveniently jarly hour. Not so distant is sunny Torquay, and there is an afternoon train from Paddington, which would get the happy couple from London to their destination in good time for the dinner which the fatigue and excitement of the wedding render so necessary and so welcome. HONEYMOON AT A HYDRO There are hydros and spis scattered all over the land at which a noneymoon may be spent very pleasantly. Malvern, Matlock, Bournemouth, Buxton, Harrogate, Ilfracombe, Ben Rhydding, Llandrindod, Llandudno, Strathpeffer, Tun- bridge Wells, Westgate, Windermere, Wood- hall — in all these comfortable accommoda- tion and ^ a good cuisine are to be found on moderate terms, averaging from 9s. to I2S. a day. For a week-end stay there are special terms ; and in these bustling times there are many young couples who cannot indulge in more than two or three days' honeymoon. At most of these places visitors for a more extended period can arrange for terms en pension. As a rule, £-^ 3s. a week is the lowest charge. Brighton is a favourite place for honey- moons, as there is such a constant service of fast trains, and there is always something going on to amuse and interest the visitor. In fact, this Queen of the South Coast is like a bit of London, plus splendid air and healthful breezes. Hastings enjoys a character for cheapness and sunshine. Even in January it is possible to sit at the end of the pier and fancy it is Maytime, so protected is the situation of the town, with its due southerly aspect. There are fine hotels, and there are inexpensive pensions, so it is not surprising that Hastings is a favourite place for honeymoons. A vast number of newly-married couples have but two or three pounds to spend upon their honeymoon. What is the best way to secure the full value of the hard-earned sovereigns ? A couple of days at some quiet country hotel is the choice of many, or at some old-fashioned country inn where romance seems to linger in the low-ceilinged rooms and the wide window seats. The land- lady keeps good fires, and her cooking is usually beyond reproach. True, she can always detect the newly married in a moment. Her experienced eye notes the new clothes, the devoted air of the husband betokening him a novice in the role ; the shyness of the wife and her glances at the ring on her left hand. The landlady of a picturesque little hostel near Virginia Water goes still further. She has some means of discovering if either of the two has been married before. On one occasion she observed to someone as she watched a pair walk off together : " 'E's been married afore. She ain't. I knows by the looks on 'em." But she was quite unable to put into words the data from which she drew her conclusion. It turned out to be perfectly correct. To be continued in Part 2 of Every Woman's Encyclopaedia