The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1885-07-23
The Engaged Young Girl.


Thousands OF people have fled from
the heat and burden of the city to lis
ten to the music of the waves that
wash the shores of popular resorts.
For Il temporary season at least the
great work of society well be done
either there or among the tree-crown-
ed hills, where, after all, more oppor-
tunities are presented to carry on the
society occupation-hirting The big
girl and the little glrl, the pretty girl
and her homely sister, the bright girl
and the dull, all are at one place or
another, in all the finery they can
gather together, There are duties
left undischarged at home and in
some cases tired mother, whose step
grows feebler every day, has made
great sacrifices in order that q daugh-
ter may rest at the summer resort.
But of these things there is no time to
think just now. Everybody of any
social standings at some place OF re-
creation and the girl must go though
the mothers die.
Among all those who summer by
the sea or among the hills there is
none more bent on having a jolly
time than the engaged young lady.
She is somewhat different from those
who, to use modern phrase, haven't
as yet caught on" There is an air
about her of conscious superiority
that distinguished her from the rest
and singles her out as the object of
admiring glances from men and en-
vious ones from unengaged young
women. Somewhere back, a week or
a month ago, there has been a tender
farewell scene between her future hus-
band and herself, during which she
has protested that she certainly would
not enjoy the summer one bit, be-
cause he wasn't to be there, too. But
she manages to go, nevertheless, and
the old tear that trickles down her
cheek as she bids him goodbye is
soon forgotten, perhaps, by both.
The pangs of parting are largely
imaginary and outward manifesto
tions of grief are the exaggerations OF
two kinds of hearts, Overlooking OF
deceitful, The engaged young lady
means very well, but what man keeps
all his pledges? At the hotel or cot
tage to which she goes she meets hel
masculine counterpart, whose expert
ence is probably similar to her own
The absent is forgotten and in the
delights of each others society so is
= the fact OF her engagement. They
walk, ride, row, fish, bathe and firt
together and in the moonlight say
, some things they do not exactly mean
Boarders across the way insist that
, their heads incline entirely too much
: toward each other as they walk and
there are dark hints about a kissing
rencounter under trees where the
shadows played. Still the proof i;
Q missing and the law holds men guilt
Q less till proven guilty. What they
D think themselves is never ascertained
V All things must have an end, ever
0 an engaged girls Irritation. So, wher
K the days have passed, perhaps into {
:, week, the young man announces hi
e intention of departing, There is ,
: mutual inclination to have anotheI
o romantic meeting, especially as thu
! absent young man, who is pininG
away in the billiard rooms at home
y will never know. A long walk fol
e lows beyond all previous limits anC
y the heads incline more than they dix
1t before. Then there is something lik,
e the scene that occurred at the rail
d way station aa home,la few regretfu
words, several attempts to say good
u bye with more effect, q slower wall
e home than when they came out
l. Then doors devide them and he
If gone, and in a little while she goe
Il home, too, but the young man VIII
of meets and afterwards marries he
D doesn't learn quite all the incident
is of that summer trip and, perhaps,
1t is just as well.-Philadelphia Times.
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