Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-09-26
GETTING MARRIED.
How Nice Girls Behave When One of
Their Set Marries.

Evelina is engaged. Indeed, she is shortly
to be married Her set,n of whom she IS
the first to take this important step, are
greatly fiuttered by the approaching event,
says the Youths Companion, and talk it over
on every possible occasion.
One of them says it is dreadful for an un-
known man to come from away out West
and carry off one of their girls They will
never see her again-neveri She will come
home to visit, probably; but girl who is
married tells " him ~ every thing, and has
lost interest in people, and isn't the same
at all and they may as well make up their
minds to lose her, once for all
Here there is a chorus of sighs and
groans, and another nice girl says he isn't
much to look at, either; she has seen his
photograph. He has pale eyes and ridicu-
lous little moustache that she knows by his
look he is extremely proud Of Why Evelina
wants him, she can't imagine. He isn't
handsome, or rich, or heroic, or any thing
else interesting. He is just commonplace
young man.
Some one here timidly ventured to remark
that Evelina is nothing very remarkable
herself, and, perhaps, a commonplace young
man would exactly suit her.
Silence follows this observation, and the
selects another branch of the inexhaustible
subject: Does ANYBODY know any thing
about the trousseau! 1t appears that they
all do, but the information possessed by one
exactly agrees with that of no one else, and
1t is half an hour before they have sifted
out the probable truth from a mass of con-
flicting accounts, all given at once and very
loud
When the most important point has been
debated and settled, they take another half
hour TO express their amusement at the idea
at EveIina's actually keeping house; they
say it is nearly as absurd as to call her
Mrs
They then discuss the coming ceremony,
and each gives at length description of the
manner in which her own wedding should
be conducted, were she to marry. Several
| of the girls say they should like to marry,
just to show their friends what a wedding
( ought to be.
One remarks that she, too, would like it,
that she might demonstrate to every body
that a bride need not be pale, and can say,
II will" loud enough to be heard beyond
the first three pews, If she will only make
up her mind beforehand to do it.
When Evelina's marriage really takes
place, she is very pale, indeed, and too nerv-
Gus to attend properly to her train.
But her friends forgive her these little
errors of conduct, and admit that on the
whole she did very well. One of them who
steps down to the station, and stands behind
pillar to see her start off with her husband
for their new home, even says afterwards
that she has almost forgiven her for choos-
ing him.
He looked as commonplace as ever, she
declares; only when two people seem as
happy as they did somehow you have to for
give them every thing; and she hopes the
other girls will stay single for long time
70 come; but as to Mrs. Evelina, she wishes
her good luck with all her heart
This is about the way nice girls behave
when one of their number makes a COM
monplace young man happy.