West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-01-26
Abont Those Mho Are Enrnrnd

Sophronia is engaged. She lives in n
world of her own. Some one has soid
Love is as hard to hide as fire." Sopbronio
does not so much as hold up n hand-screen
TO hide the intensity OF hers. Her condition
is ecstatic.
Webster is the Romeo of this ardent love
episode. His name Is Daniel Webster
Jones but he prefers to be known rs ID.
Webster. lie allows his chum the famil-
iarity of Webb, and lately has been heard
to sigh when Sophronia in sentimental
mood whispers, "Webby." This slide has
brought him to the lowest round of the
stately ladder he had scaled, of nomencla-
trical dignity.
Bat what would he not endure for that
dear girl?
He comes and drinks weak tea with her
family; admires the grace with which She
manipulates the urn. He tells her so, and
whispers something about when she will
pour tea and butter toast for him alone,
although he makes a mental reservation
that 1t will be coffee and buttered beef
steak.
His unselfsh devotion is so great no
without protest contracts malaria. fire.
quentlng IN her company her favorite spots
In the park, that through their secusion
are damp and vaporous. He courapeouslv
wears blue goggles, his eyes having grown
troublesome IN tho daytime from sitting in
dimly lighted parlor evenings
The martyrdom of lovers in SACRIFICING
themselves, as in tn, latter incident, i'm
courtship has never been sufficiently diated
upon. 1t is the highest proof of lovers
unselhshness. AZ no o.her epoch of
man lie VIII he abide III shadowy apart
ments.
AS young man Mt home his smoking
room has myriad of gas jets; his dress
M apartments are open TO the sky.
As pdtcr fdmiiids the dining-room
shades are let fly to the top, the lace draperies
OF the drawing room, when he Is around.
are tucked mp on hooks chairs-anything
to allow plenty of good light"
No, 1t Is woman who re'els in dim ro-
1gious lights and aesthetic shadows.
But this depression is anything but com
plimeniary to our most interesting engaged
couple interesting TO themselves Mt least.
We must not object to their loving each
other and their selfish ways. Love Is sup
posed 20 be nm important item i'm conuu-
bal felicity, but sometimes il has been
observed to DO missing. Counting may BIO
their sole experience in that line.
1t Is sad fact TO contemplate, but th's
rapturous state may end disastrously. il
1t IS irst attack, IL IS pretty certain TO
do so.
Whom first we lovo, you know.
We seldom we'd
Courtship is q sort OF trial balance, and.
II the state of things does not look prom
lsing, they take the benefit of the bankrupt
law and dissolve partnership. The Widest
love does much TO tame Undetermined
hearts. They exhibit The same feverish
haste to extinguish the last embor OF the
flame INTO white ashes with which thew
stimulated 1t TO white heat with rhapsodical
meandcrings.
As before suggested, This is Sad to con-
template, but not so narrowing us in the
days whom no was considered necessary To-
die from blighted affections. No one dies
OF broken engagement nowadays. We
arc none OF as acquainted with such O love-
lOm being.
The grim lesson Of statistics tanches ,,s
that SoPluonin DO such n cal unity viii pav
Tho same minute attention to- the 90 Of nor
tailor made suit, b1ud0line her banQ to
the requisite taste of stiffness. ag Of wore
Lonk.ues8 in love went out With Holoises
curls.
IS TO him, e. whom IN saying adicu wo
will restore the dignity Of Webster, no also
survives, slightly dlapidoted by weak tea,
ctcy but Sui ln the ring Shakespeare
understood these cases when he said Sion
have died, and worms have eaton ih I'M. but
not for love-"
Tie who loves and runs away may live TO
love some other day. is "a sentiment not
always deepicable. Consistency is monoton-
Gus. uniformity tame. If either cxpcH-
cnoos mOmentary gloom. they can nm
solitude fling themselves into their pocket
handkerchief and sob it ont thero Thoy
sob, however, in fho sunshine Of hope.
This sunshine but adds sweetness TO The
Piaionic friendship with which they each
swear allegiance with some one olso over
the pretty ringer on which lies tbo wedding
ring.