Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-02-18
About Those Who Are Engaged.

Sophronia is engaged. She lives in n
world of her own. Some one has said,
"Love is as hard to hide as fire." Sophronia
does not SO much as hold up a hand
10 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 as d.
Webster. He allows his chum the famil-
iarty of Webb, and lately has been heard
TO sigh when Sophronia in sentimental
brought him to the lowest round of the
stately ladder he had scaled, of nomencla-
trical dignity.
But what would he not endure for that
dear girl?
lie 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 mental reservation
that it will be coffee and buttered beef
steak.
His unselfsh devotion is SO great he
without a protest contracts malaria, fire.
quenting in her company her favorite spots
in the park, that through their seclus;on
are damp and vaporous. He courageously
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troublesome in the daytime from sitting in
dimly lighted parlor evenings.
The martyrdom of lovers in sacrificing
themselves, as in thu latter incident, in
courtship has never been sufficiently dilated
upon. 1t is the highest proof of lovers
unselfshness. Al no o her epoch of
mans life will he abide in shadowy apart
Inent'.
AS young man at home his smoking
room has myriad of 6 Isl jets; his Dress
in9 apartments are open to the sky.
AS q pater tdmitias the dining room
shades are let fly to the top, the lace draperies
of the drawing room, whe1 he is around,
are tucked up on hooks, chlirs-anything
to allow plenty of good light"
No, it is woman who re,els in dim re-
ligious lights and aesthetic shadows.
But this digres ion is anything but COM
plimentary TO our most interesting engaged
couple interestin: to themselves ut least.
We must not object to their loving each
other and their selfish ways. Love is sup
posed to be an important item in connu-
bal felicity, but sometimes it has been
Observed to be missing. Counting may be
their sole experience in that line.
1t is a sad fact to contemplate, but this
rapturous state may end disastrously. If
it is n first attack, it is pretty certain to
do SO.
Whom first we love, you know,
We seldom we'd"
Courtship is a sort of trial balance, and,
if the state of things does not look prom
Using, they take the benefit of the bankrupt
law and dissolve partnership. The widest
love docs much TO tame undisciplined
hearts. They exhibit the same feverish
haste to ex.inGuish the last ember of the
flame mo white ashes with which they
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meanderings.
As before suggested, this is sad to con-
template, but not so narrowing as in the
days when it was considered necessary to
die from blighted affections. No one dies
of broken engagement nowadays. We
nre none OF us acquainted with such love-
lorn being.
The grim lesson of statistics teaches us
that Sophronia in such cal unity will pay
the same minute attention to the fit of her
tailor made suit, bandoline her bang to
the requisite taste OF stiffness, rs of yore.
Lankiness in love went out with HeloIsc's
curls.
AS to him, to whom in saying adieu We
will restore the dignity of Webster, he also
survives, slightly dilapidat,d by weak tea,
ETC., but still III tho ling. Shakespeare
understood these cases when he sail, Men
have died, and worms have eaten tn I'M, but
not for love-"
He who loves and runs away may live to
love some other day, is q sentim ent not
always despicable. Constancy is monoton-
Gus. uniformity tame. If either expert
ences momentary gloom, they can in
solitude fling themselves into their pocket
handkerchief and sob it out there. They
sob, however, in the sunshine of hope.
This sunshine but adds sweetness to the
Platonic friendship with which they each
swear allegiance with some one else over