Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-13
Leland hotel, Chicago, for com
Girls in a l'luttcr.

Here is something delightfully."-
sketchy and readable from Youths Com
panion:
Evelina is engaged. Indeed, she is
shortly to be married. Her set" of
whom she is the first to take this i'm
portant step, are greatly tluttercd by
the approaching event, and talk il over
on every possible occasion.
One of thcm says 1t is dreadful for an
unknown man to como from away out
west and carry OFF one of their girls.
They will never see her again--nevcr.
She will come home to visit, probably;
but girl who is married tells him"
everything, and has lost interest in peo-
Pile, and isn't the same at all: and they
may as we'll make up their minds to lose
her once for all.
Here there is chorus of sighs and
groans, and another nice girl says he
isn't much 10 look at, either: she has
seen his photograph. He has pale eyes,
and ridiculous little mustaChe that she
knows by mis- looks he is extremely
proud of. Why Evelina wants him she
can IT imagine. He isn't handsome, or
rich, or heroic, or anything else inter
esting. He is just commonplace young
man.
Some one here timidly ventures TO re-
mark that Evelina is nothing vcry
remarkable herself, and, perhaps, n COM
mOnplace young man will exactly suit
her.
Silence follows this observation. and
the person who at length breaks it dis
crectly selects another branch Of the in
eXhaustible subject: Does anybody know
anything about the trOusseau? IL APP
pears that they all do, but the informa-
tion possessed by one exactly agrees
with that of no one else, and it is half
an hour before they have siftcd out the
probable truth from a mass Of conflicting
accounts, all given at once and very
loud,
When this most important point has
been debated and settled thoy take an
other half hour to express tneir amuso-
ment at the idea OF Eycliuas actually
keeping house; they say it is nearly rs
absurd as to call her Mrs.
They then discuss the coming cere-
mouy, aud each gives al length de-
scription 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 n Wedding
ought to be.
One remarks that she, too, would like
it, that she might demonstrate to every
body that bride need not be pale, and
can say, II will' loud enough to be
heard beyond the first three rows, If she
will only make up her mind beforehand
to do it.
Then Evelina's marriage really takes
place, she is very pale indeed, and too
nervous to attend properly to her train.
But her friends forgaye her these lit
tie err ors OF conduct, and admit that on
the whole she did very well, One OF
them who steps down to the station and
stands behind a pillar to see her start
off with her husband, even saws after
ward that she had almost forgiven her
for choosing him.
He looks as commonplace as ever, she
declares; only, when two people seem
as happy as they did, somehow you
have to forgive them everything; and
she hopes the other girls W! i stay single
for long time. to come: but as to Mrs.
Evelina, she wishes her good luck with
all her heart. ...'
This is about the way nice girls be-
II ave when one OF their number makes
u. commonplace young man happy.