San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-09-06
Young Lovers Write to Tell All About the
Affair and Ask Advice.

Young Lovers Write to Tell All About the
Affair and Ask Advice.
Wedding rehearsals are very good things
in their way; very much like practicing a
SEA voyage on a sculling machine. The sick
ness will come anyhow. You cannot pre-
vent it, No one knows about it except by
personal experience, and they can't tell.
There are, however, rehearsalS and rehear-
sab. The groom ordinarily has one of his
own, when he gets on the blush and smile to
arrange it" with the minister The latter
can guess his errand on the instant. A young
mans eyes don't fit him, and his mouth feels
as if there were too little oxygen in the air
when he stands in the parsons. study. A
man who is off on a second matrimonial ex-
carsion enters the reverend presence with an
indescribable business air. 1t bespeaks IA
miliarity. 1t is full of a, sortof ''quick-sales-
snall-profit' spirit He understands the
whole thing and it is practical, sir, prac-
tical."
The following is a rehearsal via correspond
ence which a city clergyman had recently
with heart pierced youth. 1t is genuine,
and represents not only the odd ways in
which love bubbles over, but especially the
recent domgs of young folks in this free land
and the good clergymen may do them. One
morning the mail brought this:
Rev. -:
DEAR SFR-You may be surprised to receive a
letter from an entire stranger to you. | should
like the following lines to remain very secret to
every one.
| wish to consult you about having the marriage
ceremony said over lady and myself. thought
best to let you know the particulars of the
wish to unite myself to her, or, in other words,
to get married; but the reason is this she loves
me- love her very much. We should not do it
suddenly, only for this reason, her sister wants
her 10 love another young man. and this she will
not do as she loves me, and never can another,
she says
I ain not very well OF at present, SO if you will
kindly do this favor for us and keep it a secret
COR WEI shall have kind thought for you as long
as we live If you will please tell me the charges
for the service l mentioned l will call on you
Wednesday eve, or the week after, all according
to your prices. Please tear this up. ReSp'ly
yours,
The margins of this touching note were as
full Of confidential" and Strictly confiden-
tial' as an Indians head of feathers The
parson answered it soberly, asking him to
run in and talk it over. Then came this
second note:
DEAR SIR Yours of today received, and l can
if we were to tell it TO every one, but wish it to
% a secret for some time-two years, guess.
Are you the man that married Miss and
Mr. q forget his name.) Miss - lived at 1874
West - street. If you are not have been all a
mistake | will let you know who am and how |
knew you. | am with & -, and this spring
called at your house to see the clock III your par
Tor. TO see what allied it. The lady who had me go
and see it was think, your mother-in-law. You
and your wife were away somewhere; but never
fixed it. The lady wish to be my wife is Miss -
-. She has no mother, and her father is sixty
some, and has married girl p years of age, and
she made it so hot for the children they all moved
away. She is an orphan almost. My age is TWEEN
~ and nine and half months, and she is twenty
and six and a quarter months. Please let me
know if you married Miss Evans or not, and to
what church you are the parSon for. / shall be
happy to put that French clock in order for you,
towards your charges Please answer soon. Re
spt'ly yours,
After this tender bit of confidence and fam
lily history 1.-The parsOn" advised him to wait
4 while and dream on it, to which the reply
came that ended the rehearsal:
DEAR SGR-You are laboring under great and
serious mistake. did not say could not support
hcr. can, and nicely, too if l wish. am sorry
| troubled you much on this question, for which
I beg thousand pardonS We have come to the
different from the first ourselves and
shall wait and see what turns up Do not trouble
Yourself further or waste any more time on my
foolish thoughts, but forget that such thing
happened and you will have forever a sincere
friend ReSp't'ly yours,
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