The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-18
WHY MARRIAGES WE'RE OFF.
Stories About Broken Engagents from
Experience of an English Parsop.


Experience OF an English ParsoD.
From the Springfield Republican.
The columns of the London Morning
Post frequently contain notices of which
the following may be considered fair
type: The marriage arranged between
Sir Carnaby jerks and Lady Sophia L itz
Tudor will not take place" 1t may be
taken for granted that in most cases
valid reason for the SCATTERING of the ro-
nance exists but what are we to say of
the young lady who broke OF her engage
ment because her lover insisted on part
ing his hair in the middle; or of the lover
who, few weeks ago, discarded his ina
morata, because she adopted the so-called
rational dress" when cycling? Both
cases have occurred within my own expe-
rience.
A few months since, a very smart society
girl refused her somewhat Countritied
lover at the altar because he turned up
for the occasion in badly fitting clothes
1t must be admitted that the young fellow
compared very unfavorably with the dash
ing cavalry captain, who was his best
man nor was the attractiveness of his
appearance enhanced by a brilliantly red
necktie, which had managed to get loose
above his collar / fancy, however, that
the young lady had no great regard for
Het country squire. Que has SIuCo udr-
red the gallant captain.
A fortune-huntiug young barrister of
my acquaintance sneaked out of his en-
gagement in the shabbiest manner pos
sible when he discovered that his tance's
money was invested in gold mine shares
that were at the time going down in value
very rapidly Since then the shares have
gone up in the most satisfactory manner,
and, while the young lady is richer than
Loo,
sessions in a vain endeavor to earn civ
ing wage"
Nothing is so hostile to romance as ridi-
/ cule The truth was strikingly illus
trated in the case of a college friend of
my own. He was a goOd-looking young
/ fellow but had, unfortunately, been
gifted by nature with large and red
pair of ears which stood out from his
/ head in a distressing fashion. His sweet
/ heart young brothers chaffed her I'M
mercifuIly about this popularity of her
4 lovers. They compared his ears to Chi
uese fans, and talked up some prepos ter
/ GUS story of one of the old travellers about
an African race whose ears were so large
that they used to wrap themselves up in
them during inclement weather. They
. insinuated that their sisters lover was
the sole surviving member eff that race
/ Absurd as it may seem, their foolish talk
Some years ago | was acting as curate
/ in a large London parish. Two young
people in whom I was greatly interested
/ were to be married on a certain Wednes-
day in April. Contrary to custom the
bride arrived before the bridegroom-in-
deed, the bridegroom never arrived at
all
1t subsequently transpired that the
| bridegroom had disappeared the previous
/ evening, ana was nowhere to be found
/ He has not been found TO this day. Nc
cause for his disappearance was ever as
signed, nor has any clew to his where
abouts ever been discovered. The poor
young bride succumbed to the shock, and
it was my melancholy duty TO otficiate al
her burial some weeks later.
One more case, and ! have done. a
Curate in the receipt of little more than
100 pounds sterling year, proposed tC
the daughter Of a wealthy north country
manufacturer and was accepted Pater
familias was extremely angry at this, anC
forbade the young fellow his house. Can
cor conpels me TO state that thedaughtel
offered very little resistance to hen
fathers objections, and the curate who
was genuinely fond of the girl, removed
to a distant parish
Two months after this event he fell into
a baronetcy and rather more than S,0OI
pounds sterling a year. The manufacture
saw that he had made a mistake, anC
/ opened up negotiations in letter. BY re
turn he received a telegram with the Ia
comic intimation "Ioo late " We may b.
certain that the good manufacturer S wifi,
gave him large piece Of her mind" al
the saying goes