The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1894-11-22

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NRHElJMATISMz
BROKEN ENGAGEMENTS.
An English Country Parson Recalls Some
Instructive Instances.

The columns of the Morning Post fire.
quently contain notices of which the
following may be considered a fair
type: The marriage arranged be-
tween Sir Carnaby jerks and Lady
Sophia Fitz Tudor will not take place"
1t may be taken for granted that in
most cases valid reason for the shat
tering of the romance exists; but what
are we to say of the young lady who
broke off her engagement because her
lover insisted on parting his hair in the
middle; or of the lover who, few
weeks ago, discarded his inamorata be-
cause she adopted the so-called "ra-
tional dress" when cycling? Both cases
have occurred within my own expert
ence.
A few months since very smart So
ciety girl refused her somewhat coun-
trited lover at the altar because he
turned up for the occasion in badly fit
ting clothes! 1t must be admitted that
the young fellow compared very unfa-
vorably with the dashing cavalry cap
tain who was his best man; nor was the
attractiveness of his appearance en-
HANGED by brilliantly red necktie,
which had managed to get loose above
his collar. | fancy, however, that the
young lady had no great regard for her
country squire. She has since married
the gallant captain.
A fortune-hunting young barrister of
my acquaintance sneaked out of his en-
gagement in the shabbiest manner pos
sible when he discovered that his
tiancee'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 ever my
learned friend is haunting petty sessions
in vain endeayor to earn "living
wage"
Nothing is so hostile to romance as
ridicule. This truth was strikingly il
Illustrated in the case of a college friend
of my own. He was 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 distressing fashion. His
sweetheart's young brothers chaffed her
numerically about this popularity of
her lovers. They compared his ears to
Chinese fans, and talked up some pre-
posterous story of one of the old travel
ers 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 of that race. Absurd as it
| may seem, their foolish talk resulted in
a broken engagement.
Some years ago | was acting as curate
in large London parish. Two young
people in whom was greatly interested
were to be married on a certain
Wednesday in April. Contrary to GUS
tom, the bride arrived before the bride
groom-indeed, the bridegroom never
arrived at all!
1t subsequently TRANSFERRED that the
bridegroom had disappeared the previ-
| Gus evening and was nowhere to be
found. He has not been found to this
day. No cause for his disappearance
| was ever assigned, nor has any clew as
to his whereabouts ever been discov-
| cred. The poor young bride succambed
| to the shock, and it was my melancholy
duty to officiate at her burial several
weeks later.
| One more case and | have done. A
! curate, in the receipt of little more than
f10O year, proposed to the daughter
| of a wealthy north country manufac-
| turer and was accepted. Paterfamilias
| was extremely angry at this and forbade
| the young fellow his house. Candor
| compels me to state that the daughter
| offered very little resistance to her ia
theirs objections and the curate, who
was genuinely fond of the girl, removed
to distant parish.
Two months after this event he fell
into baronetcy and rather more than
| 5000 year. The manufacturer saw
that he had made mistake, and opened
up negotiations in letter. BY return
he received a telegram with the laconic
| intimation: Too late"