The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-05-31

Foutn mas Ju.t Degun, tCr IN all WELL
regulated families papa's consent To
tho engagement must be obtained, and
~ the necessity for this formaity is
presented to the interested youth by
his inamorata, he may be excused for
teeling that, as the biblical proverb
says. there Is time for all things"
this Is the proper time for cold sweat.
And he has 1t, too for a. the dismal
words are poured into the portals OF
his reluctant ears. he feels that death
would be u relief. But there | d. no help
Tor It, so he arranges with himself
time when ha will call on his prospect.
I've tathcr-in-law and adjust matters
He does not, in the language Of Old
Virginia, banker after the Job" Ho
has dim consciousness tha. an inter.
view with hangman on the galiowi
would be jovial, not TO say hilarious,
occa sion 10y comparison. He defcrs the
matter from time to time, giving him.
self n repr'ovc from the inevitable.
When, however. IL can he no longer
deferred. he puts on as bold face ai
in his depressed condition he can pos.
sibly assume, and starts for the house.
Courageous as he may have been al
starting, however. he becomes u
pitab,e picture before he reaches
his destination. His courage oo1es
out in an inverse ratio TO the
distance; that is, tho nearer he
gets the faster IL oo2es. He discusses
with himself whether he would bot.
ter so on or run away out OF town
or go of somewhere and quietly
die. He tries to think Of something TO
say and fails. He tries to think what
he shall answer If the fathcr.in-law,
that is 10 be, asks him any question.
about himself and scores another
tailue He walks past the house half
4 dozen times before he can make up
his mind TO enter, momentarily dis.
cussing with himself tho propriety oi
boiling and letting tho whole thing &C
by default He fails To see the neces.
sity OF girl having any parents, and
although devoutly thankful To Provi.
ience for having provided him with q
sweetheart entirely to his taste, car
not understand why Providence could
not Just as we'll have sent him an or.
phan. Iot all this timo he is, in all
probability, gravcly in error for the
parents OF the young lady are perhaps
ireading the interview Just as much AZ
himself, anu will be Just as much re-.
lieved as he when IL Is at an end.
Blind as Il kitten, however he can not
see that their love for their daughter
tmIel them TO be careful OF her in
te est, and that tho obstacles whick
they see TO tho union are created solo.
ly by regard To the future happiness %
their child. As n rulo, he finds that the
ordeal Is by no means 50 dreadful IA
he feared IL would be, and before
the business Is half over he roali,o.
that parents, are not ogrcs living
in wait to scare tim.d lovers into
fts, but kindly, con.iderats, well,
meaning people, ready to overlook his
embarras, ment, and evcn, when nee
essary, to hold out helping hand to
suffering fellow-crcature in distress
and smooth his path when they see he
Is about to maks Il adisgraceful stumble
In fact, before the interview Is over.
ho has experienced a radical change OF
hear; with regard TO rarents.in. law,
and has made up his mind that rs Q
young lady's mother Is u he dear.
est ono on earth, that h must be
either brute or b' ould, In
tor 81 d'r~cspet 10 his
- >s.... ..,-..". fail tc
tell of the mi eri, ,meni
and how the young ,duy keeps 10 secret
by telling all her friends about 1t. She
docs 1t, OF course, because she Is proud
Of him. She probably has no Gauss &c
10, for the chances are that he is y
very ordinary fellow with nothing tC
commend him u the attention OF any,
body but herself, and tho other girls
after reading his letters TO her, kindly
tendered for that purpose, and piO
nouncing them lust lovely, go away
and wonder what she can see IN that
man to admire; but then she has said
just the same thing about their beauX
and so the honors are about even The
poor fellow tn ught that the whole
trouble was over when he had askec
the lady and obtained the conscns OF
her parents, but to his terror hnds
that II was only lust begun. For there
are the miserieS Of the engagement
with the tw.tting of his friends going
ON in never ccasing stream. the prep
arations for the wedding, and, worst
ofall, tho wedding itself, with the sot
emn preacher in front, his own t.em
bling self as an aim for curious eyes
and tho grinning and giggIing audi
ence In the h. ckgrOund, OF c urse
when the affair passes from tho state
OF the engagement to the condition OF
a public wedding, the groom loses his
prominence and passes into insignih
cance " hen compared with the bride
He Is u sort of necessary nuisance. tol
Grated because therD is no getting
along without him, but long before the
close of the ordeal he usually subsiC g,
into state of harmless idiocy, me
chanically grinning and snaking
hands with cry ole who clmss near
him, that being the only thing he car
do, for In his state OF mental vacuity,
such thing as nyersation is out OF
the question.
Such are some q tho miseries that
men will undergo in order TO get
wife, and it is perhaps merciful dis.
pensation OF nature that lovers are
deaf AMI blind 10 what is said and done
about them, Nature often makes won
derful provision for the comfort OF her
creatut es, but In all the list d bless
ingS none is more kindly in its beneti
cencs than this. People in their right
minds would fight or go crazy over the
half that lovers stand without so much