The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-10
gaged wfll be Ike a great. beautiful. and

gagged viii he like a great beautiful and
solemn ceremony
isn't il strange" said The brunette from
the rug on the ground, Il have always
| thought mat I should like TO nave the man
/ marry propose to me in the most pro-
sale way possible at midday perhaps,
when everything looks as commonplace as
can be, and then l shall not be afraid
that he asked me to marry him on the
spur of the moment. because I happened
just al that time, to look particularly at
tractive.
You see there is a good deal of COM
monplace MONDAY in life, and l would he
| afraid that if man asked me to marry
| him in some kind of moonlight gorge,
| with everything beautiful and solemn, that
! l might be so Influenced by the conditions
| at the time that he would think me
! SAINT and never forgive my being just a
! mortal woman afterWard.
And If he should ask me to marry him
! a a dance. or some like occasion, should
! be afraid that he might for the time being
| think me a better-looking girl than 1 real
| ~ am-you know, one does look better in
/ a ball gown than almost anything else
and then be disappointed to find his swan
was only an ugly duckling.
! mo, l want to be proposed to under the
most prosaic circumstances, and then l
will do my best 10 be saintlike and beau
| tiful afterward."
that you expect happen to YOU" said Mrs.
| Prettywife from over her embroidery. mo
| one ever does. ] know everything with me
was different from what l had planned,
| and it didn't agree with either of the Ideals
| YOU girls have. | suppose every girl
dreams of what will happen when the one
! man asks her to marry him, but that is
one of the things that never come out as
| YOU expect. I was very well acquainted
with John before he proposed to me, and
| l guess / had almost forgotten that he
| hadn't asked me 10 marry him, for we
seemed to belong to each other and always
were together, and people had come to
associate us together always.
But John is peculiar about some things.
and he wouldn't think 1t right to ask me
10 marry him until he knew he was in
position to marry: and he was young and
Just getting started in business. I knew
there was some change he was looking
forward to in his business which he hoped
could be satisfactorily arranged.
well. it was early in the summer. and
we were going away soon, the next day,
think and mother had asked me If |
would not mend some stockings of my
small brothers that she wanted to pack.
So sat by the lamp darnng big hole in
the heel of stocking when John came in.
THE work was practical and might suit
some of your ideas. and ] remember that
night I looked unusually well. SirB
t'iR
best / had a pretty pale-blue muslin
gown, with thin white yoke, and I wore
some delicate pink roses. But don't think
John noticed either my practical work or
how l looked, or anything else. He rush
ed into the room and knelt down beside
nv chair-knelt because he could get down
beside me best in that way-tooll my work
and threw it out of my lap put his arm
around me and his face against mine and
cried:
1--WE done it. little woman. We can be
married tomorrow if we want TO-.
.sThen he took little box out OF his
nocket and there was the most beautiful
solitaire ring l ever saw. He put 1t on
INV finger, and then-well-I think we
went out on the piazza, and don re-
member very much more about H. except
the next morning when l told mother /
would finish mending those stockings, she
smiled and said they were all done"
yves said the smallest girl of the party
who had been listening breathlessly, Il
p1less that is the way it always Is. You
never know anything ABOUT II uhtll II nap
mems. That was Just the way 1t was with
me. l.
"MolIy!" shrieked the blonde girl, get
tins mn more quickly than gracefully in
the hammock. =. So, g.
equally surprised tones.
.Whv' MoIlie Tanglelocks. you little ae-
/, | cplVer. Sdiu MIS- L 1919 "A+Nf St't'-9
her embroidery.
'Hold up your hands Molly command
ed the blonde.
Nothing but little gold band" said
the brunette. palms out, Mollyn'
"And wearing an engagement ring with
the stone turned in" said the matron.
81 col so interested l quite forgot said
Molly 'But it doesn't make any differ
, ence I only thought il would be rather
nice not to Iet any one know for time,
but l was going 10 tell you all in few
davs. OF course you know who it is.
"0ut-and-out deceit" said the blonde.
Now tell US all about ii to pay for that
, deception"
ssEVbv. there isn't anything to tell" said
Molly. 1T just happened when we were
ali out grabbing the other day
"Crabbingr said the brunette. well,
that Is prosaic enough even for me-"
. "And | didn't look pretty, either, ]
Guess SO that would suit you, too. My!
was so hot, and it isn't becoming to be
V quite so warm
2 "As il everything wasn't becoming to
e Molly Tangleiocks,' said the blonde
4 "WeI" continued Molly, that is all
had pinned a paper into sunbonnet and
> a Great lock of hair came down in my
ewes. and l couldn't do anything. so
asked Tom who was not doing much OF
q awning, 10 push it back for me-you
. know how wet and horrid your hands get
e
: Il know what happened then" said the
e blonde.
4 so do l." said the brunette. But Mrs
Prettywife only smiled soft, interested
Y little smile.
one was locking the other way. He didn'i
s either-Oh, think You girls are TO-
z Neon
: Never mind. Molly" said MIS- Pretty,
f wife; go on"
, what did he say?' asked the blonde.
. Nothing" said Molly; "and, OF course
. If he had. l wouldn't tel you; but ] don
a believe he said any hing, only that he
: hadn't seen me alone before since he came
Il UP from town. Then he put on The rms
\ with my hands wet just as they were
= and I am sure ne didn't ask me 10 marry
4 him. so maybe I am 70. engaged after
I all. and there isn't anything 10 tell but
guess we didn't get any more crars attei
n that. Isn't Grabbing fun?'