The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-03-07

view wlth q hannman on the gaIl0ws
would be 3 fovial. not 70 say hilarioua.
occasion 81 CON rarison. He defers the
matter from time % time. giving him
eef 8 rtpriere from the Inevitable
When. however. i can be no longer
deferred. he puts on o. bold a face as
il his depressed c0nditiCn ne can pos
sibiy assume. ard starts Tor the house.
Courageous IS he may have been al
starting. however. he becomes q
pifabe picture bei0re he reaches
bis destination- HIS courage o0zes
Ont 81 an inverse ratio to the
distance. that IS the nearer he
gets the faster lt oo1eS. He discusses
Wlth himself Whather he would bet-
tel 90 On g r-n away out 81 town.
g Sc oH zone# here and quietly
die. He tries ~ think % something To
sav ard fats. He tries 70 think what
be s1a4 ansHer 81 the father-in-laE,
that i g - asks aim any Questions
about nimss-f aud scores another
iailu He walks past the house half
q dozen times before be can make uD
his mind 10 enter. mOmeniarily dis
clss NJ with hiUsef the prOpriefy 81
boltlug and letting the whole thing 60
~ default He fails 10 see the neces-
slty Of girl having any parents, and
though deFo1fig thankful 10 PROV
dence Tor having provided him with a
sweetheart entirely 70 his taste. can
not understand Why Pr0videuce could
no1 ust a well nave sent him an or
phan. Yet all this time he is. ID all
probability. gravcly 10 error. for the
parents Of the Young lady are perhaps
ereadiug the Interview Just a. much ~
him elf. ana viii be .ust a much re-
leFed g. be when il is at an end.
Blind as a kitten. however be can not
see that their love for their daughter
lml els them 70 be careful Of her i'm
e est, and that the cbifaeles which
they see 70 the union are created sole
u Dr regard - the future happiness OF
their child. As a rule he finds that the
ordeal Is by no means so dreadful as
he feared IL would be. and before
the business is half over ho realizes
that Iarent-, are not Ogrcs living
ii wait 70 scare tim lovers int0
ITS, but kindly, con -iderata. we'll
meaning people, ready 10 overlook his
embarras menf, and even. when nee
essary, 70 hold out a helping hand 20 a
suffering fell0W-creature in distress
and smooth his path when they see he
Is about 70 make adi-graceful stumble.
IN iact before the interview Is over.
he has experienced q "a zeal change OF
hear. with regard TO parents-in-law, I
and has made up his miad that as a /
young lady's mother Is q her the dear I
est one on earth, that husband must be !
either brute or boa who could. in /
ter ns Of disrespect allude 70 his 1
mqther-in-law. But time would fail to 4
tell Of the mi cries Of the engagement i
and how the young lady keeps II secret +
by telling all her friends about IT, She 4
does It, Of course. because she IS proud i
Of him. She probably has no cause 70 4
be, for the chances are that he i a /
very ordinary fellow with nothing TO /
commend him TO the attention OF any 4
body bat herself. and the other girls.
after reading his letters 70 her. kindly
rendered for that purpose. and plO-
nouncng them "just lovely. 20 away
and wonder what she can see IN that
man 70 admire. but then she has said
just the same thing about their baaux,
and 50 the hOnors are about even. The
poor fellow th ught that the whole
tronble was over when he had asked
the lady and obtained the consent OF
her parents, but 10 his terror finds
that Il was only Just begun. For there
are the miseries Of the engagement
with the twitting Of his friends going
on in a never ceasing stream; the prep
aratlOns for the wedding, and worst
ofall. the wedding itself, with the sol
emn preacher IN front, his own trem-
bling self as an aim for curious eyes,
and the grinning and giggliug audi
ence In the background OF urse.
whom the affair passes from the state
Of the engagement TO the condition Of
a public wedding, the groom loses his
prominence and passes into insiQnif-
cance hen compared with the bride
he Is a sort Of necessary nuisance, toll
Grated because thers Is no getting
along thout him. but long before the
close Of the ordeal he usually subsidies
into a state Of harmless idiOcy, me-
grinning and snaking
hands with ferg ore who comes near
him. that being the only thing he can
10. for IN his state Of mental vacuity.
such a thing as C nversation is out OF
The question
such are some n the miseries that
men will undergo IN order to get a
wife. and Il Is perhaps a merciful dh.
pens alton OF nature that lovers are
leaf an blind g. what Is said ard done
about them, Nature often makes won
leriul provision for the comfort Of her
,rcatures, but in an the list q bless
ngs none Is more kindly ia its benef-
,ence than this. People In their right
mind would fight or 20 crazy over the
lalf that lovers stand without 20 mach /
is a pang. The lover IS a pachyderm-
itous animal and SO long as ne is
orced to endure the gibes Of an crea-