The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-08
THE ENGAGED GIRL.

Let me come in to catch my breath, l gasped Isobel as Beth dragged forward I the giggest chair and began to unfasten
 her callers tippet. No, l cant stay j long, but l wanted to tell you how much
 l appreciate your visits, even if never
 am at home"
 l I've been in just time this week and found you out every time, began Beth.
 Yes, l know. But it's such short
 time till Easter Monday now that if l don't go every minute I'll not be half ready for my wedding. I've found q new thing to worry over now"
 You poor old dear" cooed Beth, comfortingly. Don't you think you would better quit discovering new things till you've got some of the old ones strengthened out? Have you yet found your fat?"
 'No," groaned the engaged girl. Nor are my hats ready. And there's been an awful botch of the brown can vas cloth-the one l meant to travel in, you knoW-and mammals oldest sister down east, has written me a scorching letter because I didn't give her more warning, so that she'd have time to get ready to come to the wedding. But how could l. when wasn't engaged In- til Christmas eve?"
 "Go on, dear, if it relieves you" en- couraged Beth -,..
 "Then, too, cant decide about the style of the invitations and about my name"
 And pray what is the matter with your name? TO the marriage of their daughter, Isobel Winifred' sounds quite grand. It's lots better than Eff i've Mae or 'Lille Mayme' or
 "It isn't my present name which wor- ries me-" put in the bride-to-be. Its my new name-Mrs. Thomas J. Jen- kins"
 "Oh" said Beth a trife breathlessly. Have you got that far? Can't you postpone worrying over that till after the bishop has made you really Mrs Tom?"
 'I think it is well to look these mat ters in the face" sighed Isobel, resign edly. "A girl has to be cautious, you know, before it is too late"
 "Too late?" echoed Beth, in fright ened tone.
 . SAi' ii'' t~AN'NllS NlitthI INt Ai''Et ~ piled the girl, whirlng her solitaire thoughtfully. q suppose I would not throw Tom over even if his parents had been less considerate of his wife than they were
 "I don't quite see the connection, said Beth.
 There I'll have to explain it all over again" sighed Isobel No one seems to appreciate my woes. Tom says he won't even let me have my cards with the John on them, but just like he has always had his-plain Mrs Thomas J Jenkins. Ii sounds like a business card I've been collecting the cards the girls have left since they've been mar Tied, and I'm going to have the worst of the lot
 Whereupon Isobel drew packet from her purse and read the tiny paste boards before her.
 Here's Mrs. Burlington Watterson Jennie Smith, you know, | whom Hurley Barnes married last fall. | And here's Mrs. Bennington Frederick , Tupper-Fred Tupper's wife. No, his ] name wasn't Bennington, but Nell said i she just wouldn't have Frederick Tup | per, so she hunted up the Bennington ' and dropped the K from Frederick. Sounds well now, doesn't it? And i here's Mrs. w. J Caxton Matson Yes, ! that's Billy Matsons wife, The w. J. ! stands for William Jacob, and she | ldn't like them so she fixed it this | way. But heres the finest of the lot: | Mrs Jay Thomson Prettyman. The J | ised to be an initial, but she didn't like | t, so she had it spelled out, and left the