The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-12
HUMOR OF TIE Day
From a Young Mans Diary.

When was 1 8 I fell in love. She
avoided the subject then--was 80.
1t was sad story; she would not
marry me. Afterward I turned
1 philosopher.
I unused on the passage of ten years
and pictured her at 40 dwelt with
and the wrinkles that distinguish
women of that age. These thoughts
4 were very satisfying
! Well, the ten years are up and the
| other day met her. She is younger,
/ more beautiful. more charming than
] ever.
] The moral is obvious. Cease to
/ philosophize, cease to console yourself;
man. I am reminded of this forcibly
/ tonight.
have seen Virginia's wedding pres
1 ents. 1 have also seen Virginia. She
was not, her mother assured me, re
| ceiving all her callers. 1 supposed
| that to be true. The bell rang four
1 teen times during my short stay. If
! they kept coming at that rate and she
received them all by tomorrow night
the Rev. Walter Human would be
called for even sadder offices than are
now in prospects.
/ However, the significant fact re-
manned that I was one of the few. I
bowed my appreciation. Then Mrs.
| Boyd left me alone-in the cut-giass
department 1t used to be the library.
Virginia kept me waiting. was in
a state of comfortable unhappiness.
There is nothing that beats it for true
| enjoyment.
Three weeks ago I sustained a
shock. I received Virginia's wedding
cards Her engagement had come to
seem almost natural, like other evils
that one has learned to make the most
of. But Virginia as Mrs. Bob, Virginia
a bride--there was something I'M
canny in the thought. My experience
with brides is not great. had, how
ever, pictured them as subdued, chas-
tened, glorihed, victims led to the
altar-though the offering sacrificed
on q wedding altar is popularity sup
posed to be of the other sex
4 AS waited in the library I went SC
far as to bury the Virginia I had
known in my dead and happy past. Il
was much more comforting to do thai
than to marry her to Bob. In he1
place I put another Virginia, strange
and subtly removed to sort of sancti-
fed atmosphere. I was serious, but re.
signed.
Suddenly a voice obtruded inartist
ically upon my reverie. II have jus
escaped from three dressmakers ant
an aunt said the voice. zones
wedding is what you would call th'
limit, joe
I smiled vaguely. wondering VIVA
) sAnd. joe continued the voice
tell me what your deep, deep thought
are about III
Virginia began, eat a time 50
, solemn as this
Virginia regarded me without en-
thusiasm. 'Aunt Caroline has jus
been talking about the responsibility
of marriage she said. Evidently sh'
had not found the conversation to- he
taste.
Not 1 presumed, ''that desire t.
make this half hour too serious
Virginia frightened. mo one would
think of looking for me in the con
| servatory," she limited.
l. Virginia's father is especially fond O
palms. In the shadow of a prize speci
men a chair has been built to tit hi
II proportions. Virginia's fathers pro
portions are ample. There have beer
occasions when two-but it was Vir
ginia who made this one of those &c
casions by moving over.
"Joe," she sighed, "you haven't any
idea how uncomfortable I am feeling
'tIf am crowding you" murmur
ed. without, however, getting up.
Its aunts, joe" she sighed again
"Of course one doesn't mind a little ad
vice and Aunt Caroline was never mar
rieds anyway and doesn't know any
thing about marriage But if Aun
Jane thinks just because she is m!
i fathers sister she can send me a choI
plate, when 1 had fourteen already
and then on top of it say things like
She handed me note. It was rath
er long. 1t began with a disquisitioi
on an aunt's advisory privileges. /
dwelt a little severely on Virginia.
past. 1t expressed hope, not Opt
mistically, for Virginias future. Tit
words irresponsible and frivolous
played conspicuous parts. There wal
also a good deal said about the s'wifel.
phere."
land Aunt Jane" declared Virginia
resentfully, as handed back the note
'sas much as said that she feared my
housekeeping. Why, I've learned par
ticularly how to make creamed lobster
so Bob will have something he like
until I can get a cook"
There was q sudden little break il
her voice. "I hope, joe" she said
that there are some people who think
me nice enough even to get married
'"There are, Virginia." protested.
"And I hope they would even be
disappointed and sorry if L tried to be
different and-and better
She raised her eyes and smiled a
me then and But 1 had forgotten
about the subtly removed being long
before that.
shall give up planning to fall ou
of love with Virginia. She is never
willing to do her part.-Chicago News