The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-09-23
LONG ENGAGEMENTS,
sensible Advice for the Slow Bow and
the Slow Girl.

W catholic Universe.)
/ .s,,.,-.' al : tolu and we can realize that
NJ representation is the thief of time -
-. hours, the days, the months, the
lars sals as they go by leave us less
cs 1e 20 I'VE. Some of our young people
Would not SO Unfortunately stretch out
rner company keeping" and especial
- postpone their marriage so long after
being engaged.
long engagements are the greatest
VI hdrdShips. The party responsible
aoI the protraction ought to be put
upon plllory and be placarded as a
aooI or a savage. The savage is not as
ture va
a good rule to follow is: BE sure
you are right and then go ahead"
since the engagement shows that both
PaItles assured themselves of being
right why not go ahead-to get the
panns published? Such hesitation and
uelay show want of decision and do not
SPEAK well for the future No business
duct
The SLOW boy" and the SLOW girl"
tel US they are waiting to get a
bonus, or to get fortune before they
oesln housekeeping. They want to
commence where their parents left off.
human respect prompts them to act the
iool' Meantime Mr. Slow Boy is
boarding around" and asking the bar
yer IL ms gray hairs are multiplying.
The terms Bride and Bridegroom"
imply youth and strength and buoyan-
cy' not age and weakness and melan-
cholia. Since justice and conscience
VIII not move the procrastinator. it
might be as well for society and for
the party of the second part to place
MN in the electric chair and turn on
the volts
Here is a case in point-a long en-
gagement case:
The sympathy of the world will go
out to Mile. Steindelt, a Swiss. She win
be 60 years old the 10th of next month.
For forty-flve years She has been
courted by a Swiss gentleman % by
the name of Herzfeld. But the other
day her long season of waiting ended
IN the happy climax of matrimony. APP
propriately enough the ceremony was
solemnized at a town called Con-
stance.
1t seems the couple became engaged
at the early age of Is or so. Soon after
ward the wise young Herzfeld saw the
drift of this modern age. He perceived
that the girl of today very promptly
shrinks from marrying a man whose
possessions will not Immediately better
her estate. And so he hied him away
to America with the noble determine
ton to return when so be he had
amassed 100000. but no sooner His
fiarcee agreed to wait, and Penelope
was never more faithful to her word.
Forty-five years was Herzfeld occu-
pied in collecting his 100000. This
alone shows us the simplicity of his
nature and justifies Mile. Steindelt in
her love and long wait. During this
time the lovers exchanged some 10000
letters and $50 photographs. They cried
over each incoming gray hair. And the
other day. when at last NJ. Herzfeld's
resolve was fulfilled and he burst set
forth for his Alpine land and the hand
Of Amanda Steinfeldt, he and she, so
painstakingly had they kept tab on
each, recognized one another on the
spot. The wedding was arranged at
once. The long wait was over.
Do not wait for 100000. A 800 with
health and strength and youth is bet
ter combination than siXty-five years
and 100000.