Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-20
Just About Marrying

owned up to- and by dinner time-mid-
day--he was bribing the farmer to
drive him to "Josiah's" to look at the
land he had for sale. At the club he
could give no sane explanation. ut
just gets into your bones,' was all that
could be wrung from him. but his
hostess could divulge a long and poet
ical discourse on which 'primeval
hankerings" were the keynote, and
and from Friday to Monday he nova
days is numbered among the real farm
ers. buying his kerosene by the barrel
and his coal by the caload.
Grief over the loss of those supposed
to be nearest and dearest takes many
forms. and its manifestations are fire.
quently of kind TO be misunderstood.
as in the case of the widow who was
seen lunching alone al the smartest
hotel restaurants within week after
the death of most devoted husband.
William would have hated to see her
make herself unhappy, she explained to
the friend she CHANGED to meet, and
later when she went to musicals with
the estate laweyr she said the same
| thing. Another instance of this sort of
| mourning was the attendance of two
| women at an open air fiesta" three
weeks after one had lost her father and
a week after the other had stood at the
| deathbed of her husband. The elastic
! etiquette of entertaining or being en-
| tertained under such circumstances is
| daily being stretched wider by those
t who can not endure 10 lose an oppor-
tunity to see and be seen. Mourning
garb has been altered radically. and in
many cases mourning stationery serves
as the most conspicuous badge of al
/ legged sorrow
With what flourish Of trumpets
are the engagements of girls of the
social set announced" remarked a crit
cal observer lately, and on the other
| hand how quietly and how much more
quickly do the pretty little kitchen
maids or other maidservants arrange
| their affairs ad live happily ever after,
My incest maid Went out TO meet
her friend Jack the other evening. and
got in an hour later than usual, bliss
fully happy, and with a ring on her
finger. She probably viii be married
soon; will have her own little home,
and will do her share of the homemak-
ing Yet the important episode Of her
engagement occurred without demon
stration or any outward show That
seems TO me much more dignifed than
the biazoned engagements of the smart
set
BY some refinement of cruelty the
girl who is interested in some man who
has been devoted TO another ALWAYS
tells that other girl of some definite at
tention (magnified into such) and asks
her advice. The other girl" often is a
sensitive soul with the curious sense OF
honor that such souls always are ham
pered with. Ten to one she then and
there relinQuishes every claim on the
flckle youth and does not stop to argue
that this was probably the precise re-
suit contemplated by her confiding
friend, so that the field may be clear
and the heart caught on the rebound
Inc change after such a converse ton
IN the sensitive one is instantaneous
She stiffens in her sense of injured
pride at the mere sight of the man
never deigning to ask any question rel
alive to the destroyer of her peace M
mind. The latter promptly takes ad-
vantage of the right and strains ever,
nerve TO win. After watching two o,
three campaigns thus carried on :
cynical observer is inclined to douht
mat marriages are made in heaven.