Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-11-06
If You Are Really Engaged, Why
Not Say So?


Hush-sh! Please don't all speak
at once. Let US listen to yon naughty
one hard hit by the haphazard allie
CATION, coldly reply: 1T is a purely
personal matter, one that could not
possibly interest the world" Chilly.
isn't it2 ~lnvoluntarily we draw the
Wra of reserve about us as protec-
ton from the freezing tones.
But despite the presumption that
love affairs should be ~relegatcd to
secondary positions Of interest and
importance in the public mind. it Is
not borne out by facts, and though
1T is really rude, we still remain in
terested, don't we?
0 of course, dear lovelorn two,
we understand that, voyaging toward
the aerial heights OF the Seventh
Heaven this world must Seem q cold
and distant place and the people
thereon announcement tigureheads OF
existence.
Yes, Cupid has q way of ~relesatinE
to dire oblivion those save the all
sufficient two, who led into the CLAM
orous rose-cclored world Of sun
kissed clouds and omance see the
world as 4 dim perspective or may
haps as q prospective Of ante-honey-
moon days.
That is well-the pretticst tIath of
existence-the why of the world and
humanity. But unfortunately or for
tunatciy. as cynical humanity may
individually regard 1t, we cannOt all
be in love. ana dWellers Of clouds
where the elusive butterflies of hap
pincss are Imprisoned for, yet o mo-
lnent, sometimes for q day, and Of
tenpr, we like to optimistically be-
lieye, for a lifetime.
We prOsaics OF terra firma arc "A
world OF changing interests. Rausing
here to admire, there to condemn,
wondering at this and marveling at
that. One scandal IS forgotten when
onother spicier one happens along
and ono engagement Tor the next.
But scandals, disasters, even baseball
games and elections do net interest
the world like the ~pre-nuptial am
nounccnent, and, preparation for q
wedding, Why, / don't know. It's
rather conclusive proof that the
world appreciates well the noblcst
end best sentiments Of p~leassura-loy-
ing mankind. !,
You who resent the notice taken of
Your engagement surely caunnt com I
plain or the quality Of the interest.
You know it's so universally compli-
mentary. It's the one time ia life
your faults are forgotten and matri-
mony Is somehow regarded as a re-
formatoTN process. when q man
marries. the world is glad because !.
lie is glad. ana good Fellowship marks
the days. The girl is suddenly the
object OF interest to all friends and
aequaintsnces.
And ten chances TO one they resent
all the displayal Of fliendliness and,
rs a rule, the man will prove more
reticent on the subject of approach
ing matrimony than the Woman
which evasion of the point at issue
is surely unlike the usual avidity
m9sculinity displays in announcing
other various Conquests.
We rather admire the couple who
gently into the state of matri-
nouy without getting on the society
first, but " there are to be pre-
liminary stages Of courtship covering
weeks ana months, the world will
probably get next and view the pro-
ceedings with some interest,
And when the gossip fingers around
The tea tables, and is carried home
to the dinner tables. then down to
the offices and dear %neighbors in the
mcrning-small wonder il veers to-
ward the society page.
No; there are no announcements
this morning. but several are hover
ing on the brink; reticently withheld
70 the regret. perhaps, Of YOU and I.
mind, engagements. like muir
der. VIII out.