New-York tribune., 1910-01-16

past and renew his forgotten energy With
breakfast he felt but twenty-one, instead
or the jaded forty-two he owned up TO. and
by dinner time-midday y-he was bribine tho
farmer to drive him to "Josiah's'. 10 look
at the land he had for sale At the cI,b
ne could give no sane explanation "It
just gets into your bones" was all that
could be Wrune from him, but his hostess
couid oivulge long and poetical discourse
OF winch '.primeval hankerings' were the
keynote, and from Friday to Monday ne
nowadays Is numbered among real farmers
buying his kerosene by the barrel and his
coal by the carload.
Grief over the loss of those s,nnosed IN
DC nearest and dearest takes MANY forms
and its manifestations are freouentIv of .
klno TO be misunderstood as in the case
of the widow who was seen I,ncbin. a,o,,l,
at the smartcst hotel restaurants Within .
week after the death of most devotad
husband William would have hated to
see her make herself unhappy. she ex
plaineo TO the friend she CHANGED IN p,oa+
ana later When she went to musicals win
ano,ban aver she said the same thing
Anotner instance of this sort of mouruine
was the attendance of two women a. 'i.S n
Ips" Ids. an an desla three weeks after one had
lost her rather and a week after tho other
nad stood al the deathbed of her hushand
The elastic etiquette of entertsini's, 'ho.
is Gsis, smteIiained under such circumstances
Is oailN being stretched wider bv those
W VINO cannot endure to lose an opportunity
hes bo see s,tn and be seen: Mourning sarb has
mourning stationery serves as ths ,ases s
conspicuous badge of alleged sorrow.
WIN what a flourish of trump.ts are
'he engagements Of girls of the socia, set
announced, remarked a critical ohs.ry.r
ldtelV. land he
ana now much more quickly do the nrettv
little kitchen maids or oth.r ,na,asors...
arrange their affairs and live happiIv eyer
after, ever
My incest maid went ONT IN n,e..
friend Jack the other evening and o., a.,
on iour later than usual, blissrully hannx
ahi, ai,H Win WIN ring on her finger She prob,
own little home. and will do her shars hef er
the homemak.ng Yet the irnnortante or
6ernons, or n net engagement occurred without
% ..Ioisu u auoh or any outward show Tbat
seems TO me much more dignifed than IN
''~No"eu engagements OF tho smart Set
ny some refinement Of cruelty the girl
VINO is interested In some man who -
been devoted to another always ten. .na
otner girl or some definite attention fn,.r
nifed into such) and asks her ad,,,H
Ihe other girl" often is a sensitiv. g.,
WIN the curious sense OF honor tha. ,,,oh
Souls always are hampered with. Tor
10 one she then and there relinou,sha.
every claim on the tickle youth and
ooes not stop TO argue that this was prob-
aoiy the precise result contemplated bv
her conhding friend so that the field nav
nc ciear and the heart caught on the ra.
tsol nouhq; IL me change after such a conversa
g. ..ic re sensitive one is instantaneous
- . a..ehs iI mel, sense of injured pride at
e 80 sI sight OF the man, never deiRning
ST strover S of any bsq question relative TO tho de-
promptly takes advantage Of the 1irbt
40 ~, az ans every nerve to win After
ine c.rrilde TWO or :hree campaigns thus
carried on a. cynical observer is inclined, to
Soupt S thet marriages are made In
nfea'