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Show Won't Be In a Hurry to Marry j WEDDING- lo a girlish mind is n thing Hftf misty veils, dainty bridesmaids aud white gleam reflected from the H aers on the altar. With the wed-Mjriits wed-Mjriits march still ringing in their cars HJ of the bride's girl friends actually io?aini words of the service describ-Wfii'' describ-Wfii'' " a state "not by any to be cn-pmdviMKlly cn-pmdviMKlly or lightly?" Hm friend of mine once diverted her au-BjiiEouncing au-BjiiEouncing that Bhe had seen in one H3 model of a wedding dress Which F?' picked out n florist and an Btittltr'tan(1 noiV al lhat slc ia( to Wtjbfb t0 her credit and typical of tho ftht avctUKe American girl,lhat she H wr her choice of "tho man" until the Wny which had caught her fancy was wt of fashion. F'llhetic interest has been aroused by fMding which gives every promise P wt well-a Jove match cominp four lf still-girligh brido had made her inng hcraelf the benefit of a wider Voi btr ov.n mind. Ufiu iot V0UnB American with tL . 'J0 convent girl who in barely !c?1 wore the is given the choice bc- We of a mm or a huband Kclcctcd SSi ,0r lake au English debutante, "w a failuro if she is not engaged M;." W first season Which of the Wy hest chance of bappinc? French girl ir the admiration of RiA6 ff?r,d' but J-he is apt lo be more jp orKin the man whom she marries. tfoman, too, has many admirable KL(U 38 8ne ,s however unwill-HT'lion unwill-HT'lion of a "leunc fille a marier." KL'.jx rt Ily -Bart, the loecs much EHikc charm of girlhood. The value rWa."c in Ike fact that it makes it 'mS antl bo-V3 froiM tl,c n"c of BaelK t0 fratcrnize tuitc naturally and WfkiU "ibers of one large family. iv encourdBc her daughter to 9k IK. y fried8 ns poiblc, taking Kk ' 8,00 time to duect her choice lrfifMiJOun,? g,rl lMnis to accept at-jt at-jt nd orms some very valunble Hte of f v ip' in(,ced, ix all that she BtrtJv SoT 'card after she leaves Vktt lh,n ?uns Ancricari taken longer to Rliih younK o an-v ot,1Cl' 'ace- "om?n ofco opened her eves in Kj,viTlt thc gruduating glnsa of a SJT01 w this city. It was a small H1 ldf(dt0ug'n,aJ c,a9f'' Hml 11,0 xy HU IpT 6,r Ijalin together iu tho tPi fif t a lcto- Noah's Ark fabhion, i Ji,0llr ?"d five-went off to foot-' Kh7 u fi, l)lnyc'd hock,?v outdoors and 1H8tl n,- 1,0UHe' ad gave mont de-P1?" de-P1?" in rolHlion, the whole class irnSii. r to tho suburbs or wher-Hffii wher-Hffii lnclion Hvc'1' HI Esjli.1 II lonh thc muit l"vo." dc-K dc-K i'uaffornan-with the brutal frank- ncss of her tribe, and she laughed in my face when I I old her thut they would consider sentiment senti-ment at their age in very bad form. It i now gome years since they graduated, and only two of them married in the class, the others choosing comparative strangers. Contrast this state of aflairs with the conditions con-ditions existing in our grandmothers' time, when, if the fiction of the day is to be depended upon, sweet young tilings ran, away from boarding school to mam- youths of sixteen, or if they completed their education without running away, soon married a man to reform him. They 'may have been more womanly than their descendants, but they certainly bad less sense. One of the happiest women of the last generation gen-eration wnitcd until she was thirty before she married, although she had been a belle for four leen years and could have had almost anyone. Sho AVns graceful, witty, an excellent dancer, of a typo of hcauty which was then the fashion fash-ion th'rit of the Empress Eugenic red hair and the wonderful complexion which goes with it, which last, by the way, she has still. She had several love affairs, and one particularly partic-ularly eligible man who proposed to her at a time when her family Lad become poor, has since risen high in official life in Washington. But, had sho married at the conventional age she would have missed the greatest happiness of her life; for (he man who was meant for her wos not yet in bin teens, and she had never seen him. Now. after twentv years, her husband is more devoted lo her than ever. He is a clever, hand-Homc hand-Homc man, and has always given the impression that he is the older of the two, and although neither rich nor famous when she married him, ho promises to be both before he die. The wife is beautiful still; and one cannot realize that she will ever grow old. |