Show awkward situations 4 it was an awkward situation I 1 overheard overboard ono onafay say to another and tao alio expression raised railed in my ay mind a candid of 0 how often ait it our lives we aro are in awkward situations lotof sit of our oar own causing but bat from the manifold arrangements arrange monH of the tha convent conventional iogal ties of lito life or from the ilia of events over which we WB havo have no cou arol here for instance wo we see sea sa all awkward situation fer fo r the chood views I 1 once a an ded havo drifted I 1 uto into n lino line af 0 thought andyes he is I 1 held red responsible pon sible for or conn ciati citations ons of a prior I 1 train r sin of mind on oa the other hand amuil there is in on an a akward for the alie literary man who lai engaged to give so 80 much pabulum ait stated timea and finds himself without a single idea to start with much low load to enlarge upon it is an awkward situa lion for or a dog to get his head bend I 1 la a it splice where bis bid body cannot go and it in ia ten times limes more awkward lor for a man to be pushed into a place which in a too eamel mall tor for his bin capic capacities aties perhaps however the 0 awkward situation with which I 1 shall meet the moat sympathy in these pages is that ol of the young bride who his us left her bar own people to come among perfect strangers her young expert enco looks forward with dread to her first callers and her now BOW authority makes her particular to scrupulosity last eat all aill should not lie io right when her visitors appear Sho dresses early and places lacoa it liora file olf I 1 in attitudes in her draw fig 1119 room but starts up every two in minute step to rearrange some article about the room loom or 01 to readjust the little five tem tea table placed in readiness tor lier ier guests guesta her flor sister bister in law moan whilo lill tries to initiate her in the diffor different eat merits ol of her circle of acquaintance whose presence pro Bonca is to be ba expected anil and endeavors to impress upon epou the bride the he necessity of avoiding this or that topic of conversation the iha bell rings and the trying moments for the bride a are re at hand the urit first callers aro are a gentlemen gentleman rent leman and his hia I 1 wife whom the 11 helpful sister bister iu in law lar has haf forgotten to mention in her ii diat s t of individual levities livi ties hence though the bride goes forward gracefully to moot meet them site is ia full of nervous tremor as an to what she aho ought to say eay the beat method in an awkward situation of this kind is to eap exp expatiate atiat 0 on the lovely scenery in tho ilia la neighborhood of her now cow residence or a at 10 least ast if the landam land sapos pos generally are vapid to pick out oat any redeeming fe deturo ton turo however minute lai nata and discuss it 11 The theresa reid always safety in scenery enery ac laid euid an old lady when eho bus reproved a scandal men ger excuse was that she w had nothing to talk about a and ud thought largo town does not al always way permit armit of scenery generally as a a topic for or talk att there aro are always diati U gu ashing marks marka of locality which in may 1 der erve ve to make the trying in foments I 1 lesa C irksome we will suppose the tha cups of teak ai Lain banded ded and the brides first bashfulness disappearing when the bell rings inga a 0 second time lime and two ladies are introduced now in the return of be her anxiety to receive in proper style etyle the particularities of the ilia lust last comer slip blip the tha memory and as ag scenery will not do a second time till the first guests bave gone the bride falls back apon church cuerou music hero Is ia a trying moment for all parties because there ii 14 no subject which admits of go BO much dire diversity rs ity of opinion as ag churches there aro are high church low church churchard chur chand and the of ilia ono one look with horror at the worshipers worship era in the other there aro are innumerable so BO that a brido bride who is a a stronger stranger should avoid church mu laudi I 1 0 the lio glum looks of the protecting slater sister ia a law cafeo the bride to shift from musio music sacred to musio secular scon lar and ami as that bat forms forma a subject of safer eater enlarge moot slie she makes no BO mistake au ather party barty of callers diversities diversifies a little for now low the first batch has haa gone she dorea dared to 0 fall back upon scenery again and tikes lakes care w whoever chupon oe ver shall come coma to avoid tile bo forbidden a subject church but she has other matters to avoid beside conversation the ew faux pas will be noticed either of manner or style tor for the bride in i u fact liao has come to the he t trying clug moments of cf and her ier ca callers fr lore have assembled for the pur rose oba of deciding what they thouis of nor ier outside they will discuss their view mews ll 11 Is she bhe ladylike lady like 11 no too much gesticulation 11 la ia she bhe pretty no too inanimate ilia has she aho bic mati mahsem cors 11 yes yea but very aud and so BO forth and she must be ba a perfect woman who is ablo able to win golden colden opinions from all the grand tor for the brido bride at theme try ing ng moments is in courtesy actuated by a kind feeling of friendliness its aa she bhe must bo be of the remarks to be made upon her yet yat she must carry an indifference to everything but a desiro desire to 10 please pleasa her husbands friends and she ehe will treat I 1 the be most severe bavoro critics with the he more indulgence as sho sha recollects her ier own shortcomings in the tamo same ref respect poet too rc lying of 0 guests is a trying ordeal tho difficulties Ot attending tending it in seeking or rejecting all an objects which will plese please or displease an anil a because ol of the tha new life it opens open to the tha young wife |