Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1896 — Terror of Engagement Time. [ARTICLE]

Terror of Engagement Time.

The daughter in a wealthy household 1 in close neighborhood to Central Park is engaged to be married, and the news of the engagement has been published. “We all wish I hadn’t,” says paterfamilias, “because since it got out it has looked as though we would not be ableto enjoy life or even to stay in town. The mail we receive and the people who try to get in to see my wife or myself are such as to cause consternation. Both the letters and the visitors come from tradesmen who would like to furnish flowers for the wedding or to cook the wedding supper (whether we were to have one or no), or to supply the chinaware or the cabs. They are from stationers who desire to print the cards, from engravers, from jewelers, from dressmakers and tailors and milliners, from caterers who will furnish waiters, china, glass, plateeven a bridegroom if we ran short, I imagine.- The letters pile up beside my wife's plate ever£ morning and the most stylish engraved cards, bearing the names of men and women of whoo we never heard, are sent up to the distracted woman from the front door all day long. Interesting? Yes, very?' especially the covert suggestion by a jeweler or two that if we desire to swell the display of of gold or silver or jewels they can ba had on hire.”—New York Suu. *