BROKEN ENGAGEMENTS.
If an engagement has to be broken off, how should it be done'/ questions a writer in an exchange. Should both be obviously weary, the thing is simple enough, but the trouble is to know what the other side i's feeling about the affair . . • One thing only is certain—any man or girl who wants ,to break off their engagement and does it by letter, is not only cruelwhich can't be helped; but a coward—which can. To retire to a safe distance where the agony caused by the blow cannot be seen, and from thence to write and say that all is over, may be easy, but is also despicable. Certainly those who no longer love are wiser to part, 'but/the least that the one who is the cause of the parting can do is to bear the undoubted humiliation and pain of t-h«fc horrible half-hoac. ' * i
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18577, 8 December 1923, Page 6 (Supplement)
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148BROKEN ENGAGEMENTS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18577, 8 December 1923, Page 6 (Supplement)
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