Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-07-09
THE GIRL OPPOSITE.

never led to anything serious, ana tnae
therefore the time spent in that delight
full occupation is fooled" away. Now
that might have been his experience,
but the other fellow may have better
luck. The girl opposite who hlrts
generally has more than one string to
her bow. and therefore some of them
must fail After all this i'll luck, through,
in flirting, the Times man reaches the
conclusion that through the girl opposite
may sometimes be good deal ola bother,
nevertheless the time has not arrived tor
legislating her out Of Office. This is the
STYLE in which the Times man relates
his experience
1t is wise and merclful dispensation
of nature that there nearly always is a
girl opposite. Possibly a dweller IN the
proyerbial vast wilderness might hit
upon an exception to this far-reaching
rule; but the chances are that Just as
he was thinking how dismal it was that
| he had come at last to a region where
no girl opposite was 70 be found
| he would see the savage woman out OF
Lockeley Hail. peeplng at him from
among the bushes on the other side OF
the stream-and then the Irritation with
the looking glass would begin. For the
Irritation always does begin with look
ing glass, aud 50, after all, the self-al-
legged inventor of photography is only a
base COpyist. Millions is but a thin,
shallow sort of word to express the
number of men who have at one time or
another in their lives been subject to the
will of the glrl opposite, and who have
regulated their personal affairs-thcir
Comings and goings-n0t by the require
meuts of their professions, but by the
eccentric standard of her disappearance
and visibility.
Why, did governments impose upon
men one-tenth part of the burdens aud
inconvenience which they willingly
bear for the girl opposite, the world
would be more or less swimming in the
sea of revolutionary blood pretty much
all the time. These assertions are not
made rashly nor carelcssly. Have you
ever stopped to calculate how much time
you have fooled away iii making love to
the girl opposite to all the girls opposite
to whom you have made love in your
life long? And have you ever stopped
to think how few things there are in this
world that you would sacrifice so much
time to for u small result : We say
"fooling' away time adyisedly. If tlirt-
ing with the girl opposite ever led TO the
inevitable marrying that in the long run
every fellow must attend to, then it
would be u reasonable thing to do, But
it never does, never. You marry some
other girl and the girl marrieo some
other fellow, ana the whole performance
is sheer waste Of time. And yet after
all, worse ways than thi, have been in.
vented. Even if you do marry and &C
to live in Dan, and the girl marrieS and
goes to BecrSheba and yov never lay
eyes on each other agIin or hear a wore
about each other to the very end of youI
several days, yet, somehow, you have
always a little soft spot in your heart a
you remember her standing there framed
il the window, ike the pretty picture
that she was-'reproof on her lips, but ;
smile in hereye,' and simply irresistible
And You cannot help believing tina
down Beershe5a way there is somebody
who remembers alI about it, and feels {
good deal the same you do. Truly, the
girl opposite is good deal of bother
but the tirn' for lcgislatlng her out o
office ha, aot yet come. No indeed,