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

has been flirting with "the girl opposite
and gives his readers the benefit OF bis
experience IN Ia lengthy article, IN the
course of which he makes the bold asser-
ton that flirting with the girl opposite
never led to anything serious, and that
therefore the time spout 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 iiirts
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
legslating her out of Office. This is the
style in which the Times man relates
his experience;
1t is wise aud merctui dispensation
of nature that there nearly always is a
girl opposite, Possibly dwelIer III the
proverbia vast wilderness might hit
upon an exception to this far-reachlng
rule but the chances are that Just az
he was thinking how dismal it was that
nc had come at last TO region where
no girl opposite was to be found
he would see the savage woman out of
Lotkeley Hail. peeping ut him from
among the bushes on the ether side of
the streamA-aud then the Irritation with
the looking glass would begin. For the
Irritation always doesbegin with look
ing-giass and so, after all, the self-al-
legged inventor Of photography is Auiy It
base copyet Millions il but . 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 ahairs-thcir
comngs and goings--not by the require
ments of their professions, but 10y the
eccentric standard Of her disappearance
and visibility.
Why, did governments impose upon
men one.tenth part of the burdens and
Inconvenience which they willingly
bear for the girl opposite, the world
would hc 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
tho giriopposjte 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 mnch
time to for small result We say
'toolng' away time advlscdly, Iffirt.
ing with the girl opposite ever led 20 The
inevitable marrying chat III the loug run
every fellow must attend to, then it
w0nld be i reasonable thing to do But
it never does, never. You marry some
other girl and the girl marrics some
other fellow, and the whole performance
Is n sheer waste Of tine. Aud yet after
ALL worse ways than this have been in
vented. Even if you do marry and 90
to live in Dan, and the girl marrics and
goes to Beersheba and yov never lay
eyes on each other aglln or hear q word
about each other to the very end of your
several ssdayS, yet, somehow. You have
always little soft spot in your heart as
yOn remember her standing there framed
IN the window, like the pretty picture
Ih"t sue WdS-I epEool OH hcT Ups, mt a
smile in hcroyc,' and simply irresistible.
And You cannot help believing that
down Beersh"ha way there is somebody
who remembers all about it, and feels a
good deal the same you do, Truly, tho
girl opposite is a good deal of bother;
but the tim" for Iegislatrug her out OF
office has not yet come. No indeed