The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-09
The Girl Opposite.
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II lisa wise.and mercful dlspensstion of ma.
ture.thst! there nearly always is.s girl,opposite
Possibly dweller in the proverbal lodge in
the proverbial vast wilderness might hit upon
IN exception in this far-reaching rule; but
the chances are that just as no was think
Ing how dismal it was that no had come at
last. TO region.where no girl opposite was
to be found he would see the savage
woman" out of Locksley Hall peeping at
him from among the bushes on the other
side of the stream-and then tho usual flrta-
ton with looking glass would begin. For
the filtration always does begin with look
ing glass, and 50, after all, the self-aleeed
inventor of photography is only base
copyist Some ingenious subaltern of
marching regiment after in
terchanging looking'glass sig ais with
all the pretty girls in all the garrison towns in
the United Kingdom probably realize of
a sudden that if love signals could be thus
sent, war signals would be equally trans
milted. Coming right down to The hard
p IN of real causality, therefore, the girl op-
posite has perfect right to say that she
saved Woods command when it was
hemmed in by the Zulus 10 South Africa,
and that to the same signal system, first de-
We oped under her inspiration, the English
ou l, also some part of their success in the
recent Afghan war. These serious facts show
what an honorable and important part the
girl opposite plays in moulding the destinies
of nations and affecting the alta rs of men.
| Rnt uJhila har q nv hthitat
spicuously when exerted in this whole
sale fashion, it really Accompanies most
in its application to individuals. Millions is
but thin, shallow sort of word 10 express
the number Of men who have at one time or
another in their lives been subject to her will
and who have regulated their personal affairs
their comings and gongs-not by require.
ments 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 and
Inconvenience which they willingly bear fol
the girl opposite, the world would be more OF
less swimming In q sea of revolutionary blood
pretty much all the time? These assertions
are not made rsshly nor carelessly. Have you
ever stopped to calculate how much time you
have fooled away ia mskipg love to the gil
opposite; that is TO say, to all the girls op
posite to whom you have made love in your
life long? And have you ever stopped to
think how few things there are in this word
that you would sacrifice SO much time to fol
so small result? We cay "foolng" away
time advisedly. If flirting with the girl op.
posite ever led TO anything serious; if il
saved some of the time that uniformly !:
lost in beginning courtshp, and in the end
lei 10 the inevitable marrying that in the
long run every fellow must attend to, Iher
it would DO reasonable thing to do. But il
never does, never. You marry some othe,
girl, and the girl marries some othel
fellow, and the whole performance il
just sheer waste of time And yet, aftel
all, worse ways Of wasting time than this !!
have besn invented. Even If you do marry
AMI 60 to live in Dan, and the girl marie;
and goes to live in Beersheba, and you never
lay eyes ON each other again or hear word
about leach other to the very end of you
several days, yet, somehow, you have Away
a little soft spot in your heart Ms you remem
Der her standing there framed in the window
like the pretty picture that she was-"re-
proof on hcr lips, but n smile in her eye,
and supply Irresistible, And you canno
hel p believing that do wn Beershebs way there
Is somebody who remembers all about 1t and
feels good deal the same way that you do
Truly, the girl opposite is good deal OF |
bother; but the time for legislating her out o
office has not yet come. No indeed.