Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-11-27

OH6y.1 never saw 1t0 OPPOSITE 80 soy
forth. Do you wish me should you wish,
/ ought to say, your husband to be fond
Of other women 8 sooiety?'' s
~ don't like q mans man, = said MILL
cent, evasively. .s i z5z
II nm more edited, !" said Jacob, seat
ing himself again, 'sthis evening than !
ever was in my life. Why do you not
like mans man?" 1,ss
Because" said the girl, becoming :
little nettled at her companions search
ing look, ~ know we'll enough how that
works" s
81 am waiting for information" said
Jacob.
"A mans man soon wearies Of the
woman he loves, and he seeks mems So
oiety constantly. Men influence men,
more than women do. I should never be-
Jealous OF other women, for I could al
ways be q woman: but men would be .
contrary influence. have seen the.
lonely lives Of the wives Of mems men, !"
she paused. .s..1rs
II am still listening" no said.
''f'or the best, men understand women
but little, and mems men grow at last to
understand then. not at all Mems men
become at last to be world quite apart.
Their wives have no excuse for being,
except insomuoh as they contributed to
their comfort" .. ~. 81. n.
"Millicsnt, do you say that women
are younger than men? don't believe
that men Of sixty, or men that have
been widowers two or three times, have
thought this question Of marriage out
like YOU" "sz
II won't talk to you any more"
"You must. Back to our text. Six
faults then-my name, my age, my ma
tive rudeness, my jealousy, my incre-
dulity Of Platonio friendships, and my
being mans man. You must name at
least seven deadly sins to convict me.
Isn't there another?'
''Millicnt, you are Accordingly inter-
esting. I never knew that you had
thought so much about me-"
II ought to have thought about you
before -" she paused.
Jacob waited moment. II under
stand; before you refused to marry me.
You ought to make some excuse for
that. With what seventh fault did you
strengthen your case?"
s"That you are 50 dreadfully mascu-
line"
II plead guilty. The roses are rosy,
the briers are thorny, the grass Is green,
and I, Jacob Raus, the man who loves
you, am masculine. Alas! alasl Is that
more my fault than my name? You,
besides, are immensely feminine, and I
find no fault with that. Is it fair?''
Jacobs spirits were rising; Millicent's
perceptibly falling.
Eyes, it is fair that I, being feminine,
should object to your being masculine.
The two are opposites. They are at
variance. If nature has made mistake
| there, am not responsible. Men and
women never understand each other, be-
cause what nature has blindly blundered
into beginning, education accomplished
instead of trying to set Alright"
"But I have had no education" said
Jacob.
Millicent went ON without answering
him-falling now into an injured tone:
Even you are constantly misunder-
standing me. You sometimes trample
my tenderest feelings unoonsciously:
just as you trampled my best white
petunias the other day, walking over my
hower-bed as if it were q path
Eyes," he said, II saw you. Iran to
you. I did not notice the way. Well! In
the West they will be all wild flowers,
and If trample them they will come
up again. I shall think of the petunias,
and wish that had chance to trample
them; and you will forget what I did
when you have found that paragon who
loves you without jealousy, likes all
other women and no men; who is polite
and credulous and effeminate. am
none Of these-but love you passion.
ately."
He tried to grasp her hands, but she
drew them away, saying exeitedly:
'And this Is your greatest fault. II
you loved me tenderly I might trust you;
but you love me, as you say, passionate.
~, and I, who have looked on at life and
reflected, have seen that Of all traps and
pitfalls this is the greatest Talk of the
beoute du diabte Of girls, that fits almost
| WAN VIC AoAAAB "a OAO OE1UO4 uOHcES,
that is no delusion compared with the
passion Of men; and yet in choosing
freedom rather than binding ones sell
to delusion, you need not tell me tina,
choose what is only negative. It is SC
discouraging. You have such hopeless
faults; and shall never like any othe,
man better than you, Jacob, know;
and so 1'shan never marry"
Eyes, but I am not like that; know
that l shall marry" he said, watching
the girls face closely. 1T seems to me
now as If should not, but am only 9
man, masculine, as you say. AS long a.
l am very busy I may keep sup, but some
times they say it Is not quite wholesome
in those ranches, and one is exposed tc
wind and weather. I might be i'll; and
then when I am homesick and lonely
some good Western girl will take care
Of me, perhaps like me, even love me
For her might not have SO many faults
She would not be SO clever as you, o,
have got things down so fine; and she
wouldn't know, poor thing, what a tissue
of faults IS covered by my unfortunate
name, that sounds SO homely and simple
and good. So being sick and lonely and
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