The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-06
MY UNREQUITBD AFFECTION.
How a Young Lady Falls In Love and
Then Falls Out.

FROM Ne " uSItnOtOn OE1F.
Rudyard Kipling says somewhere that
next TO a requited attachment one Of the
most convenient things for young man to
carry around with him at the beginning of
his career is an uHrequitsa attachment. He
! didn'. say whether he thought it was good
for young women or not. but I'm Inclined
to think he Is not one of those people who
never recognize the fact that young women
| sometimes have that burden to bear.
OF course no one is supposed to know
| about our unTequited attachments, even in
| leap year, A young man can at least have
| the satisfaction Of laying the matter before
| the girl and trying to make her feel and
think as he does. but the girl has the dis.
nal consciousness that he knows all about
it anyway, and likes her less for it and she
can't help it.
I've lost my faith in the girl in the novel.
| L used TO think she was real, live girl, but
| she isn't. She is not so interesting. When
| a man asks the all-important question
| don't believe it's q wonderful surprise; that
| she's never thought of him in that way be-
FORE but only as a friend, and then 1t flashes
across her in an enthusiastically short space
| of time--a minute or so-that she loves him.
| and says yes" very swestly and shyly with
| her head on his shoulder.
If they truly love each other abe must
| know long before be tells her. l don't be-
| lleNo Suo puts DeT USHu on DIS an
| way. II she does she's very silly. Why
| doesn't she look iAto his eyes and see his
| love2 And then the girl in the n vel never
| falls ia love; she's always fallen in love
with. Real live girls are very apt to fall
in love-and fall out Of it, too, fortunately
| AT FIRST SIGHT.
fell In love about four months go. This
| ia rather an unusual action on my part.
This is my first year out Of school, and [
| hadn't met many men. 1t was at q tea and
| now could | help it? | was assisting friend
| of mine and we had stood for two tlresome
| hours saying the same things over and over
| to different people when along came Prince
| Charming. That's what he was to me from
the first. He was tall, well-proportioned
and soldierly and graceful in bearing. l
had a confused sense that a fine blonde face
| was not very far from mine, and that a
| pair OF exceedingly expressive blue eyes
were looking into my brown orbs. l can
remember, even now, just what We talked
about and how sorry was when some one
else claimed my attention. L had only q
few more words with him that evening. and
when the tea was over had forgotten his
name and almost forgotten him.
THE FIRST STAGE
| Two or three days after a bevy of girls
| who had been az the tea happened to bs to -
gether and fell to discussing the lovely peo-
| pie they'd met there. Each girl thought
| some particular man was just too lovely
for anything. One of shem was wealthy
grocer, another looked like Booth and was
| brother to an actor, another was military
exquisite, another al sthnologist or some
| thing. / couldn't be out of is altogether
80 chose the blonde Prince Charming to
! rave about. and outdid them all at the
| raving business. And my first attempt
too! That was the first stsge. raved for
some time around home. vas fond of de-
scribing his beautiful spun gold hair, and
his lovely blue eyes | never liked his
mustache very much. 1t didn't look weak
or struggling, but it concealed his mouth,
| and always like to know IL eyes and
mouth tell the same story. His eyes and
mouth contradict each other, have since
| discovered.
It didn't take long for me to find out his
name, his business and his past love affairs
| He was well known In the city aud the mere
mention of his name would bring forth
| valuable information. My father had
known him for some time, but somehow
never went to him with my rhapsodies.
LONGING TO SEE PRINCE CHARMING.
The next stage was an irresistible longing
| TO see my prince once more. | had thought
| about him aud dreamed about him and
TALKED about him SO much that 1 sometimes
wondered whether he could be 30 fascin-
ating as / pictured him. l won dered II /
had idealized him, as have other people.
| I wanted to find out and didn't know
how.
| was helped in an unforeseen way. A
young lady came to spend few lays with
me. She was more experienced than l.
She had been in love many times and was
| much interested in uy little affair. | con-
| fided in her-told her of my great longing
to see once moro the first man who had set
my poor little heart 10 beating She was
| kind-and a good manager
OF course we couldn't invite him to call
with proprietyl after meeting him but
once. but we could extend him an invita-
ton TO a little evening company; because,
! as my friend said, senator's daughter did
| that as often as she took q fancy and she
guessed it wouldn't make any difference if l
did. took the thrust at my Inferior social
| position with great meekness-auythng to
see him again. Well. we wrote him a note,
| but rejecting that il was rather unusual to
write notes to men on such slight acqusint-
| ance, we decided to telephone and not
send note. Funny, wasn't It, that we
| girls to effiict strange men with such q tele-
phone messagei But never thought Of him
| as a stranger felt as II had known him
| for some time.
HOW THE PRINCE TOOK 1T.
He was mystifed and surprised, and IN
clined to think some one was playing joke
on him. but he came and was again under
| bne bPo4l Oh us plnh0uess tnlnk I'M
pressed him that night as being rather diff
ferent from most girls Was apt to do
| and say rather eccentric things / admired
| his manliness and business ability and other
good traits, but. of course, didn't dare tell
him, 80 made fun OF him-made him feel
small, he said, and wes generally CONTRA
dictory and perverse. Then at times 1
! would say something so overwhelmin gly
complimentary and daringly admiring that
the poor fellow would neraly collapse. l
| think he didn't like it, / wouldn't If were
a man. l see my mistake now, when he ia
coldly indifferent and won't even look at
| me.
| He sent me cards for q hop that his club
| gave. They were for myself and escort My
father said he'd be my escort IL he concluded
/ to let me 20. So was humbly, dutifully
| ..nnd fnr rEaaL and ..ant W. ALL. q