The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-07
CUPID AND PROFESSIONS

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Did you ever notice how some girfs
seem to have = special bsnt toward
men Of = certain one profession? Per
haps you've never bothered yourself
about it, but it will prove as faseinat-
ing study as any one you could devise
II you once try it. Whether it is be-
cause each particular girl has charms
which attract only men of some es'
pecial nature. or whether girls have
innate yearnings for companions who
betray peculiar trait of character.
cannot say, but the fact remains that
nine cases out of ten if you can get a
girl to settle her chin in her rosy palm
and tell the strict truth she'n confess
to all her fondest conquests having
been made over men who follow the
same profession.
An example, You ask? Certainly. as
many as you wish. The first case that
comes to my mind is a young woman
who, at fourteen, wore the ring of q
young jewelers. apprentice. By the
time the pair had begun to pass be-
yond their childhood stage, he swung
of to dainty little blonde. while shs
was heart-free for couple of years
till all at once one summer morning, as
she was bending over her favorite
pansv bed. there fell across the purple
bloom the shadow Of a vapid, empty.
pated young clerk in downtown jew.
elry esta blishment She sent him
away, SO disguised that she couldn't
even be angry at his presumption,
and, to make a long story short, she
now wears q flashing diamond, be-
slowed with all fervent gallantry by
southern silversmith, with manners Of
the old school and the skill Of an artist
He is never happier than when he is
tracing out the design for a new comb.
with his own Monogram ingeniously
woven in the silver filigree. to lie low
ingly on her beautiful hair. and her
work basket CLEANS with gold Thin
bles. exquisitely chased needle-cases
and enanelea scissors
The second instance is dear little
pink-and-white atom, who tore up the
whole community over her firtations
with . gay law student while she was
at school, broke the heart OF q grave
young barrister before she was of age,
and now reigns over the nursery of .
prominent silver-haired Judge
The third case is of young woman
who seems to have been bern with 70.
tality toward anyone or anything that
writes NJ. ID. after his mama. IL she
has headache her physician proposes
TO hef before he has half diagnosed the
case; if she happens to GO out of town
on a weeks visit she is sure TO develop
of pneumonia before she has
been gone from home two days and she
returns with the heart Of . country
doctor in her possession When her
tooth aches she doesn't follow the prse-
tice of ordinary people of thrusting her
finger in her mouth and spluttering
out: ''Thith one, docthor," but delib-
erately mounts that rack of a chair,
lays back her head gracefully and calm
~ remarks:
1T is the first molsr on the lowes
left-hand side"
This so completely staggers the
knight Of the fOrceps that he immedi-
ately proceeds to conclude that she il
the one woman Of all the world for
him At the end of the first visit he
tells her that she has beautiful teeth;
the next time he insists that he never
Raw sweeter mouth. and At the third
call he throws his mallet 70 one aide.
gathers her up In his arms and pro-
seeds to plant his mustaehe over thosG
Dslf-same dainty lipA
Then there 10 the girl who ruas "a
bachelors and the one whose pathway
Is strewn with boyish avowals Of
liberation She probably lives next
door 10 the young lady who attracts
only singers and TO the one who can /
design = house Is well as any OF her /
long list of architect lovers In fact, i
the only girl who cannot confess 70
this same peculiarly Is the girl wha |
vas never In love at afl-whicA IL nc
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