The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-11-25

would keep q secret from Cisude. Very likely
Bought himself. ns She pretended Ct TO think them
the, very. things she had been wanting; while In
s sSsli'y not oee 10 had Sn ssyf n. i fssli thsIn s 1RstSsiiSsf nt h9 'ist
on" EQUALLY unjust to Helen Il" Alachaday !,
who writes, There 2. one secret Helen wod,u
.crlbei As s' . very Woman y L Is that she
has loved before. Men are 50 unres-
tend sndO'f 10 '" every 'VS Claude sif That 10" she never
knew what love was until she met him. Helen
Res Scws sH %S.t men ks spsI he Not se content SecS %itS t ihs
Claude be comforted. Helen viii tell him her
- Noble Woman 'NobIy' Planned; writes
This weeks competition e, Why did Helen
TO the point OF my pen is, Because she had given
her promise TO do so. Having once given her
sSsaerpp Keep L a'I although ir0 s.Eke was ssry thrs%ssnsd With
]SS sRsn,s.D. with that view yor 7 Know SWEET .Ss
kept the secrct2 You cant really know for Ger.
tain, and | don't belieye she did 1T will be
that the, reason why Helen kept The secret was
because she did not know 1t was a tecret"
neT Of fIsTum sc al mrfs,S Who said. Dear Mr.
Puzzle Editor, | never compete In the compete
lions, because am not clever enough but the
the one about 'Helen's Secret l. don't care a
bit why she kept the secret, but ] should like
HWluii9 w hlO" " llb Nv bttEfI = 1 z NOh-
dering about Il all day, and so I venture to send
You q stamped envelope, and Will you kindly
WIN a Sas teGrfI s"u writes rite y y IN mink your COM
petitions wholesome and exhilaretlnR as n rule,
but must tell you | object to the one about
'Helen's Secret You ask young girls to con .
say, with almost a lover. We S',' recc;s snhs no
sorry to have my girls think they exist now and
hsye privilege Leg sc Helen a real person 7
confidence. and from no mora CuriOalty.'
Only one male competitor entered. He Ia an
idiot. and gives us a list Of cases in which women
arc well known to have kept a secret.
1don't know whether the reader now needs to
be told why Helen kept q secret. 1t is because
she has forgotten II.
1u.-nELEN's TEMPER.
One OF the choicest pleasures, I take n, Is to
be shut upin q hanson with the glass down. the
outer world In n mist Of rain. a cigar between
my teeth, and my thoughts ON Helen's temper.
TO think OF III There was n time when ] liked
had never heard the stamp OF her little foot
those were the days when our interconrse was
slight and SIN; and could only say to her
nicsr@' q which W sSs Would Rp% answer ySa c SGa OS DO 80
sslyil' reply would be, Oh, IIcltng and her h%
Gradually the wall OF ice was broken down,
but still | had never seen Helen in a rage. BY
this time we were. II not friends, yet acquaint-
ances who could be almost cordial when we
met, and | would tell her, indifferently, that her
s about 9 Ssr pn,h heT Whit Ti.s ,bs q s ffiTI rs eS%mSnp msSi5
tap my shoulder and take mo ont OF the crowd.
where she could hold me by the watch chain;
ing loose for Helen 70 play with.
Nevertheless, there seemed no probability Of
our somewhat distant relations becoming closer,
until one day when IL suddenly struck me that 1
seemed to love Helen. IL was thus. l was sit
ting on a couch beside an elderly lady. and in
stead OF listening to her conversation / was won
dering, dreamily, why Helen had always been
So hanghty to me and 90 freezing to her, and
cogitating about Helen, | forgot that it was an
elderly lady, whom I knew even less than / knew
Thus love came to me, and I heightened the
tag OF my watch, chain and ceased to treat
Helen with mere formal poli;eness. And l was
satisfied with her, although | had never seen her
clonch her teeth. Helen's temper was some
thing she had kept from me, lest | should love
| remember reading once in n very clever book
that women are difficult 70 understand, and
Helen / love, but her temper / love most: and
this displeases her so that she storms at me un-
I'll l love her more than ever; and she, reads 1t
in my delighted face, and hits me on the chest,
which again ravishes me. with the result that
she sobs sufficiently to empty her heart. and |
ought to promise never to revel In making her
angry any more. But cannot, for | am an artist.
Had | never known, Helen in a rage | could
Thsee c wnnId EN- 70 ,Rin k.s her the GIL Tor me;
Helen and the Helen who smiled, and should
never have thought II possible that with these
as IL I had grapes and cherries and bananas oil
growing ON one tree. Helen pensive, as when
she sits with her chin In her hand, has a baby
face which | adore, though. curiously enough, /
have never taken to children. | never see Helen
pensive without feeling that she ought not to be
left alone, and then IL / am very near her. and
there are other persons about, ] find 1t wise to
keep my hands In my pockets. have a strhnge
desire TO fondle Helcn's chin.
Helen laughing IL quite n different girl. Then
she has n pretty way with her shoulders, and
her eyes CLEAN. But Helen in a rage. Then
were II unworthy OF ones privileges TO rcmem-
Der Helen. pensive OF laughing Helen. Have
you lived for years in a fiat country and then
seen the Alps in a storm? Truly this suggests
the change that comes over Helen. Did you
ever In summer time light n nicely laid fire just
TO see II go ablaze2 II so you can imagine the
temptation that makes me deliberately
enrage Helen. | know well how to do
1t now. | begin mildly and craftily SO
as not to arouse her suspicious, and
she answers, II am sure I don't care" and
then l say II little more. and she turns on me
with, You are insufferable." and then ! light
another match and she cries, II hate you" and
there never was such n little fury. and | am be-
side myself with delight. Such cOloring l never
see elsewhere. such flashes OF lightning. Was
there ever a maid like Helen
She says II Is n shame, and l think so, too.
OFTEN determine never to do IL again. and then
when i see her IA madness comes over me, 30
that | not only do II but regret the lost Oppor-
t%unities when l might have done 1t and did not.
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