Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-12-24
THOSE GIRLS.
Some Instructive Conversation ON the
Training of Lover.

Some Instructive Conversation ON the
Training of Lover.
Don't come near me; I'm dangerous,
said the girl with the ostrich boa. II had
birthday yesterday and'-
"Oh, I've become accustomed to that
sort Of thing" said the girl at the tea ia
BILE. SIS it one lump Of sugar or twoP''
"Two. So have l, but as II the birth
day itself wasn't bad enough-girls, did
you ever know anything like the talent
some men have for doing the wrong thingf"
Never, replied the girl in red "Not
long ago man asked me confldentially
what would be nice present for girl.
thought he meant Nell or Lou, so / said
oarelessly, oh, book Of poems And,
girls, 1T was for me, and that wretohed
creature took great credit to himself for
his tact in finding out by such clever
trick exactly what would please me-"
''It's not half as bad as what happened
TO me, said the girl with the ostrich boa.
1T was Dick. He was looking at my
gifts, and told him that mamma had
given me spoon for each birthday since
the first He said
He never asked how many you have?"
cried the girl at the tea table.
"He said, oh, say, you must have ~
many Of them as you want now. +"
"And you couldn't knock him down."
said the girl in red.
We'll, we'll, I've troubles of my own"
observed the girl at the tea table.
"You know, Hal taught me to row last
summer, and that-that was how 1t all
came about.
II know; he said you were the only girl
in our set who was too sensible to mind q
coat of TAM"
HAnd now he La always praising Gym
thia's lovely white hands to me. Oh,
shall die Of rage some day, know shall ;"
and no wonder, said the girl In red
sympathetically. "I'm not very happy
myself. You see, Clarence hasn't a fault
in the world, and it makes me perfectly
miserable"
"Oh, we'll, all the girls know he is en-
gagged to you.
"It isn't that. You see, he always says
1t Is his fault If we quarrel, invariably
makes me the right kind Of presents, can
quote poetry about everything and knows
just how to put on my coat without crush
ing my sleeves, and yet he-he says he has
never loved before
Perhaps he has only been engaged,
suggested the girl with the ostrich boa
oheerfully. "You can find out after you
are married and get chance to 60 through
his things
"It will be too late then, groaned the
girl in red. sid die rather than
"Oh, well, it's not SO bad after all, ;"
said the girl at tho tea table. "Now,
there is Lou. You don't know her, do your
Well, she was engaged, and she trained
that man to do everything just as he
should, and just as she had finished the en-
gagement was broken off, and now she
says some other girl is reaping the benefit
of her labors. Let me see; what was his
name? Something romantic-why, | do
believe it was Cla''-
''Oh, never mind his name, !" broke in
the girl with the ostrich bon, and she
smiled queer little smile. Anyhow,
it's lots Of trouble to train lover
"Then you think had better just be
satisfied with Clarence as he Is and not
worry any more about itp" asked the girl
in red.
II really think you had" replied the
girl at the tea table.-C Chicago Times Her
did.