The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1896-11-23
The Philosophical Gr('SPhj(oSoph)

The philosophical girl and / were having
a chat the other day. Now would you be-
lieve 1T. the philosophical girl doesn't wear
spectacles, nor believe in the enfranchise-
ment of women. She hasn't a bad com
plexion. nor q mission. nor anything at all
unpleasant She looks as If she
never had thought outside
of chiffon and caramels and
SO with her big blue eyes, her misty brown
hair. her dimpled baby face you feel very
much like laughing at all thu philosophy
she has at her tongues end, just as you
would If big French doll had a phono-
graph In her that told you solemnly that
life was not romance or that all mortal
nesh was doomed to decay.
Now tho philosophical girl knit her white
brow solemnly when she asked: Ibid you
ever know man who died of disappointed
love or one who lived and made himself
wreck of a creature on account of it?'
cudgeled my brains. / knew the philo-
sophical girl In an investigating mood
ana dared not gainsay her. We'll. be-
Iieve l have known a few men who left
letters saying they had killed themselves
tor some woman. and then. too. l believe
we had a few forlorn lovers TO come to me
for sympathy with the statement that they
We're going to the devil because some girl
hal thrown them over"
The philosophical girl perked up the cor
ners of her mouth in fashion not becom-
ing to that feature.
Don't you think the men would have
Killed themselves any way. The men you
knew about-hadn't they been drinking
Were they any account before they fell in
love-"
NO" admitted, 1.-THE ones I know about
were not"
"Ahah' well the men who went to the
dogs because woman threw them over
the men who said that was their reason at
least-weren't they on the road there when
they were in love? Wasn't that the reason
why they gave item up?'
went carefully over the list aloud
YES. there was Jack A. he smoked
opium and bet on horses; he did II before
he met the woman whom he said ruined
him. Then there was Tom b it came out
that he wasn't honorable long before he
committed forgery. because his girl married
another man. Then there was Dick c..
no gambled and drank and played the
scapegrace generally and
Yes, and" continued the philosophical
girl che did It while he was trying 10
persuade the woman no loved 10 marry
him. know he did; you needn't say a
word. I believe trininS men just go around
falling in love so they can find some excuse
for their conduct. The worst of il IS. trifiing
men are usually agreeable. They bring all
their will to bear on their victim: they
win her faith first. then turn and rend her
because through their faults. not her own.
they prove unworthy OF her love.
Look how tha trining. attractive lover
tries a woman's patience: look how he
keeps her family for months, often for
years. in deadly uncasiness for fear she
VIII run off and marry him anyway; and
WREN she Ices have the sense to find him
no turns coward TO see how miserable
no will make her. lie gets on a big spree
for month so. His friends meet the
cruel woman who has blighted his life
They hardly speak to her. but If she chose
to speak out her mind TO them. she might
tell a far different story-a tale of forgive
ness until il ceased to be a virtue. of
patience tried until the chord of enduran>e
snapped. Pshawi Deliver me from the
whine Of men ruined by love Affairs"
THAT all sounds personal | said.
''No. not bit of it. I'm a debutante.
tneir second or third season. It's my older
sister. She has Rad a disconsolate lover OF
thls kind, you knox. for five years. and
she continued, vivaciously. y wish he
would XIII himself or run away. or do
something desperate before he makes her
discOnsolate wlfe by running away with
her"
And so the chat on that line ended but
there seemed SO much truth in the pbiIo
recorded II 10 be read with profit by all
the girls of her acquaintance
Another New Vocation.
Here is something decidedly new. A Chi
cago woman has discovered II. and tells
the story of her discovery. Things VIII
soon be 50 ordered that women need never
90 anything at any time for any purpose
that they don't choose to do They have
Eow the perambulating manicure. the float
ing darner and dustcr, the woman who
comes TO remodel and furnish over and tina
woman who calls each dag TO water tho
house plants and nip off the dead leaves:
the curler who curls the childrens bangs
and the reader who keeps their mother in
Termed on politics and brings her ready
made opinion about the latest novel. Now
comes the trunk packer
when do you start?'' is asked OF trav-
eler.
AT 6; l have three-quarters OF an hour
yet" leisurely consulting her watch
But YOUR hacking. will Won have rfrra9ss