Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-08-18

whole time l am with you l am worry
| ing about it. 1t sets up q chronic state
of evaporation. Perhaps you don't
understand the feeling
"Oh, yes, l do! Perfectly! l feel the
same toward you because you will in
sst on wearing enormous stand-up col
lars. / call that want of perception,
II you like! / wouldn't be personal for
the world, but l have seen men with
longer necks. When you want to speak
to your neighbor you have to twist your
whole body. 1t makes me die with
laughing to see YOU"
Delighted to afford you so much
amusement. Sorry I make myself so
ridiculous! You are excessively polite,
I'm surer'
You were great deal worse your
| self. You said that u
Nothing of the kind! You misun-
derstood me. l simply remarked"
Don't contradict. You said was an
ugly thing, and that it exasperated you
only to see me. You did! 1t makes it
worse to deny it. can't think how you
can look me in the FACET
why get excited? It's really not
worth while. and you will make your
self hot. It's not becoming to be hot.
! was about to say, when you so rudely
interrupted me, that you had misunder-
stood the meaning of my remarks.
| simply observed"
Il don't care a little bit what you
observed. I'm not going to talk to
you any longer. Good afternoon, Cap
tain May. You needn't dance with me
at Lady Bottoms this evening, as my
hair annoys you so much!"
II shall ask Miss Cunliffe instead.
She is capital waltzer. Your mother
is waiting for you at the door. Fourth
and sixth, wasn't it, and the first extra?
| must ask. her at once, as she is so
much engaged. Good afternoon, then,
Miss Blanchard, II: you will go, and as
the good little boys say, Thank you
so much for the pleasant afternoon! :"
He never thought of such thing.
1t never occurred to him to think of
her in that light Hateful creature!
And why not, should like to know?
Doesn't he think I'm nice?
never cared for him, but he has no
business not to like me. What horrid
taste.
And to talk of dozen other girls!
That means Lucie Charvie suppose.
and Adeline Rowe. l have noticed
that he dances with them l
don't see why he should like them bet
ter than me. I'm the prettiest, and
can be awfu!ly nice If l like. / have
never been really nice to him-not my
very incest, or he wouldn't have talked
as he did today. l might try
the effect this evening.
Il meant to be offended, but perhaps
the ether would have more effect
believe I'll try il. No one can ever
say that am flirt, but there are occa-
sions when it is a girls duty to teach a
man lesson, and he had no business
to say that about my hair. ** /
wonder if he wasright? He has awfully
good taste. as "a rule.
Il believe after all. it would be rather
becoming. I'll get Elsie to try
tonight, and wear my new white dress.
and the pearls, and I'll say to him the
very first thing that I'm sorry, and ask
him to dance with me all the same.
Then, when he sees how nice am he
will be vexed with himself for being so
nasty. 1t will do him no end of good.
I'D give worlds if he would only pro-
pose TO me before the season is over! I'd
refuse him, of course, but that wouldn't
matter; it would be kind of me to take
the trouble, because it is dreadful to
see man so conceited, and, if it were
not for that he would be quite charm
ing. I'll begin this evening.
How exciting! Poor Captain May"
''She looked disgracefully pretty!
Nothing like putting a girl in a good
stand-up rage to see what she's made
of. l never knew she had so much in
her before. And she woula Just as soon
think of falling in love wIth the man in
the moon, would she? That's pretty
tall! Hang it all. Why do they put
things in fellows head? was happy
enough before, and now this has I'M
settled me altogether - man
may not want to marry a girl. but
that's no reason why she should be so
precious Indifferent.
II always fancied that she had a de-
cided weakness. So she wants
to laugh at me, does she? Little
wretch! She is always up to some mis-
chief.
Il wouldn't object If it was at some
other fellow, for those dimples are un-
commonly fetching
Il believe she is right about the COL
lars, all the same-thought so mysel.
more than once. III another shape
would suit rue better, it seems rather
absurd to stick TO these. Man in the
moon, Ell? Humph. Well, it doesn't
do To be too awfully sure. it's q bad
thing to get into the way of boasting
How would il be il took her in hand
and tried 70 work cure? Do her all
the good in the world to be brought
down a peg or two, and find her own
level, and the process would not be I'M
pleasant. Hi cabby! stop at the first
decent hosier's you come TO, want to
get out"
Extract from the Times of four
months later;
On the 2Sth instant, at st. Georges,
( 4.