Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1897-11-11
SENTIMENTAL WOMEN.

too important a part in many OF the
affairs that belong to everyday life!
There is a man who believes it. |
met HIM one day not long ago. H. has
"reasons" for his belief. They are rath-
er good and reasonable ones, too.
Since l have met this man | have
been watching out for Others OF his
kind, and have found them. In fact.
there is a goodly ccmpany-and there
are women in it-who point out very
wisely how sentiment out Of place is
worse than no sentiment at all.
"Sentiment," said the first wise man
that l have referred to-, "works out the
imaginary fulfllment of ideals And
then he quoted something writer once
suggested as good thing for the girl
who is going to make her social debut,
which runs, 1T is no sign you ought
to marry a man because he wants to
marry you
"When a girl leaves school, said the
wise man, "she starts out with the no.
ton that there Is a Prince Charming
waiting for her somewhere, and apt as
not the first man who comes along and
declares he loves her, she fancies is he,
and sentiment is mistaken for that bet
ter thlng-love.'
.'She comes down from her watch,
tower without ever a question as to
whether or not she must accept this
knight, who is, more often than not,
very unknightly. Now, if l had the
educating of a girl to attend to, would
teach her that in all probability she
would never find her affinity This
is cruel? Not bit Of it. 1t is kind.
There will be the glad surprise, then,
when the fact dawns upon her that
there was a mistake made-that her
Prince Charming had not ridden away
to the wars never to return, or that her
affinity bad been born IN a previous
age, or would be born in one yet to
come.
Sentiment is a dangerous thing to
title with. If you will try to remem,
Der you will not find it hard to recolect
how many people you know who would
be lot better off if they had been more
practical and less sentimental.
But true love is true love all the
time. Sentiment is often mistaken for
it. though. 1t is not love that makes
heroes of lgnoble men or heroines OF
unlovoly women; it is sentiment, plain
sentiment. Sentiment and reason are
scarcely compatible
Since | have heard this wise man talk
l have been watching out for both SEN
timental men and women. You think
that women are not as sentimental as
they used to be?" Well, / don't know
the women of any other day than the
PRESENT. have read and heard stories Of
the women that FUSED to be" but
stories are very unsatisfactory thingsby
which TO reach conclusions. But | do
know the women of today are more
sentimental thar one often thinks.
They are busier-are they happier?-
but they are still sentimental. OF
course, the world robbed Of all senti-
ment would be spoiled.
The sentimental woman is not happy.
She clothes all the commonplace people
and events that come into her life with
the glamor of romance, making them
unreal, when everything in the world is
80 terribly real. OF course, the awak
ening comes, and comes sadly.
do men like sentimental women |
saw this question asked not long ago
by newspaper. and answers were in.
vited. They came and they were funny.
| have asked the same question, men
tally, many times, and watched for the
answer In the every day lives of men
that know, and have listened to a man
now and then upon the subject Of How
tiresome Miss Debut is! She is so sen.
timental."
1t is not a JOY to the average man to
be accepted as The One by every other
girl that he meets. He may like it
Just at first, but after awhile the ovelty
wears off and he does wish he could
meet a sensible girl who did not hest
tate every few moments as though ex-
pecting that the momentous time of
her life had arrived and that he was
going to propose"
Maybe he is only earning $40 week
and he knows that those girls know it,
and that not one of them could live
within 30 small an income and that he
is far too generous to ask them to. But
he is conscious all the time of that sense
of alarm, as it were. He would like to
say little fattering things, but the sen.
timental girl would imagine him deeply
in love with her.