The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-23
FIRST LOVE.
The Woman's and the Mans Idea of 1t.
Their Reflections.

The Woman's and the Mans Idea of 1t.
Their Reflections.
wonder whether there ever was an
engaged girl who, as soon as she began
10 realize the fact that she was engaged,
did not torment herself by wondering
whether he ever loved before and final
ly ask him to tell her the solemn truth
about it.
1T is dreadful not to know for GER
tain, " she says, and he, of course de-
clsres that she is his first and only love;
that he never thought any other girl
worth glsncing at before he met her;
that, in fact, he used to wonder what
other fellows meant by falling in
love- and all that There seemed to be
no sense in it until one day-you re-
member, don't you, o Angelinal-we
were introduced.
She remembers, and she is so happy,
so glad he is not like those others, for
Of all the young men she knows not one
but has admired half dozen girls be-
fore they became engaged. She would
not tell her sister in law for worlds, but
brother was always admiring some one
and so attentive that every one thought
he was engaged. 1t would spoil all if
he (Edwin) had been like that
Then she gives her good, true Ed
win" the kiss he begs for, and he asks
himself if he has been telling Abs or
not. He does not quite know. He really
believes at present that he never loved
like this before, but then he remembers
that he thought that befors-several
times before
That little school friend Of his sis
ter, how beautiful he thought her I!
She wore a blue dress and had curls
like a row Of tallow candles hang to
dry all around her head.
Then there was the summer girl, all
hat and big eyes who took his heart
with her when she went away in the
train and left the farmhouse desolats.
There was the lady who sketchsd the
mill and the haunted house. How he
carried her easel and portfolio about
and stood for haymakers and boatmen
and all sorts of picturesque charsctsrs
What did he say to her to cause her TO
tell him that she would always be his
friend, but intended to devote herself
to art, which she shortly did-to art in
the shaps of famous academician who
had made snug fortune.
Then, after he went clerking it in the
city, did he ever meet = pretty girl at
an evening party without feeling sure
that at last sho had come, the one fair,
she beyond all others? And the type
writer with tho golden hair How dare
they hint that she dyed it? Why. he
was sure at the time that his heart
broke when she married the cashier.
Still that was not the worst He could
never forget how his energetic grand
mother came in from the country TO save
him ".- the skin of his teeth" from
margin an elderly widow who rouged
and dressed principally in bugles and
whom he believed the finest woman he
ever saw. He was just Of age then he
is older now by three years, and no IN
derstands himself, and his arm is about
his Angelina waist "Oh, nc. )" he re-
peats, never before You are the only
one | ever loved |" And, after all, 1t is
quite true, only she could not believe it
if he made candid confession OF his ex'
periences. A woman's idea OF first love
is so very different from mans
MARY KYLE DALLAS