The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-02-06

We'll, if that isl't, this is. Icnly
give him something when I am passing
him, at any rate. | never dream Of
crossing the street on purpose to do it.
Oh, I should need to be terrifcally hap
py before 1 would bother crossing to
give him anything. There! What do
yon think OF me now?"
You gave him something on Mon
day when | was with yon:"
Eyes"
"Then you were happy at that timer"
what has that got to do with itl"
"A great deal"
Irose.
MARY, dear
mo! Go and sit over there"
sTAGGERERs
The subjects we have discussed over
the poker For instance:
The rapidify with which we grow old.
What on earth MI. Meredith means
by saying that women will be the last
thing civilized by man.
Thomson.
What will it all matter a hundred
years hence?
How strangely unlike other people we
two are!
The incest name for a woman. (Ma7y.)
The mystery Of being and not being.
Why does Mary exist?
Does Mary exist?
She had come in, looking very dole
full, and the reason was that, the more
she thought it over, the less could She
see why she existed. This came of read
ing a work entitled ''Why Do We Tx
ist!'-a kind of book that ought not to
be published. for it only, makes people
unhappy. Mary stared at the problenl
with wide, fixed eyes until / compelled
her to wink by putting another in froEt
OF it-namely, do you exist?' In her
ignorance she thought there was no
doubt Of this, but ] lent her a Bishop
Berkeley" end since then she has taken
to pinchins herself On the sly, just to
make sure that she is still thers.
lei SCARF.
So far / had not Gas will have been
noticed) by a word or look or sign bro
ken the agreement which rendered our
platonic friendship possible. I had not.
eve called her darling, and this be-
cause. having reflected a good deal on
the subject, / could not persuade myself
that this was one Of my ways of adj
dressing Thomson. And I would havos
continued the same treatment bad it not
been for her scarf, which has proved be-
youd all bearing. That scarf il entirely
responsible for what happened today.
1t is a stripe of faded terra Gotta and
she ties it round her mouth before going
out into the fog. Her face is then sufi-
GENTLY irritating, but / could endure it
by looking another way. did she not
recklessly make farewell remarks
through the scarf, which is very thin.
Then her mouth-in short, I cans put
up with this.
had warned her repeatedly. But she
was like a mad girl. or, perhaps, she
did not understand my meaning.
Don't come near me with that thing
round your mouth" / had told her a
dozen times. have refused firmly to
tie it for her. I have put the table be
tween me and it, and she asked why?
Through the scarf. She was quite mad.
And today. when / was feeling rather
strange at any rate! 1t all occurred in a
moment.
Don't attempt to speak with that
scarf round you,' / had said, and said
it with my back to her.
you think | can't, because it is toe
tight?' she asked.
$50 away" I said.
She turned me round.
Why" she said wonderingly, sit is
quite loose. I believe / could whistle
through it."
She did whistle through it. That fin
ished my p~latonic friendship.
FIVE MINUTES AFTERwARD.
/ spoke wildly, fiercely. e4ultantly,
and she, all the time, was trying to pat
d. her jacket, aud could not find the
sleeve.
1T was your own fault, but | am
glad ! warned you. Cry away. / like
to SEQ You crying"
II hate your
mo. you don't"
"A friend''-
"Friendl Pooh! Bah Pshawrp
"Mr. Thomson
"Thornsonl Tchuti Thomson! His
Christian name isn't Harry. I Eon't
k1iDT what ii H. don't carap, ~