The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-08-28
TWO COMPANIONS
Psychological study by Nj. Spector
Translated from Yiddish by M. S
Mandell
Part First.

'How much do you love me, Pau
line?"
Like my best dolly. And how much
do you love me, Rosie"
Like my papa and my mammal"
And then these two six-year-old COM
panlons embraced and kissed each 9TH
en- with true childish affection.
Their mutual love and devotion were
known to the girls and to their parents.
They We're accustomed to divide or ex-
change the best things they had re-
ceived from their parents or friends.
AS they grew older the neghbors no.
ticed that Rosie and Pauline were al
ways together.
| The people who did not know them
often mistCok them for sisters. But
when they had reached the age of fif-
teen this mistake was no longer posi-
BILE. The older they grew the easier it
was to notice that they bore no resem-
blance to each other either in their
looks, or in their growth, or in their
figures or manner.
The students who met them on their
way to and from school had remarked
that Pauline, the one with the black
hair, was a remarkably handsome
young lady, and that Rosie was terri
| bly, homely.
One of them vain boaster, told his
schoolmates in a confiding way that he
was acquainted with the black haired
beauty; that he was counting her and
that she had even kissed him once.
The boys, knowing him to be a great
liar, did not believe him and thought it
impossible that such a charming young
lady would wish to speak to or even
meet him; but the vain boaster insist
ed on having told the truth and con-
tinued to whisper the secret into the
ears of his chums.
H.
The students did not cease to pass
all sorts of pleasant remarks about
Pauline, but not so about Rosie. OF
all these remarks, however, mot a sin
gle word reached the ears of the COM
panions. They did not even so much as
suspect that any one could make
distinction between them; they thought
themselves to be as sisters; one with
out the other was like body without
Il
without the other. If a relative or
guest visited one of the girls the 9TH
err was Immediately called in and intro
duced; if one was invited to an enter
tainment, the other had to be invited as
well, to make the event complete for
them.
In course of time they noticed that
students and other young men looked
at them. Well, what of that? If they
are looking, let them look! That is not
bad just the opposite it makes life
worth living. One student even smiled
at them as he passed by; the girls re-
turned the compliment.
From childhood the girls We're in
structed by the same tutor. They pos
sessed equal abilities, except in mathe-
mates, for which study Pauline had
neither interest nor patience, and for
this reason the teacher in mathematics
was the only person who admired Ro-
sic more than Pauline. The aged in
structor could not understand why a
person should not like that useful and
most scientific study" For what use
would she be to the world without the
knowledge of mathematics?
Rosie who listened with pain when
their instructor reprimanded her be-
loved friend helped her with her les
sons and used to whisper the correct
answers when her companion was
quizzed The love between the two
grew with every sunrise.
III.
One day something particularly
pleasant happened 1t was a bright
warm afternoon; the sun was setting
with majestic spendor. In the public
garden all the trees We're decked in
green; the paths We're freshly covered
with bright yellow sand. From the
distance came the sweet chorus of
trilling birds.
Oh, they would never forget that af-
ternoon! Because as they sat down to
rest, Pauline's parasol having dropped |
out of her hand, there appeared, as if |
from heaven, the student whose smile |
the girls had first noticed. He picked |
up the parasol and graciously handed |
it to its owner with conventional re-
mark.
Then-they became acquainted; and |
from that time on they often walked |
together. When they arrived home the
girls, jolly and contented, discussed for !
hours the merits and gallantries of |
their new acquaintance, the young gem
teman.
What a lovely time we had in the
garden! He told me which class he
was in, about his teachers and his
We talked about so
many things" Thus unused Pauline
that evening, and many another even
ing before she retired, and Rosie's
thoughts were of the same nature.
When about eighteen years of age
Rosie began to notice that she was ig-
nored that the students, as well as
other young men whom they knew
conferred around Pauline 1t was called
to her attention particularly when one
once held a four hour conversation
with her friend, forgetting that Rosie
was present
He thought of her as he was taking
leave. He offered her his hand, ask
ng when he could meet l1er-and Pau
ne-again. Such behavior on the
part of the young men occurred fire.
1uently A most intolerable event hap
oened at the wedding of one of their
associates. Pauline danced every
lance on the programme, and Rosie
danced only once, and then with a
cousin. The other guests their mutual