The Savannah morning news., 1901-08-17
for the Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty to Animals"

for the Society for the Prevention of
| Cruelty to Animals"
Cruelty to"
That's what 1 said. Animals. What
right, I'd like to know, has Mary Trig-
ger got to be dragging Jack Winters
around at her heels, keeping him in hot
water all the time and sending him
from the depths of despair to the sew
enth heaven and back again? Es-
pecially back again"
Dear, me, Molly! What an active
life you make out for Mary Trigger!"
protested Dolly.
well, she does all that and more.
And 1 say it's cruelty to animals.
Cant doggie get away?"
"Oh. 1 didn't mean the animal part
literally" laughed Molly. "N-no, he
can't really get away. She's sort of
engaged to him. You know the way
He's it on probation. If he suits, he'll
| be taken on as the real thing. OF
course he'll never suit. That's why
! lin"
"Frothing at the mouth about it.
see How do you know he'll never
suit?"
why I'm morally certain of it,"
Perhaps Mary Trigger isn't"
Molly grunted incredulously.
| We KNOWN SuCn cases. Sdlu DOliys
with retrospective look which some
how was retrospective also. ITS so
easy for other people to be morally GER
tain and so desperately hard to be GER
| tain yourself" She sighed and looked
at a photograph over the desk.
N"There are two sides to this cruelty
business, Molly she said.
IT don't see more than one" said
Molly. stoutly.
IT know. You're built that way. 1t
simplifies life for you. 1t made it an
easy matter for you to deal with six
teen possibilities. They didn't suit. You
were morally certain they never would.
That was the end of it. Selah"
II wish you'd let my possibilities, as
you call them, alone"
Let the dead past bury its dead? All
right. What l was going to say was
this: I'm not pretending I've had six
teen possibilities. Let's say, for the
sake of illustration, that I've had six.
Um-m-. Guess I'll add two or three
more Six isn't a convenient number.
Anyway, if a girl has six she's pretty
sure to have more. Let's assume that
I've had ten"
Ten it is. This sudden attack of
fnodesty ought to be encouraged"
We'll half of those ten were impos-
sible. Impossible for me, 1 mean. OF
course, that's not saying that other
girls"
"Oh, never mind bringing out the
salve. There are no wounded present"
you talk too much, Molly. Little
children should be seen, not heard, es-
pecially when they're as good to look
at as you are. AS l was saying, five
of those possibilities were impossible
ties. But, oh, Molly, the other five!
They were such nice fellows and 1
liked them so much, and
Did you love them?" said Molly Sc
verely.
NO but might, you know. At least
| didn't know but 1 might. There was
the rub"
Nonsense! Girls always know
DO they? By the way" somewhat
irrelevantly. DO you think Mrs. Bin
kerhof cares very much for the other
Blinkerholf?"
'She doesn't know there is another
man on earth"
"Humph! She's had to do a lot of
forgetting then. Let me inform you
that the redoubtable Blinkerhof went
through a good long siege of hot water
and of depths of despair minus any
alternating excursions to the seventh
heaven before he added Mrs. b. 10 MS
establishment"
She loved him all the time, then. y
said Molly when she had recovered
from her surprise.
mo. she didn't. He won her love. IL
came hard, but he got 1t. Now that
sort of thing often happens. 1t would
| happen oftener if there were more men
| who cared enough for girls love to
work for it as Blinkerhof did. Tell me,
| do you think he, Blinkerhof, seems
| happy?"
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Don't be so envious. Well, then, you
see you can't tell about this cruelty
| to animals. as you call it. You prob
ably would have been morally certain
that the Blinkerhof match would never
be made just as you are morally GER
tain about Mary Trigger. But l say
| that unless Marys morally certain her.
| self she's bound to give Jack a show
| for his white alley If he wants the
| benefit of the doubt the cruel thing
would be not to give it to him and to
herself"
| Molly shook her head doubtfully.
Mary ought to know her own mind, "
she said.
Mind exclaimed Dolly. What has
mind got to do with it? We're not talk
ing about choosing a gown or buying
a rug. It's hard enough to know ones
own mind: but that is primer to San
| SkiTI WIFI hllOWlHS one ,
| own heart. UNTIL" she added with a
flush, 1.-The proper interpreter comes
along"
Exactly" said Molly triumphantly.
But my dear child, ii seems to take
some people long time to understand
the interpreter. Vide Mrs. Blinkerhof
as the books say. Now, contend that
no woman has a right summarily to
decide her own future and that of a
man who says he loves her until she is
morally certain that she is deciding il
the right way"
"Of course" scornfully. Everybody
feels that way. But a girl doesn't sim
ply like man for 1854 days and then
discover on the S65th day that she loves
| him."
Doesn't she?" said Dolly with some
what wistful look at the photograph
| over the desk You remember what
Alfonso XIII said when he was re-