The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-22
LIMITATIONS OF MISS LANE

A man and a girl-that most ancient of combinations with it's endless chainAof possibilities are seated side US side on a bank of coarse grass and and gray boulder, looking seaward. The old duel of the sexes had been waging Between them for the pest Dart O. aii hour. but as yet neither party has been worsted. There are no seconds, unless a small boy disporting himself in the middle distance could so be counted. At any rate he serves as a sort of time-rest to the conversation. occasionally drawing the attention of the pair to himself by the narrowness of his escapes from bodily injury. His efforts are directed toward fixing a fiagp0le on a tree in honor of the ap. proachtng Fourth of July. pr. Randall hazards the prophecy that one of these days Jack Hughes will kill himself.
 Not. he." says Miss Lane cheerful ly: but l wish he'd come down. l love boys who want to do dangerous things, but can't bear to see them at ~
 You're simply" he says, "the most Feminine woman I've met"
 And is that why you like me?"
 One of the why's. There are others"
 don't think I like the obvious. - returns Miss Lane. "It Is as bad to be labeled feminine as being called sweet or good-fmtured.
 You couldn't be the first withou: being the two last. Why, wonder, do women gird so at belonging to their own sex? Do you ever hear a man ob- 5ect to being called a manly fellow?"' T deny that we do gird at all. It is only the never getting beyond ones Limitations. Suppose one Is a pr,mrcse by rivers brim; you don't wspt to be that and nothing more. It is the eternal feminine I object to-
 The man smiles ben h the shelter of his hat brim.
 Getting beyond your limitations" he says. "confessedly out of your idea of them. I know all men have a cut-an1- dried theory on the subject, ready for use at a moments notice
 Evidently you agree with Hardy's s peasant that men are a very poor class of society,""
 eDo I?" she laughs. Ask any os the women over there"-poinung in the direction of the little ,ummer s.ll.e- ment across the hill they will tell you Miss Lane is never so happy as when she has man tagging at her heels"
 And you deny that your sex is gpiteful?''
 That isn't spfteful, after all. per- haps." ruefully. ''I dare say it is only true, do like them-I," lamely, have always been accustomed to them"
 Don't annihilate me for saying thereIn lies the chief charm of the 'eminine woman"
 .Ohl no. You're welcome to your opinion. I believe even asked for it."
 You did. You said, What gre wo- mans limitations?' And you accused me of having cut-and-dried answer. But you didn't wait for 1t. I was about to say I'd never found a wom an's limi- sations."
 Then" calmly. "you were about to tell an untruth. There was never yet a man who hadn't set the boundary for his fellow woman"
 You don't mind If I smoker" She mods permission. "I admit there are just one or two walks in life over which 1t Is written -- Verbo.en gu Eingang,' to a woman"
 And those?"
 s'Wefi. medicine and the law, to be- gin with.a As doctor have 1t on my conscience to have dissuadad at least three young women from becoming trained nurses"
 The silence that follows this state- ment becomes fairly ominous.
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