The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-08-22
DoLLY'S LOVE AFFAIRS.
Talking Of men" said Molly.


(Which we never do" put in Dolly
What kind of man would you like?'
when does this question take effect?
You'll have to name the date you want
| covered. I've always had settled con-
Victions on the subject The only trou-
BILE has been that the convictions have
kept setting in new spots with a sort Of
! perennial restlessness."
How tickle you are!"
"Fickle?" with some heat. ooh, well.
l suppose that is your way of pronounce
| ing progressive That's what comes of
higher education and travelling abroad.
There's nothing like a course Of the
British isles to put one on free and easy
terms with the alphabet. l was reading
aloud the other day to girl who was
just back from England. and when
asked her how she pronounced Youghal
she said she didn't know, but she
thought probably it was Arramahinty.
That's what foreign travel does for you
Maybe it's all right to juggle with prop
er names, but I don't think you've any
excuse for calling p-r-o-g-r-e-s-s-i-v-e
fickle' y
II didn't. + called you flckle.'
(which / am not. Would you expect
me to have the same ideas about men
when was 16 that I mad when 1 was
8? And the same at 20 that had q.
10? And the same now that I had at
20? And all that time 1 am allowed to
change my standards in other things
Allowed? / am expected to. If I didn't
I should be called mentally backward
But 81! when take the liberty of changing
my ideas about men you call me fickie."
How often do you allow yourself
change Of ideas?" asked Molly.
When I was about 49," said Dolly,
carefully Ignoring the question, II was
devoted to pickles and I had secret
but devouring passion for bologna sau-
sage. Somewhere below the pickles and
sausage, but still pretty high on the
list Of the desirable, was a red-haired
and freckled boy, whom I didn't know,
but whom I thought I could adore I
can't give any good reason for the i'm
preston I think It was largely be-
cause his name was Randolph. The
boy who knew and adored me was JUST
called John and it was cruel contrast.
A red-haired and freckled Randolph
would have to have good many anne
liorating qualities nowadays to make
me adore him. That's progressiveness.
not fickleness.''
There was pause, then Dolly said,
IT would accept an apology"
1T must be rather hard on men who
marry girls of 20, said Molly, ignoring
the mention of an apology. Hard Oh
the girl, too, for / suppose a man is
progressive also in his ideas about the
sort OF woman he can love. Do those
who are very progressive get a divorce
and lay in a new and up to date mat
rimonial stock"
They seem to sometimes. But mar
rage Is pretty effectual discourage
ment OF the progressiveness. You see,
It's this way. Suppose, at the age Of
II, when dotted on pickles and boz
lcgna. l had started on long fas.
during which didn't eat or even think
of eating except when felt passing
yearning for my old favorites. When
the time came, If 1t ever did, for me to
break my fast my ideals In the eating
line would still be expressed in pickles
and bologna; wouldn't they? Marriage
IS total abstinence from dreaming of
the kind of man or woman you could
like, and SO your ideas don't have a
chance to change
Molly looked her contempt
That's donble-twisted nonsense. 81
she said. Marriage isn't total alb
stinence; It's perpetual diet OF the
pickles Gnd bologna deals
Oh, welA have 1t your own way.
said Dolly samiably. But you lsee
when you do marry you promise to
| love, honor and obey your pickles and
| bologna until death does you part.
| That's sort Of q wet blanket for any
lurking progressiveness you may have
apout YOU IL sometimes ycs are in
clined to give way to fancy for olives
and caviar, you remind yourself that
they don't grow on your matrimonial
estate. You've settled down in q land
| flowing with pickles and bologna, and
1 there you are.
When you're not married you're like
q traveller who can sample various
countries. You can make q regular.
4 progressive tea party Of mankind,
I with new type OF man for each
course. And you can think each course
Is ideal while you're tasting it or you
need not like 1t at ALL
| Ia For heavens sake, !, exclaimed Mol
y,ssssdonst mix your metaphors any
more. Theysre q regular omelette now.
Let 81 start all over, like Humpty
Dumpty and it's ms. turn to choose a
subject Tell me what kind OF ma ii
YOU bought last winter YOU would
Dolly's eyes twinkled but she began
geIionalx sSs
Last winter Wei, gotta new ideal
lsabout the same time 4 got my cont.
The sort OF man thought could
fancy then would be rather hoInely, but
NTH soft brown eyes and hair also soft
and brown. He would have d gentle
way with him. like shaded lights and
would read poatry5 apolose tically. out