The Savannah morning news., 1901-08-17

proved for eating with his fingers.
Kings don't eat with their fingers
said his nurse. This King does, said
Alfonso Well. Molly, this girl came
pretty near discovering on the 365th
day that she loved a man after being
almost certain for 364 days that she
merely liked"
But you didn't discover it," again
triumphantly.
mo, I took care not to. You see, he
shared your ideas about cruelty to an
imals, and just as was getting ready
to jump down on the morally certain
side of the fence he"
HE what?" demanded Molly
Dolly got up, picked up the photo
graph and looked at it wistfully.
HE shot himself" she said in a low
voice.
oh" cried Molly, sharply, as If
somebody had hurt her.
For a while" said Dolly, still in a
low voice. 1.-The love which, as / say,
l had been just about to discover, in
sisted on being discovered anyway. But
l wouldn't look at il. l turned my
back on it, and it was too frail and
sensitive, too uniformed to stand that.
Anyway know l mix my metaphors,
but you mustn't mind that-it was on
ly a might have-been love. If he had
way to do, 1 suppose 1 should have
married him and have made him the
center of my universe. That's what
generally happens when man
marries a woman he has won,
but simply a woman who has fallen in
love with him."
II don't understand you"
You mean my being in love with
Tom now. You must remember that I
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the picture. II had simply got to the
point where the thought of life with
him was tolerable always and some
times pleasant. 1 didn'a realize it then;
but now / know that after / had got
that far it was only a question of time
until 1 yielded. That's the main part
of a woman's falling in love, anyway"
What is?''
Giving up. Yielding. Letting her
self care. That's the trouble with you,
you stiff-neckd generation. Love is a
good deal of a hypnotist, and you are
rather priding yourself that he can't
influence you. No, sir' you're saying
to yourself. My will power is too
strong for him.. You foolish child Let
yourself go the next time a clean, hon
est, kind-hearted fellow tries to win
your love-"
WAS that all"
Molly stopped with little embar-
raised laugh.
Is that what you mean? Yes, my dear;
that was all. Tom did the rest"
But" Molly stopped again.
What is it? If there are any points
about the lesson which the class
doesn't understand 1 shall be glad to
explain them" said Dolly. She was her
old fiippant self again.
We'll it's this. If you had married
him, then what about Tom?"
There wouldn't have been any Tom. -
Then you don't believe"
That each heart. or soul. or what
ever you call it. has one kindred heart
or soul and only one? I'm afraid not,
dear. Think what a Chinese puzzle it
would be ito get all the kindred souls
within reach of each other. l believe
in kindred souls all right; but think
each one has a large family connec-
ton. Was 1t Baudelaire who said-I
don't know that 1 can quote him ex-
actly, but it was something like this:
The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the whole world dies
When the sun is gone.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.
That's not right, but the meaning s
there. Only you must begin Love with
a capital Love is the light of life.
but there are many kinds of love and
there may be many loves, so far as
possibility goes. Love is a queer plant.
You can't tell what it will do. Some
times it is long time getting to the
surface, but that may be because the
roots are deep down. Don't you worry
about Jack Winters. It's for him to
see how Mary's garden grows; not for
us"