Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-13

Have you any Open Timer" he
asked
Come up tomorrow Evening" she
replied, Il have another Booking. but
l Will cancel It
He arrived before she had her Make
Up on. He started early. because he
had so much to tell her. She didn't
know him very well. so it was neces-
sary TO give her Line on his Record
as a Girl-Subduer.
She came down and he got Busy.
He showed her a Ring that had been
given to him one Night in a boat, and
he let her read part OF the Letters to
prove that they called him Darling
Boy and he told how several Weddings
had been postponed in the Hope that
he. the Idol Of the Ladies and the En-
w OF the Men. might change his Mind.
The Girl was intensely interested.
For a Woman to be a Mans Conf
dante in a throbbing Love Affair is
unadulterated feminine Luxury.
Along about II o'clock he thought he
had her sufficiently Enthralled. so he
placed himself on the Sofa and at
tempted to take her Hand.
Scat You Trifieri' exclaimed the
Beautiful Maiden. repulsing him. NO
Member OF the Tell Club can do the
Fondle around this House. When you
get ready to publish your Book on the
Confessions Of a Male Coquette, you
will have to omit the Chapter about
Ne, because 1 am not going to give
YOU any Souvenirs, or write you any
give-away Letters or send my Photo.
. have learned to put a Blue Tag on
the Man who tells all he knows.
MORAL: The Man who tells you
about the Last One, will tell the Next
One about you.
THE MODERN FABLE OF THE
ROUNDABOUT WAY IN WHICH
GILBERT MADE Himself
STRONG WITH ALICE.
Gilbert was engaged e. r7QIry Reffi-
ed Alice. Daughter of the Commission
Merchant.
He was on the List of Eligibles that
every Mother in Town had in her
Writing Desk. The Parents on both
sides Of the Fence had given their
Consent. All Preliminaries had been
arranged. There was not a Cloud in
the Sky. 1t was a tame everyday,
colorless kind of Courtship and that is
why it did not suit Alice.
She wanted to be Engaged to some
one who would send a Secret Message
by the Faithful Servant and then climb
a Rope-Ladder and try TO Kiss her
through a Screen Window. Her Idea
OF meeting a Lover was to slip out on
a Dark Night and find him at the
Trysting-Place, muffied in a Cloak.
There was no particular Excitement in
being under Contract to one who came
in the Front Way. So she wearied of
the Alliance aud Gilbert began TO have
Visions OF himself losing his Number
Affair with few streaks of Melo-
drama in 1t and rather than pass UP a
Good Thing he fixed it for her.
He got her Father into a PoKer Par
ty and buffeu him out of his Money
and then joshed him. Alice's Father
went home and said that he had been
mistaken in the Young Man and per-
haps he had better call the Deal of.
Then a lot OF Gilbert's Friends went
around to see her and they began to
Knock. They told her that Gilbert was
ar all-night Bat and Sport and that
he had a Past.
They are trying 10 Separate us
said Alice, with her Hand on her
Heart. But Courage. I will be True"
Gilbert wrote and said he dared not
come to the House, for fear her
Father would take Shot at him. but
II she loved him. to put a Lamp in the
Window and he would be outside in the
Rain, waiting to learn his Fate. 1t was
happy Night for Alice.
Next day she told her Parents that
unless they permitted her to marry the
Man of her Heart. she would abjure
the World and enter a Convent. They
yielded and when Gilbert returned she
made a running leap for him and gave
him the kind OF Reception that he had
been wanting ali the time.
MORAL: A Woman never Clings I'M
til some one starts to Pull in the Oppo-
site Direction.