The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-05

he would answer fmpatiently. It's all
imagination. I can't live without you,
dearest, and I know that you could not
live without me. either. Throw it all out
of your mind and let us have it done and
over with, so that there will be no more
questions and no chance for you to make
life burden to yourself.
Found the Right Man Too Late.
"Poor fellow! he knew very little of the
psychology of this kind of women. His
words only egged her on to pick her mo-
tives to pieces and the old curiosity shop
yielded her a fresh crop of misery. The
long and the short of 1t is that the en-
gagement was broken off and the young
man married another girl. Then it was
that the sorrow of her life began in
earnest. When it was too late she found
out how dear he was to her. When she
saw him the husband of another woman
she had no more doubts, nor picked any
flaws in herself. She was on the verge Of
insanity with jealousy and the sense Of
having voluntarily given up the man she
loved to distraction.
Years passed. She got over her ieal-
ousy, and her love, and her quaIms Of
self-accusation, but the sad, pensive ex-
preston, which her face bore during the
first three or four years of that mans
married life, has chung to her beautiful
her heart bare to me, and one Of the last
things I heard from her lips was a cor
roboration Of that French story [ had
read. She made no pretense of being true
to the memory Of her first love. I never
think of it, and when I do it is only as
of pretty book [ seem to have read she
said. But feel all alone in the world,
and the thought of remaining lonely
long as I live terrifies me. Oh, you don't
know how awful 1T NV most intimate
friends seem strangers to me. There is a
gulf between them and me which l cam
not cross. I am longing for one who viii
be so near to me that there will be no
gulf to cross.
or course it takes a supersensitive,
selt-centered creature like her to feel the
way she did. asked her plainly whether
she would let me look around for some
man who might make her happy, and she
answered just as frankly. Yes, L won't
bother about the state of my heart any
more. If You can find a good, honest
intelligent man, I'll marry him. I'll give
him my whole heart. There will be no
gulf between us. [ feel sure Of that"
Il tried my best but my Efforts were
not crowned with success. The men
knew and who | though would make just
the kind Of husband she needed shrank
from her. Yes, she is really beautiful,
one of them said to me, bat it is the
kind of beauty one likes to look at, to
hear, or to inhale, but not 10 marry One
man would have married her # she had
money, which she did not The only fell
low who was really in love with her at
the period was a married man who did
not live with his family. Still, / dill not
give up all hope of getting the right man
for her, and I might have succeeded, to5,
Tiff she had not fallen q prey to hered-
ttary disease, Of which she died in a hos
pital.
Zone of the old maids I have married
off had remained single until she was
thirty-siX, chiefly because she had an
cider sister who was unmarried. She was
devoted to her and would not disgrace
her by becoming a mother in advance OF
her, she said. There were lots of young
men around, and all Of them showed a
decided preference for the younger sister,
who took care to discourage their atten-
lions. Finally the older sister married
an old widower. BY this time, however,
my client had lost some of her former
charms. Well, I had no difficulty with
her. She had an honest, nliddle-aged,
housewifely face that proved to possess
a peculiar charm of its owu-the kind Of
charm that a certain class CT cid bachel-
ors who are tired of hating the sex seek.
1 found a man through an advertisement
in a German paper. He was pretty well
life. After I had introduced hilC ne said
to me: Just what I want. 1t has not
occurred to me before, but now that L
have seen her I feel that q younger and
less sedate and notwithstanding women
would make me thing Of my bachelor
days 1 would take her out a good deal
and the result would probably be that
the two Of US would take our meals in
some cafe, as see many German couple
do. This Woman's face speaks to me Of
homemade coffee cake and homemade
everything-just the things 1 am longing
for
This One Mays, but Both Are Happy.
Gin many instances have found that a
girl who is generally considered homely
ceases to be looked upon as such when
she becomes an old maid. You see, there
are faces which seem to be suited to no
other status in a Woman's life. I once
knew a girl of twenty or nineteen with
the features of an unmarried woman Of
forty. OF course, she lad no attraction
for the boys. l met her again when she
was six years older, but she still looked
forty. She did not seem to be getting
older at ALL And am sure that at forty
she will be accounted a good-Iooking
woman Of middle age and will be much
sought after by bachelors ten or twenty
years her senior.
have come under my observation was that
Of pretty young woman who had secri-
feed her matrimonial chances to the IN
tereSts of her mother, an old querulouS
woman. The characteristic part of it is
that the young woman never ceased
throwing it up to her mother that it was
for her sake that she rejected every man
that proposed to her. The two were S9n-
tinually quarreling and snarling at each
other Very often they would let whole
month pass without speaking to each
other And yet at the bottom Of her
heart the younger woman was really de-
voted to her mother and could not bring
herself to leave her. In several cases the
old woman insisted that her daughter
should accept the proposal, but the latter
would not. DO you want to be treated
like a mother-in-law? she would say.
DO you know what that means?' And
do you want to be an old maid? the 9TH
er would answer, testify. This was the
way some Of their wrangIes were started.
They both had quite an active temper.
but the girl was really golden soul.
''Wllen the old woman died she felt so
lonely that she was afraid of her own
shadow, 1t seemed. married her to an
Americanized Swede. She nag5 him, but
he is a good-natured fellow, and, upon
the whole, they are happy. New York
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