The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-10
FOR THE WOMEN.
The Oracle Interestingly Dis
cusses Love and Things.
Compares Tilted Man and the
Woman in Same Position.
HE is A HEAVY LOSER.
Lacks the Nerve and Resignation
Of the Other.
Cites an Example to Prove Her
Contention.
HE is A HEAVY LOSER.

As the Oracle came out Of the shop
and joined the patient man who had
been waiting for three quarters Of an
hour while she tried to find something
that would combine "cheaply and effect
lively" as the fashion magazines say,
with the theater bodice she was remodel
ing from a last seasons dancing 1Tock,
an acquaintance passed them and raised
his hat perfunctorily without the slight
est sign of recognition on his sour
countenanca.
How 5ovial your friend Grouchlets
lis, p observed the Patient Man, glancing
after the disappearing figure with a
look of amused surprise. Am I wise
in suspecting a coIdneSs? Why should a
man whose engagement announcement
isn't a week old carry around hearse-
drivers face like that?"
He doesn't ordinarily" answered the
Oracle. Most of the time he fairly
beams, I'm told. That expression or
gloomy hatred is reserved for me alone,
and assumed whenever he sees me ap
preaching Isn't it dreadful to think
that one has such depressing effect 90
IT'S dreadful to think that a mans
anim0sity toward girl who turned him
down would outlast his engagement to
the young woman supposed to have sue
ceeded her in his Affections replied the
Patient Man But that only goes to
show what a hold you women have on a
1T only goes to show what an nm
oracle. His Bearlets there, who Just
passed US is one of the haDoiest men
IN town Hes about to be married to
one OF the prettiest. sweetest, most
eligible girls in the state of Kansas, and
although he'll hardly speak to me when
he meets me. he owes it all TO me-
You're getting beyond me-" said the
Patient Man.
Wen. it's not a matter I'd want to
BOAST about generally, be cauSe ii en-
tails lot of ancient history, which
IL would be very bad form fol ne TO pre-
tend to remember. But YOU know all
about that anyway. and when you re-
fleet upon the natural perversitv az
woman you'll agree that he owes his
present bliss TO nTe- Do you suppose
that girl would ever have fallen in love
with him in the world if he hadn't been
in love with some one else when he first
I'm not so sure he's not in love with
Some One Else STILL interposed her
COMPANION.
Not bit of>it" contradicted the
oracle positively. She has him hooked
and strung and hung over the side Of the
boat now. without the shadow of a
doubt. He wouldn't exchange her for
a princess. and as for the Some One
Else, he hates her cordially. But in the
nrsC stages of their acquaintance. the
interest was quite one-sided. I can lust
imagine that girls mental processes
during the time she's known that man.
ne s not at all the sort she'd have fallen
in love with under any other circum-
stances.
Never I dare say when she first met
MIN and he paid her some little atfen-
ton she felt sort of amused tolerance
of him. Perhaps she thought him clev-
er but he was not the man to appeal to
her senses or imagination without the
assistance Of an unusual influence The
unusual influence was that he didn't
seem to care. She was used 10 more
than the ordinary girls share of Admir-
alton and attention and no doubt she
expected him to fall head over heels II
love with her and bore her with his de-
votiOn. That is Just what he would
have done e he haGn't been thinking
of Some One Else, but he sur2rised her
by doing nothing of the kind. His at
tentions We're intermittent, his interest
spasmodic, his general Indifference un-
mistakable He showed just enough in
terest to prevent her forgetting his ex-
istence and to make her wonder why
he didn't care more. She is Just The
girl to fascinate him and if i. hadn't
been for this prior attachment her ex-
pectations would have been fulfilled to
the letter and he would have thrown
himself in her path and begged her &c
tramDie upon him. But as it was his
Indifference piqued her, interested her
you know how woman is-commanded
her admiration and respect George
Sand says the moment woman is sure
of a mans love she loses interest in
him. ] don't know about that but I do