Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1904-04-07


feather boa. Immediately all the rest
Of you buy fur hats and feather boas.
II one of you finds man worth white.
all the rest Of you step in line to see
II you can't wrest him from her. Added
to this fashion, the very fact that he is
not attalnable. makes him all the more
popular. That's little twist in the
feminine makeup, Polly dear"
Mr.. Heaveyfeather," said Polly
and the ice looked warm beside her
volce-"l can skate quite as we'll if
you do not hold MY hand. An engaged
man-or married one, either she
continued. lis exactly like the little
fox terrier VINO couldn't be made to
come out OF his house until they tied
him up. Then he chewed up the rope
and began rOmping round the back
yard. The very moment a man feels
the cords Of an engagement or the
bonds Of matrimony binding him. he
wants to slip them off. Why, a man
who would laugh at pink notes and
snub the girl who pursued him with
lobster and fiattery before marriage,
will succunlb 10 them like violet to
the sun or an icicle to the fire after
matrimony. But l don't blame him!''
declared Polly, trying to wriggle her
hand away.
Neither do r. I agreed, enthusias-
| tically, ciasping the hand tighter than
| ever.
II blame the woman announced
Polly
(Which woman, Polly:'' said I. 1.-The
other woman:'
sWhy, no. said Polly; ''the other
that is. both of them. Now if they
would only join hands
''Whatw exclaimed. 1.-Two women
'.And cooperate for the punishment
and confusion of the man,
"Polly Lee," I asked tragically,
would you undermine the whole
social system? Why, cooperation be.
tween two women would be worse than
the servant girls union. Ever since
there has been two women and man
OH earth there has been feminine war.
fare"
"And that said Polly. "has been the
It is always 2 case of woman against
woman. You find it everywhere, from
the nursery to the divorce court Wher
J. Bobby is a small boy he promises Mar
jorie and Oracle each his box of candy
When Marjorie and Oracle find out hi:
pertidy, instead OF uniting against him
: and taking it out of him, they begin
by pulling each others hair ant
2 scratching at each others eyes, ant
t Bobby walks serenely off and gives th'
Y candy to little Mary Anne around th
: corner. When he grows up Bobby ma,
:. have as many wives as Solomon, bu
t when he is brought into court there ar
always half Of them dying to sen,
t him to prison and the other half achin
to take him back to their arms again
t and all of them glaring daggers at on
S another
e and added, 'there is always sti
another woman waiting round tn
!. corner with heart full Of sympathy.
it "And such fascinations as peroxid
IS hair"
l. us it absolutely necessary that tn
n other woman have peroxide hal
Polly?" I inquired.
.'Oh, that's way with othe
D. women said Polly.
"And yet,'' remarked, gliding alon
of neditatively, II once knew-anotht
woman-who didn't dye her hair
is Polly wriggled her hand out Of mir
and tucked it in her nnuff.
ip 1T was-let me see-r-about the tin
I announced my engagement I we,
le on, refectively.
n Polly turned and struck cut for Il
shore with squirt of which had n
~ thought her capable.
"She was,' continued, "a girl
your own set"
TO II do believe that the sun Is goil
down, Mr. Heavyfeather," remark,
an Polly, slowing up perceptibly.
ne For reasons Of my own I did not 8
set tempt to carry on the conversatio
cy After a few moments silence what