The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-02

one night at a ball, when you asked
me for a dance and 7 gave you my
programme (which I purposeIy left
blank)-'ware the parentheses-you
cradle square. Girls don't like that,
and I've not forgotten it. The same
night you took me to the carriage,
though can't imagine why you did it.
had refused a lot of dancers and had
sat out several, a thing which all pref
ty girls enjoy. But I suppose I can
be pretty, as I didn't enjoy it a bit. I
had seen that you, too, had not been
dancing Ct wasn't the least angry, only
a little sorry). But you kept looking
cat mel SO unhappiIy, that I felt in
cIfned to forgive you for not dancing
with the other girls It must have
been such an act Of self-deniaI, and 1
adore unselhshness in men,
'Afterward when I was stepping into
the carriage somehow or other man
aged to let one Of my gloves fall You
saw it at once. and instead of attend
ing properly to me. you picked 1t up
and made such a grave bow as you
handed it to me, saying, I think you've
dropped a glove tit wasn't even your
gIove'1. OF course my glove had drop
ped, and any other man would have
waited till I had driven away before he
picked it up q know, because have
Iooked.l
Il was annoyed The glove was quite
q new one and I had hardly sofled it,
for somehow or other hadn't danced
much. You looked dreadfuIly g1un as
you picked it up. think it must have
been my careIessness in letting it drop
in the dirt. I am extravagants fear;
and as you told me last night that you
were poor man. 1 am aTrald l must
have shocked your senSibIHt1eS!
why on earth did you say anything
about money? What had it to do with
the question: I know have heaps of
It: and it's not a. bad thing either, as Il
sometimes helps a. man to marry the
Girl he loves. Remember (dear Jack
I needn't mention the parentheses again
when you ask another girl TO marry
you If she happens to nave money
(which I hope she will for your sake1
| don't refer to if. If she cares bit for
Won. as YOU deserve, she'll be only
aShamed to feel that shs mas SO Hee1S u
/, give YOU
I've heaps Of other reasons for say
ing No but under any circumstances
I could never marry q man who d1dn {
take his answer from his Iady-1oVe
own Ifps The girl who consents 20
s,4ei4 a thing deserves TO be married in
her bonnet and IN shoes two sizes TOO
big for her
Now. III give you a piece Of good
advice before I stop. When you pro-
pose to the other girl don't mention
as I have said, her money, II she ns-s
y
| that won't be true1 and not fit to tie
her shoeIace, though I recolleet you
once tied mine very nicely IN spite OF
xol1r fingers trembling Don't, above
all. say that you are not anxious &c
hurry her, but would Like her TO con
si5ar the matter well. can't imagine
| q lover of mine saying that, when. per-
haps. my heart was like the warning
+ Of a clock upon the point of midday
/ striking. and breaking into a perpetual
I hisTF7 moor. chime of love and joy After
That it could only go on Surr-
I zurrrrrrrr.' straining its poor works and
| cords. and allowing the true sunttrae q
| lifa to leave it behind It could never
sneak clear and true to one who wanted
to set It back
Now, to finish my good and impair
I ffaI advice. when you are addressfnl
the other girls YOU should lay you
/ hands gently upon her shoulders, an
| look closely into her eyes q believe yol
/ have learned this Already II IS eruk
| to retreat at this moment. especially I
| as I have said. the heart-clock Is Q