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Plan of a Chicago Girl to Sound Her
AGianced's Loyalty.

AOyAANys
From the Providence Journal.
Better is a. dinner Of herbs where
love is than a stalled OK and hatred
herewith" 1t is a Chicago girl who
has found out that mere man, even
when in love, prefers the stalled OK.
Miss Sarah Hart, who is being sued
by Mr.. John Gregson for $500 worth of
presents, has told in court how she
tested the temper of the plaintiff and
found 1t lacking in sweetness. The two
were afffanced, and Mr.. Gregson seems
to have been generous; but Miss Hart
knew that however warmly men may
WOO their qualities as husbands are
another matter. 81 had queer ideas
on marriage" she said, and so she en-
deavored to provide against future
disillusion. When she had other
friends present on the occasion of his
visits he was not unnaturally somewhat
exasperated. The man whose eyes are
on the Beloved Object resents the gaze
of others. He bears, like the Turk,
no brother near the throne. He will
not endure that other lips and other
hearts their tale of love should tell.
Even an amiable lover might justly
have resented Miss Harris conduct in
this particular; nor might she have
endured similar conduct If the cases
had been reversed. Perhaps If Mr..
Gregson had been shrewd he would
have gone philandering elsewhere. But
he did not; he simply left the house in
a huff.
But Miss Hart had one more refine
ment of cruelty in store for him. She
devised another test of his patience
before she permitted fond love to grow
cold. She invited him to dinner, and
she cooked the meal herself and cook
ed it badly. This was more than mas
culine flesh and blood could be expect
ed to stand. Women will often half
starve themselves without compunc-
tion IL there is no man in the house
they think it makes little difference
what they eat. Such a mistake is not
often made by the other sex. Men
believe with Burton that cooking is
become an art, a noble science" and
that cooks are gentlemen" Con-
,versely, ladies' ought to know how to
cook. Miss Hart knew, but she pre-
account Mr.. Gregson behaved extreme
| ~ we'll in a difficult position. He
| didn't say much about the soup.
| later learned that he was expecting
better things. The meat wasn't ex-
actly to his liking, but he still had
hopes of the sSlad. When that came
| and he tasted It his expression was
| Dhl lI sum NtiOA6hN bhdL nc
dessert might be the redeeming fea-
ture."
Can any woman lay her hand upon
her heart and affirm that Mr.. Gregson
did not behave so far like perfect
gentleman? He was enduring cres-
cendo of misery. The three essentials
of dinner are soup, salad and coffee.
Two of these had turned out i'll, and
even the meat was as apples of SodonL
He must have recalled John Taylor's
saying, God sends meat and the devil
sends cooks" But he politely refrained
from quoting II. Nor did he observe
that he could live without love, or ask,
What is passion but pining?" or put
the query: where is the man that
can live without dining?" Yet he
might have reminded his tantalizing
hostess of these elemental truths; and
she, IL she had been wise, would have
understood the hopeless nature OF her
experiment.
All human history attests
That happiness for man--the hungry
sinner
Since Eve ate apples. much depends
on dinner.
But possibly Don Juan" is regarded
IN Chicago as improper reading for
the fair sex. However this may be.
Miss Hart took neither Byron's advice
nor any ones else: she went her will
full way with fatal results. When Il