The Western news., 1904-10-26

all the rest of you step into line to see
If you can't wrest him from her. Add
ed to this fashion, the very fact that
he Is not attainable makes him all the
more popular. That's little twist In
the feminine make up. Polly, dear"
"Mr. Sylvester" said Polly-and the
Ice looked warm beside her voice-"I
can skate quite as well IL you do not
hold my hand. An engaged man-or
married man, either" she continued.
lis exactly like the little fox terrier
who couldn't be made to come out of
his house until they tied him up. Then
he chewed up the rope and began
romping around the back yard. The
very moment a man feels the cords
Of an engagement or the bonds Of mat
rimony binding him he wants to slip
them off. Why, man who would
laugh at pink notes and snub the girl
who pursued him with Holsters before
| marriage will succumb to 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 II agreed enthusias-
ticaliy, clasping the hand tighter than
| ever.
II blame the woman" announced
Polly.
(Which woman. Polly?' said /.
"The other woman?"
"Why, no." said Polly. "The other
that is, both of them. Now If they
would only join hands"
"What!' l exclaimed. 1.-TWO women?"
"And cooperate for the punishment
and confusion of the man.
| "Polly Lee" I asked tragicaily.
would you undermine the whole social
system? Why, cooperation between
two women would be worse than the
Servant Girls Union. Ever since there
have been two women and a man on
earth there has been feminine war
fare"
And that" said Polly, "has been
the cause of most Of the masculine
sins. 1t is always a case of woman
against woman. You find 1t every
where, from the nursery to the divorce
court. When Bobby Is a small boy
he promises Marjorie and Oracle each
his box Of candy. When Marjorie and
Oracle find out this perfldy, instead Of
uniting against him and taking it out
Of him, they begin pulling one an
others hair and scratching at each
others eyes; and Bobby walks serene-
ly off and gives the candy to little
Mary Anne around the corner. When
he grows up Bobby may have as many
wives as Solomon, but when he is
brought into court there are always
half of them dying to send him to
prison and the other half aching to
take him back to their arms again,
and all of them glaring daggers at
each other"
and" l added, "there is always
still another woman waiting round the
corner with heart full of sympathy"
| "And such destinations as peroxide
hair"
"Is it absolutely necessary that the
other woman have peroxide hair,
Polly?" l inquired.
"Oh, that's way with othe,
women" said Polly.
"And yet" l remarked, gliding along
meditatively, Il once knew-another
woman-who didn't dye her hair"
Polly wriggled her hand out Of mine
and tucked it in her muff.
"It was-let me see-about the time
l announced my engagement" l went
on. refectively.
Polly turned and struck out for the
shore with a squirt of which l had not
thought her capable.
"She was," l continued, "a girl In
your set"
Il do believe the sun Is going down.
Mr.. Sylvester" remarked Polly, slow
ing up perceptibly.
For reasons Of my own I did not
attempt to carry on the conversation.
After a few moments silence what l
expected happened.
''Who," said Polly. family, was
the girl in my set?'
"Why, the other woman, Of course"
I replied. "She had hardly observed
my existence before the day that my
engagement was announced. The very
next evening she asked her brother to
invite me up to dinner"
fancied Polly said something like
"contemptble!" but must have been
mistaken.
"Of course you didn't go, Mr.. Syl-
vester?' she remarked, aloud.
'T'm afraid did," l confessed, rue
fully. You see, l didn't exactly ul-
derstand things then, as do since you
and l have been engaged for some
time. And the girl was very pretty
and alluring-" Polly gave q little
gasp, and sped on.
and" l continued. keeping beside
her, when she invited me for q
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