Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-11-04
THE COLD
HEAR TED
BY C. NJ. GRE w ID s ON
Copyright. 1904, BY Daily Story Pub, COL

SS A II, YOU Americans! You cold
~ hearted Americansi You are so
practical, so Indifferent! You concede
nothing to sentiment" exclaimed Frau
iein. throwing up her hands in mock de-
spair.
Fraulein and | were taking our tea in
her little parlor in Munich. Her spirited
outburst followed some cynical remarks
OF mine. Just for the sake of arousing
her eloquence, 1 had fallen into the bad
habit of making light Of love and mar
riage. | exalted the life of bachelor
girl and put the pursuit of art above
all domestic happiness.
But Fraulein adored love and lovers.
Though her brown hair was beginning to
show grayish tinge, her heart was full
of youths romantic exuberance. She
was creature of emotion. She did not
waste her affections because she poured
Shem forth from heart as ineXhausti-
bie as the ever-filling pitcher Of the
liable. She loved the whole world, the
Sunshine and "Bumi." her maltese cat,
with equal extravaganza.
The expression of views so repugnant
to Fraulein's nature as these of mine al
ways brought down her condemnation
upon me; but to-day she did not show
her usual impatient ardor After her
t.rst protest she looked for moment
into her cup as if seeing visions in the
amber depths of Eer tea. Then she rose
jmpulsively and brought from table the
photograph of beautiful girl.
This is an American girl" she said.
>fcom New York. She is wealthy and
beautiful and gifted; but she also, like
the rest of you American girls, has no
sentiment might also say no heart.
She is cold, cold, cold! You know she
must have been beautifulsin Lenbach,
whom money cannot tempt TO make
portrait of subject he doesn't care for,
painted her. This is photograph Of his
portrait of her.
looked at the card she thrust into my
hand. I did not wonder that Lenbach
had immortalized this maiden. She was
of the dark. regal type of beauty that he
painted best.
Il met Miss C in Berlin" contin-
ted Fraulein, as | looked up from the
photograph. when she afterwards
came to Munich with her mother, she
came to see me. I saw her often that
winter and we became friends. She was,
with all her American alOofness, so
iactful and charming that one could not
but admire her intensely.
cone day when she came to see me, she
brought a young American with her.
Al las-4
hoy ever knew. For he was not much
more than a boy. while she--as she told
me later-was five years older than he.
He was handsome and athletic, and fair
as she was dark. And he was frank and
wiuning--a man who seemed made to be
happy.
81 saw how 1t was from the first; he
was very much in love with her He
soon worshiped her But she-she was
cold. The more the poor boy wore his
very soul on his sleeve for her, the more
Atie retreated within herself. He had
been so light-hearted when l first met
him; but he changed when he fell in love
With an lcicle.
''He used to come 60 see me alone
sometimes. just to talk about her. She
lad refused him-giVen him no hope.
lie begged me to talk 80 her the foolish
a,oy! He couldn't believe that she did
not love him. I did talk TO her. She
called him boy and his worship of her
a. boys love. She said that she was too
old for him: that he would get over ii.
Ach!" said Fraulein. Struggling her
shoulders, "she was cold, cold, cold. or
she must have returned ouch love as
his"
"But Frauiein." / asked, more touched
than liked to admit, "how did it end +?
Did she ever reient, or did he get over
2t9"
They both vent back to America
that spring, replied FrauIein. 81 heard
from Miss c. only once after her de-
parture. 1t was just at the time that
your war with Spain came on She wrote
that Harold had gone as a soldier to
Cuba. She said nothing more about him.
But | knew why he had gone A Ger
man girl would not have driven a man
TO such straits as that. You American
girls do not know how to loYe; you are
100 cold"
Although FrauieIu never referred 10
1t again, the little love story she had
related to me 80 feeIingiy remained in
my mind. never again made light OF
her ideals. But an end came 10 onr pleas
ant chats over the ,ehenps; for, TO Amer
teams on the continent, all roads lead to
1tome-in the spring Wits the first sug-
igestive deepening or the blue IN the