The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-07-07
Shall Molly Favor Spectacular Will
.or cold Fogy" JackP-People of
Diverse fTemperaments the Hap
#piest in Marriage-Rejected Be-
cause he Wore Baggy5 Trousers
Prospect of Funds to Keep the Pot
Boiling.
BY MARGARET E. SANGSTER.

oCNACC1y AopC LAdI AiAOl1y CAhC JAIN,
a. they have their doubts about the per-
severance of Will, in any definite line.
And in the morning, when common
sense and prudence are in the ascend
ant. Molly thinks she may. She is al
most sure she ought to say yes to
Jack. Yet, when she sees Will in dress
clothes. absolutely correct, with a flower
in his buttonhole, with that name of
devotion 50 courtly, so %debonair, so
d%eferential to her and to twomanhood
in her person, she waivers. In society,
she always wavers. Will dances like
a feather; Jack plunges like a clod.
Will is brilliant and rattles on to a room
full. Jack is silent and cannot talk,
unless on a serious subject, that he
knows all about. The two are in con-
trast at every point. Jack never takes
risks; he is caution incarnate. Will
is never more himself than on the verge
Of peril. He does not know what eau
ton means.
Morally7 both lovers are impeccable,
They are clean, wholesome, loyal and
manly. Both have a right to the title
of gentlemen. Physically, each belongs
to the finest flower of the modern ath-
letic development.
Will is spectacular. Jack is an old
fogy. There you have the difference
in a word, and Molly may have either,
and cannot decide which to choose.
AS yet, it must be owned, she is not in
love. A girl cannot be expected at
once. at an hours notice, or a weeks,
to be in love with a man who is in love
with her. She is the sought, not the
seeking, the desired, not the desiring. 1t
is her privilege to be coy, not to be easily
won, to make up her mind at her leisure.
When Cupid succeeds in breaking
down her defenses and sends an arrow
into the guarded citadel of her heart,
she will have no more vacillation. She
will know whether to take Jack or Will.
Romantic girls will not believe me. but
there are preliminary stages in wooing,
at which Cupid may receive some assist
ance. Very likely, neither Jack nor
Will shall be the husband for Molly.
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in Japan, or South Africa, or cruising
about among the islands of the Carib-
bean sea. 1t may be that she will, as
Rn honorable girl, have to dismiss both
lovers, because in her heart there will
be no full response 20 eli er.
God forbid a girl from a marriage
of convenience, or from a marriage in
which love is not the feature that pre-
dominates, and becomes the convincing
reason. But in the early, the initial
stage, when a girl is interested, and be-
| gins to look at herself in the glass, and
wonder if her hair should be high or
low, and puts on a ribbon or a pin with
a faint thought of how it will look in
the eyes of somebody who is coming to
call. and whom she finds good COM
pany, she may ask herself certain uues-
items.
In the long run, married people get
Or better for not being too much alike.
Monotony in disposition may become a
WEAKNESS. There should be contrast.
there should be the possibility of un-
discovered regions to explore in both
after the wedding day.
Nature indicates the law of opposites
as better than the law of exact resem-
blances. A tall man likes to tuck a
little woman under his arm. A little
man struts complacently beside a grena-
der of a woman. The gypsy will tell
you as h crosses your palm, if you are
fair, that a dark man will come court
Ing you before IL months are over. But
if you are a brunette, it is a fair-haired
viking that she bids you expect.
If Molly be light and mercurial. spon-
taneous n quick, a being Of flashing
smiles and ready tears, she would far
better trust herself to Jack. the steady
going, than to Will, the reckless. He
will give her the poise she needs: he
will perhaps not always keep pacewith
aer changeful caprices, but he will ad-
nnre n love her and rest her, through
them all. If she be calm, phlegmatic. of
tranquil nature and prudent turn. she
would better take headlong Will who
in the humdrum round of life will keep
things moving, and make the. home
bright and the day buoyant, finding in
her his counterpart. People of decided
ly diverse temperaments are happier
in marriage than people who are al
most precisely alike:
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Sometimes the question is further
complicated to a girl, by matters that.
seem superficial, but in a way are vital,
denoting as they, do points of chaarrac-
ter A girl wrote to me that she was
sure she loved a certain youth, but that
he made mistakes in grammar. s.not,''
she went on to say through ignorance,
but through pure carelessness. Can I
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