The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-07-13
BY MARGARET E. sANGsTER.

BY MARGARET E. SANGSTER.
(Copyrisht. 1905. by Joseph B. Bowles)
A girl has two suitors. Both appeal
to her, but she cannot make up her mind
which to accept. She is still in maiden
meditation, fancy free. In the morning,
she thinks she prefers Jack. BY even
ing. the scale tips in favor OF Will. Jack
is solid, sensible, practical fellow,
steady-going as clock, man with no
nonsense about him, man who plods
along the beaten track, and who will be
sure by dint of sticking at his job, to
reach his goal. Father and mother
secretly hope that Molly will take Jack,
as 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 flower
in his buttonhole, with that manner of
devotion SO courtly, so debonair, SO
deferential to her and to womanhood
in her person, she waivers. In society,
she always wayers. Will dances like
a feather; Jack plunges like a clod.
Will is brilliant and rattles on to room
full. Jack is silent and cannot talk,
unless on 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.
Morally, both lovers are impeccable,
They are clean, wholesome, loyal and
manly. Both have 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 weeks,
to be in love with 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,
ct which Cupid may receive some assist
ance. Very likely, neither Jack nor
Will shall be the husband for Molly.
The right man may be at this moment
in Japan, or South Africa, or cruising
about among the islands of the Carib-
bean sea. 1t may be that she will, as
an honorable girl, have to dismiss both
lovers, because in her heart there will
be no full response to either.
God forbid a girl from marriage
of convenience, or from a marriage in
which love is not the feature that Ere
dominates, and becomes the convincing
reason. But in the early, the initial
stage, when 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 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 ques-
tons.
In the long run, married people get