The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-07-29
PRELIMINARY STAGES NEEDED
FOR GIRL TO DECIDE.
Shall Molly Favor Spectacular viii
or "Old Fogy" Jackp-Peopie OF
Diverse Temperaments the Hap
piest in Marriage-Rejected Be-
cause he Wore Baggy Trousers
Prospect of Fun6s to Keep the fot
Boiling.
nv nApcAREr E. sANGsTER.

Wllcn 10 accept. cue 10 oei4' 49,
meditation, fancy free. In the mornine'
she thinks she prefers Jack. BY even
ing. the scale tips in favor of Will. JACK
is a solid, sensible, practical feiiow'
steady-going as clock, man Win NJ
nonsense about him, man VINO pious
along the beaten track, and who Will De
sure by dint of sticking at his ]op, 10
reach his goal Father and mother
secretly hope that Molly will take JacA'
as they have their doubts about the per-
severance of Will. in any Definite Inc.
And in the morning, when common
sense and prudence are in the asceha-
ant. Molly thinks she may. Sne is al
most sure she ought TO say yes "
Jack. Yet, when she sees Will in dress
clothes. absolutely correct, with hover
| in his buttonhole, with that manner Oh
| devotion so courtly, so deDonair' SO
deferential to her and to womannood
| in her person, she wavers. In society'
she always wavers. Will dances like
] a feather: Jack plunges like ciod-
Will is brilliant and rattles on to room
full. Jack is silent and cannot talk,
| unless on serious subject, that ne
knows all about The two are in con-
trast at every point Jack never taxes
risks; he is caution incarnate. VIII
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 ana
manly. Both have a right to the title
of gentlemen. Physically, each belongs
to the finest flower of the modern atn-
letic development.
Will is spectacular. Jack is an old
fogy. There you have the difference
J in a word, and Molly may have either
and cannot decide which to choose.
As vet. it must be owned, she is not in
. love. A girl cannot be expected at
: once. at an hours notice, or week s,
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. Sne
. will know whether to take Jack or WIN
v Romantic girls will not believe me, bu'
\ there are preliminary stages in wooing
!, at which Cupid may receive some assist
. ance Very likely, neither Jack mol
q 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, Al
II an honorable girl, have to dismiss Doti
- lovers. because in her heart there vii
d be no full response 70 either.
!. God forbid a girl from marriag
sr of convenience, or from marriage II
At which love is not the feature that pre-
n dominates. and becomes the convincing
reason. But in the early, the initia
h. stage. when a girl is interested, and be
m gins to look at herself in the glass, an
T. wonder if her hair should be high o
ct low. and puts on a ribbon or pin wit
an a faint thought of how it will look i
he the eyes of somebody who is coming t
~ call, and whom she finds good com
~ pany she may ask herself certain ques
b. tons.
OF In the long run. married people q
OF on better for not being too much alik
as Monotony in disposition may become
ut WEAKNESS. There should be contras
an there should be the possibility of VI
es discovered regions to explore in bot
in after the wedding day.
Nature indicates the law Of opposite
as better than the law of exact resen
nj blances. A tall man likes to tuck
- little woman under his arm. A lit
man struts complacently beside gren
der of woman. The gypsy will te
i. you as she crosses your palm, if you a.
fair. that dark man will come cour
ks ing YOU before IL months are over. b
If you are brunette, it is fair-hair,
viking that she bids you expect.
II Molly be light and mercurial, spo
~, taneous and quick. being of fiashil
' smiles and ready tears. she would +
,,aa' better trust herself to Jack, the stead
going. than to Will, the reckless. /
will give her the poise she needs;
-. will perhaps not always keep pace wi
10. her changeful caprices, but he will a
- mire and love her and rest her, throu
-. them all. If she be calm, phlegmatic.
A tranquil nature. and prudent turn, S
would better take headlong Will. W
~ %. In the humdrum round of life will Ike
- things moving, and make the hol
- bright and the day baoyant, finding
~, her his counterpart. People of decide
ly. diverse temperaments are happ
in marriage than people who are
~ most precisely alike.
ing
hit, Sometimes the question is furtl
The complicated to a girl, by matters Il
len seem superficial, but in way are vii
YER denoting as they do points of char
row ter. A girl wrote to me that she '
sure she loved a certain youth, but Z
,aeu he made mistakes in grammar, "nt
ma. she went on to say, through ignorar
lint through pure carelessneSs. Ca