The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-07-19
H OTHER MAN:
How the First "Made Good" in Place OF
the Second.

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The Average Sort of Girl said to the
Commonplace Young Man: 81 met that
very interesting Mr.. Yallery about
three weeks ago. and we-mamma and
I-have seen a good deal Of him since
then"
"You are trying to make me franti-
caily Jealous" said the Commonplace
Young Man. I'm not going to be,
though"
"The ideaw said the girl. "I'd like
to know what right you have to be
Jealous"
81 said I wasn't going to be. What
makes him Interestingly:
HE says such nice things"
"Taffy, eh?"
"You are horrid."
81 know 1 am. I always recognized
my own little defects and limitations.
Perhaps I could improve if l had the
benefit of q good example. Tell me
what nice things he says"
"Well, in the cause of education per-
haps I might be excused if 1 did. He
said the gown 1 wore that night was q
poem"
"What sort Of a poem-dialect hui
morous, short d. long? 1t seems to me
that was a little Indefinite
That's your material point of view.
He meant, of course, that it had a
beautiful harmony and that it appealed
to the poetic and artistic nature"
ooh, if he meant that it was all
right. I'd never have thought Of it,
though"
"Of course you wouldn't"
"No, I don't think I would have no
ticed your dress, even-not while l had
something prettier to look at"
"You r complimentary, I must
say"
"Your face, for instance"
"Well, that isn't 80 bad. perhaps"
II don't see anything to make a fuss
about because you wore something that
you set off to advantage. You do that
with anything you wear. Now, take
that waist you are distinguishing. It's
just a shirt waist. isn't it,"
81 think it's rather a nice one"
II think so, too, but I'm not a judge.
I wouldn't call it a poem, for instance.
I'd call it a shirt waist. If it was on
any other girl but you I wouldn't give
it q second look. What else did he
say"
"He said.I was as fair as a flower"
"There it is again! No specifications
at all. What sort of q fower-a holly
hook. a tuberOse or what? For all you
know he might have been trying to in.
sinuate that you were a r~hododendron.
I wouldn't stand for that if I were a
girl"
81 think it was nice"
81 don't. 1 think you've got the flow.
err garden faded. I'm no horticulturist,
but as far as my taste goes I'd quit a
bower of roses any time you crooked a
finger at me. Now, it seems to me so
far that your interesting friend hasn't
made good"
Don't you think he has"
81 do not. Comparing you with mag.
azine poetry and climbing nasturt1ums!
Honest, I wouldn't compare you with
anything that I eve saw"
mo"
"Sure not. When I take q good
square look at you, you don't put me in
mind of things. I wouldn't say your
eyes were as a stack of black cats or
that your lips were a coral reef or your
form had the grace Of a gazelle. My
mind isn't running on natural history
or literature or botany. Your eyes are
in q class by themselyes-same way
with your lips and your nose, and that
aimple you're showing now. No, l
throw up my hands. You'll never make
a good joilier of me-"
"Oh, I don't know" said the girl.
"You're doing very well, I think-bet-
ter than 1 expected. Go on.'-Chicago
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