The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-03-18
A GIRL that FL.|RTS
PLAYS GAME TWO MAY TAKE
a HAND AT.
& Discussion Showing How the Aver
age Girl Regards the Pastime of
Accepting Regular Attentions from
a Young Man She Has No Intention
of Marrying, Pending the Arrival
of .sthe Conquering Hero
of "the Conquering Hero
BY KATE UPsoN CLARK.

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Dunn. When, therefore, that gentle
man was heard to remark that he wa
at Miss Millieent's house almost ever
evening, there was naturally some SUI
prise felt
When Millicent was asked about tn
matter, she colored little. and said
Yes, he is here a good deal
But you said you did not hk
him
OH don't dislike him so ve,y much
And, you see. if the parlor isn't prett,
well filled with young men every night
the impression gets abroad that on
isn't popular"
Then you encourage poor Henry tt
come simply because he counts on.
| to make up the crowd? ?"
/ sYes-that is about it. But I can
see the harm. He has a good time
He generally has an ice or some lem
onade-or some of his own candy
when he brings a box!-and we are al
nice TO him. y
suppose you must have some
/ young man en- hand all the time
whether you like him or not?''
| Well argued MiIIicent, defensive,
ly, you don't think it is very agree,
able for a girl to act as if nobody
liked her, do you? And if you haven't
any beau at all-why-what a, forlorn
| thing you seem to BET
Then when the one you really like
| comes along, you drop the dummy,
SO to speak?
Yes admitted Millicent, ingenu-
ously.
But how does the young nan feel
who has been dropped to make way
for the eonquering hero2t'
oh, he doesn, mind" aYerred MILF
cent with nonchalance.
1t is, of course. silly to insist that a
young girl cannot receive visits. and
even small tokens of regard, like fow-
efs, eonfectionery and books, from young
men toward whom she has no warmer
feeling than a friendly regard Young
men who are asked to dinner and other
entertainments by young women or
their parents, can properly recipro-
cate by such trifing attentions.
B But when a young man goes two or
three times a week to see a girl or
take her out, and the girl allows these
constant services, with smiles and APP
parent satisfaction, he is quite iusti-
fed in thinking that she has more
than a merely friendly feeling for him.
The young man, too, needs q warn
lng-but this article is designed for
the girls. and the advice to him is
another story
1t may be g. source of comfort to the
devoted youth to learn in the end that
he has been the means of, as it were.
bolstering up the girls credit until She
could secure the attentions of some
other young man whom she likes bet
ter. But as he is gradually retired
to the outer circle, " and sees a rich
er or handsomer or more gifted man
receiving the fayors to which he has
been accustomed, the Substitute
lover" as he might be termed, is like
~ to find the consciousness of his past
usefulness a rather bitter husk.
A certain Serena to. whom this mat
ter was broaehed. remarked illuminat-
ingly: Yes, Emma is all for Jack
Horner now. and poor Tom Perry, who
has been most faithful for the past
year or SO, just has to sit around and
suck his thumbs. It is too bad-but
Jack is really nicer than Tom, in ever
so many ways-and you cant blame
Emma for trying to catch him
's0h, that IS all right But why did
she SO long and in such marked ways
encourage Tom 2,
Why. don't you see, a girl has got
to have somebody-and maybe if jack
had not come around. or anybody better
than Tom-Emma might have taken
Tom, in the end. You seem to think
that a girl always knows when she
is in love. Now, she really doesn't.
Ii fellow is kind and generous. and |
pretty popular, a girl naturally likes |
to have him wait on her-and she does
not know that she is capable of lik- I
ing anybody any better, till suddenly. |
presto, the real hero appears, and her
soul flies toward him. AS that deli
cious western Mrs. Malaprop saws:
1t is Exit homo, and, in this case. i'll
is in a double sense
But she was so really pleased. ap-
with Tom, and said such
sweet things to him.. and looked up
INTO his face with such soulful ewes.
He certainly must have thought she
was in love with him 1t was what
lsed to be called 20 years ago. a .des-
1erate Irritation and when there is
4 desperate Irritation, somebody gets
singed and hurt.
Oh, it is all in the game, laughed
Serena. Emma is bright and pretty.
md Tom had a good time with her
md she likes well enough to have him
.ome around and count one more in
illing up the parlors-and he will find
olanty of girls who are glad TO com
ort him, SO, as the Irishman said.
Lave it go al that!
As this seems to be the platform,
# the girls, and probably of the bows
lso, We commend it to the careful
'erusal of the over-affeetionate and
of each sex-especiaIly
O those somewhat lacking iu humor.
'oreWarned is forearmed
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