The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-03-15

handkerchief, and house
wifely expression that she always dons
on such occasions. Suddenly she
looked up.
Look! Quick! Out of the window,
Jack. No, the other way. There she
goes"
by love. what pretty gir!.' ex-
claimed. "Who is she:"
"But you We're looking the wrong
way" said Polly, land that wasn't the
girl I meant
Il was looking at the girl across the
street, said. land she was quite the
prettiest girl have ever seen-except
one" 1 added. dutifully.
Polly set the kettle down with 4
thump that Jared the teacups.
"Of course she was" she exclaimed.
1.-THE girl across the street always is.
There isn't man living who doesn't
worship some girl across the street.
She's like the girl yor couldn't get, the
fish you didn't catch, and the cake you
2 didn't eat"
"Rut that girl! Why, Polly, she was
Titan"
"Per-oxide"
"-and Gibson"
"Conceited"'
"-and Burne-Jones-..
! "Lordr'
"-all in one"
Polly sighed rs she turned to put
light under the kettle.
''It's always that way" she said. re-
signedly. "The girl across the street.
Z like the girl he didn't get. always is
mans ideal. If he never marries. he
carries her image about in his heart.
or her photograph about in his pocket.
and uses it for standard with which
! to compare all the other women he
may meet. If he does marry somebody
else she becomes sweet memory that
rises every time his wife burns the bis
cults or forgets t. take her hair out of
curl papers. Why is it," and Polly
tilted her little nose upward until She
looked almost dignifed, chat the mere
fact that a girl doesn't want to marry
man makes him wild to get her."
Polly" said I, go you remember
when you were very little girl how
you used to lie awake nights trying
to catch Santa Claus? Do You recol-
lect how the jam on the top shelf was
always the kind YOU liked best: Did
you never long to see the other size
of the moon. or eat what wasn't good
for you, or play with the naughty 1t
tie girl whom You were forbidden to
speak to? It's human nature. The
Elusive. the unattainabIe, the thing we
cannet get always has been and always
will he the thing We want
Polly pushed back q little curl that
will get into her eyes. and began cut
ting lemon. meditatively.
Eyes" she agreed. "but It's different
with a woman. She always feels 2
sort of resentment toward the mail who
won't fall in love with her. while a
man rather respects a woman for re-
fusing him and admires her for snub
bins him. The longer she remains or
the other side of the street"
THAT is it," broke in. 'the longer
she remains on the other side of The
street. But have observed that it is
generally very easy to cross over your
self. aud then"
''And then she is no longer the cir
across the street," broke in Polly
waving half lemon triumphantly
''Then she loses her illusion, her attrac
tion. It is as if you had turned tn.
limelight off the leading lady in th
play. Her Titan hair becomes red
you observe that her nose turns up a
the end: her diamonds are only paste
and her figure is nothing more nor les
than the result Of wearing straight
front corset. The stock market falls
and YOU are glad to sell out Your in
terest in the girl at the very loves
figure. The very fact that she la
succambed to your entreaties or YOU
fascications, the very fact that sh
loves YOU, OF is willing to firt wit
you"