Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-17
The Girl and Her Chu1n
BY PHOEBE FORREST

her own case when some other Bob has ap-
peared upon the scene.
But the other Bob hasn't come yet, and con-
sequently she feels lost without her chum. She
has to hunt some other girl up on Saturday
afternoons and somehow or other the show isn't
half as enjoyable it used to be, nor the matt
nee idol half so handsome. She cannot help
feeling that Bob is an interloper, and she hates
herself for the feeling
Just before the wedding however. she and
Sophie come nearer to the old intimacy than
they have come for months, for Susie is to be
maid OF honor Susie is at Sophie's house all
the time, sewing on her chum's trous-
seau and doing million little things connected
with the wedding. She sees to the invitations
and the floral decorations the breakfast and even
the minister, and consequently feels that she is
the most Important person upon the premises,
excepting only the bride for of course the
groom Is only necessary accessory.
When the great day comes she has the honor
OF dressing the BRIDE but it is probably the last
time that she does assist at her friends toilet
In fact, her reign ends just as soon as the cere-
mony is over. At the little breakfast which fol-
lows, nobody pays much attention to her; and
Just before Sophie gets into the carriage she
gives her chum hasty kiss, and with scarcely
a word to her. drives off with Bob
susie knows that her reign is over but never
theless, she hopes against hope. When they
come back from the honeymoon she goes to see
the bride in her new home. She finds there
different Sophie; a Sophie much prettier some
how, than ever before, with an expression of
quiet happiness that fills her friend with an un
defined yearning; Sophie with little reserves
and new dignity; Sophie in short, who
lives now in a world of two people, into which
neither Susie nor any one else may even peep
Susie goes away in very thoughtful mood
She doesn't quite understand how it is that So
phie can love her husband and yet not be as
intimate with her chum as she used to he. and
she feels very much hurt by the change.
After while, however she meets a Bob of
her own and in due course of time becomes
engaged to him. Then she begins to understand
how it is that woman can lose interest in
everything and in everybody except lust one
man. She used to think that women who came
to be Of this opinion were silly, but now she
looks upon such women as being quite intelli
gent.
She can understand now why it is that a
girl in love draws insensiby farther and farther
away from her chum The girl does not realize
that she sometimes snubs her friend, nor that
she neglects her; she is entirely absorbed in
the thought of one person, that she cannot think
of anything else
change. She is not the girl who lay awake at
night to tell all her secrets, nor the girl who
ran up endless flights of stairs to worship at
the shrine of matinee idols.
If she has any secrets now, she tells them
to her husband. More than that, she chums
with Bob now; if she feels like going to the
theatre, she goes in the evening with him, for
Saturday matinees have ceased to charm her.
Women have lost their attraction for her, and
all men except one. With that one man, she
lives in a world as much apart as if they had
been cast upon desert island; and she has no
regret for the days when her girl chum, and
not Bob, held the principal place in her life.