Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1906-04-11

~ Nd SNOWY, IDout the SIZE OF a
handkerchief. and Il house
Wlfeiy 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
@oeS.'
by Jove. what = pretty girl I ex-
claimed. WHO is >;e:"
"SIt YOU We're looking the wrong
Way" said Polly. and that wasn't the
siri meant.'
Il was looking at the girl across the
street." | said. 'anll she was quite the
prcttjest girl I have ever ~seen-eScept
one" added. dutifully.
Polly set the kettle down with a
tilUIup that Jared the teacups.
OF course she VAS she exclaimed.
'Thn girl acros the street always is.
There isn't a man living who doesn't
worship some gfri across the street.
Shes like the girl you couldn't set. the
fish you didn't catch. and the cake you
didn't eat"
"Ent that girl! Why. Polly, she was
TitiHn-'
'per-oxide"
and Gibso@-'
"Conceited!'
and Burne-JuneS-
HEoud!!'
all in one
Tol.y sighed as She turned TO put a
1fmhf under the kettle.
LIS always that way" she said. re-
>i4ucIIy. The ciFl across the street.
like lie girl he didn't GET. always is a
mans ideal. II he never marries, he
carries her. image about i'll his heart.
ur beg photograph about in his pocket.
and uses it for d standard with which
10 compare ali tic other women he
n.av meet. If he does marry somebody
else she becomes 4 sweet memory that
rises every time his wife burns the bis
crits OF forgets to take her hair out of
curl papers. Why is it, ana Polly
Tilted !ier little nose upward until she
looked almost dignitied. that the mere
fact that a girl doesn't want to marry
4 nam makes him wild TO get her.
"Fn,lv." said I, edo you remember
WHOM YOU were Il very little girl how
Won used to lie awake nights trying
To catch Santa Claus? DO o recol-
lnct bow the jam on tho top shelf was
always the kind YOU liked best? Did
Won never long 10 see the other side
of Tie moon. or eat what wasn't good
tor v0,l. or play With thc naughty lit
I'D --ja,, ,-1,, fop1il1n, IL
speak to? It's human nature. The
Elusive the unattaiilabic. the thing We
c;iunot get always has been and always
vii! he the thing we want"
Folly pushed back Il little curl that
will get into her eyes. and began cut
ting lemon. meditatively.
Yes she agreed. but It's different
with a She always feels =
.sort Of resentment toward the man who
won't fall in love with her. while 4
:1an rather respects Il for re-
fnsino him and admircs her for Stub
hjD@ him. The longer SHE remains on
jhe other side of the street,
.Yllat is it," I broke in. "the longer
she remains on the other side OF The
street. But l have observed that it is
generally very easy to cross over YOUR
self. ard then-
And tEcn she is no longer the cir!
across the street?' broke in Polly
waving half a lemon triumphantly
s.Illen she loses her Illusion. her atlrac
tion. It is as if you had turned The
linelight off the leading lady in the
play. Her Titan hair becomes rcd
You observe that her nose turns IN a
the end; her diamonds are only paste
and her figure is nothing more nor less
than the result of wearing a straight
front corset. The stock market falls
and you are glad to sell out your in
ferest i'll the girl at the very loves
figure. The very fact hat she has
succumbed TO your entreaties or Won,
~fascinajjons. the very fact that sll,
loves you, or is willing to firt With
yOu-