Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1906-03-02

Il apron 0or nothing but
TX ri show. about the size of a
handkerchief. and a 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 Jove. what a pretty girlr' l ex-
claimed. "Who is she;"
But you were looking the wrong
way" said Polly. "and that wasn't the
girl meant
II was looking at the girl across the
street" l said, 'and she was quite the
prettiest girl have ever seen-except
one l added, dutifully.
Polly set the kettle down with
thump that Jared the teaeups
"Of course she wasg' she exclaimed.
1.-THE girl across the street always is.
There isn't a man living who doesn't
worship some girl across the street
She's like the girl you couldn't get, the
fish you didn't catch, and the cake you
didn't eat"
"But that girl! why. Folly. She was
Titan"
"Per-oxider
and Gibson"
"Conceitedr'
and Burne- -Joues--"
"Loudr'
all in oneg
Polly sighed as she turned to put
light under the kettle.
ITS always that way" she said re.
signedly. "The girl across the street.
like the girl he didn't get. always is a
mans ideal. If he never marrles. he
carries her image about in his heart,
or her photograph about in his pocket.
and uses it for a 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 to take her hair out of |
curl papers. Why is it?" and Polly |
tilted her little nose upward until she |
looked almost dignified, "that the mere
fact that girl doesn't want to marry
a man makes him wild to get her?n
Polly" said !, "do you remember
when you were very little girl how
you used to lie awake nights trying
to catch Santa Claus? Do you reeol-
lect how the jam on the top shelf was
always the kind you liked best? Did
you never long to see the other side
of the moon, or eat what wasn't good
for you, or play with The naughty lit
tie girl whom you We're forbidden to
speak to? It's human nature The
illusive. the unattainable, the thing we
cannot get always has been and always
will be the thing we want"
Polly pushed back a little curl that
will get into her eyes, and began cut
ting lemon, meditatively.
Yes" she agreed. "but it's different
with woman. She always feels a
sort of resentment toward the man who
won't fall in love with her while
man rather respects a woman for re-
fusing him and admires her for snub,
hing him. The longer she remains on
the other side of the street."
THAT is it, broke in, "the longer
she remains on the other side of the
street But 1 have observed that it is
generally very easy TO cross over your
self, and then 4
and then she is no longer the girl
across the street?' broke in Polly
waying half a lemon triumphantly.
Then she loses her Illusion, her attrac-
ton 1t is as if you had turned the
limelight off the leading lady in the
play. Her Titan hair becomes red:
you observe that her nose turns m al
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=
terest in the girl at the very lowest
figure. The very fact that she has
suecumhed TO your entreaties or your
the very fact that she
loves you. OF is willing to nlrt with ]
you-"
Polly, will youput down that lemon?
1t is taking the color out OF me al.
readyYs
Polly subsidized.
let me ask YOU" went on. seri- |
Dusly. "why, If you girls know all this, ,
DO you SO often cross the street your
selvesy'
What do you mean:" said Polly. I
"You send us sofa pillows" | re- ,
Iorted.
Polly WINGED
And neektle cases" went on. "and /
Invite us TO violet tens" /
hr Hcayyfeather" said Polly, sYlu /
I0u Kindly pass tue suaar?