The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-07-23

the young woman |
with the loagte eye
lashes. Refreshing Instead! And l.
could experiment with him and yet
be tolerably sure he was not going
to be bother and make love to me.
We got well acquainted the evening |
he told me all about his broken heart
and blighted life"
What was he doing with those
things If he was unsentimental?" de-
manded the girl on the floor
I'm just quoting his estimate of
his own emotions" explained the girl
with the long eyelashes. IN reality,
he wouldn't have known broken
heart from house and lot, but he
seemed to extract mournful joy
from imagining that he possessed one.
He referred to it jestingly, but you
could tell he was as proud of it as If
It had been a gold medal or 81 900, 900
he had made himself, and wanted to
be admired for having it.
"He began" explained the girl with
the long eyeiashes, "by saying he had
had such an unhappy experience just
before he came to Chicago. Then he
explained that his best girl had sud-
denly married another man.
That was too bad l sympathized,
lamely.
"Tt was a blow he admitted. I
was mighty fond of that girl. OF
course ] had not been to see her very
frequently of late because l had a
big contract on hand and couldn't
waste the time; besides. didn't think
1t was necessary. l thought she I'M
derstood my feelings and. anyhow,
supposed shed last for another year
without saying anything"
WE'LL" gasped the girl sitting on
the floor. well! Hadn't he even pro
posed to herr"
Il couldn't quite make out what he
eyelashes. HE seemed to think the
fact that he had given her what spare
time he could snatch from the really
important business of life, such as
contracts and golf, should have
aroused fluttering hopes in her heart
sufficient to cause her to hang on pa
tiently in trusting anticipation of
something better.
HE hadn't really asked her outright
to marry him, but he said in a grieved
sort of way-can you imagine a man
who weighs 200 looking grieved?-
he had supposed she understood.
ooh, he really was hopeless! So
agreed with him. said it was awful
the way some girls trified with the
affections of a man and that most of
them never knew one minute what
they wanted the next, and that lack
OF stability was the great flaw in the
character of the modern American
woman!"
"Well!' gasped the girl on the floor
in helpless rapture. did you really ?
Did he tell you that you were like the
rest of them?"
The girl with the long eyelashes
smiled. II should say sot!" she re-
piled. HE looked at me admiringly
and said had common sense and he
wished there were more like me. Then
he modified 1t on second thought and
said he was glad there weren't more
like me and that he was selfishly re
joiced thatI was the only one of my
kind and that he had found me-
THAT sounds as If he were little
bit sentimental" argued her friend.
Not in that kind of man." said the
girl with the long eyelashes. "His
joy on discovering. my charming at
tributes was precisely what he woult
have bestowed on bargain in a ten
acre lot or on a clever deal in wheat
He went on to say that the more he
considered the tragedy which haC
overtaken him the more bright spots
in the dark clouds were to be dis
covered. He said such Eighty dispo
sition as that girl had shown argued
that she would be the sort to stay late
to afternoon card parties and forge
to be home at dinner time to welcome
her husband,
81, responded that any true woman
was perfectly content to stay at home
all day, dreaming of her husband wher
her attention was not otherwise en-
gagged in preparing mayonnaise dress
1 lib VI hio ooSho anu hS a
once asked me to go to the theater.
cover the supper later he discovered
that my eyes were as blue as hers
whom he had lost, only more SO. 'Ht
said they had more Intelligent ex
preston also. In a short time l hat
/ to drag him~ back on the subject of hi
sorrow by main force. He-he seemed
more anxious to talk of other things!
"H'ml" commented the girl seated
on the floor. Il know you! Haven
you any mercy at all? A poor, limo
/ cent, practical, unsentimental man lik,
that, who can't play up to the game
You ought to be ashamed of YOURSELF
The girl with the long eyelashel
laughed Serves him right" sh,
said. r'There are several things tina