The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1908-01-30

tence. l shall also suggest" she went
on as she wrote "as preventive Tor
preventative, which is it?O of so many
unhappy marriages, that in place OF
the exhibit of women in nightgOwns
they display a windowful of men in
their pajamas. The preachers wouldn't
have any jobs them
"YOu would better let me edit your
paper before you stand up and read it
to the club" Georgiana advised. Does
Belle write anything else:"
Every one is out of town, she says,
and there's nothing doing, and she
says she can hardly wait until you
come back and meet that new pro
fessor of psychology. Oh" exclaimed
Daisy. with a little squeal Of delight.
won't it be bully"
Georgiana tried to look dignified, but
only succeeded in looking interested
and rather pleased.
isn't it perfectly killing, George, the
way every one seems to have settled
things between you and that psychoi
ogy MANI"
Kinross leaned his back against: Il pill
lar of the porch and gave himself NJ
to. enjoying himself.
The young ladies meantime supposed
their very language to be as incomp"c-
henSible to the farmers wife and Yet"
as though they spoke foreign tongue
do you know" said Georgiana. her
countenance softening with her pleas
IN ha fnt haC
caught the infection of DR.. Kinrcss'-
we'll, popularity q dislike the world.
You know he is not apt to notice such
things, but he remarked to me several
times that he had never seen young
man so turn the heads Of all the wo-
men-even the married women"
"But Georgiana," complained Daisy
''then shall hate him, l know. l al
ways do hate man I'm expected to
like and approve of. And fellow who
makes all the girls hysterical about
him-oh, know I'll scrap with him."
Gle won't be apt to give you a
chance if all they say Of him is true
smiled Georgiana.
II shall force him to see that de-
spise him.
Georgiana laughed, then added: i ,.
Their himself told NE that if he GiJ
not know DR.. KinrOss he would think
he must be bOunder, the way the
girls and women make themselves
silly about him. But the queer thing
about it, father says, is that DR.. Kin
To al
tons at all and is rather cynic-in
different to women--indeed, rather
afraid of them.'
"What chump!' cried Daisy con-
temptuously. That's worse yet. No,
George, l refuse to like that man.
And if you don't jilt him shall:'
"Jilt him? trust my relations with
him will be on a plane too high to ad
init of the possibility of any such vul-
garity as jilting! A girl always knows
It when man is going to propose to
her and".-
ooh, no, she doesn't, Gc0rgiana. l
have often thought q man going To
propose to me-and he eli
Father told me-" continued Georgl-
ana, scarcely needing Daisy's Eighty
interpretations, that it was comfort
to know that was not capable Of the
weakness of such infatuation and that
my self pOise would always save me
from making that kind of fool of my
SELF"
"Well, l should think sOr' exclaimed
Daisy warmly. "Oh, won't lie have to
go way back and sit down when he
falls in love with you. I can hardly
wait until see itr'
wouldn't it be-eh-well, amusing
Georgiana granted, clasping her shape
~ hands about her knees and looking
dreamy, ''if after his adamantine front
to all the other girls he should thaw to
me?"
every amusing, indeed" thought
Kinross.)
(Which of course he WILL" affirmed
Daisy dogmatically, "for you're not
like the other girls-you're on highe-
plane"
"And so is he," said Georgiana III
cidly, accepting Daisy's tribute COM
placently.
Perhaps" Daisy reluctantly con-
coded, "but he must be perfectly hor-
rid-a conceited prig-with all the girls
fiattering him SO idiotically."
1--WE shall cure him of that" Georgi-
ana smiled, her tongue suggesting pro-
prietorship which Kinross couldn't help
thinking a little gratuitous.
"Father considers him able" Georgi-
ana went on. But she added. Il
have heard him say of him that he had
"A sarcastic tongue Now. sarcasm. >
she dogmatized, lis not the expression
Of high plane of thought, and per-
haps," she said earnestly, Il may be
able to help him to see life more sweet
ly and sanely."
C'Not If 1 have any influence with
myself" was Kinross' mental COM
ment)
While they talked Daisy had now
and then cast rather uneasy glances
at Peter and Mrs. Morningstar. and
she now leaned down and said some
thing in lowered voice to Georgiana
Georgiana shook her head and an
swered aloud: "You need not be afraid.
Their plane is so far below that Of
ourselves, Daisy, that they scarcely
catch the sound of our voices when we
speak, but if you feel any apprehen-
siOns"- GeOrgiana rose and shook out
her skirts.
Daisy dropped her handful of goose
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