Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-03-03

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has any pride at all in her achieve
ments has a dozen personalities, and
in any one of them she would have to
be introduced to her real self if they
CHANGED to meet! If you are going to
be a success you simply can't afford
to be your real self all the while, you
know.
'In the first place, half the people
you met wouldn't understand you, half
the rest would be bored, and two
thirds of the remainder would go away
and talk about you
'Tm not speaking of relatives, be-
cause usually they are the least &C
quainted with you of anybody. Why,
I've met utter strangers with whom in
five minutes I was more in accord
than with all the cousins and aunts
and what-not I'd known all my life.
"But that isn't what I started out
to say. We girls show our variegated
assortment of selves more distinctly
according to the man who happens to
be calling on us or taking us out some
where. Yes, you do, Annie!" she
broke off, accusingly, glazing at a girl
who looked rebelliouS.
Il hope" said the rebellious girl,
little stfly, that l have character
enough and sense enough not to try
to deceive"
ooh, that's all right" broke in the
girl who was doing the talking. 'I've
no doubt you have a perfectly glitter
ing rock-bound strength of character,
but I'd like to know what good it does
you when Henry dawns on your hori-
zon. Why, you know you take no
more interest in the state of the pig
iron market than you do in the color
of the toga julius Caesar wore TO
breakfast on Mondays, yet you resolve
yourself into a regular blank phono-
graph record into which Henry pours
an account of what pig iron sold for
last week, and what it is going to sell
for next week, and how he is Staying
it single-handed.
cat discreet intervals, when he has
to catch his breath, you repeat
snatches of his own remarks to him,
and generally admire him for his sa-
gacity. Henry simply has got to
have some one admire him and syou
know right we'll if you didn't do it
he'd hunt up some girl who would He
demands alteration and you supply the
best, handmade, all-persuasive, saccha.
you keep it up faithfully he's
sure to marry you in the near future"
Il think you are perfectly horrid!"
flared the object of these remarks.
1--WE all do it," pursued the first
girl, calmly. There's the man who
prides himself on his ability to I'M.
derstand women. Instantly in his
less and appealing. There is a look
in her eyes as she glances at him
that asks him to spare her inexperi-
ence and her simplicity, because all
her sweet young life she knows is as
an open book to him. This makes him
feel good. He likes metaphorically to
pat her on the head and murmur:
! Fear not, little girl! Though I know
you better than you know yourself,
yet will l not take advantage of my
knowledge. 1 will act just as if you
were as clever as I am"
eff you're trying to hit me-" spoke
up the blonde girl, excitedly, II don't
think it is very nice of you! I never
look at Arthur that way, new"
"And them" went on the talker,
when a clustering, gruff man comes
along who maintains that he is per-
fectly Independent of sympathy and
despises the gentler graces, we adopt
hail-fellOw-well-met air and a lady
like cynicism. We cultivate a nice
little bitter twist to our lips and a
shrug to our shoulders. Oh, we are
seasoned, disillusioned, cold specta-
tors of disappointed world, and
many many times have we thought the
very thoughts he is putting into words
30 forcefully. Yes, indeed! We make
ourselves into slightly DINNER
replica of him as he is mentally.
"Then, if a man comes along who is
frothy and epigrammatic, we have the
muse Of comedy beaten a mile so far
as a smile goes. We sparkle We
effervesce. If we don't sparkle nat
urally we put up such a good imita-
ton it would deceive an expert. That
Is really the most wearing kind of
man to live UP to. l don't know any
thing more tiresome than having to be
Eiddy when you feel like freight car
full of Henry's beloved pig iron.
"Say," ended the girl who was doing
the talking wouldn't it be easier if
there were only one pattern of man,
instead Of a few thousands?"
"Tm sure" said the blonde girl still
haughtily, that I'm fond of all my
friends! I don't understand you in
the least!"
at suppose not" said the girl who
had been talking, with sigh. 81 love
vou. Airline, but you really don't be-
long to the one-third Of the last quar-
Ter OF the second half Of the entire
population spoke about at 1rst!"-l