Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-03-04

III any OIIe VI lHeH SlS WOtllu nave W
be introduced to her real self if they
CHANGED to meet! If you are going to
be a success you simply can't afford
10 be your real self all the while, you
know.
In the first place, half the people
yeu net wouldn't understand YOU half
s sle rest would be bored, and two
thirds of the remainder would go away
and talk about you
I'm not speaking of relatives, be-
cause usually they are the least ac-
quainted with you Of anybody. Why,
I've met utter strangers with whom in
five minutes | 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 ! 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, accusngly, glazing at a girl |
who looked rebellious.
q hope" said the rebellious girl, a |
little stiffly, that l have character
enough and sense enough not to try !
to deceive"
] Oh, that's all right" broke in the i
girl who was doing the talking. I've
no doubt you have 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-
ION 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 singlehanded.
cat discreet intervals, when he has
u 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 you
know right Well ii you didn't do il
IF he'd hunt up some girl who would. He
It demands alteration and you supply the
II best, handmade, all-persuasive, saccha.
1t rine brand on the market, and if
o you keep it up faithfully he's
" sure to marry you in the near future. .
II think you are perfectly horridH
hared the object of these remarks
I'VE all do it." pursued the first
!" girl, calmly There's the man who
er prides himself ON his ability to un
IT. derstand women. Instantly in his
lr presence a girl becomes a little help
IS. less and appealing. There is a lool
ct in her eyes as she glances at hin
that asks him to spare her ineXperi
ence and her simplicity, because al
her sweet young life she knows is a!
!. an open book TO him. This makes hin
IL feel good. He likes metaphorically t,
# pat her on the head and murmur
70 Fear not, little girl! Though | know
fe you better than you know yourself
yet will | not take advantage of m.
knowledge. will act Just as If yo'
We're as clever as / am,
no If you're trying to hit me- spok
az up the blonde girl, excitedly, Il don
- think it is very nice of you l neve
- look at Arthur that way, new
~ and then went on the talkel
: }, when a clustering, gruff man come
along who maintains that he is pc
fectly independent of sympathy an
despises the gentler graces, we adol
-of a hail-fellow well-met air and a lad.
~, like cynicism. We cultivate mic
~ little bitter twist to our lips and
~ shrug to our shoulders. Oh we al
seasoned disillusoned cold spect
tors of a disappointed world, an
many many times have we thought tt
ns very thoughts he is putting into wore
go SO forcefully Yes, indeed, We max
ng ourselves into slightly dimmt
ely replica of him as he is mentally.
Then if a man comes along who
frothy and epigrammatic, we have II
muse of comedy beaten mile so f;
rip as smile goes. We sparkle. W
ed effervesce. If we don't sparkle ma
he urally we put up such good INIT
ar ton it would deceive an expert. Thu
is really the most wearing kind
man to live up to- / don't know an
thing more tiresome than having to
err siuus WHEN YOU ieei M " isi'' y
ar. full of Henry's beloved pig iron,
ith Say" ended the girl who was doiI
the talking, wouldn't it be easier
there were only one pattern Of ma
instead Of few thousands"
I'm sure, said the blonde girl, ST
.he haughtily, that I'm fond of all II
ne friends. | don't understand you
po the least!"
~ suppose not" said the girl w
had been talking, with a sigh. Il 10
you, Airline but you really don't
ing long to the one third of the last qui
go ter of the second half of the emit
Tub population | spoke about at first"
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