Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1910-03-08
HER GENTLE
HINTS
II Took Him a Long
Time to Get Wise.

"Ah?' she said, entering the room.
Are you readv?"
Yes pired John, picking up his
! hat and rising 10 his feet, I'm ready"
she put her black caracul coat on
! cne chair. her ermine boa on another,
| her vanity bag ON a third and herself
| On q fourth
Come" she said, I'm let you but
ton my gloves"
| And as John comes awkwardly for
ward and starts on his appointed
task let us carefully consider this
matter of buttoning lady's gloves.
In the first place, she was seated and
John was bending over her. a danger
GUS position and most naturally to be
relieved by kneeling on the floor at
/ her feet or sitting on the arm of her
chair. Then again, as everyone knows,
it is not the easiest thing in the world
to button black button on a pair of
black gloves at night, and John had
to bend over further and further while
she gave him tender little glances
from time to time as though to en-
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not growing discontetnted with his
work. Further and further he bent
over and more and more tender grew
her glances until at last he drew a
full breath and said:
"There!"
How nice you did it," she whis-
pered. u don't know how to thank
you!"
"oh, that's all right he said
And turning to her impedimenta he
added:
Shall / help you with your coatY
Il wish you'd do something else for
me first,' she bashfully said. do
you mind, John?"
what is it?" he asked first
81 think-I don't know, but | think
that one of the buttons on the back
of my waist has come undone. Do you
mind, John?"
And as she turns around and re-
signs herself to him with pretty lit
tie air of helplessness. let us give a
modlcum of thought to this somewhat
intricate subject as well. In the first
place, every time he nearly had the
button where he wanted it, she drew
her shoulders forward a bit and he
had to start all over again. 1t was an
exceptionally pretty waist; a gold and
amethyst chain hung over the back Of
her shoulders; a string of pearls en-
circled her throat and ended in lit
tie clasp at the back; the riot of her
back hair was partly confined by a
knubbly tortoise shell ornament, and
various little curls threw themselves
around in an ecstacy whenever they
had chance. Then, again, she kept
turning around to see how he was pro-
crossing, and glancing at him over her
shoulder, and turning back quickly
when she caught his eye, and putting
her head on one side and looking coy.
An, very, very coy she looked, and
especially so when he murmured;
t That's it,"
But her only response was to put
her head little further on one side
and to look coyer than ever.
/ Its buttoned," he said.
e "Tee-hee!" she giggled- "Tee-hee-
h hee!
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s And as he helps her with her coat
), let us take thought together and re-
0 fleet upon this phase of the question,
F: too. Helping a girl with her coat can
/ be divided into three stanzas: holding,
G tucking in the sleeves, adjusting So
e In the first place, John held it, but 1t
; was in vain that she tried to find the
d sleeves and at last John had to take
her hands and guide them into their
y places. Next, she turned around, pink
i and rosy, so that John could tuck in
e the sleeves of the waist. Very pink
/, was her face, and very rosy, and very
t close to Johns, but John only blinked
e his eyes and when it came to the third
stanza he refused to sing at all and
/ left her to adjust the coat herself
S smoothing it over the shoulders and
| pressing 1t in at the waist as though
!, she liked to do it herself and wouldn't
I let John do it, even If he went down
g on his knees and asked her with tears
E in his eyes.
And now my boa," she smiled.
He slung IL around her neck in
! sheepish manner but it seemed to her
/ just possible-just barely possible
l that his finger touched her clumsily
under her chin; a suspicion that was
/ confirmed by the brick-red tints of
} John as he picked up his hat again.
! Now III turn the gas out"
And down-down-down went the
gas to the nearest point of light,
where it remained for good so Sec
onds and then suddenly turned up
again.
"oh, there you arel" she cried.
Why, where did you think | WASP"
asked John, from the doorway.
Never you mind!" she exclaimed.
and down-down-down went the gas
only to flare up again after an inter
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