The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-22
- Tomorrow Begins the Second

| a new dress.
Now the perfesser can speel any
world in any language, live or dead, and
| / doubt seriously IL Sally could spell
the word Language" right. Yet l leave
| 1t to you, which one counts the biggest
in the world, Sally or the perfesser.
| In my own privite opinion, Sally's a
| smart woman, and the perfesser aint
such a much after all, to use Polly S
| words
Sally's got clever tongue, too, and
| her idears about things is always
shrude. She goes ahead quietly and
does her duty. heading the perfesser
off from the briar patch or the duck
| pond, when he's blindly chasing some
| fly or other. but she amt no fool, and
| she amt got him set on no pedestal.
Today Polly says to me. "Auntie,
wanter hear what Miss Sally'l have
to say about Corinne when she comes
| to visit her.
| Corinne's Sallys niece, and she amt
seen her since she growed up.
| Polly knows her pretty well. they
| having went to school together at
| Beechwood seminerry.
| l saw Corinne when | went to hear
| Polly graduate last month, and dodn't
think much of her. The word too"
describes her better than anything else.
| Everything about her Is too"
| Her close Is too tight and too few;
her cheeks Is too red; her hair is too
yeller at the ends considering the
| color at the roots; her hats Is too
| big; her shoes Is too little, and SO Is
| her brain, and she smells too strong of
sashay powders.
| All that's what I said to Polly when
she asst me how did I like Corinne.
| Polly laughed. but she kinder took
up for Corinne, saying lots of people
liked them very things, and that
Corinne was Jest the kind of girl the
boys oil had brainstorms over.
Well" says l., you can take my
word for 1t. Polly, the folks that likes
them ARTIFICIAL made up girls is the
soap-bubble folke-the kinder folks
that don't count for nothing.
| And you can Jest set this down, too,
the boys may have brainstorms over
girls like Corinne, but they don't have
| no heartstorms over them kind. And
/ heartstorms out lasts brainstorms
You jest remember that Polly" I
went on seeing Polly was looking reel
serious. "and don't be a-hankering
after fellers that has brainstorms over
shaller girls made up out of glass
| jars and hair -bleaachers."
/ ! always make it point to give Polly
good, sound advice when men folks is be .
ing discussed. not that Polly is inclined
to be fiighty-on the other hand, she Is
ruther the other way. She never was
all froth and frivvel like so many girls
these days. though. as | tell her, they
is times when she acks plum silly
| However, on the whole, Polly's a middin
sensible girl, and | set most of it down to
her being give coed sensible name when
she was born.
Her names idary and her having such
1 funny little old fashioned ways when she
was a child, folks got to calling her Polly,
and ii stuck
| | always considered that there was a
heap in names.
I've had to light my name all my life
like 1t was the gofld, the flesh, and the
devil.
By all rights | shoulder been named
Marthy, or Hannah or Deborah, or son1e
good solid name like them | know | mug
ter been chunky. fat baby, for | ain't
got over IT yet.
| Well, they named me Arabela and anv-
| body with nalf eye can see that a name
like that belongs TO little back eyed
sp1trreish, ffirty nerson, and not me. hav-
! ing earn oispersitlon and weighing q
hundred and eightanine Airy names and
airy ways don't suit stout people. Their
Tort Is to be cam and sothing and dig
ni1ed. And 1t has took me 50 years and
two months To live down my name
| Hiram tried 10 nelp some by calling me
Bella, but all ;hd1 name made me think
| OF was fli2nty, sassy. frivolous girl IN
one OF Dickenses aovels-the book where
they Is old couple always reading "rile
Rise and Fall Off the Roman Empire
Folks oughter bc more careful about
naming their iabies. The wrong kind OF
name has made reap of misery In life
| Now jest the pther dag started to read
book with Il 1e.roine named Psyche
Her ma had saw the name in a book anI
took to the stylish look it had, but being
plain unedlucated woman she pro-
nounced II Pisas and that pore gill
never knew no name but Pish. or Pishv.
until she vas nea'ly 6rowed up and her
teacher told ner that her name was pro-
nounced Syk1y. Think how mortifde she
was, | felt for that girl.
But to get back To me and Polly's con-
versation: | saws, Polly, when the man
comes along that YOU think is the right
man. and he makes all the other men
seem like jest Iummies or wax figgers
you malsqe migity sure that it's heart
storms you both mas got and not brain
storms. Them litter never got nobody
nowhere yet, unless 1t was in Jail.
And don't YOU fool yourself thinking
he's the right nan neither says T. .'ul-
| less you can loo, at every other man yoI
know and not ieel no more interest n
! them than If they was a stone statuerry. .
| Polly looked at me mint CURIOUS like
more correct than me, being higher ed :
ducated)--say she.
| Aunt Bella, | cont think I'll ever
marry at all. | don't believe I'll ever find
| a man that thin..s like 90. and that will
be willing 10 marry jest tempereryly."
Jest WHAT" says /, scandalized, and
skercely believing my cares.
why mean jest for the time being,
says that owdacious girl. Il mean they 8
got to be a contrack between us that
the marrige amt to last but three years.
| That's long enough for two people to
find out whether they can go through life
We amt compa tterbe why we'll jest
agree without no fuss to separate, and
go our different ways.
And spose theys little Polly at the
end of the three years. What about her?'
asst. earn outwardly, but shocked in
expressable inside.
/ "But they won't be no little Polly
! says my niece. cool as you please
'rhat'll be another part of the con-
track. They'll have to be understand
! ing about that. Then il we decide we
to suffer fur it,
Polly Jonesi' | gasped. kinder weak, =
and fur mint I couldn't say nothing
| else, / was that scandellized and me
| bringing her up so careful taking her
10 Sunday school from the time she was
| three years old, and sending her to a
| seleck boarding school when she was 16.
And her having such improper idears
all unbehnown to me till that mint.
Don't look so traggick about it, Aun-
| tie she says, a-laughing Because don't
you see I'm pretty likely to be old maid
and they won't be no contracks atall."
II hope YOU do SAYS I. severely. eff