The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-07-26
LOOKING PRETTYALL the time


By Annie Laurie
dear me r said the prettiest girl Il do wish Miss Marie
Corelli would learn to sing a new song She's been doing that old
What am 1 going to do to make you love me? for so long I'm a bit
tired of it, and 1 should think the men would be tired of it, too"
well" said the cleyerest girl, "the song is well enough, only
she doesn't sing it right That's the oldfashioned version We
don't use quite the same words nowadays Ours runs more like
this"
The cleverest girl threw herself back in the swinging chair, as
sumed a questioning, and, it must be confessed, a rather naggsh
expression of countenance, and chanted satlrically "What IT you
going to do to make me love your
That's the right refrain just now. It's the one I'm going to
sing anyhow, and all the girls in my class" and she threw the very
clever magazine with Miss Corellis latest article on the Greatest
Thing in the World and How to Get 1t" into the ferns-and
wouldn't hear of picking it up again.
"wben are these clever people who write things for the maya
zines going to wake up ?" she said. 1--WE don't need articles on how
to catch a husband these days, or how to keep him when we've got
him-not a bit in the world The thing we need is: How to take
an interest in matrimony as a profession when there are SO many
other interesting things to do
"My poor mother would have had an awful time if she hadn't
married-fancy living with Uncle Dick all your life and being a
maiden sister. But it's different with me.
If 1 meet just the right man, I'll marry-maybe-but I'll think
a while before / do it. I'm going to get a rather good salary in my
line of work. 1 can do a lot of good in the world, and oh, what a
lot of fun I'm going to have. I'll have to be awfully in love with a
man to give all that up-just to be Mrs Somebody. love being
myself-ifs so interesting Tn afraid 1 should hate awfully just to
be somebody's wife-without even my own name to go by
And the prethest girl joined right in with the cleverest girl
and the things they said the average everyday man would have to
do to make them love him would have Mortified Miss Corelll to the
verge of madness if she had heard them.
They would horrify me, too-only l know it's just their heads
talking now. Some day their hearts will begin to speak, and then
we shall hear a different side of the story.
But all the same, 1 read Miss Corellis article on the greatest
thing in the world and how to keep it, and I really did wish she
hadn't gone back to the ancient days of superstition about men and
the way to make a man stay in love with his wife.
1t was all right for people who believe in the dark of the moon
idea and who wouldn't sit Is at a table for anything, to say and to
believe when they say it. that no man could love a woman unless
she looked pretty all the time, but in this day and time, Miss Corelh,
really now, why don't you look around you?
Who's the man the most outrageously in love with his own
wife that you know?
Is she the prettest woman of your acquaintance? I don't be-
it She isn't of mine.
A pretty woman is the thing for a short conquest, but for along
race give me the averagelooking woman every day in the week.
WHY? Well. she's apt to be more interesting, for one thing; and
then, sisters, men n really not srch blitherng idiots a 8 some would
have us beleve-reany they are not. know men who love their
wives because their wives n good women. and true friends and
jolly comrades and good fellows and gentle ENTHUSIASTICALLY
1 do-and I've been acquainted with several men who stayed in
love with their wives after they had seen said wives with their hair
twisted around a comb and a mouth full of hair pins-such was the
incredible folly of the creatures.
Tut, tut, Miss Corellil What an odd lot of men you must know,
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