El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-06-19
Stranger In the Small Town
He Captivates the Girl Where Her
Beaux Of school Days Have
Failed

THE menu in your home may Be

" HE menu in your home may be
the best in the world; yet. be-
cause you are accustomed 10
it, you find a new zest in food placed
before you when you visit other homes,
or sit at hotel tables
The eye. the ear. the mind. the taste
all find a keener pleasure in the unac-
customed at certain intervals. even
when that which is offered is less ad-
mirable.
In an interesting letter which dis
cusses to some length the follies Of ms
own sex. the weakness Of his. a ques-
ton Of interest is prOpOunded by man
OF culture The correspondent says
at has always been a great mystery
to me why the stranger within our
gates has such fascinating attractions
for some of our American girls. I
shall escheW the engagements and mar
riages Of American helresses to for
eigners- Every one knows the rea-
sons But the question is a subtle and
far reaching one Let a total stranger.
Of good appearance and polite address
come to a town and at once he is the
favOrite with the girls at the prayer
meeting and picnic me actor, the
drummer, the bail player, yes even the
prizefigter. in competition for the hand
and heart Of the relgn1ng belle, VIII
nearly always cutdistance the Georges
and Charles and Wllles OF the town.
Is il hero worship, or what is it2
The average Girl Dreams.
To the man or woman who under
stands what the imaginative and r0-
mantle temperament means this CUES
ton would suggest its own answer
While familiarity does not always
or often breed contempt, IL does de-
strOy. as a rule. romantic illusions.
The average young girl-GOd bless
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sentiment and romance in her thoughts
Of her lover waiting for her some
where in the world.
She invests him with the qualities
most desirable in her estimation and
perhaps drawn 10 some extent from the
novels she has read
The boy who has been repeatedly
punished at school or whipped by an
older brother in her presence or Whe
has been the cause Of disagreeable
neighbOrhOOd criticisms because Of his
Oversupply Of youthful vitality; the o0Y
who has teased and tOrmented her and
shown all the unattractive traits OF
the average growing lad is not liable
to become her ideal by any sudden
transformation
The stranger who comes to town has
passed through all these unattraCtiTe
phases in his own village and he NAV
be far less worthy Of her admiration
and much further removed from the
standard OF her ideal than her old
playmate, but she sees in him the OBJ
jects Of her dreams. free from all crud-
ity and he seems to her wholly su-
periOr being
Whatever ne may have been IN the
process Of evolution she finds him her
finished ideal when they meet
He has come into her life suddenly
and by the VIII OF kind Providence
she believes
There is a novelty in all he says
and does; he has a new trick OF pro-
nunciatiOn. or new set Of phrases
and he brings the atmosphere Of a
new world into her mOnOtonous life
He tells her Of new scenes. new PEG
pie
.Boyish Franks Surrounded with Halo.
Tt is as if she had listened all her
life to one air, and now a new melody
is sounded HarmOnies undreamed OF
become perCeptibIe TO the ear Of her
heart She listens TO his recital Of boy
ISL days and pranks- and while the
tales he relates differ little from the
actions OF the boys with whom she has
been reared. they are surrounded with
a halo Of charm in her mind which
places his past IN realm quite apart
from the commonplace, and it is this
commonplace association Of neighbor-
hood life which has stood between her
dreams and her boy lovers.
Whatever affairs Of the heart the
stranger may have passed through in
his evolving period she has not neen
witness thereof, nor a cOn1ldant OF
the other maidens in the case. as she
has been with her childhOOd's com
panions-
When he tells her that he loves her
she does not recall the fact that Two
or three years ago he was the devoted
cavilier Of her sister. or her cousin, or
her rival in the high school
Even his former sWeethearts are in
vested with a certain mist Of romance
by her Imagination. They were rare
creatures. but he passed them all BY
waiting for the lady Of his dreams.
And the accident Of their meeting
the day they first looked into each
others faces, the hour they first spoke
all these incidents are thrilling and
wonderful AMI food for hours Of happy
memories.
Blessed is she to whom such memoir
les and dreams remain forever sur
rounded by a romantic halOi For never
in any ordinary association Of child
hood are never in the more common
place development Of friendship into
love can there be found quite the ceptn
OF joy and sentiment. which result
from the sudden advent of a great and
lasting lOve.-Copyright 1913, BY the
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