The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-01-13
Observation-Disclosures.
FORGAvE EACH OTHER
BY DONALD ALLEN.

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There are people who wonder II
Adam and Eve quarreled. OF course
they did. They were rushed at each
other even without an introduction,
and there was no squeezing hands or
walks beneath the silvery moon.
Adam was grouching around the gar
den by his lonesome when he caught
sight of Eve peeking out from behind
lilac bush and he called out:
Here, you woman, come along here
and quit your fooling!"
1t wasn't fair shake nor a square
deal, and the more one thinks of it
the more he wonders that love is the
sentiment that we find it.
They have been loving and have
been engaged over a year" said the
mother of the young man in this af-
fair, that took place later on than
Adams by several years, and they
haven't had falling out yet"
Then they'll never marry-neveri"
kas the reply.
I'm afraid not"
Because, when a woman really loves
n man she wants to get in a dig at
him once in awhilei"
"She does
She wants to let him know about
twice month that he isn't the only
man on this green earth-not by a
long shot"
That's it."
And he wants a chance to get jeal-
')us over nothing, and to stump around
ind tear down trees and write letters
Ind call her a perfidious wretch"
He surely does"
And after she has sent him back
his letters and the engage-ring, and
both have lost heap of sleep and
called themselves idiots, they come
sneaking around and make up and
love each other twice as well as they
lid before"
That's just It,"
IF was in your place, Mrs. Aikens,
I'd advise Randolph to pick a quarrel.
II was the mother of Fanny I'd ad-
fise her the same. They'll never get
married If this thing goes on as placid
as molasses running down HILL
No advice was given, however. 1t
was not needed. There is a divinity
whose job 1t is to look out that love
matches do not become too draggy
and insipid, and she hit the trail of
Randolph Aikens within 40 days after
his mother had expressed her worries.
While Miss Fanny Drew was fair to
look upon, and was considered a catch,
the young man had no trouble in
shouldering other aspirants aside and
having the field to himself
Things were jogging along at an
easy gait when the young lady's cous-
In came on from the west and brought
q Rocky Mountain breeze with him.
He was young and happy and hand
some, and he had a ranch on which
the cattle were as thick as flies about
a sugar bowl. 1t was announced by
some kind-hearted person that he had
come on to marry Miss Fanny and
bear her hence to the land of alkali.
If the rumor was denied no one heard
of the denial
Young Aikens met the wild and
woolly' and they were introduced and
shook hands. The Westerner was
breezy. He was a hustler. He talk
ed straight from the shoulder. He as
serted he was after a bride to share
the scenery with him and eat her Dor
ton of grass-fed beef that roamed on
hundred hills, and he added that he
gave himself just two weeks to fall
in love, appear before the minister
and pack his trunk and scoot for the
west with his bride on his arm.
Young Aikens had half-interest in
gents furnishing store, and he could
not reconcile 81 silk scarfs with Jack
boots and SLOUGH hats. After 80 sec
onds consideration he concluded to
hate his cousin.
Five minutes later he had decided to
quarrel with Miss Fanny, and he be-
gan: Wouldn't it been an act of
consideration to have told me you
were engaged to him?"
Randolph, what are you talking
about?" she exclaimed.
Your marriage with that steer
chaser from the westi"
MY cousin? Why do you speak of
him in that way? Tom is a breezy,
whole-souled fellow"
And you will probably be very hap
by with him"
Have you taken this silly gossip in
earnest?
1T may be silly gossip. but from the
way he looks at you"
why, he's my own cousin"
"Yes?"
"And we used to play together as
children!"
"Ahl"
Mr.. Aikens, will you kindly explain
what that 'ah' was meant to signify?"
asked the girl as she drew herself up
and ceased to smile.
IF you will kindly tell me the date
of the wedding l will be out of town at
the time and save us both embarrass-
ment," he replied
She turned from him and walked
away, and half minute later he was
kicking himself for a born fool. There
was the tiff that his mother was
hoping for, and from the looks of
things 1t would last considerably long
er than a full moon Randolph had
deliberately provoked the quarrel, as
he had to admit to himself, and if
there was any feeling of satisfaction
1t rested with some one else
The trouble with lover in cases of
this sort is that he is not content with
making donkey of himself. He must
be two or three of them. Instead Of
going back to the girl and Tossing
up and having 1t all over with In half
an hour, he must go round with the
air of a martyr and keep the whole
United States upset for weeks. He
knows that the girl can't and won't
visit his gents furnishing store to ask
about dollar shirt for her father and
make 1t an excuse for looking at him
in heart-broken way and limiting that
she has consumption and not long
to tarry. No, she can't and won't
come, and that's another crouch to
add to his stock. She ought to send
little note-she ought to do this and
that, and he keeps right on the don
key job till Destiny gets mad and
slam-bangs him.
The cousin from the west married a
girl in a village five miles away and
went home to his steers and his al
kali, and of course young Aikens got
the news. That was another crouch.
Why didn't Miss Fanny deny the Cos
sip more vigorously? Why didn't she
roll up her eyes, raise her right hand
and say in a loud firm voice:
Randolph, swear to high heaven
l can never love anybody but thee!"