Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-06-11
Souvenir
d'Annour
o0
By MONA cowLES


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fcopyrieht. igiS By the Mcclure Newsps'
\ per syndicatsJ
The new sales girl In the little per
fume shop on Maine street had broken
bottle OF French perfume Just as
, the clock pointed 90 twelve O'Clock,
I aud 20 Il happened that shoppers and
; Office workers. oilers and persons bent
, on business as they walked along the
, busy section Of Main street that d.
, about lunch time were impressed
, either pleasurably or otherwise by the
penetrating ofor OF one Of the most
aIIuring OF perfumes. For the perfume
had been spilled on the floor OF the
shop near the door. which was open 20
let 10 the first warm spring sunlight
and Il had been carried forth on the
fresh air all u suffused the atmos-
phere for n hundred feet or more.
Some who passed looked about rs n
20 behold a tree IN blossom In the
vicinity: but whoever scented II felt
curiosity. for there was that IN the
extract that called up indehnabie and
tantalizing reeolleetions,
Susan beverly. As she hlighted from
her little electric that she drove her
self and put foot on tho curbssone.
orst shifted vigorously and thee looked
about. To her the perfume had po-
tent associations thai Seemed 10 pos
sess her Imagination before she could
put into form the nature OF them. She
whitfield again. looked around and then
heard one Of the girls who worked 10
the perfume shop say 10 another. as
they stepped out Of the shop on their
war 70 luncheon:
TOO bad she happened 10 break
that bottle" with an emphasis on the
that. "Its the most expensive per-
fume In the shop-souyenlr d'a-
mour' only she pronounced 81 500
yenIre damoor.- "Sells for twelve dol
lars n bottle
SYes 4, WINS TOO had and the madam
saws she'll take II out OF her wages"
.I,.s a shame % spill twelve dollars
all a, onra put n makes AN elegant
.p.li-"
Ana tho other Girl agreed that n
was aswcll"
-, g. e,so, hod rossod ont n,
the radius ~ the aroma Of the suIIled
souyenir d,amour her mind was occu.
ulcd Nth the trn,n ~ ASSOCIATIONS IL
had called m A, arst vngue and m
doancd ,b.v gradually shnned them.
ssIxss nv ,he time she reached her
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WINS Aeon An r.colIec,Ion bu, her recol.
lac,,ons wsr. nv no means meInncholv
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Du' elousn ner .nousn'S Nere mus
.a aereennIy 70 Desih WIN. e'enlunny
ne seuu.I'e innuence ., tne peIluino
hau I.s e"ec' anu .nousn she was inI
out OF the ranius OF the swee, door, IN
ne, lmas,ha''on she stneheu u ys,.
II haunted her IKE vision that "ouiu
NOT uo~h-or a sweet haunting meiouy
mat runs through the mind-only this
was vision OF melody OF the sense OF
smell anu they say this sense Is OF
ths hVe the most persistent In It's pow
er OF association. 30 from being quite
eheeriul about the reductions mat II
aroused she became truly pcnsive.
Susan was thirty and she had 20 Of
| ten told haraalf Tint N anlnatar ~ TINT