The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-05-21

When she asks you II forever
You will love her
Don't fall in CONSERVATION
For that maiden's appreciation,
Nor make promise that you'll never
Love another.
BY judicious implication
And a little OSCILLATION,
Break II gently and be clever
Love the girl but not forever,
For forever is long, long timel
"Forever is a long, long time ~ ap-
plauded one of the men. Fright you
are, Billyw
A little later after he had managed
to break away from the piano, Edna
Barns caught him in the hall and faced
him accusingly.
"a man of your talent ought to be
ashamed to have such frivolous phil
oeophy, Billy Wardon," she said i'm
patiently.
Billy was bland and his eye was in
nocent.
"Since that heartless song of yours,
emily Wayne has been out in a dark
corner of the veranda weeping her
eyes out" ~chided.
81 never made love to Emily Wayne
in my life!" he protested.
"You make love to every woman you
meet-with your eyes, Billy" she &C
cused.
II don't!" denied Billy rudely.
"You 90, too" she insisted. you
even make love to me that way
you're doing it noww
For an instant his serious glance
sought hers as she stood there looking
up at him. "This is a grand little old
Sfe-notl" he said, with a pathetic
grin. emily Wayne loves mel love
you-you love Jim Bradley-and Jim
loves Emily. Outside of that we're all
as happy as bunch of pickpockets at
prison wardens' convention" And
he moved off gloomily toward the We
randa in search of the grieving Emily,
while Edna watched him go with q
perplexed little smile on her lips.
But he did not find Emily, although
he did find Jim Bradley, smoking
moodily.
"Jim," said Billy, "what we want In
this world don't amount to much, but
what the women want-that's differ
ent Now, want Edna, and you want
Emily-but women being contrary,
Edna wants you, and Emily wants me.
Now, it's up to us to make them happy,
so the only thing to do is for you to 60
ahead and marry Edna and I'll go and
find Emily and fix 1t up with her"
"But l don't want Edna" protested
Jim violently, land I'll be darned if
I'll stand your marrying Emily. I
want her myself"
why, you big chumpl l don't want
her-wouldn't have her on a bet. But
we've got chance to make the two
finest girls in the world happy by
little sacrifice on our part.
Finally, after much persuasion, Jim
agreed, but when he decoyed Edna out
onto the lawn under the trees, she was
thunderstruck at his proposal.
"Why, JIM" she said, 81 like you
better than any man l know-except
One-and he is so stupid l guess I'll
have to propose to him myself"
But Billy was not so easily discour-
aged. you see, it's like this, Emily.
I've been thinking about marrying you
for a-some time-and' we might just
as well go ahead and have 1t over
WITH
"Billy," laughed Emily, "you remind
me Of the Charge of the Light Bril-
gade, but even so, might marry you
If it weren't for the fact I'm In love
with somebody else"
"Well," said Jim grouchily, as the
two of them conferred by the front
steps, "your dope was all wrong, And
we're both out of 1t. Emily, it seems
loves somebody else, but It isn't me
and Edna loves somebody else, Sut II
isn't you. There's no eternal triangle |
to this tragedy, It's more like hollow
square"
81 guess we have leased them
enough" came in Emily's amused I
voice, 'but can you imagine two grown !
men being 70 stupidfs
mo, I can't; but then" said the prnc-
teal Edna, stupid men make the best
husbands"
Whereat Billy looked at Jim and Jim
looked at Billy. Then with one and
the same impulse they charged on
those two defenseless maidens with ef-
fective suddenness.
And an instant later Emily was muir.
muring: 1T thought you'd know 1t was
a joke" While the practical Edna was
pleading Forever isn't a long, long I
time-Is II, Billy2"
mot for stupid husband" said /