New Britain herald., 1928-02-09

the day when Eve took Adam out into the orchard and showed him the nice red apple.
 Wasn't it, to all intents and pur- poses. just about what Jill was do- ing at that moment with him = showing him the ''red apple" by asking him to answer the unanswer- able question:
 He took another long breath. Then he spoke, saying:
 Tt is beautiful, age-worn truth, Jill--a truth of which Man has been aware since Time itself was in blos- som-that. if man fingers long with pretty girl. he deSires. above all things. to kiss her!
 "But, Jill" went on Jack. warm !. ing to his line of ponderous rhetoric, "a pretty girl is-in most cases very desirable. And yet while the man may yearn to kiss her, that doesn't necessarily mean he is in love with her. There is a vast diff ference between love and desire. But the girl who conserves her kisses for the man she will some day love gives that man far more than does the girl whose -lips have been given to Tom, Dick and Jo- seph.
 And by tn very same token" continued Jack. convinced that his
 
 as it seems. it is nevertheless a fact as the poet so truthfully said. that what so definitely applies to girl does not, in all cases. apply to s man. Let us go, for illustrations. to the poet, consider his line, and get wisc."
 "Please hearken unto me, pray:
 The young man lives for love and
 play.
 And so may he in Youths hey
 day
 Kiss June in April, or he may Kiss April, too. then flit away To love and kiss another day, Another June. another May, | Another April Fool, we'll say,
 In just the same old blithesome, gay,
 Insouciant, careless, thoughtless way
 He kissed the first dear girls -
 Hooray.'
 "Very clever. Jaoky boy" com- mcntcd Jill. rot however, with any marked enthusiasm. "Of course" she went on. ''it is because l am so lacking in appreciation of poetry, I suppose. that your lines fail 10 im- press me greatly. Still, I'm not so dull that l fail to catch the dr.F of your meaning in reciting them to me. l asked you if you thought it was quite proper for girls to let their boy friends kiss them as shown in that picture tonight. In your an swer you avoid the point by ram bling around Robin Hoods barn. as tn saying is, and then finish by dishing up s mess of silly verse.
 "All right, Jack Stuart. If you don't want to talk sense, you don [ have to. Just tn same, I'm going To let you in on little secret ,Jili's boy friends don't kiss her. Not be- cause they don't try-it isn't tha., | but-well, they just don't that's all! You might remind me if you wanted to be mean, that you haven't given me any reason to feel worried. I'm not worried. It is just that , 1 want you to know that however much I'm like tn average flappe, ill other ways, I'm al least differ "nt in that rrs otct.'
 Clever Jill. She had left it en- tirely un to him-previding he carry the matter through along the pre- scribed Hines of the Wcll-knoWn Victorian period. Jill's boy friends as boy friends--Gid moi kiss her Neither did-nor could-would-bc lovers, if that was all they expected to be. She made the matter quite plain. He could take it--or leave il
 Jack stuart looked up at the moon riding along its starry firma- ment. On Fancy's wings he was waited back. and for the moment lived over again another scene. sa W and heard himself q boy of 17, tell ing girl he loved her. Memory rought to him her words.
 Put if away. Jack" she lad told him that night so long ago Put away your love story until ycu are @3. Then .rll if to me-" And he had put it away. Poo, little. weak little love story. . 1 II had succumbed 10 an unkindly fate. to the cold ruling of Grim Cir