Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-17

looking down into her dark eyes,
sm~ouldering in the moons reflected
rays, I'm listening.
"Id like you to tell me- she said,
and there was that in her voice that
called for careful attention, IF you
really approve Of girls letting men
kiss them in that free and easy man
ner shown in the picture tonight?
DO you, Jack. think il quite all right?
For instance: II you had a sister
like me, would you like 10 think Of
her being perfectly willing to be
the girl friends Of the senator's
daughter? Would you, jack"
Jack Stuart TOOK 4 long breath,
drawing Il I'D, rs the rules advise.
from the very toes Of his shoes. as
il were. Then he expelled il slowly.
carefully, through his rostrils. This
was for the purpose Of slowing the
cobWebs from his BRAIN and assist
ing the process Of thought. For.
reasoned Jack d.. right here was
where he must needs DO some real
thinking.
Why. he asked himself, had she
asked him at that moment 10 answer
the 'unanswerable question? or
course no man could say yes TO b.
and still have the nerve himself TO
start anything along the line Of pet
ting.
Unless. OF course. Ne led UP 10 it
in the good, old-fashioned. prosaic
way that had been the line Of pro-
eedure down through the ages since
A. H. - - 81 Al. -.
into the orchard and showed him the
nice red apple.
Wasn't il. - all intents and pur-
poses, just about what Jill was doing
~ that pine with him-showing
him the red apple" by asking him
70 answer the unanswerable ques-
tom
re took another long breath. Then
be spoke. saying:
1T Is q beautiful, age-worn truth,
Jill-a truth Of which man has been
aware since time itself was in bios
som-that. IL q man fingers long with
a pretty girl. he desires, above all
things. to kiss her,
But, Jill" went on Jack. warming
70 his line OF ~ponderous rhetoric. "a
pretty girl is-in most cases-very
desirable. And yet while the man
may yearn 70 kiss her. that doesn't
necessarily mean he II IN love with
her. There is a vest difference be
tween love and desire. But the girl
who conserves her kisses for the
man she viii some day love gives
that man far more than does the
girl whose lips have been given 10
Ten. Dick and Joseph.
And By tn very same token" con-
timed Jack. convinced that his stuff
vas getting over great. "odd as IL
seems. n is nevertheless n fact. as
the poet 80 truthfully said, that what
so definitely applies TO q girl does
not, IN all cases. apply to a nan Let
IS 20, for illustration, 10 the poet,
consider his line, and get wise!"
Please hcarken unto me. I pray;
The Young man lives for love and
play.
And 80 may he in Youths heyday
Kiss June IN April. or he may
Kiss April. too, then fit away
Another June, another May.
Another April Fool. we'll say.
In just the same old ~blithsome, gay.
InsoGciant. careless. t~houghtless way
He kissed the first dear girls
Hooray."
"Nery clever. Jaeky boy" comment
ed Jill, not. however, with any
marked enthusiasm. "0f course" she
went on, 1t is because ] am so lack
ing in appreciation Of poetry, 4
suppose, that your lines fail to inn
press me greatly, Still. I'm not so
dull that / fail TO catch the drift Of
your meaning in reciting them to me.
| asked you il you thought il was
quite proper for girls 70 let their boy
friends kiss them as shown in that
picture tonight. In your answer you
avoid the point BY rambling around
Robin Hoods barn as tn saying is.
and then finish by dishing up q mess
Of silly verse;
"All right, Jack Stuart. II you don't
don't want 20 talk sense, you don't
want 10 talk sense, you don't have
10. Just tn same. I'm going TO let
you in on a little secret: Jill's boy
friends don't kiss her. Not because
they don't try-it isn't that. but
well. they Just don't. that's ALL
70 umight remind me If you wanted
70 be mean. that YOU haven't given
me any reason 70 feel worried. I'm
not worried. II is just that | want
TO know that, however much I'm
like tn average flapper in other
way. I'm at least different in that
respect"
Clever. Jill! She had left IL en-
tirely up TO him-providing he carry
the matter through along the pre-
seribed lines Of the well-known Vic
torian period. Jill's hoy friends
as boy friends-did not kiss her.
Neither dId-oT could-would-be
lovers. " that was all they expected
ia ne. She made the matter quite
plain. he could take it-or leave It
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