Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1882 — The Girl Who Dares. [ARTICLE]

The Girl Who Dares.

Yottoff women who are not smart in much of anything else am always smart in love. Their invention never fail* them, and there is- always a stroke of boldness in it that would amaZe the world if undertaken bv anybody else. Something great, therefore, is always to be looked for frOih the innboent ana ap DAretttly docile young Women who afe driven into a Comer by loVe. They repeatedly show how tiie terrestrial angel rashes in where the other kind would naturally fear to tread. There are a great many illustrations of this, bttt the recent exploit of a young woman in Arkansas is a little Oat of the ordinaTy Wh of illustrations. As young men afe mOre Common out there than in this p&rt of the country—or rather as young women are more Uncommon—this particular Arkansas girl had two lovers. Like a true girl, she was highly delighted with both of them, and probably, just like-* girl also, she would have Leen delighted still more had her lovers numbered a dozen or a score. But as they did not, she had to get along with two ; and she endured it like a martyr. When the time oame to determine between them she found that She had made a mess of it by engaging herself to the wrong young man. She was not long in finding this out and notifying the other young man. Her proposition was to marry the one to Whom she was engaged and elope with the other in sik months. This scheme seems to h&Ve been accepted, as both propositions have been carried out It was something that could be made effective in Arkansas. It is a good enough thing in its way for any part of the West where boys are cheap and girls are scarce. It wouldn’t do here, however, where there are not boys enough for every girl to have one, and it would be a pretty hazardous undertaking for a girl to carry off two within six months. Nevertheless, it can not always be told what a girl won’t do when she gets in love. That which goes for common sense doesn’t have muoh show in a struggle with love.—Philadelphia Times.