Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1917 — WHEN A GIRL DECEIVES HER OWN HEART [ARTICLE]

WHEN A GIRL DECEIVES HER OWN HEART

What though our «y*a with tears be wet. Life may hold gladness for us yet. It I could have my dearest wish fulfilled And take my choice of all earth’s treasures too. , Or choose from heaven whom or whatsoe’er I wiira. I'd ask for you. It’s hard when one’s own heart may lead one HF afield. The hearts of women offend more often in this way than do men’s. Take, for instance, the fact that a young man rails on a young woman a score or more of times. She will argue, in her own mind, that he must care for her. or he wouldn’t be coming so often. The plain truth may be that John lives in a boarding house. He has no heat in his hall bedroom. The water in the pitcher is frozen solid and the frost on the windowpane is frozen an inch thick. He must either freeze in the chair or go to bed. He remembers a certain girl and the warm coal fire in her parlor, the cake and hot coffee she brings for him when he calls. Why wouldn’t he seize his hat and hie off to Lucy’s house four evenings in the week? Is it any wonder that he arrives as early ami stays as late as he can? It he didn’t talk interestingly to Lucy, and cast sheep’s eyes at her, he wouldn’t be welcome. lie dodges clear of all sentimental subjects. Therefore how is he to suppose the girl is deceiving her heart into believing he is in love with her and his proposal of marriage Is only a matter of time? While many girls are keen enough

By LAURA JEAN LIBBEY.

to know if they have Indeed snared a masculine heart, one foolish maid we’ll say out of fifty, takes it for granted her caller is in love with her. whether he has hinted at such a contingency or not. It’s cruel, the way some women treat their poor, helpless hearts, by permitting them to he deceived so easily. They shouldn’t take It for granted that a man’s heart is meshed by the tender passion until he admits it In unmistakable words. If John grows weary of Lucy’s company, finding a new flame to his liking, Lucy stirs up trouble for her poor heart by setting it to grieving most unmercifully. She doesn’t think of there being as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it. Down she sits and worries, pondering, as to how to get fickle John back. The same story is repeated by the new suitor who eftraes on the scene. Her poor heart is compelled to go through the same performance, and probably yet again. Such girls should take a leaf out of the flirt’s book, and say/ with her: “What care I how fair he be — If he lie not fair to inelT The girl who can control the emotions of her own heart has learned one of life’s greatest lessons. There are women who do not learn this lesson until several eligible men have crossed their path, and gone their way. It is usually the young man she sets her heart against who wins such a girl at last. (Copyright, 1917.)