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It was Helen Hoyt’s third revolution in
the fashionable maelstrom called “so-
ciety,” and as yet, though slightly giddy,
she had not lost her head.
Neither had she lost her heart, albeit
she was 22, and there are young women
who think if they still retain possession
of their hearts up to that advanced age
they are destined to hold them forever.
It may be doubted if she had a heart to
lose. She had a heart, but her head went
with it, and when a woman’s head goes
with her heart she seldom loses it. She
may let it go into the keeping of a. man,
but that is not always losing it, as the
term is generally applied among senti-
mentalists. She knows where it is, and
it is never beyond recall. These are the
sensible women of the world. Never en-
thusiasts, but always reliable and steady
to the end, come weal or come woe, if so
be that. the holders of their hearts are
worthy. Heroines they may be, sacrific-
ing everything to motives higher than
mere sentiment.
That Helen Hoyt; was such a. woman
could not be said definitely, but there was
evidence to that effect in the circumstane
that three men were swinging uncertain-
ly in the balance before her. This is be‘
yond the power of the emotional enthu«
siast. She may have three men in the
balance at three different times, but never
three at one time. She chooses first and
the man puts himself in the balance
afterward.
As young as she was she had reasoned
these things out for herself, aided and
abetted somewhat by the counsel of the
colonel, a man twice her age, a. veteran
of many emotional battles, and a ripe ex-
perience which had never been rudely
shocked by matrimony.
She had seen him much oftcner than
the three men in the balance, and she
had discussed them with him, not always
directly, as if she were the interested per
son, but ol'tenest under the thin veil of a.
supposititious case, as is the custom of
men and women whose inexperience
needs a remedy which they are too diffi-
dent to ask for openly. Fortunately
for such there are those who will humor
them.
This afternoon Miss Hoyt sat in the
quiet drawing room thinking. The col-
onel and she had talked along time the
day before on this, to her, all important
subject, and he was to come again at 5
o’clock. To add to the. interest of the
colonel’s visit of counsel their last talk
had not been of a supposititious case, but
he had made it directly personal, and she
had not denied that she was the previous
ly supposed young woman whose destiny
was to be determined by question, analy-
sis and reason.
“Ah, me,” she thought, “what a study
the heart is. I wonder if all women’s
hearts are as mine will persist‘iii being?
I know many men, but of them all it
seems there is not one that fills it, and
Alice, who is the dearest of girls, says
there can be but one. And the colonel—
well, the colonel tried to point out the
way, but he seems to obscure it” by his
own presence. Of them all, three stand
out distinctly, asking me to choose.
“My head says ‘choose,’ but my heart
remains dumb. If it should speak, I
wonder what it would say? I wonder if
in all the world there is no magic touch
to break its seal of silence. There stands
the professor, a man much older than
myself; a grave man, noble hearted and
good, devoted to his scientific studies and
rising in his profession; ill at ease and
slow of speech in the tumult; of society;
manifesting his brilliancy only in some
philosophical or scientific discussion
with men; reserved yet loving me, he
says, with an ardent and absorbing love,
which must be the pledge of a happy,
comfortable future.
“But is it true? Does a woman find in
science and philosophy what her heart
craves? Will the man who is so pro-
foundly interested in these subjects find
his will: u. substitute for them? His
sweetheart may be for the time, but the
colonel says there is much difference be-
tween 4 sivectiienrt and a wife in most
men’s minds, and I wish I didn’t half
believe the coionel.” .
She itlll;llULl a short, hard laugh, and
looked out of the window a moment at a.
man and maid as they walked slowly
along, Very intent upon encn other.
“Sweethearts,” she said, almost cynic-
ally and became thoughtful again.
“And next is the artist,” her thoughts
'whisper-e. to her. "The colonel says an
artist is loVely to hang on the wall for
ornament, but he is of uncertain value as
a piece of domestic furniture. Still I like
the artist very much indeed. Of course
he is youthful, dreamy and an idealist,
with the gaze and locks of a poet, but:
such things appeal to most young women
as they appeal to me. ‘
“Not to my cvoryday sense perhaps,
but to the. artistic longings that move
every refined soul, and I hope I am suf-
ficiently refined to appreciate the ideal,
although I don’t want to neglect- the real.
His slightest attention is as graceful as
a sonnet; so different from the clumsy,
well meant efforts of the professor; but
is it sincere? Does he not study it as he
would study and fashion a love ditty to
me—poss... y to some other girl? Men
are deceiv. rs ever. \Vith wealth and lux-
uries luxusned upon him he lingers on in
retrospectnve glimpses ofthe past; his
eyes, dillliil l Ly tuesubdued,fading tints
of rare old tapestries, shrink from the
glare and lust: e m we present.
“A career: The word has a brusque
and martial sound that disturbs his rev-
erics! Ah, if life was only a sunny morn-
ing; a canoe afloat on a placid stream
with a volume of Ibsen and no clocks to
tick away the time. \Vould it not be
wiser to- accept the bread, somewhat
thickly cut, but Well buttered, with all
that science offers? The colonel says it
would; and really I begin to think the
colonel is a valuable counseler. The fact
is I like the colonel, and when a woman
likes a man she likes his advice and likes
to take it, if for no other reason than to
please him. \Vhich I think is the height
of unselfishness, for advice is so hard to
take.
“The Colonel smiled at me Sunday
when the third man came down to see
me. He smiled, too, as if he had found
something. But he said nothing direct-
ly. I wonder if he thinks I like the third
man best. JohnFranklin, that’s a good
substantial name, but John isn’t. quite
up to it. He’s a. Harvard kind of a man,
of the sunny, flitting, class day in June
type; physically perfect, handsome, stun-
ning, I. might say, and much more he
stands at the university gates with emp-
ty pockets, half soberly, halt gladly, and
all problematically, gazing into the great
unsolved future. '
”Is it my mission to help him solve the
problem? Does he love me because he is
young, and love is the light of youth,
shining whither it will? \Vould ho b0
the same in the aftertimes? Would his
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prom'se meet thefulfillment I expect—
r, mt. any woman would expect? More,
rh ~.‘ any woman has the right to demand
of lilo man to whom“ she gives her heart?
Is he as sure as the older man? As the
swwtneart of his youth fades before
him, in his wife, withered by the years
that wreck the beauty of so many wom-
en, will he in his strong manhood be as '
tender and loving as he now is?
“The colonel says a woman should not
marry a man so near her own age that
she should grow old before he does. The
colonel, I think, is arguing for himself,
because he has waited so longIr that he
must either marry a woman twenty years
younger than himself or fill a bachelor’s
grave. I know it, for he has told me so
himself, and he says it is a dreadful
thought to thus perpetuate hisloneli-
ness.
“Sometimes I feel real sorry for the
colonel, because he is such a congenial,
companionable, honest kind of an old
fellow, who would be so nice to have
around all the time. Not much romance,
of course, but what’s romance after the
wedding day? Heigho, I Wish I were like
Alice. She didn’t have to make a choice.
The man simply appeared and the choice
made itself.”
Miss Hoyt arose from her chair and
stretched herself as one does when wak-
ing. She hadn’t thought so much in
months and it made her tired without
accomplishing the purpose sought. The
three men were still in the balance and
it showed no variation in favor of any
one as against the other two. She
stepped to the window as the colonel
came up and rang the door bell.
“Oh,” she exclaimed as he entered the
room, “I don’t know whether I’ve been
sleeping or not, but I have surely had an
attack of nightmare.” ‘
“Three of a kind still in your hand,
eh?” he smiled, as he shook hands with
her.
“Yes,” she sighed.
“Then fate must hold a royal flush,” he
said, “to win the game.”
"Can fate hold such it
asked, hopelessly almost.
“Fate makes its own decrees.”
“Then why doesn’t it do it in my
case? It seems to leave it all to me to
do.”
“My dear Miss Hoyt,” he said to her
more gently than his usual tone of light-
ness and jocularity, “it is not three men
you should have in your head, but one in
your heart.”
“But which one?” she asked, nervously,
for she saw the colonel’s hand tremble
and his eyes were turned from her.
“I cannot tell you if you do not know,”
he replied; and this time his eyes looked
straight into hers and she felt a heart
throb she had never felt before.
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hand?” she
“Isn’t it funny,” remarked Miss Hoyt
an hour later, “that I never thought of
you?”
“It’s a blessing to me you didn’t,” he
answered, "for if you had ever taken me
into your head I would never have got
into your heart. A Woman,” concluded
the colonel, sententiously. but. with in-
finite satisfaction, “doesn’t need a head,
any how; the man is the head of the
family.”
And Miss lont, only smiled and was
content with this early assumption of
authority, for her heart was at rest, and
when a woman’s heart is at rest it is easy
to smile and be contented—Detroit Free
Press.
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spurning him?
Oh, no! He is not suing for her love.
Why, then, does despair sit upon his
face and cold disdain on hers?
'He is miserable because she says she'
wears 3 B’s.
She is cold because he says he can fit
her only in 5 Ds.
—‘lew York \Vorld.
The Point of View.
So much depends upon the point of
view. Take the mistress question, for
iastance. How are we to know that this
problem is not fully as engrossing.r to one
part. of society as is the servant question
to the other? It is not improbable that
many a maid, harassed with the ignor-
ance, disorder and general incompetem
cy of her mistress, spends wakeful nights
and weary days in trying to find an au‘
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that We hear less about it. Sometimes,
however, a glimpse into the other side is
granted us and we learn something of
the reverse processes.
“Sass him right back,” one hotel hall-
boy was heard to remark to another, pre-
sumably with reference to the hotel clerk.
“It’s the only way. That’s the way I do.
‘Vhenever he gives me any of his lip I
just sasses him right back.”
A grade or two higher up we find less
freedom of expression, but the same
lively appreciation of the situation. As
a big office elevator, with its precious
freight of clerks and stenographers was
about to take flight one morning, a
young man stepped briskly inside and
inquired of the elevator boy:
“Has my boss gone up yet?” .
“Nop,” replied the elevator boy as he
slowly got the better of. the attraction of
gravitation.
“Then the country’s safe,” rejoined the
brisk young man with increased cheer-
fuluess.
\Vherent the elevator boy, knowing the
thought first in the hearts of the entire
com an], observed solemnly:
“A one ofthe bosses haven’t. gone up
yet.”
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