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I Platonics. 1j
By BEATRICE BENNETT. |<
Copyright. 1907, by P. C. Eastment. Jj
Deep down In her own heart every
fvoman has a pet theory. It may have j
been exploded a number of times to I
her; apparent satisfaction, but secretly 1
and with feminine Inconsistency she
clings to it ,
Alicia bad such a. theory, but she did
not keep it buried in so ina6cessible a j
dungeon as the bottom of her heart. ]
Indeed, she wore it on her sleeve. Tt ]
was her favorite theme of discourse, i
and the more it was disproved the I
more persistently did she revive it and '
champion it
with
her and promptly proceeding to disprove
them, to that young woman's
outward disgust and secret satisfaction.'
Her hobby was platonics?specifically,
platonlc love.
"It has been proved to me conclusively,"
argued Alicia, with delightful
confidence, as flanked on one side by
the ample person of Richard Corrlgan
and on the other by her squatty little
dachshund Pretzel she strolled toward
ho crroot ntnno p-nrrtpn sent near the t
OgV4? o
sundial.
"Yes," her companion replied in
doubtful acquiescence, "to you. But
how about the other fellpw? Was he
convinced?"
"Dl6k, how silly! Who ever beard of
platonic love that wasn't platonic on
both sides? How little you know of I
the subject!" scoffed Alicia with a
mirthful little laugh.
"And yet I have known you?how
long is it?"
"Seven months," promptly.
"And you ride your hobbyhorse at
least every other time 1 see you," he
said, not without marked intent.
Alicia assumed a wholly unsuccessful
air of hauteur. "Oh. I beg your
pardon. I'm very sorry I've bored you.
I shall avoid the topic in future," she
said distantly.
"Not at all, my dear Alicia. I assure
you It rather amuses rae," argued
Corrigan, observing her aggrieved attitude
with little discomfort to himself.
"In fact, 1 don't know when
any one subject has kept me interested
for so long a time."
"Indeed!" The comment was pregnant
with feeling.
It was the tirst time Alicia's self j
styled philosophy had been so derided, j
and it nettled her.
"I should be apt to accept that as a
compliment," ventured C'orrigan. lie !
had l>een watching her pull a crimson j
rambler to pieces and scatter it over
her tiny white shoes.
Apparently she had not heard.
"I say, Alicia," he persisted.
"When you are ready to open a subject
that may be of more interest than
any I am able to suggest I shall be
giad to talk to you," she said icily.
Corrigan smiled broadly, but surreptitiously.
Had Alicia seen him thus
amused he would have been left with
only the crimson ramblers for companions.
"But, upon my word, Alicia, I am interested,"
he said earnestly. "I've never
been so absorbed in a study in ray
life. Why, my dear girl, if it weren't
for my?my belief in platonic love I
might never have known you so well."
Alicia confronted him with a half
smile that, even in its semicompietion,
was most attractive.
I
;w Tack. ^
ing, business slack,
; just try a new tack!
jId suddenly rise,
r, to wit: ADVERTISE!
"That's the Irish ! you, Dick! You
always manage to say something that
will make the worst case of 'mad' turn
to Joy," she said, removing her big
droopy hat and daflgling it by the '
BtringB. "That's one reason why I
love to be friends with you."
"Then it is true that God Is good to
the Irish," he laughed, and. subtle as it
was, Alicia extracted the compliment
and beamed good nature on him again.
"You see. Dick," she began as if she 1
were commencing a fairy story to an
Incredulous child, "It Is so?well, it is
3uch a tremendous comfort to be just ,
Friends with a man."
"Yes," said Dick readily, "I'm friends J
with several."
"Silly! I mean for a girl. She can 1
go about with him, ask him to do this 1
and that for her and feel that she is
not putting herself under obligatlonTLf
she's only friends with him, whereas,
if he's in love with her, he expects
tier to marry him and?and it Just1 'j
spoils everything!"
"I'm Jolly glad I'm no^aentin^rpj^p
"Too can have sentiment without being
sentimental," she hastened to explain."
And for some reason or other a
flush stained her cheeks, and her eyes
drooped.
"It's Just as clear as?as mud." Corrlgan
laughed In spite of his efforts to
be serious.
Alicia's eyes flashed.
"See here, Dick Corrlgan, I believe
you are making fun of me. Deep down
In my own heart I know from your
own actions and your whole attitude
toward me that you agree with me.
but Just to amuse yourself you make
fun of me. I'm sure you like me." she
went on, "Just as I like you, or you
wouldn't seek me out and waul- to be
with me day after day, as you do, and
that?that very fact proves to me that
you are In sympathy with my own attitude.
We are friends, and you know
it" she declared challengingly. Then
she rose abruptly from the stone seat
and walked over to the balustrade
with her bpck toward him. "Come,
Pretzel," she said Imperatively, as If
calling her dog from a contaminating
Influence.
Corrlgan began to whistle very soft
jy to nimseir wnue me smuu duicu
dog eyed him accusingly.
"Alicia," said Corrigan's deep voice
fondly from the depths of the great
stone seat He had not moved. And
right here it might be observed that
Alicia always selected picturesque settings
for her discourses. The old garden.
shady and secluded, breathing romance
and the fragrance of roses, was
ideal?for platonics.
"Alicia," repeated Dick when his j
first effort gained no response.
With studied reluctance she turned j
her head.
"I'd like to ask a few quest ions," he j
said, still somewhat indifferently.
"I'll 1)0 glad to answer them."
The frigidity of her tone moved Cor- I
rigan almost to the point of turning up
his coat collar, but his better judgment
prevailed.
"This old guy, Plato"? lie was beginning
as he walked toward her.
"Dick!"
Her glance anil tone froze the words.
"I'm sorry," he said contritely.
"But, Alicia, I wonder if he ever knew
the most beautiful woman iu the
world? I wonder if he could have
been with her almost daily for seven
months? And yet. no, how could he?
He lived B. C."
In spite of herself Alicia dimpled.
"It was beauty of mind, mental excellencies.
that he admired," she remarked
wisely.
"Perhaps that's what I admire in
you, but somehow I doubt it"
"My mental powers are not wholly
to be despised," pouted Alicia.
"No. But an ordMry mortal canno i
penetrate so daulif an exterior."
observed Corrigan.W' \
Alicia looked ImAlently across the
green. Somehow nf was oat of harmony
with the aftMOon?disappointed
In?In herself perh pi
Corrlgan turned tc her quite suddenly.
"See here, Alicia, do you like
platoulc friends b Itur than anything
else?"
"Yes." she said^Bgj the syllable did
not carry conrkj. I
"Better than bands, for in
stance?"
Alicia's color deAl id. Things were
more interesting anl all.
"I never had one.lfiihe laughed, and
her voice was a llttjl tremulous.
"Then it's onlv fli-orv?" Corrixan
stepped closer. .if
"Of coarse." 3beJ?:>lled, looking up
into bis now earnra^yes.
"Listen." be sq flatly. 'Couldn't
you be platonlc f 'HI with every one
else but me. Alic
She did not om' one
the petals of hei* ( ? tumbled down
her frock. Nlf
"Couldn't you?" ^(jls big voice was
vibrant with emotiS '
"I?I might." she innltted. "but first
let me tell you I 1M yon better than
fill the rest. I lika#ou better than I
could a mere frlaTF I?I just hoped
and hoped you A^ldn't agree with
me, Dick." B
"I t's with Plato I (lljagree." ;
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Gambling in met^^^Ioue by means
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being the notes quantities
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When things are slH stocks accumulate,
while things become
more brisk the taken oat
of the stores. -JMr
An Immense amofct of gambling is
done in connection ftrlth "pig," as pig
iron is popularly kn#ivn. Warrants for
pig are made oat irr nnlts of 600 tons,
and payment lfc thadc for the warrants
once a month. 8ho ild a man really
want 600 tons of pig iron he obtains a
warrant which autho rises him to take
600 tons out of store, ml be Trill be required
to pay for the metal within
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Supposing a man t lys in tie expectation
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has never laid down a ay money in real
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* Should things go wrong with him
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to pay the difference between the price
at which be bought Ibe pig and the
price at which he is aljle to sell It, and
so he sustains a loss.?London Answers.
His Discovery.
A one armed man sat down to his
noonday luncheon In a little restaurant
the other day. and seated'on the right
of hiin was a big. sympathetic individual
from the rural district. The big
fellow noticed his neighbor's left sleeve
mi.i knot pvine blm in a sort of bow
did-it-happcn way. T.ie one armed
man failed to break the ice. but continued
to keep busy with his cue hand
supplying the inner inaa. At last the
inquisitive one on the rijrht could stand
it no longer. He changed his position
a little, cleared his tlroat and said.
"I see. sir. you have lost an arm,"
whereupon the unfortunate man picked
up the empty sleeve with his right
hand, peered into it, looked up with a
surprised expression and said. "By
George, sir. you're right."
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Native Afghan historians assert that
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lost tea tribes of Israel. According to
these chroniclers, the Afghans are descended
from Afghana, the son of a
certain Jeremiah, who was the son of
King Saul. The eastward removal of
the soinI of Afghana is attributed to
Nebuchadnezzar.
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Blushing Animals.
Toots have for ages regarded the
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When a dog is frighteued, his tail
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over it. Even Insects blush. They dc
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