TELLING HER GOODBSY. Somehow, ean't keep back the sigh When I'm tellin’ her good-by! Try to pull myself together— Wish her joy an’ pleasant weather-— But, good people, I'll be bdun’ Ef the tears ain't in my eye When I'm tellin’ her good-by! Sence she's got to go, I'm glad When it's over! an’ half mad That 1 can’t keap in control That upheavin’ of my soul! Whistle—try to sing a bit, But thar ain't no heart in it! Sun an’ stars have left life's sky When I'm tellin’ her good-by! That's the way with women! They Steal yer heart, an’ slip away, Like some bright an’ sunny beam You've been seein’ in a dream! Jest the minute that you Know You air lovin’ of 'em so! Hope's done left me—life's a sigh I've been tellin’ her good-by! > —Atlanta Constitution. 15252525 05e5052525e5e5e52525e5e5eS 3 AJ ! When Man ¢ Proposes. hd LGC RS REPS Pe R525R525352525252505¢es “Do I look perfect] quired Polly, climbing 1 side of the sleigh and trying the laprobe around the dashboard. “Becuse,” went on, i take off her ves, and then, as she recollected nervously draw- ing them on again, “though you might not suspect it, 'm—a little—exciled. I've just finished getting proposed to.” I gave y calm?” n the wrong ty t ghe gle herself, heginning violent the check rein a i i a horse jerk that must have like Marc Antony. “1 wouldn't even ask who—" 1 be gan. “Oh, you needn't,” said Polly. was only Bobby Paddington. I started. The check from my fingers, and 1 let fail with a thud “Why, what Polly. lt prised when It looks as couldn’t—" “Oh, it isn't that, gould get propose dington—and in leap year." “Pooh!” said Polly, as I stepped to the sleigh and the re around her. “Léap year has nothing to do with it—nor Bobby Paddington, either—if a girl has really made her mind. Leap year merely gives her a privilege which a woman can take whenever she likes It's lik the kiss under the mistletoe, entire- ly a joke. You wouldn't dare kiss any girl under the misti whom you wouldn't dare kiss anywhere else. And no girl woull think of asking a man to marry her on leap year, or at any other time—that no girl with a par common gense or delicacy.” “Or womanliness™ I “Or knowledge of men” “Or breeding.” “Or experience.” “1 wonder,” said | “if any ever did use that leap legs.” “Never,” said Polly, “since ghe has had the every year privilege of mak- ing a man propose to her. It would have been $0 very unneczasary. Any woman who uses a littls tact and sets out to can get a proposal. The dif ference betwzen proposing herself and making a man propose to her is the difference between using a whip and spur. You don’t have to whip a horse—that is, a horse worth hav- ing—do you? But you do often have to spur him when you come to a jump. A man is like a horse; he hates a whip, but he minds a spur.” “Oh, 1 see,” sald I, chuckling to Marc Antony until the sleigh sped over the frozen road; “a proposal is like a hedge. A fellow wants to get over it, but he is afraid of what is on the other side. He may ‘land in a tangle—or he may get a cold water dousing.” “Or he fancies there ditch somewhere.” “Or a trap,” | suggested gently. “Exactly,” said Polly, “and that is why it nveds a little mental sugges tion from the girl to spur him on. If she attempts to drive him with a whip he balks. But mental sug gestion———" “That isa't anythin tism-—Iis it, Polly?” “Well—-a little,” acknowledged Pol- ly. “It's making somebody think something that isn’t s0.” “Making him think that there isn’t cold water on the other gzide?” I in- quired. “Yes, or a tangle,” said Polly. “The average man dreads g2tting tangled up worse than he does plung- ing into cold water. But if you can hide all the cords of a binding en- gagement and all the bonds of matri mony, or can make them look like garlands, or cover them with silk and can persuade him that a proposal fan’t & hedge at all, but just a bower of roses that he can slip over with out any discomfort, and that the wa- ter on the other side couldn't possi bly be cold, but just warm tears of affectionate sympathy, and that there aren't any ditches In which to be entombed alive, or any traps in whieh to be caught, and then can make him believe that you don't care whether he takes the leap or not" “He will go peil mell on to his doom.” 1 finished tragically. "is rein sii the the snow. matter?” t pol to be » rad ¥ pea whip into is the isn asked sure irl u sald L t in- tucked yhe up Oe is, declarad anid sala might be a “Like Bobby Paddington,” giggled. “Oh, Bohby Paddington,” 1 remark- with disgust. “He is Just Polly ed brick wall-—and al feet. There that hedge, if it was ways land on thelr a divine Providence Bobby." plimentary,” said Polly. “And, be fa the ice cold water this time. fuged him—as hard as I could” 1 looked down at the demure little hundle of fur veside me, with one curl and sticking { big collar. “Did you do it for my sake, Polly?” [ asked softly. “No,” sald Polly, ! needed the lesson. His { something atrocious. Besides, | nade a sort of wager with Kit | ter-—" Polly stopped “Well?” 1 “Oh, well- ghould—1 mean—Oh derstand, Mr. twelve o'clock. 1 a nose “for Bobby's. conceit was had ald don't that y tu ge . un- Heavyfeather—by finish ad refusing { 21 conn’ i= with whom 1 and Bobby- heart,” an ear sald [ meltad Snow “Polly.” managed on Pclly 1eath AaWeel Polly beneath the sur said [, “tell me the mental su casze~—~how you be smile, the how you EKes managed IL, him that the but t r telling dat tae Po tO marry. ~ ail 5 nN , Antony hind the reins so suddenly threatened ies. him that who marset d Polly. pursuing him That's most men giri wa bo iy somebody foesn’t th ney efi, and thereby the divorce ight Hh yroposal is always safe hej } a propose Lo y 11 5 unattainable. It boy that there a ” Peet pantry, but man i fou are iling a small cake in locked tha immediately «pantry key.” “Polly,” said I, that small bundie o in my are a reincarnation - ly eyes, cis ol someon 8 searching somewhere, at oecurred to me, vowed t me © never lnien my some nded IMArry “Oh, 1 light that, moet ‘Come again,’ wk house, ‘Pardon me,’ step on his toes” “Nooo,” sald Polly, dare tell a timid man tha® the pas try door was lock