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Show The Spring Girl By MARY CHAMPION. TODAY I want to talk about a type of girl who is rather rare and altogether lovable. And now that a golden sun Is shining shin-ing and thc air Is sweet and soft, I shall call her the "Spring Girl." She is a woman of many names. She Is "a good sort." "a corking glii." "a darn good fellow." and has a host of others, curious, slangy and loving. But it is not what she Is, but how sho is it how she achieves It that Interests mo and helps. One cannot call her a philanthropist, philanthro-pist, a churity worker or a religious woman. She Is all of these, and yot none of them describe her none of these titles conveys tho whole of her character. She is impetuous to a degree, she acts first and thinks afterwards, Sho Is ruinously generous and beautifully beauti-fully forgiving. She Is so full of quick, candid sympathy arid understanding under-standing that, as one of her friends remarked to me. "if she saw an old omnibus horse limping down tho road, she would limp too, in sympathy sympa-thy with hlin." She I? courageous, fanatically truthful iiud full of animal spirits spirits that bubblo over In laughter, in sport, in love of amusement, and of amusing and helping others. Oh, yes! She Iihs her faults, faults that one may easily see. but tor which few can find it In their hearts to condemn her. Sho has a quick, riotous temper that flares and flashes up without a moment's notice, and as quickly subsides sub-sides and turns to repentance, to an Imploring for forgiveness, to an equally intense desire to make atnend3, and to wipe out the hut words of a moment with the roft, kind, loving actions of a day or a week. Sho In stubborn somel iuics. and riiea off rather than give In; but she never sulks, it Is Just un April shower. She docs ulupld things sometimes and aggravating things nl ntliors, but alio does thorn so luipubdvoly and with Hiich magnificent UioughlloHrincss that one cannot bo bad tempered or harsh with hor. And. In face of a. lecture or advice, she has to struggle strug-gle to listen Korlously, Alas, oftencst. she cannot restrain the laughter, tho lninulne to sweep .seriousness out. of Ufa, and desires to llnlsli tho punishment by threnv-ing threnv-ing hor arms around her accusers nock and breathlessly kissing away all thought of blame and every sol emn frown. Now, do you not ngreo with me that the "spring girl' i3 a splendid rreature a being who brings joy and a new feeling of youth and careless happiness wherr-vrr sho goes'.' Do you not know that huiylri'ds and hundreds of people K've her, and any, "Oh. she Is a darling girl- We love to Imvc hfr with 11s." That those hundreds are ready ami eager to wol-omo wol-omo her as often and ac long as she likes to visit them? Because nix? drives care away: because be-cause she Is intensely happy, unselfish, unsel-fish, and nllvp; because the sound or htr laughter Is thi niunlo of eternal vouth and ethereal happiness: because 1 un merriment, her Kiinny enjoyment drlvo.H awav tho clouds bi" worry and trouble: berause sho makes other.' forget, their f-erloiiHima:'! and ompul:' them to the joy of smiting and laughing with her. She doesn't, think all these f.hingi. "Probably sho doesn't know It. But. all tho Ptinio nhe It a grcnl. good worker in a world that too often fori gett the glories of the .-Minshlne and looks only for the dull, grey clouds. A THOUGHT KOK TODAY, iod's ways seem dark, but soon or late They touch Hie shining hills of day; Tim evil rannol brook delay. The good can well afford to wait. Yo have the future grand and great, The nfe appeal of truth to time. --J. O.- WhlUior |