Show I 1 FABLES OF EVERYDAY FOLKS By SOPHIE IRENE LOEB The Woman Who Went Too Far the Press Publishing PublishIng Publishing Publish Publish- Copyright 1916 by ing C Company The New York Evening World Once upon a a. time time there thero was a a. girl girland girland girland and in man a a. man in love with each other Both had similar tastes and similar occupations Everybody thought that it would be bea a match match everybody everybody but the manin man manIn manin in the case He Ile was vas more in love with love than the object of love It was a a. temporary matter with him With her It was different The manold man s said old h he lid loved her better than any anyone one I else in the tile world That was quite true with one exception exception himself himself Yet he had never mentioned marriage When they talked of it at Jt-at at all aU he lie would say You are too good for fol me mo It would not be fair fall to marry you I r Iam Iam ram am not worth worthy etc etc This usually enhanced him In fn the girls girl's eyes So she refused all other I loves and clung to this one one waiting for th the day when he might prove worthy when he Just just couldn't wait I any longer when he would crush her herto herto to his heart and say You must b be bemy 0 my wife I So tire the two went on with their wor work One day the man mate had to go away He said sald goodbye to the girl professed proCessed I his love but said not a word about the future He was too much bent on I the prospects and tile and the new experiences that were before him It almost broke her heart when he ho left But she made excuses for forr him Now this girl was a very attractive girl She c could uld have had admirers admIralS and perhaps found another love but I she shut them all out There wad was wa o only one man in the world for her The man wrote letters to her her her- friendly letters But he was careful to avoid the 1 personal saying little about their affair Pretty soon the theman theman man came home for a brief space He was Just the same He told her that he loved her better than anybody but marriage was far from his Continued on page 6 6 FABLES CABLES OF EVERYDAY FOLKS Continued from page 7 7 thoughts He left to go further away It hurt her cruelly when he left because the future their future their future future- was as undecided She wrote him letera let let- leters ers era rs love letters but always he answered answered an- an with the friendly kind And yet the girl longed for him with a great longing It almost consumed con- con her Against the advice of aller all aller rier er er friends she decided to go where he e was believing that she could work Ire ere Just the same She went She found him He was Sorely distressed at her coming He Bid did not know what to do about her In h n fact tact her very coming made him eel I feel teel a sense of responsibility that he lad been careful not to assume He worried about it and the more she showed her love the more distasteful became to him because sh she had ken aken it upon herself to do the wooI woo woo- I hig lg She had gone too far She had persisted in loving the man without Ibis his bis showing a sign of reciprocation So she lost him He helped her to get acquainted with other people and then his visits became less frequent He could not forgive her for following him It is ise IsI e I way of the world She returned home and learned this moral The woman who goes too far in the thew w wooing g of love finds that man cannot stand her pace |