Everybody's Darling.

Otago Witness, Issue 2923, 23 March 1910, Page 85

Everybody's Darling.

"Mine at last!" murmui'ed the young man with the reluctant moustache, pressing her to his-heart. • ''How so?"- she exclaimed in wonderment. " ' "Have you not promised to marry me?" ho cried. "I hk\e," she answered'; "hut that does not make me yours. On the contrary, I belong to three bridge clubs, and I am owned body and soul by my dressmaker and my milliner;, ; The Continent claims me once.a year. in summer I'm an integral part of several- summer resorts. I am the. slave of fashion and the servant, of form. Inconsistency possesses .me almost altogether, and golf, tennis, and motoring are equal partners in my state of health. Several specialists derive incomes from me. The State controls me, and depends on m& for a largo part of its revenue. All the elements are my masters, and little loves,, and sentiments,- and passions, and whims, make me do their bidding-; Yours? I like that! Why, my little man, if you lived to be a thousand years old, and made love to me day and night; you wouldn't own a millionth part of me!" '■