Overdoing It.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVI, Issue 22, 2 June 1906, Page 60

Overdoing It.

Lovers are long-suffering creatures, but nothing so irritates and upsets them as having to wait whilst their sweetheart spends an extra half an hour "titivating.” The gloom, however, will quickly disperse from his face when a young man sees his sweetheart at last appear, and he always thinks she looks too lovely for anything: but there may come a time when this waiting proves too much for the young man’s temper, and none but the girl is to blame for the trouble that ensues. "I won't be three minutes,” she will exclaim, as she disappears to array herself in readiness for some project that has been suggested, and fully expecting her to be absent for at least ten minutes the lover will employ himself for that time, and only then begin the wait that extends from twenty- minutes to half an hour and ofttimes beyond.

Experience ought to teach him, but he is always so anxious to spend every moment he can with her that he hesitates to leave the meeting spot, and she would be overwhelmed with apologies if she happened to be there and not find him.

Some girls love to torment their sweethearts by keeping them continually anxious. It gives them pleasure to feel that some man is at their beck and call, awaiting them and living only for their approval, but they can enjoy their lover’s devotion without giving pain and showing disregard to another’s comfort.