The Sentimental Southern Girl

The typical woinan is sentimental, olie invests many prosaic things, anímate and inanimate, with sentiment. She is sure to have, put away somewhere, keepsakes and tangiblo evldences of hours and moments of unalloyed happiness. As a school girl she treasures these in her writing desk or in some extra bureau draver. Whon she has grown oUIer and practicalities smother sentiment, she banishes them to a seldom opened trunk in a remóte corner. Eut she treasures them still - the broken fan that was restored to her by one whose very failings she guai-'ls jealously, for the sake of what she once thought ie was. The fan was too delicate to adniit of monding. He tried to have it mc-ndod, she remembers. Thcro are other things locked away in the trunk - the verses sent to her by a girl friend who was ber bridesmaid, the little faded velvet prayer 'iook, with its órnate clasp as guarding something precious. There is the hand-wrought front breadth of a ball gown, too - a gown worn en a night when somebody whispered that sho was the prettiest girl in the