Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1895-09-13
PUPPY LOVE.

ucl was NuiSO gVotS ny
Sweet 49, Is there IN all this world
any thing sweeteli There may be
other sweet sixteens. but the com
parative degree of the adjective in
the connection has grown rusty
from long disuse. and sweet IL re
mains positive in Kind aud superls
tive III degree.
Aud Lois Tanner Was 10.
From the first day of our meet
ing-we were the children o
wealthy parents and were summer
lug by the sea-sOme intangible
Influence, some inexplicable force
seemed to draw US to each othel
and to run the lines of our llve'
parallel. For two years we haC
known each other, and one day-it
was the third summer after OuI
meeting-we we sat Oh the rocks by
the shore, and as the waves bea;
in rhythmic measures upon the
silver sand stretching ont at ouI
feet looked into her sweet blue
eyes aud knew that Lachesis, as
Sue drew two threads from ClOthiO'c
spindle, was twisting them into ont
cord, forever indiylslble.
In early Yonth how far the eyes
undimmed by years, can see into
the future, and how keen is young
love te decipher the handwriting
on the wall
LOIS l SAID as we sat there II
the fading twilight, do you krOW
how long we have known eacf
other?
Does it seem long, Mr.. Beldenl
she replied, with a coy little smile
1T has been two entire years
Miss Tanner said l, falling into
her mock formality of manner.
And one learns a great deal il
two years. she added.
In one direction have learned
nothing, LOIS said, with a quiet
ness did not feel.
why, jack she exclaimed, :
don't see how you could stand still
But have,' 1 insisted.
'Ho W and her eyes looked he
guilelessness.
Iu loving you, LOie,' | brok'
forth, Il couldn't love you any NOR
in a thousand years than l love-
you after our first meeting.
oh, jack sue cried nerN ously
what made yOn say that"
why shOnldu't I say itV l al
swered, with a dOgged resolve nc
10 be put down by any TOman'
Who.
Because, jack she said yer
earnestly, papa has been syIng a
along that you and | we're tOgethe
too much, and the first thing th
family knew there would be a Gas
of puppy love to cure
Did your father say thar
asked, with the anger showing /
my face.
'He did, Jack, and he says
We'll, l don't want to hear wha
he says, or has said, or will say,
interrupted. 'It be says anythin
like that, he doesn't know what b
is talking about and hasn't th
most remote idea of what a ma
truly iu love with the one wOma
in all the world for him feels.'
'He ought 10 know sOmethiu
about It, Lois said hesitatingl
! 'YOu know, Jack, he has bee
: married three times
That's just it, I grOwled. 'He
grown callous. He thinks becaui
am not a hundred years old
don't know my own heart and a
irresponsible into the bargain.
it weren't for you Lois l adde
ameliOrating my wrath TO sIgI
extent, Il wouldn't have a man III
he is for my fatber-in-law und
any circumstances
Papa isn't so awfully bad, Jacl
she said in exteDuatiOn of the p
rental weakness.
Il never thought he was eth
until you told me what you have
admitted. But, Lois, and
grew hard again, you must knO
that no father who regards d
future happiness of his daught
can take the position he does al
assume todIctste the course of t'
liyes which IN the nature of thin
r must be independent of hls.'
d Papa says your papa said I
same thing and agreed with hi