The morning times., 1896-09-20
The Latest Plan Did Not Work
as Well as it Might and
Art Was Found Not
to Be the Best
Thing.

annual function in the town. and this
year most of the young people were goiHg
To the grounds on their wheels Rose
was a fair wheelwoInan. Tom Lansing
had been her teacher. and her cavalier this
day was George Parsons Parsons was a
dull companion. though a successful and
rising tin manufacturer. who was in the
habit of being much run after. He would
not have been Roses chosen knight if she
had done any choosing. but. alas, she must
accept the escort who sought her. She felt
as never before the unfairGess Of wornan's
position in these matters When on the road
Tom. with his spanking grays aud his
dOg-car dashed by with the prettiest
girl in town beside him-thOugh. to he
sure. Rose always said she, for her part,
did not know why she was called tn.
prettiest. This young lady, Anna Grey
did not wheel; she took too much care
of her complexion and her hands for such
ainusements, but she managed. as she n.r-
l!ciOusly put it. TO get along socially with
out working so hard as some.
Rose said TO herself row: ''Of course
she can't ride a wheel. laciug the way she
does. OF course. Tom, a man, would
20 off and get the shDwiest girl in the
country. and | have to put up with this
thing He's so stupid believe he's mad.
of his own lin"
She got rid Of the poor fellow with
civil devices when they reached the
grounds. and started up a lively firta-
ton with an inipecunious college student.
who understood that game. She was deter
mined to show she was having a good
time. Tom came around, but seeing the
ground occupied, devoted himself again
to the fair Anna After EIncheon Rose
took her wheel, and. fOrhijding any OF
the group around to follow her, said she
was going over To- the old race track. a
quarter OF a mile away, to practice
stunts" and that after she had given
herself rehearsal she would come back
aud give them an exhihition. She had
two motives in this mUve-Sbe wanted to
lie alone awhile. she felt blue. sls- did
not know why. though her thoughts Kept
turning about Tom and Anna and their
absurd and unaCCountable high spirits.
and then she had secret. una acknowI-
edged notion that il she could perform
some dainty tricks elegantly. called stunts,
which she had been practicing at home.
.he yyoulI win anpIausa and be the s,.,i;,I
Succass nf tho day She JiI MT nf,en care
nuch for such trilmphs bur now II seemed
4, highly moral thing To wrench the viz
tory from such an artificial fool as Anna
Grey.
TIN. old race track was in a field tor-
d..ripp on A UitIe trse-Sfaded >trraru and
sit,ing -, i,s harr NOW ,-azinc rtoo.,iIv
i,,o ,t,. v.,,er was Tom Lansing Rose
,urniny his head tdly he Iauuened ID se.
,.r- ius. ,I.cu She Iaran riding rnUud and
r.und in a worry small ,ircl, with ber arms
fc,d,.1. i, was n sinlnIe thing but IL re-
uuirrd all hcr attention To sui,,, tie ma
CHM. and >,,d,,cuI,. sts ". rr,va,I Il, ,urn
h,r head and Innk toward the creek. II
was g, cas-. of mysterious syrnpa,uv-ti,ere
was Tom standing hooking at her .au, forth
with Sba ,trn,I.d Sbe tried to rise. her
snr,. WAS snrained and ius, then Tom
picr,d nor mn in his arms with 4 most
unnecessary uu,uber If eudearing terms
II dop,t b,,i,.v. ycI. Won don't love me
a,;,lI. an on. NV ankle hurts me sor' walled
Ros,. with t-ars
Then there was a season consecrat,d
,ocxnIana,ions. .prntestations and wet hand
og,s Tom tore up his handkerchief To-
make tho last and he nut guard on his