Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1897-05-28
AN 0LD-FASHI0NED
LOVE STORY.

Why it was that George Edmu' d'
who had been Known as The
nerviest man in a football game
and the best boxer at college
could not summon mp courage en-
oueh to propose 10 little airline
Phillips was mystery. Bat II
was so. He cOuld not DO 1t.
George had arrived at his twenty
fOnrth year without falling y vic
tim to any feminine fiScinatlOns;
but now be was badly in love, and
that little blonde, Airline Phillips,
was the only physician who could
help his particulrr complaint.
The time was Halloween, aud
George was to take airline to a
party at the house OF friend he
knew all the Halloween games,
and hc decided that tonight OF all
nights vas the time to make the
plunge If he ever were TO do so.
He stood in front of his mirror.
survey ed himself and wondered
how 1t was that a SIX foot man,
with the determined. looking chin
that he bad could not propose to
the little girl Who stood FIVE feet
nothing IN her high.ueelrd boots.
'HalIowe'eu is the time,' he sad,
rs lie turued from the glass, 'aud
l'll Settle 1t tonight forever,
He got INTO the cab that bad
been waiting for him, and der.
I'd the driver TO go to The houSt
If ArlIue-hiS AIllnr he hoped
she would be before the nigh was
over.
Miss Philips received GrOrgr
with the careless almost slsIerly
familiarity, Nhich Is as much of a
set back to lovers aS decide
coIdness would ue. lie would
have liked 1t had she been "A llttle
m re distant with him.
As It w,s already late they
went az once 10 the house where
the party was to be, and were re
ceived at the door 10y Miss Kate
EdmOndstOn, their hostess.
Miss EdmOnstOD, a little glrI
with a ftecklpd face and red hair,
whom no one could cal; pretty,
but whom all called attractive,
received them at the door, and
told them to hasten, as the games
were already ID progress.
In the parlOr was large crowd
of young men and women buslly
engaged in the sport OF diving for
apples. In tins sport, as everyone
knows, a lot of apples, each bear
ing the name of a man, are placed
in tub of water, aud the gIrls
Try to catch them in their teeth.
The name on the apple caught is
sure to be the name of the future
husband of the young woman who
dives. There was another tub
filed with apples on which there
we're the names of the girls, but
that was for the men, and con
sequently of comparatively little
interest.
There was much diving, much
laughter aud much disgust when
it was found that carefully cnrled
hair was, owing to the water,
hanging down before the eyes of
the owners, straight and stiff. Bat
no one cares about hair at a Hal
lowe'eu party aud so that disgust
was short-lived indeed.
At last it came Arline's turn to
dive and, while the laughing
crowd of girls were busy dragg.
ging her to the tub, George Ell
munds slipped into it FIVE apples,
each bearing bis own name.
He thought that should Airline
get an apple with his name on 1t,
she would theu expect the propos.
al that he was muSterlOg up his
courage to make.
AsliDe leaned over the tub, and
bit at an apple, but IL hoated
away from her, and so she tried
again but with no better success
than before. She was persistent,
however, and IN about Eve minutes
dripping aud triumphant, she
stood up with an apple held fast
between her teeth.