Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-05-20
&rashln9ton Standard
A\I\IERECPTEDLONE STORY.

800 4l' -. i'iii- ~ ihiAI''N an
.I....r - the >lctcLbook. turning to
D. 1~-.>tau.. Society Topics Is pub
H.! .u- on, ii the most powerful serial
.,, -',r.c> II the day. and we've got
:, d.-h up ~"n.thiuG in the same
llu~. .ui, little better. "i course, OF
". -ll,l soon lose Ill uur readers"
w., but where are We to get the
>t.r,?" asked Tom Thornton, looking
ur from his desk.
Why, You will have to write it, |
suppose"
write love story Impossible
Why. ! was never in love in my life.
wouldn't know how to begin the
story or end it, nor what to say as
went along really have no idea
how Il woman acts, nor what she says
when a man is making love to her.
W, Jack, you will have to get some
more experienced hand to write your
luNr stories
go, no, Tom. Your ineXperience
Viii only make the story more reals.
tie, a. a man who is describing q new
sensation always does it better the
lis, time than he will ever be able to
a!tcrward. Now, what / propose is
this: You are young, handsome and
eligible in every way, and l want you
{" 70 to Cape May or the Catskills,
al some other fashionable resort,
whcr" there are plenty of girls to
chnoSc from and play the part of a
lover To the livelicst and most inter-
csting one of the lot Git won't be nec-
essary to really fall in love, you can
act it well enough if you try), and
then all you've got to do is to write
out your experiences and send in copy
for your love story"
"But what is to become of the girl
at the end-not of the story, but OF
my simulated love-making-when she
finds l have been playing a part?"
go, she'll forget you fast enough.
Trust woman for that. And, be-
sides, it isn't necessary to use your
real name, and then when you come
away you simply drop out of her ex-
istcnce."
THAT all sounds very we'll, Jack,
but l don't like the business at all. 1t
seems to me like an unmanly thing to
do, and unless thought it was abso-
lutely essential to the continued ex.
istence of our paper to have the
story"
But it is?" eagerly interrupted
Jack Morton. "Society Topics is
slashing right into our circulation,
and unless We can get a better story
than theirs the Sketchbook will soon
have to give up the ghost"
"Well, then, under the circum-
stances, I suppose shall have to con.
sent"
"Thank you, Tom. You're a
trump"
1.-THE knave of hearts, l presume!
Well, / don't like the character nor
the game, but necessity knows no law,
and suppose I'm in for it. When
do you want the first instalment of
cop!?"
"Soon as it can be had; in two or
three weeks at the very latest"
"All right; l guess / can manage
it. I'll finish up what Pm working
on and then 60 forth to veni, vidi
vici."
Three weeks later the Sketchbook
began the publication of a love story
which took the reading public by
storm.
1t was so realistic, so unconven.
tional, so unlike the majority of love
stories that it attracted universal at
tention, and whenever one woman met
another, the first question she asked
WIS: care you reading A Summer
Idyll' in the Sketchbook!
Even the men read it, and talked of
it, and when men take time to read o
love story it is pretty safe to assume
that the story is considerably above
the average.
The prospects OF the Sketchbook
began to assume rOseate hue. The
circulation went up by bounds and
strides that astonished even the senior
partner and editor-in.chief, Jack
Morton; and as that worthy editor sat
in his coy Office and watched the or
ders and new subscriptions piling Up
on the desk before him smile of sat-
isfaction overspread his countenance,
and he chuckled softly to himself.
III.
1t was a glorious summer afternoon
ut Cape May. The beach was lined
with bathers and fashionable prone.
naders; and seated on a bench, in q
spot somewhat apart from the busy
throng, where they were free from OBJ.
servation, where young man and q
young woman, engaged in earnest
conversation.
$50 you are really going to leave
the beach tomorrow, are your" asked
the young man.
EYES," replied the companion
mamma thinks we have had enough
OF the sea, and she wants to try the
mountain air awhile before we 20
back to the CITY,"
Tho ,,n,,c, ,,c,, cox