The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-07-17

her at first, and when. TO his intense re-
lief he found that she positively refused
TO be entertained, he reirained with diff
Guilty from falling upon her neck and
weeping for Joy
A DANGEROUS HABIT.
Later he dropped into the habit Of stop
ping beside her chair. occasionally and
pouring forth a tale OF woe, half serious.
half humorous. and wholly entertaining.
Even in moments OF relaxation ne
couldn't shake off the habit Of being en-
tertaining. lie told her how he had
tumbled out at one morning to play
tennis with the Bryn Mawr girl, who had
been the crack college player al college
and thought she was in best form in the
early morning. Not that she has any
form 10 speak Of at any hour" he COM
mented: and the bachelor girl only smil-
ed; Tor even a professional entertainer
must have moments when ne isn't good
natured.
When the tennis champion let him off
he went rowing with another girl who
always felt so vigorous in the morning
Then he bowled with the crowd; and
as the one boy in the place couldn't take
care Of the three alleys that were going
he threw himself into the breach and
set up pins for his crowd. After that
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to consult the Indian fortune teller. IF
that old squaw should die I'd have TO
give up my job" he said apprehensively."
and she certainly doesn't look as IL she
could last through the season"
In the afternoon he organized a picnic
and carried it out wit eclat, and
after dinner he sang love songs. which
each girl in the house felt 10 be
hurled directly at her head; and then
he danced. danced. danced. with all the
girls who had no otCer partners, and he
swore to each one as he pulled her
around that he had never known the poe
try OF motion before. He made engage
ments by the dozen for the next day,
and he said score OF soulful good-nights
and then-he came out to the quiet corner
Of the veranda. where the bachelor girl
was sitting, and told her all about IT,
while he savagely pulled the blossoms
off the hOneysuckle vine; and she Won
dered why an attractive fellow with
health and strength ever went in for
such hopeless, inglori0us work.
Everything went well until a pretty
Southern girl arrived one day and at
tracted all the non-professional men to
her court. She had things her own way,
and e. bew1tchlng. capriciOus. episodal
way IL was. The bachelor girl noticed
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seemed tagging a trine. The evening
bulletins grew more bitter and less hum
orous, and the honeysuckle had no blos-
SONS TO boast of save where they, were
out Of reach OF restless fingers.
The homely girls were not funny any
more They were maddening. and the
whole blamed business was detesta-
bic. and he was half persuaded 20 chuck
it over and go off somewhere, anywhere.
once in a while he Joined the crowd
around the Southern belle, and occasion
ally the wallhowers languished, while he
walked up and down the veranda in
the moonlight with the delicious little
coquette from Dixie. The bachelor girl
could see them from her chair
Then one morning there was weeping
and wailing and crashing Of teeth, and
the hotel manager looked vicious. and
everything seemed uncOmmonly stupid
ana slow except for the Southern girl,
who was enjoying life as usual. The iH-
dispensible young man. the JOY OF the
wallhowers, had departed hastily, rudely.
without saying fond good-bys. "A tele-