The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-01

nounced before Christmas"
AN right-hnsh-that's the step of q
rank OUTSIDER :.,o It. proved to be
'Hideous, isn't she?' somebody COM
mented. as the. sounds Of gravel crunch
ing became fainter. But she wears a
splendid solitaire, and anyhow yon would
know she was engaged by the way she
sits and beams into futurity and mar
rows her eyes into affectionate little Sits
when the kids heave in 81 ght."
"Well. she's reached the end of her
troubles them
'Umph,' contemptuously; lone end"
;. "How do you know? Did you ever try
itw~Yss es.9
I'm January, for instance, and it lasted
well say over the spring?''
"What broke it?''
''Broke it? Rubber's nothing to it,
lust grew too attenuated to survivor"
And you with an L. L.?"
"Mhy not? He's on the other side"
"Where's your ring?'
Goose! | couldn't wear that and
am thinking Of swearing off for the rest
Of the SEASON. which called forth
bowls of derision, and the Continuous
Performance recited relevantly:
Three young maidens agreed to forego
Said they, "such gyrations produce asita.
CaEdiacal as well as of toe"
Here comes Di."
"Plus 'Chum?"
"'Of course" (Rapid arrangement of
hair, skirts, ribbons, hands-everything-
followed by graceful passivity and an ex-
preston Of ingenious surprise as the two
came into view. The girl was carrying
high-shouldered old blue rose jar and
an armful Of wlde-petalled yellow roses.
She established herself in the sun on the
bottom step to arrange them, and the
on the Swallowed piazza. They were ter
rors-the set at the inn that summer.
Their previous season there had given
them sense Of proprietorship. Di was
a newcomer, and they resented her hav-
ing openly turned down four men and
safely be turned loose in the midst of
their many charms. And Di, with her
yellow roses and her old-blue jar, i'm
mensely enjoyed the situation, being mis-
tress Of it. She knew her 'chum." she
knew those other girls and strange to re-
late, she was on pretty intimate terms
with herself, and she had no fear. Un-
til-well, until another woman came to
the inn-a woman strong and generous
and ,good, to look upon, a woman who
could walk steadily, gracefully, through
her early thirties, and was not afraid to
sit in the all-revealing sunlight; woman
toward whose fair, frank brow Di saw
her "chum's" eyes stray once and again:
With the X-rayness of intuition the girl
realized there was reverential apprecia-
ton in those few glances more dangerous
to their chumship than pillows Of flirt-
ing would be-. And yet they were only
chums-there was nothing to be said,
nothing to be done. They came to know
each other after a while-the two WON
heart and the fact that she had the
subtlest Of all rivals to cope with-a
woman she could not dislike.
The weeks slipped away, and with
them some Of the color from Dis cheeks.
little Of the spring from her step, but
under all the froth and nonsense was
plucky little soul, and she played her part
woman care? Scratch a woman and you
find tiger, devil or an angel. More
over, you never can tell. Angels wear
no earmarks and devils hide their horns.
This time it happened love had brought
into being and laid bare all the woman
tiful soul, strong and sel6ess-had beer
born amid that summers play.
It was little comfort that when Di and
her chaperon cousin packed their trunks
the, chum packed, too. HE may leave
her for me- she thought, '*but the ques-
ton is, Does he want to leave her?
could even kill her." the pain in her heart
cried out. but could ever kill the want
| Jealousy strikes a deeper root than the
greed of love for oue's self. At its bit
terest it is the dawning recognition OF
another's superiority, the vindication 10
itself of another's preference and the
highway Of its trackiess seas stretch
either way-to the 'ehaven Of love-de-
sired" OF the "bourne which no love
lightens." '''.''''i '
I'll. the set of the soul that decides the
And not the storm nor the stress. 5..r.s5s,
1t is good to be liked, admired. loved.
wanted. 3 And so DIS summer had be-
gun. 1t is good to have the compa nion-
ship Of strength and brains and courtesy
|unfailing-to walk hand in hand the glad
days through with manliness and per
feet understanding sympathy-and mer-
riment to spare. And so. DIS summer
had beer, spent. :. 1t is good, too. to grow,
to love, to suffer. And so DIS summer
closed. =. " - s.5 ss
One cleaning in the chill Of late DC