Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-11-07


It's the same as mine," she said,
'sThe same. word for world"
Miss Flora Caldwell sat mute and
e~restfallen, gazing at her chum.
why, the little scamp," she final
" found words 20 say. IF 7 don't
get even with him! Why do You sup.
pose he did it? Is hat his idea of a
joke? I wonder if any one else has
two eyes that shine like stars over
a temple? I'm going to call up Rem
cite"
She ran to the telephone and asked
for the Williams number and Their
waited for Renette's familiar Hello"
rs that you, Renette?"
"Yes. Say, Lucy, of all the things
you ever"
Hold on! I know what it is. Is
the prince in love with you, too?"
"Who told you?"
'Did he call you a sweet flower of
something-or-other?"
"How did you known"
sob, 1 have n just like it, ano
Flo has another. She just came ever
to show me hers. Bring yours over.
Well wait for you. I'm going to all
up Anna Blackman and see if b
didn't get one, too"
But while central was ringing for
the Blackman house, in came Anna,
breathing heavily, and encountered
Flora.
I've been over to your house, Flo
IA, and they told me you were over
here,' she said. eff 1 haven't got a
piece of news for you"
"Stop!" said Flora. LETS see if
we can't guess it. Are you a bursting
plum-blossom? Is your voice sweeter
than the nightingale?"
"Has he been telling it around?"
Don't fiatter yourself, child. That
little wretch has been sending love
letters to all the girls in town. | have
one and Lucy has one and goodness
knows how many more got them.
They must be regular Mormons over
in Japan. I'll never speak to him
again as long as [ live. Do you know
what I wish? I wish [ had a big
brother that would go and make that
little brownie get down on his knees
and apologize. What makes me so
mad is that 1 showed it to mamma,
and now, when she comes to find out
that all you girls received the same
kind I'll never hear the last of it."
"I1 tell you what we can do" said
Lucy. "We will have Renette speak
to Tom. then Tom will have him called
up before the frat. 1 think they ought
to expel him."
"They ought to do something" said
Anna Blackman, sinking into the hall
seat, a picture of dependency.
AS a result of the indignation meet
ing Tom Williams was deputed to
seek out Okecho Tamura and demand
an explanation. He found the repre-
sentative of Japanese nobility coming
out of the chemical laboratory and
preached the subject with character
istic lack of diplomacy.
you've played the devil" he said.
"What do you mean by writing love
letters to all these girls? Great
Scott! You've got yourself into a
fine box. They say they won't have
anything more to do with you" Poor
Okecho Tamura was stunned.
what have L done?" he asked. 81
wrote to the four young ladies, as
you told me to do, so that they would
know that I am grateful for the kind
ness hat they have shown for ne"
sit was all right to thank them,
but what in thunder did you mean by
trying to make love to all four? If
you'd made love to any one of them
it wouldn't have made any difference.
But now every one of them is hopping
made because the other girls received
this same letter."
Eyes, all were very good to me, SO
[ sent the same letter to each"
"Well, you're not in low with four
girls at one time, are you? Do you
want tt take charge of all our girls?
Don't you think you ought to leave
one or two for the rest of the fell
lows?"
This Yankee sarcasm was entirely
wasted on Okecho Tamura. He wore
a frown of deep concern as he asked,
"And do you say that the young la
dies are. angry?"
"Angry? They're ~red-headed. In
this country you mustn't tell a girl
you love her unless you mean it, and
she won't permit you to go around
telling it to any other girl until she
gets through with you and gives you
your walking papers,. And even then
she doesn't like to have you do it,"
'If l love all of the young ladies
who nave been kind to me, why is ii
wrong for me to write and tell of my
love and pay them some compliments
as to their beauty?"
'In America, Tamura, it is thee.
retically impossible for a man to love
more than one girl at a time. If he
ever has two on his mind at the same
time he doesn't say anything about
it. Under the laws of the country he
is entitled to only one wife and the
supposition is that he is going to con
c~entrate all of his affection on her"
~Ah, but one may love a girl and
still not wish to marry her. Love
means to be pleased with, to have a
regard for, to admire. I hear you say
in this country that one loves read
ing, another loves baseball, and is it
not true that we love all of our
friends??"
"'Love' is a very broad and COM
prehensive term, but when it is used
in a communication to a young lady
it is supposed to have a very definite
and specific meaning. Probably you
did not understand that OF realize
that poetical compliments are taken