The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-01-20

made any of these unweicome CRACKS
about being Second Choice. She received
them with the long Hand Clasp ana the
Friendly Smile. ard threw herself to En-
tertaining them, voting well that now
and then a Girl must pocket her Pride
end she Laiehs B st who postp mes her
Laughing until after the Bans have been
Published.
Instead of seeking to undermine the I'm
crowned Queen of Springfield and put the
Skids under her and call attent on to her
Superfica ity ard B d Spelling and all
that, she lauded Mag e to the SNies. She
asked the Boys If they did not think that
MAIZE was a Dashing Beauty ard by far
the SWEETEST in Town. and was it any
Wonder that the whole Crowd was Dot
ty about her. When she t1lked Ike that
the Beaux who had net been making
much Roadway with Marie. on account
of the Terrific Competition were irc'ined
to pcnnur and soy that Maze was un-
questionahlv an A~ti-t on the Make-Up
and a Caution when II came IN Coquet-
fish Wiles but there wore Others just
ne Nice Some Of them said that the
Mazie Game was heinz worked too hard.
In this Town Of Springfield there was a
Steady Yor'ug Fellow who wrote JUROR
after his Name and was Prospective
Heir 10 an Tron Foundry. He was Fool
ish about Maize for quite a SHell. hut
when he went ND 10 see her and try to
make II worth her Time to look him over
the Door Bell kept ringing. and he found
that instead If conducting a Courtshi1
he was Simply getting in on a Series Of
Mass Mee'ines So he took to dro1nin@
over 70 see Agnes, and found that he was
the Whole Thing She treated him Kind
~ and rever disa creed with him excent
on one Point. Whenever he would sav
that MAIZE wes getting the BIC Head au1
put on too many Frills to suit him. and
had been Spoiled by having so many IN
her STAFF at one time. Aenes would sti@k
up for her Friend. and say that she could
hardly blame apv Man for giving in to
the Super'ative Charms Of One who hal
Julia MarIowe and Cleopatra set back
and worried.
She kept that Talk going until he was
good and tired OF having Mazle dingdong-
ed al him. One Evening he stopped her
right In the middle of an Eulogium ami
suggested that they let up on the Maize
Tonic and talk about Themselves for a
while. And slthough she Protested. he
convinced her that she was worth a Ten
Acro ueld mi ~ Nazies
So they were Married and went TO Mag
ara Falls and came Home and STIR Wa
zie remained Single. She was supposed
TO be several Notches too High Up for
any one Man In Springfield. After get
ting such Job Lots OF Adula ton and hav-
ing at least six pulsating Courtiers kneel-
ing on her Sofa Pillows every Evening
ID would have been q Tame Let Down TO-
her to splice up with one lone Business
Man and settle down TO a dun Existerce
in some Apartment House. SO It came
about that there was a General Impress
sion IN Springfield that Ma2le was the
Unattalnabie. she was a kind OF Publ,
Character 10, be Idolized but not removed
from the Pedestal The discouraged
Sultors fell away one by one. ID
married the ordinary S-Carat Girls
who were willing to Play Fair
and not keep the Applicants dang
ling. Maize took up with new Genera
tion and seemed TO believe that she comid
reign Forever, the same as the Elhn
Queen IN the Fairy story.
But the Peach CROPS come and go.
After a few Years Males Door-Be
did not Tink,e with 1 IS whilJm T elgen Y,
md right Down the Street there was a
Seventeen ear-Older who had shot up
| out OF Short Dresses like a Willow