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

warked boulders that blocked the noun
tain path. 'Well, this is a new thing
under the sun. I'd be willing to wager
it wouldn't happen under the moon,' he
added, disposing himself at her feet i'm
the correct summer girl attache fashion;
Yes, it was refreshing if only as a
novelty" pointedly. >,
:'"Oh; come, now; let me stay here five
minutes-just to rest. You know. That
was beastly climb-what's wrong, any
how?'' -;
"Oh. nothing, except I'm tired Of being;
proposed to- :.
what luck! Do you know, Miss.
Dykerman, to be frank, I didn't know
when l saw you from Bears point
whether to venture down or not? You
see, the truth is I've used up my whole
stock since I've been here. It's an awful
tax on fellows ingenuity. to rig up
new style every time, and really feared.
now that I've known you-how lonp ;s
ltStwo weeks-that I couldn't risk an
other tete-a-tete minus PROPOSAL
The girl laughed. Il don't remember
noticing tiei,g yours in any of the L. LIS"
Il don't know that I ought to tell
''Oh, yes, you ought. You owe me
proposal" '0
sss laqs if!:3 again. "You won't t>ll?"
-Well: they're books with locked clasps
haven't you noticed those tiny gold
Keys the girls wear?-and they cali them
t tSeG i nren volumes, and they jot down all
tneir proposals and any pretty bit of love
maklng-some of them really are too good
to be lost" reminiscently, some of the
DOCKS are Illustrated, too. One of the
glris" warming somewhat to the theme
ACTUALLY got her chum to take her
camera up the ravine one afternoon. She
had planned a stroll, and she got the man
beautifully arranged on the rock-it was
an aWfully artistic snapshot-she has i:
in her L. L., but the mean old thing
didn't propose after all her trouble.
told her I'd give her some text to "a
with it.: but she didn't seem very appre-
"Why, haven't you an L. L. of your
own to fill, or is it already overf}owing?"
asked the beautifully arranged" man at
her feet.
"Oh, dearie me, no-they're too much
bother for me-Pd have to spend half
my time scribbling"
''Well. I think I'll swear off for the
rest Of the summer" the man remarked,
thoughtfully.
From what?"
"PrOposing."
chin let's be chums. won't your
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES always wanted a
man chum, and you are just about the
right age"-with sidel0ng glance ut his
few gray hairs.
Are YOU sure you won't make ME pro-
pose before I leave here?-in mock
trepidation.
"Of course not-that's just why want
you''-lucidly.
"All right, it's go then-a Platonc
compact"
"And we'll prove there can be that
kind of friendship between man ana
1T will depend on you, Miss Dyker-
Every we'll, you'll see the kind Of stuff
I'm made Of s3 {%s %boe SG5b ne i c you
shouldn't stick it OUT
"And propose!'
Eyes. or something equally inartistlc."
''Well, you never can tell till you try
a la the little girl who tried to- look in
her ear with her eye" o.,
NO. rejecting, and then. with
yivacity: I'VE might even venture tS', a, ut,
equal to It. I'm simply immune by this
time; it couldn't hurt me- pushing back
the caressing little curls Of sunny brown
hair from her brow in the most business
like way, land you ought to be. Do you
know, you have just that comfortable
mellow feeling of one who knows how by
long PRACTICE The man laughed aPpre~
making. men are always so awkward
when they are in earnest. How many
times have you been in loye?"
"Couldn't count them, but they all
came out in the wash"
''Never once indelibly?'
"Never once-yet.'
''They all say that" she shifted.
"Girls," exclaimed the leader Of the
younger 'set'' at the mountain house,
who, by common consent, bore the pseu-
donym of Continuous Performance" II
believe it's go with Di Dykerman this
time. It's been two weeks today since
the show began; he's hardly left her
side." And the speaker hastily arranged
herself in a more becoming attitude as
"Wcll, that's the shortest road to Soon
Over" observed seml-passe over the
top OF her ''yellow-backed."
Hes an awful duffer, anyhow" pout-
ed a plump blonde. Il did my best to
get him for my L. L.; but he simply
how"
I'm afraid he won't figure for poster
ity in our classic literature" someone
else sighed.
cts awfully dull this morning. Let's
do something new" began the Continu-
Gus Performance again. Lets compare
L. LIS and see if anybody has q speci-
men of Dis 'chum'-that's what she
calls him-fancy!" Then the locked vol
umes were produced with much COM
menting chatter.
IT wonder if they. did anything like
this in the ark on rainy days?"
"Ark! Why, even our grandmothers
would turn green in their graves { they
could see and hear US 'uF-tvdates.' ::
"And yet why?' began the semi
passe. somewhat sententiOusly. II think
it's really commendable of us to be so
frank about it all. As a matter Of fact,
it is only Outwardly, specifically, that
men do the pursuing Women always
covertly begin the thing and guide it to
as triumphal finale as their powers al
low. Nature is nothing if not artistic,
you know. She has a line sense Of pro.
portion, and to preserve an outward
equilibrium-to balance her colors she
poses the man as the aggressive party.
He likes the role, and the woman trips
fatally who let's him once scent facts. /
think" But she was cut off with cries
'..aspeak for yourself, John" 'S,.'. -.
'It's true all the same" ~ ~:'E% 5Si Z
".You never can tell.' k&-a
"She ought to know, she's been at it