Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-08-02
ONE TOO MANY
BY z. E. Garrett.

$1,000
II Everton,'' was the way Mrs.
Tom began.
Matchmaking" grunted Jim, "will
be the death of you yet, Sallie."
81 could not die in better cause.
Have you ever seen her?"
"Once. She was driving with Ho-
bart"
"Ch, then you know all about it."
"I know Hobart" dryly.
Mrs. Tom nodded.
"But," she deprecatingly reminded
him, "he is fascinating; quite the man
TO attract n young creature unaccus-
toned to his type. She was just from
school,"
az thought that all the girls schools
now were colleges?"
mo matter; they don't teach how
to read Bert Hobart"
$50 Miss Everton took private les
sons, eh?"
"They were engaged" Mrs. Tom an
nounced, briefly, land he Tilted her"
''It is way he has. Yon want me,
L suppose, for sort of soothing
.sirup?"
"Oh, she doesn't need soothing sir
up, or tonic, either; not she. OF
course" musingly, "she is in proper
wrath against herself. A girl so sets
her heart, you see, upon crowning a
real king. 1t is the very prettiest
among her castles in Spain, and
there's nothing like the humiliation
of having throned the wrong man.
But what is the use"-leaning back
resignedly among the cushions of her
divan-"of talking to a man about
that?"
"Do you suppose a man never wants
20 kick himself?" asked Jim.
"He wants to kick the other party
6rst."
"Am to infer that woman does
not?"
''You may be sure of it. Her in
-dignation against herself swallows ev-
erything else. The foe in such cases
is beneath attention. But" with a
vexed little grimace, that compla-
cent smile of Hobart's is certainly eX-
.asperating. 1t would do me good to
have him thoroughly learn that Elsie
Everton has his little souls measure
and wouldn't marry him TO save his
life"
"Oh, she wouldn't, eh?"
"Not," energetically, ''to save her
own life"
Jim quoted:
~'The case of Betty Baxter.
Who rejected man before he axed
and skeptically smiled.
"As l said," retorted Mrs. Tom,
6ristiing, ''the matter is much too
deep for mans understanding"
"Then why" Jim laughed good
naturedly, "are you prodding me with
It?"
Because" suddenly gracious, "you
are valuable ally. Elsie is coming
TO visit me and"
Jim flung back his head to break in
with jolly laugh.
'And Hobart is to witness my de-
. votion and grow madly jealous. Oh,
Sallie, Sallie!"
"You know very WELL" said Sallie,
bcaming on him, "that your atten-
tions make any girl the fashion. Ho-
bart and a dozen others will follow
your lead. / want Elsie to have
good time"
"Scalping lot of poor fellows that
never did her any harm; that's
girls idea of pleasant time"
You'll help, dear?"
"oh, I'll be polite to your guest, of
course"
"of course" gleefully, "we'll soon
have him subdued."
"And married?"
"Well," slowly, "it's really wonder
tul how much woman will forgive"
Jim chuckled.
81 am glad" was Mrs. Toms next
cemark, that the trellis at Hobart's
is being cleared away; it obstructed
the view"
Jim stood up. "Shall go over?"
he inquired, "and discover how far"
81 know" she interrupted. "He can
see every man that comes up the
steps, all the flowers that come. every
drive she takes. and I'll see to her
clothes, they make such difference"
"Poor man." Jim said, with COM
Zeal grimace. ''I'll go and have
smoke with him."
''if he should ask you," Sallie called
after him along the hall, "about
report that she firted with him, say
you heard it,"
~ say, Sallie," Jim demonstrated
over his shoulder, "bar fibs."
"There really II such report"