The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-10-03

siDic. ineTc must De reason why
women act SO strangely, but / don't
know it.
I've often laughed to split my
sides to see how the girls who come
out here on these sands manage to
puzzle the men and get the situation
mixed up. when. in reality, both the
men and the girls are pining for an
identical termination TO their little
summer game.
but they are all at cross pur-
poses, and come back to this island
for sea bathing mismatched and un-
happy, cynical and morose.
i've heard so many silly things
said by people sitting on this bench,
and I've crept out on the sand and
observed and listened for so many
years, that / could be very enter
tanning if I choose to give the result
of my discoveries to the public.
"Why, only last week, when those
two | am interested in were out here
chatting, IL struck me how grateful
Dick Thornton would be il / could
have made him see that Maude Cam
cron's light badinage was all put on
like her clever. careless society man
ner, just to hide her real feelings
and because she was so deeply hurt.
that he had let a week pass without
running over to see her, and had
not even written.
$50 Dick grew formal, and also
society in his manner, and men
n.
Dorathea Spencer. Dorathea is the
tall. handsome girl who was over
here n month ago, and looked so
stunning in her striped black and
yellow bathing suit. I danced over
the sand in the moonlight. and shout
ed with delight at the absurdity of
their misunderstanding each other,
and their mutual indignation over
what never existed.
''Of course Dick Thornton never
explained to her what / heard him
discussing later on with n friend,
while walking up and down on the
hotel piazza and smoking; that their
firm has been unusually busy with
some cotton shipments, and that the |
5VhtOT PuItHcT IL AWAY.
II travel around a good deal these |
bright moonlight nights, specially
when the tide is low. and in that way
l get to see and know everything
that is going on.
II run across the sand hills to the
old bench on the beach, then to the
b?eakwater rock5-and on such
night as this there are good many
couples sitting on the rocks-thcn /
go around by the hotel, where the
band is playing, and big white and
pink oleander bushes grow along the
front Of the piazza. in spite of the
drifting sand. / am spare and sgile
u limb, and have no fear Of my enc
mics. the dogs, when night comes,
md love to roam around and learn
the ways Of the world.
Last evening when I came out she
vas sitting there gazing out ut the
Yea and absurdly unhappy. She is
much too handsome to sit alone, and
ar too spirited to nope. so as soon
is fellow in white fannels came
long Maude frightened and dropped
nto her usual brilliant spirits, al
hough she was thinking of some
me else half the time. Il.
"They all act that way.
Now, the man in white flannel Is.
know. engaged to a girl-a shrewd, =
lever girl--who lives mostly abroad.
heard them say. She came to this
'land accidentally on account OF
cme ones illness. She dresses bet !
pr than all the other women. and
II the men run after her. She, too. :
as sat on this bench frequently.
he criticiscs the island and laughs o
the sand and is very apish. She 2
'ughs at everything. l don't like
er.
Neither does the man in white
annels. oyermuch, for all he is en- .
aged to her. They arc to be mar n
ed In New York this fall. Mean 8
lille heard him flirting outrage 8
nsly with handsome Maude out a
IRE in the moonlight while the tide a.
as rolling slowly up. and Maude u
le was encouraging him. and all X
'c time wishing he was somebody ia
Sc. It's TOO funny. h
Dick is to be over this evening, CO
i'd as the night promises to be m
orious, he and Maude will be out "
re until after IL. q
I'll sit out, too. on the sand and -
stem. II will be diverting. The
der l grow. the more enjoy
atching these queer human be-
81, who are always making them. d.
Ives and other people so foolishly, oh
serably unhappy over nothing. on
Il wonder II that huge Newfound- mi
nd, Royal, will be around? wi
pc Lot. I'm afraid Of him.
There comes Dick Thornton and do
Jude towards the bench. Now We
II see how they are going to patch tn
their quarrel II one can cell
lfting apart by that name.
Tho night n gorgeous and the Il,
,onlight on the sea looks 10 peaco.