The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-04-16

Nj he was the only Japanese
student at a big university
on a big lake. Her name
was Helen Sturtevant and she was an
American student at the same big uni
versity. 500 was a little fellow like
nearly all of his race. Helen was a
great, splendid creature, who lowered
more than a head above the little
Jap. Professors and students alike had
ample opportunity to note the fact
that Helen was a head taller than 500,
Tor the little Japanese was with her
whenever opportunity afforded.
The students said that Tokion came
very near being Greek word, and
they wondered how the name wan
dered to far-off Japan. They said
that the Jap didn't have much Of the
appearance of the Spartan about him,
though he did have scholarship that
might be called Athenian. At his first
name, 500, they laughed. 1t fitted him,
they said, because it was a name that
went with his build and weight. OF
course the boys called him "Susie,"
and the Jap never minded at all until
he found out that Susie was a girls
name, and that it was given to him
I'm a sort Of contempt for his pigmy
build.
The Japs are noted wrestlers, and
one day Susie astonished big fellow
who had applied the girl name to him
by standing him on his head and near
1y breaking the tormentor's neck in
doing it. After that even the husky
football players sunk the name Susie
and spoke to the little Jap cordially
and called him by the name given him
In the Orient.
Now Helen Sturtevant had attract
ed 500 the moment his Eastern eyes
beheld her. It's curious, but it's true
as the synOptic gospels, that little men,
that is extremely little men, manage to
fall in love with big women. Helen
Sturtevant liked the devotion of the
Jap. She treated him with an amused
sort of liberation. Every woman likes
devotion, even though it is shown by a
little chap.
500 Tokion was Buddhist, but he
had become a Christian, or what is
more likely, pretended conversion, so
that he could go to chapel and sit near
Helen Sturtevant. It was fair-haired
goddess that he was worshiping while
on his knees, rather than the God OF
the Christians. Because Helen Sturte-
want was taking a course in elocutiOn
and dramatic art 500 undertook the
same course, and this gave him other
opportunities to be near his adored
one.
The goods gossiped much, and at
times rather noisily about the devotion
Of 500 to Helen. AS the girls put it the
little Jap was awfully cut up about
the fair American and it was shame
that because Helen Sturtevant liked
admiration she must encourage 500 to
go on breaking his heart when there
was no chance of Helen's mending it
for him in the way that 500 wanted.
Helen had SO many beaux among the
American students that it is just bare
~ possible that some of the goods
thought that she might let 500 attach
himself to their trains, for 500 was re-
ported to be wealthy and the big
bunches of dollhouse flowers that went
ITO Helen in zero weather, when hot
house flowers cost mint, would have
been very acceptable to any of
the other fair sisters of the university.
Helen Sturtevant had no very serious
thoughts about the Jap. She did like
him in certain way, and the bon-bons
he sent her were delicious and the
flowers were fragrant land surely" the
girl said to herself, she can't mean any
thing serious, for he must know how
utterly impossible it would be for me
ITO think of such thing as loving him,
let alone marrying him."
Helen Sturtevant was bent on follow
ing the career Of an actress She had
natural gifts. Absolutely impartial
persons had told her that, and the girl
felt it herself. Her father was man
of some means, and he grudged moth
ing that would go toward the education
of his daughter and the helping toward
the realization of her dramatic dreams
One day a dozen of the goods were
gathered in the university art studio
They were waiting the arrival Of an
instructor, and while waiting they
sat and gossiped. Helen Sturtevant
was there. The night before at a
musical the attentions of 500 Tokion
had been more marked than ever. He
had brought great bunch of American
Beauty roses to be given to Helen
when she had triumphantly finished
her part in the program. 1t was mid
winter, and American Beauty roses
were quoted at fabulous prices.
"Hclen, said one of the goods
'syou'n bankrupt SEQ, rich though I
understand he Is. Charlie Nelson sent