The Appeal., 1903-08-01
THE JUNIOR LOVER.
HOW CUPID'S SHAFTS AFFECT
THE BOY OF SIXTEEN.
Divine Passion Works Wonders with
Its Happy Victm-seIf-sacrifice
One of His Keenest Pleasures Until
DisiIIusonment Arrives and Cures.


At sixteen the boy who is disposed
at all to have dreamy fancy for the
opposite sex is apt to show his colors
In various ways.
Some boys are reticent, shy, retir-
Ing. That is the. sort Of junior
lover who sits in the window and
peeps with all devouring eyes at
Clara as she passes to and from the
postoffice. How the very glimpse OF
her trina figure clad in gown more
grand than ermine or satin ever worn
by royal princess causes his heart to
thrill as his nerves tingle from the
tips Of his fingers to the ends of his
toes! All! that is the junior lover
who hugs the delicious secret within
the innermost recesses of his heart
and dares scarcely to breathe the in
toxicating name above whisper,
cen in the quiet sanctuary of his
chamber.
There is another sixteen-year-old
,over, but he is less reticent, less shy,
less retiring.
He is the chap who hangs around
circumstances and are allowed by
Kind fate to come in contact with the
lair one. They also breathe the same
atmosphere that she does and touch
ser sacred fingers in everyday life.
You will find this junior lover curry
Spo with r1a hrNth hnr cO11Cin
or grandfather-age debars this lover
.lot in the slightest. If perchance
Clara kisses a younger sister OF his
Ehis younger sister is forthwith erect
. ed upon a pedestal of more worth
than the finest of diamonds from the
mines of South Africa. There is an
eXquisiteness about this sister whose
:ips have been touched by the divine
Clara that no pen dare portray. 1t is
one of the rose dreams of life, too
sacred for common words. In the
meantime he may sit close to Clara
upon the recitation bench or stand
near to her during blackboard
swollen creek and wades in above his
boots, and he does it because she
simply says:
"Your boots are awful high"
Oh, the delight of that little atten.
ton! Oh, the music of that voice
inging in his ears, even after he has
laid his head upon the pillow and
turned his eyes up to the stars that
glimmer beyond his little window!
Riches may come to him and fame
may greet him, but he will never
know more supreme bliss and de-
light than that which touched the
harp within his young heart when
Clara simply said when he waded the
dam:
Your boots are awful high!"
There is still another junior lover,
he who reigns without nor brooks
rival Insistent, forceful liar if
need be or hero for the purpose OF
touching Clara's hand or indulging
the intoxication of his soul-simply
to breathe the perfume waited from
her hair. I'm his case the object OF
his glorious love is ten or dazen
years older than he. It matters not
to this forceful junior lover; she is
his) He is presumably nuisance
to Clara as we'll as her more staid
admirers, also the bane of her life.
When the spell grips him real hard he
is in the habit of doing peculiar
things; then to the world in general
he is an utter idiot.
In his estimation he is heroic to
the highest degree. His is the hand
floor the glove or handkerchief
dropped by Clara and he does not
hesitate to cleave his way through
bevy of older admirers to rescue from
the trampling feet a blossom from her
hair or a knot of ribbon from her
sleeve. If her fingers touch his he
becomes utterly insane for the time
being. His is the superficial eye that
takes more than passing heed of the
appearance or the slightest word OF
Clara. A tiny spot nesting among
her snowy teeth will render him for
the time being a madman-and possi.
bly cure him of his passion. And, oh,
horror OIL uOIIOIS: IL AO oAOuAu pSA-
chance note that her left slipper is,
run down at the heel never so slightly
he will bewail the calamitous circum.
stance and magnify the oversight
until he grows faint. A rundown heel
!or a. tiny rent in the dress never fails
to cure this junior lover Of his moon:
ing >. .~-.- z.s.e
However, all comes out well in the
end. The junior lover has his spells
of storm and quiet; he arises from
the slough of despond or the smiling
lake of bliss with the same old jolly
delight for life and the things in
store. God bless the junior lover!
He has had his dreams, sweet and
bitter, and the man, rich or poor, who
has never passed through this rose:
dream epoch has missed the divinest.
pleasure kind Nature scatters along
the way for her children. ~ - =
Are You a Lychnobite7 n.
A day worker met some morning
newspaper men, all of them being
slightly under the influence In the
conversation that ensued the day man
said: "You lychnobites ought to go
way back and sit. down. "a
The objects of the epithet were
much offended at its application to
them, but were Modified when they
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