The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-13
A SHY BOY.


He was a Shy boy. The fact is thai
he had always been kept closely at home
under the watchful eye of his uncle.
who had his own opinion Of womankind
10r some reason or other. He had never
played with girls at school because his
uncle had his opinion of the public
schools. He had never associated much
with anyone not having anyone to as y
soetate With-except the uncle, who was
not good company. Consequently, he
was rather queer and shy, and when the
uncle dec and he was sent to q COM
mercial academy for a finishing course
he had corners TO be rubbed Off
That do not grieve his fellow COM
nlerc-ai academicians. They really
seemed to be glad of the opportunity to
rub him They not only rubbed. bus
hammered and Clipped. and rasped.
and they called the whole process haz-
ing. by the time it was completed.
9nderdonki which was the peculiar
boys name. mad lost every vestige of
6hyness, as far as his Intercourse with
the male sex was concerned. He fondly
Imagined that he would never have to
undergo any more hazing himself-but
that was before he went out into the
Eocial world.
They gave him some sort of cIerkshif
In a bank. Billy Fenwick also an aca-
deWicians and one of Onderdonks chief
tormentors tn the old days. was in the
nank too. and the young men formed a
friendsHID. They went out together at
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night and dlssiuated together mildly at
beer RaTdens and vaudevilles and on
sundays they rode out into the country
on lne-r wheels Later they developed
Inc photographic craze simultaneously.
srto eclf
It bad been a matter Of some din
cuity Tor Billy FenWiCk to induce Onder-
oonk to visit him at his home. Once or
twice bis refusal had created a slight
temporary encouragement between them
an1 fenwick had almost given up the
lQea lt was an ideal golf course that
took him out at last and then he found
LHat Mrs. Fenwick was not ait all dread
Aui. Dut' on the contrary, rather pleas
1iit' AANinS the sense to let a fellow
4lone- lie got along capitally with
renWick senior and it was no trouble
70 ger aim to repeat the visit. Then ons
Gay Mrs Fenwick said it must be hor-
TIDY lonely and uncomfortable for him
- ne uftug at boarding house and
titeie was plenty OF room here and why
1i9t CONS And Billy urged. and the
nome fmosphere was something to the
young man. who had never known
went $40 'ii3' 'i1
Apout month after he was establish
go ana happy Mrs Fenwick looked uD
I'm a letter she had been reading at
t.S olestLast table and said We'll the
girls wlH be here next week" They ali
sgeillea very much pleased. and Onder-
aohk tried to look pleased. too. but he
heard
Adu some sisters a Wellesley or Vassar
or somewhere but it had never occurred
20 MIN that they might come home some
lime- IN fact. he had never given them
PtH. 'itouEh5 az an Later ON he told
BiI4y ne believed he would pack his
trunk and 60 back to the boarding
mouse BILLY told him he would do no
such thing, and appealed to his mother.
7lls. r wick said she had hoped that
ne was comfortable and liked them as
Wen as they liked him. and what could
ne &c Wnen she took that tone2 He
stayed.
The girls came. There were two Of
mem June, who was serious gentle
ana ulSmned, and Leila who had black
eyes, long lashes and a pretty month
Onderoonk noticed thatat dinner. on the
one occasion that he lifted his eyes from
tls Plate The black eyes met his and
were instantly lowered in modest con-
luslon- or what OnderdOnk took to he
iHouest CONFUSION. He lowered his ali
most as quickly and did not notice the
Hi4441e IN response to her brothers wink
Wen, she made OnderdOnk's life q
burden TO him. For a day or two she
let him alone and for another dav or
Two she allowed him TO avoid her. After
tnat she began to haze him. She talked
directly TO him at the table and launched
At ms m0nosyllable replies until she
SlolAse- She addressed him by his
C-tllstian name in the most shameless
manner, regardless of his bushes Her
mothers gentle reproofs were i'm vain
and the serious jules remonstrances
We're equally unavailine
oh, it's so delicious she cried ..t,
see him color up and stammer ana nm
Dle over things and to know that he is
aenlng to suangle me. Oh he's the
So she kept ON ENJOYING HERSELF aud
Onderdonk did feel as il he could
stIasiels ner with great deal of pleas
uFe- she made remarks about his per
soHaa appearance-his curls and the
color of his eyes. for irsfarr[ -
drove him to distraction He felt maj
MS uncle had been right in his estimate
o. the silly, heartless, chatterinay sewZ
excepting Mrs. Fenwick. of course.and
boarding house.
She followed him and her brother
out to the golf links and spoiled that
Tor them She spoiled everything And
be could not say to Billy. II find 1yo1,r