The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-05-01
The Love OF 500
TOkiOn,
Is name was 500 Tollion an

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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
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 head taller than 500,
for the little Japanese was with Ter
whenever opportunity afforded.
The students said that Tokion came
very near being a 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. or
course the boys called him Susie"
and the Jap never minded at all until
be found out that Susie was a girls
name, and that it was given to him
in a sort Of contempt for his pigmy
build.
The Japs are noted wrestlers, and
one day Susie astonished a big fellow
who had applied the girl name to him
by standing him on his head and near
ly 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 Sturtavant 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 q
little chap
500 TOklon was a 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 4 fair-haired
goddess that he was worshiping while
on his knees, rather than the God Of
the Christians. Because Helen Sturte-
want was taking 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 al
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 a shame
that because Helen Sturtevant liked
admiration she must encourage 500 K
go on breaking his heart when there
was no chance of Helen's mending i
for him in the way chat 500 wanted.
Helen had so many bcaux among thu
American students that it is just bare
ly possible that some of the coed
thought that she might let 500 attacl
himself to their trains, for 500 was re
ported to be wealthy and the hi,
punches Of dollhouse flowers that wen
to Helen in zero weather when hot
house flowers cost 4 mint, would hay
been very acceptable to any o
the other fair sisters of the university
Helen Sturtevant had no very seriOu
thoughts about the Jap. She did Xix
him in a certain way, and the bOn-bOn
he sent her were delicious and th
flowers were fragrant "and surely til
girl said to herself, she can't mean any
thing serious, for he must know ho'
utterly impossible it would be for n
TO think Of such a thing as loving hin
let alone marrying him"
Helen Sturtevant was bent on follow
ing the career Of an actress. She Ia
natural gifts. Absolutely imparti.
persons had told her that, and the 81
felt it herself. Her father was a ma
of some means, and he grudged nett
inc that would 90 toward the educatiC
of his daughter and the helping towaI
the realization of her dramatic dream
one day dozen of the goods we
gathered in the university art studi