Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-02-21

'Of course" said her companion gayly,
reckoning to the loiterer. Miss Graves,
! let me present Mr.. Carson"
Delighted" said Mr.. Carson in Il
weary voice. May l have the pleas
Te?" and he led Jane out to dance.
Afterward they repaired to two veranda
seats in the moonlight. Jane waited
anXiously for her hero to speak, and. the
hero spoke. He told Jane that she
danced beautifully; that it was the best
dance he had had that evening. He
jeered languidly at the college students
and said it must be very dull here for a
pretty girl. He broke off to admire
blond lady going past them. Jane once
more felt the pangs of disappointment.
Alas! his romantic exterior belied him.
He was only rude and silly. She looked
sadly at him. He was leaning back with
! dropping eyes.
Beg pardon, but l have such head
ache" he murmured.
Il am very sorry said Jane.
"Jove, what smile!" said the young
man; "it's enough to make fellowfwell
| again" AA.e =.
| Jane rose "There is my next part.
ner," she said stiffly, and led the way
across the room. Never, never again
would Jane make n mistake about dash
| ing young men with shadows under their
! eyes.
| So Jane had to be begin her search
/ again. There came upon her horizon an
! lS-year-old schoolboy by the name of
Robert Smith-a tremendous young
giant, with blue eyes, yellow hair and
| face devoid of expression. Jane CONVEX
sationally sounded him. He was sweet
tempered and polite. but seemed quite
colorless in mind and heart Could not
Jane tincture him to suit herself con
vert this raw material into hero? She
would try. Robert soon got into the
| habit of seeking Jane to dance because
she did all the talking. Then he began
to take her rowing in the afternoons.
| James heart began to warm to Robert
| 1t was better to have man say nothing
than to let him spoil things with COM
monplace remarks. She made him row
her to shady hooks, where she would take
q little volume of Lord Tennyson and
read it to him. She would gaze ut him
silently and mysteriously Robert began
to be listess and pale. The silence and
| poetry and alteration of Jane were ener-
/ waiting him. But whenever he made an
attempt to take any one else out rowing
James eyes would give him to understand
that he had stabbed her to the heart !;
so poor, huge, sweet tempered Robert
was finally bound head and foot. He
/ followed Jane all day long, let himself
| be read TO, quarreled with. admired, and
often showed sparks of real emotion.
! Still lame was conscious of n sense of dis
1 appointment. Ii was heavy work-this
/ dragging of Robert through the proper
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At last her homemade hero was
obliged TO leave. Jane frightened up.
Here was an opportunity for a touch
ing farewell That afternoon she and
Robert rowed to Il beautiful little island
where, ON moss grown bank above the
lake. they watched the setting sun for
the last time" as Jane said.
Robert, let's carve p L. on this log, >
She cried enthusiastically.
'P, IL" said Robert, in solemn aston
ishment
Yes, for Paradise Lost.'
WHATS the joke" he asked.
Jane felt it would be useless to ex-
plain.
The next morning as Robert departed
ON the little steamer Jane watched until
she could no longer see shining on her
hcro's coat the silver heart she made him
swear to Keep for her sake always Then
she gave Il little sigh OF relief Robert,
indeed, was heavy work
Jane now felt that she was either one
OF those To whom real love never comes.
or that since romance was dead she
would not continue to be its sole up
holder, She began to Join the other
girls in singing coon songs in the even
ings, and to play tennis with shaggy,
red haired college boy. She often made
attempts To so to the Lost Paradise and
mourn in pensive solitude, hut this red
haired boy was always getting an a
party to fish or dig for worms. and
dragged her with them. The red barred
boy was ugly, headstrtuS and had nc
ear fer Icnnyson. but he had smile
like those for which comedians ON the
stage have been known 10 receive large
salaries
One day the hotel guests hired the lit
tie steamer and toured the lakes for /.
picnic. The red-haired boy sat by Jane