The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-02-01
NOW AND
ST. VALENTINES DAY
A Proposal and It's Disposition in Which Chronology
Figured in Cupids Mad Race.

q don't know why always obey
you she said.
The doctor laughed.
up to your old tricks, my duchess, "
he returned You ought to write a
treatise on Flirting as a Fine Art
Miss Corcoran looked reproachfuL
rs it fair, Dr.. Harding, to set me
down as always afppant and superficial
and insincere2"
Did Miss Corcoran's voice trembIe.
No, answered the doctor; Z set
you down as nothing of the kind. Ethel
Miss Corcoran-I know that under
meath all IS a frank. womanIy heart, and
to prove it brought you here to tell you
something-to ask you to listen while /
IteIl-there is a long question mark in
my mind that wants 10 he changed into
/ a period"
/ Miss Coreoran glanced VI. quickly. The
doctors voice rang with suppressed
feeling. This was real But when she
didn't know her own mind she did not
propose having it come to an issue-she
really didn't believe she wanted to re-
fuse DR.. Harding.
Z never knew much about punctua-
ton she declared. rising. Ask Bessi
she has taught at school
! The doctor rose 100.
Wen find them and III ask her, %
said ne.
The exhibition of Atlas Club skin that
followed was remarkably clever. Fenc-
ing. high jumping. sparring, exercise on
+ the parallel bars succeeded one another.
/ But Miss Corcoran saw little of it.
She was absorbed in the revelation by
the doctor. Despite her assurance with
i Bess, she had been uncertain about him.
And now he had succumbed. Dear man
with his fascinating way of telling you
the blunt truth. There he was on the
stage now, just disappearing into a mys-
ferrous chintz cabinet, and Tom White
following. They we're the smartest ath-
Iletes of the club. these two; but Tom
was a giant compared with the doctor
sIighter build.
What was it all about. this chintz
cabinet? And the elaborate binding and
lettering of Tom and the doctor with
stout ropes? Even so we're they both
eonfessedly bound in the letters of hel
enchantment. But she had to set one
! free! What pity men must bring thing.
Z TO an issue.
o What was all this! Music, banjo play
- ing. tambourines. waving hands ISSUING
from the chintz cabinet, She had no
paid attention. What was it all about
4 The lights fared up. The cabinet wa.
empty; bonds and letters derided. Tor
= and the doctor had slipped their bonds
n Miss Corcoran laughed ruefulIy. It wa
8. against her-the laugh. Figures 0
- speech are dangerous in these prosai
- days. The lights went out; again music
e. tambourine playing. etc. Were Tom an
the doctor celebrating their escape?
7fI Lights on again Tom and the doc
IN tor sitting within the cabinet. boun
l. hand and foot They had returned, ther
T. voluntarily. Miss Corcoran felt better
g The program was lengthy. The light
> faded again. this time for the fns
e tableau.
J. III be glad when it's over" sighe
Miss Corcorau-
Il But when the light came in a b-oa
b white stream behind her it revealed
D picture that seemed to decide her. 0
the stage. in bold relief against a bIac
h background. posing as the Dying Ca
+ of the Capitolfne Museum at Rome. We
l. Tom White, his massive shoulders, h
l. perfect proportions. his motfonIess p,
10 sitfon turned TO marble by white fest
IF fngs. rice powder. and IimeIighr
"FIe is superb she said
d Then the lights were turned on ful
S. and IN the confusion that followed Ethe
h surrounded by friends. became separate
b. from Elizabeth and her chaperon. H
= eyes danced with excitement. and h
d. high spirits were so infectious that eve
&c man in the room turned to watch her
she passed.