The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-08-18
Tales About
Town


= innocent aud demure, and a
young man, manifestly of the know
ing sort, tripped gaily forth from the
soda water fountain and walked east
on Tuscarawas street towards Market
street.
i think it's real mean Of you JIM
mie." said one of the young things,
coyly, ito neglect me SO. It's a whole
week since you've even SO much az
called me up over the phone"
Yes, and think of poor me-" broke
In the other. II haven't been honored
with a call since, oh, ever SO long ago.
really believe. Jimmie that the last
time you called was when you brought
that dream of a box of candy, and that
seems ages ago."
But you haven't forgotten it?" que
ried the flattered youth.
Forget" they both exclaimed. and
then Ethel continued: "Oh. he's only
joking, Mamie. He knows, the sly fell
low, that no girl ever forgets such at
tentions."
Really" quoth Jimmie, all swelled
up by this time.
Really" said Ethel
II should think you'd know that
without our telling you So" painted
Mamie. Then, apparently as an after
thought II really believe, Ethel, he's
laughing at us. Let's send him away
at once. dear"
Now Jimmie was in the tolls proper,
by which time the girls, who proposed
to talse Cleveland avenue car. had
walked northward on Market to drug
store with a tempting display Of can
dies in the window. Jimmie seized
the opportunity and insisted. 1t was
hard work, he thought, but his powers
Of persuasion finally won out, and each
dear girl bore home with her a we'll
assorted box Of high-priced sweets.
Jimmie handed them into the car
waved his hat and almost split his face
with a prolonged grin, under the i'm
preston that he was smiling. The
girls encouraged him with backward
glances and the waving OF pretty little
hands until the car had turned the
corner at North. when the finally set
tied down to an assault upon the con-
tents of the boxes.
Say, Mamie" said Ethel, trying to
swallow huge chocolate and talk SIM
pitaneously, isn't he too soft for any
user"
Hes something awful" declared
Mamie. But what would we do with
out Jimmie and his kind? Real men
are SO different you know"
Fall will soon be here, indeed the
oAva r1 10 o1r,not ,.von ,,u do-
clared the fat man heavily. The others
looked their denials. probably more
forcibly than they could have ex-
pressed their dissension.
II tell you that fall Is only a mat
ter Of days and / guess I know what
/ am talking about" fumed the ego
and incorporated 1 OF the human al
phabetical list. Didn't all the chapS
at breakfast this morning. order cakes
and don't that mean that cool weather
is sure coming on. Why. the. stools at
the counter were all filled and each
fellow was hunched up over heaping
plate OF fiap-1acks. Fat and thin alike,
they were all thinking about treating
their digestive organs to q substance
that would promote the formation of
adipose tissue.
"Ob, you can't fool me. When hear
the walters yell down the speaking
tube turn two and these fellows who
have been living on raspberry water
and waters. giving In for butter and
fat wheat and corn cakes, you bet /
know the fall season of frosts and
Winds isn't far on.
1T is better prognosticator than
the goose bone Of any other kind OF
predicting apparatus have ever
found"