Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-10-03
But Not
Without Love
BY F. II. LANCASTER
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q, Copyright, 1908, by Daily Story Pub. Coz
u OUlSIANA has passed q law prohib

u OUlSIANA has passed q law prohib-
q iting marriage between cousins.
I[y-st bon! But a year go this was not
ggaoZ No! Then it was quite possible
Eu-ng the Cajan population. quite
zgE5pable for man to be his sons sec
az cousin; his cousins brother; his
aosce's nephew, or his graudmother's
TyELcel -in-law. Do not laugh, mon ami;
q G.st vrai. And this is how it hap
Erezzed--so the wise one tells us-that in
-s5ue families ont of every ten there was
az least one child extremely dull OF wit
4H.E she parents cheerfully put it, III n
* gas une tete.'
'Cbis was what was the matter with
ZCxeph Grimmeure; he had no head.
1iSNe teacher, not being native of Louis
Java, did not understand. She tried TO
tEzsCh Zozeph his letters. He learned
tzaJily, but-he forgot even more read
IZy than he learned. 1t was as though
n hand with a sponge followed the hand
aNzzN wrote The teacher looked into
G5Cse eyes bright as wild animals,
xzs8 blamed her methods. She read up
az memory culture; she tried coaXing
ANA coercion. Then madam, his moth
Ct, explained:
MY Zozeph don learn moch? No!
got no head, heem."
And after long trial the teacher was
sS3rced to accept the explanation. The
a.eachers that succeeded her, one by
one, did the same. Zozeph was always in
sis place, very neat, with his hair slicked
aver mis- ears and his trousers tied up
with a string. always carrying with
careful pride his well-worn primer Ac-
ssording to her moral makeup, the
szsacher found him pitiful or exasper-
zating.
So the boy without head grew to tall
sadhood and fell in love. Fell in love
with beautiful Madeline, the belle of
Sse school and it's brightest scholar.
Comment done. Do not boys gener-
ally fall IN love with pretty girls? 70
.geph's hair was slicked down with more
slick precision, his trousers were tied
a.I with more trig tightness, and won
c.-deTful, wistful light grew in those beau
.GITul bright eyes Of his. He brought
Madeline daily great handfuls of flow
'SSLS, and showed her all the pictures
ok mis- precious primer. The other girls
laughed, but Madeline was kind-too
tgxind, it would seem, to be quite right.
,4&h, mon ami, it is in love much as it is
IN poiitics-you vote not to please your
r.riend, but to punish your enemy. And
Madeline had an enemy? Dame. How
Cielse could you call him? A boy who
will not make love as he expected to do
NWho stares stupidity at his geography
S5Vhen ne might know one is longing &c
tshow of his devotion before the other
sgirls. Naturally one detests a self
ccontai0ed lover, who does all his love
Sgnaking behind the house or in lone
Csome places, where there is no one ia
osee. Mais ciel, that is stupid. Blu
chat is Just what the big Alphonse did
lHe was ready enough to kiss his pretty
cousin when they sat upon the steps to-
fAsether in the moonlight and to hold
IaeT hand then. But to hold it-or tr,
$50 hold it in class before all those Gig
Fgling girls All que non! Alphons,
left such things for boys who had NJ
sleads. En- bien, the boy who had n,
mead was willing enough to do them
Too willing, for his own good, poor fel
T20%gl His devotion was pitiably pa
sy.ieut. He carried her books and buck
ust, shaTpened her pencils and ruled he
SskAts. Madeline smiled sweetly an
talked TO him over the fence at reces
BAT the big cousin remained obduratC
THE days OF Blue and gold" came e
l kasgace. bringing that soft, awakenir
pTingtime that Hindu poets love