The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-09
THE EVENING ST0R
A Girl,s Diary.


There is one from Fritz Mayer. 1t |
seems to me that it ought TO be yellow I
with age. It is signed, Yours. Iuv- |
iflgly 1 have never got such frank |
I was in eighth grade. 1 believe he
was my first love. Before thai the |
Toys put mice in my desk and pulled |
OF my hair ribbons L thought there
vas no question OF my marrying Fritz. /
wore the ring he gave me for a long |
unes even after it got green and |
mother said [ was running a risk of /
blood poisoning. frsiz is butcher |
now.
I fell in love in high SCHOOL too. 1t |
seems to me that J was always fall /
ing in love. I remember j used to be |
afraid he would think me q little girl. |
/ used to put my hair up SO he
wouldn't think SO. It probably looked
He played football. used to stand
around in the cold watching him play
until was chilled through and I sap
pose my nose looked pink. wor-
very faithful. Then he began to like
me. My hair was up naturally then.
I have only one note from MIN. 1t
asks if / won't wear hfs club pin The
l thought it magnificent then. When
you wore a mans club pin it meant
something very serious
/ think he afterWard went out west.
I wonder why people only save one
kind of letters. I haven't single let
ter from a girl. l have a lot of Jack
Bigelow's. I had got over worshiping
a man for two years when / met Jack.
A girl gets wise after q while. l was
IS then.
have a poem of Jacks 1t is very
bad. It tries to rhyme prove" with
love- and in the last verse it can't
find anything to match tears but
"ears,' which aren't poetieal at all-at
least mine aren't.
It is sort of comfortable to have your
| proposals down in black and white.
When I am somebody's grandmother
| those five of Charlie Wayne's will show
that was in it once, anyhow How 1
hate to think of getting old | often
wonder why I didn't marry Charlie He
| had loads of money. Besides don't see
| how ever had the strength of charac-
| ter to say no five times in letters and
| eight other times. / think it was eight
l should think would have said yes
| at some time or other just because
| needed the change. That's one time
| when persistence didn't do man any
| good.
The funny part of it is that I worked
| hard to get Charlie I used to keep a
special page for him in my men1oran-
| dunn book. 1t had notes like these: BE
| careful about slang, and HE likes
blue" I always read it through before
he called. Yes, I really tried to ger
| Charlie and when got him said NO"
| five times and eight other times besides.
| / wonder why? He had loads of money.
I skipped Fred to get to Charlie
Wayne. His letters come before
Charles in my pile. I didn't have
page in my memorandum book for Fred.
| I haven't any idea what color he liked
best. 1t never mattered. I have all of
Fred's letters. They aren't much They
candy" or, ct hope you will like this
book never read the books Fred sent
me. He said he didn't care. He said
he liked to have the things he liked
around me. Father kept them in his
library. Father liked Fred best of all.
I cried again the night Fred asked me
4 if I would marry him. 1t wasn't because
he acted wild, like Jack. He didn't say
a word about never loving another wo-
man. Fred isn't married yet.
| Wouldn't Beth enjoy Harry's letters!
Graciousi I'm going to show them to
her, Just the same. after the jealous
period is over. That takes two years
at least and Beth and Harry haven't
been married two months yet
| I nearly eloped with Harry L be-
Iieve that every girl should have an
elopement-fhat is. if she Is safely
caught before she gets married 1t IS
an experience. Lola Brush WASH
caught That's where she made her
mistake. She has been living in a
stuffy little apartment ever since ana
| dining off china borrowed from her
mother. OF course Harry could nave
provided china, but we weren't really
suited to each other. Harry said so,
too, after he got engaged to Beth.
1 don't know to this day how father
found it out How I felt when he
caught me at the station. just as Harry
and I were boarding the train-for
Milwaukee, of course! l dldnt care
much. I always wanted a big we'd
ding, anyhow, and I had the exciting
experience of clipping all the way from
our house to the station. Father said
we could be married if we wanted to,
but he preferred to have the wedding
in Chicago. OF course that took all
the romance out of it. Father prob
ably knew it would
| I think it was two months after that
| when I met Jim Warning. But Betn
cornforted Harry, all right.
4 What a lot of fun I have had
Things are stupid enough nowadays.
Nothing interesting ever happens any
more.
/ rather expected that Mr.. Chandler
would call tonight.-Chicag News.