The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-26
THE EVENING yTOR
Three Purchases.

He asked for diamond solitaires and
selected one with infinite pains
Funny how things come about. At
years he loved her, and she wore the
ring he gave heron her thumb because
it fell OFF everywhere else. And at Is
he was still in love and she wore some
thing very binding in the shape of a
silver circlet with a dangling nearu at
tached. But at %, when nc returned
from five years abroad, he had forgot
ten all early vows. He didn't even call
He met her weeks afterward 1T din
ner. She smiled at him across the table
and he had a sudden feeling that for
five years he had been wasting time.
After dinner she knew corner unqer
the stairway, with only the hall candles,
just little small for two.
You have grown beautiful" SAID ne.
you have grown bold" she replied.
What has become of the silver ring.
with my heart attached"
THAT was ten years ago. Tell me
about your life abroad"
cat 20 I worshiped lady in Spain.
At 25 I built a bridge in South AFRICA.
haven't done a thing since. How about
you?"
cat IS I took off a silver ring and be-
gan going to dances. have since varied
dances with dinners. I'm tired OF
| things"
Il loved you at g." said he, land at IS.
And at % I come back and I still love
you. Won't you come with me ano see
my bridge?" ;,
said she, land will come"
That is what brought him among the
diamond solitaires.
II.
tits a boy!"
| He fairly radiated the news. To see
his beaming purchase of a mug and sill
yer spoon any one would have known II
was a boy.
When he thought about it. what else
could have happened? Hadn't he been
Hadn't first arrivals for generations
back been boys? OF course it was a
boy.
But it favored its father. That was
the tremendously important thing. that
was the revelation of tact that the
! highest form of appreciation, and he
| felt that there was nothing more to be
| desired. But the honored parents first
call of ceremony had been received with
squared fists and a gasp and cry that
| may have said: us that what l am
! doomed to resemble?"
Thinking of this before the mugs and
spoons, he laughed as happily as II MS
personal appearance had not been crit
icised. He selected ponderous COM
bination that would take a dozen like
the newborn son to handle. Then he
gravitated to fobs and cuff buttons as
| items of interest to the son in the very
near future.
III.
In the morning he had stood transfix.
ed in the wheat pit and his hat hac
been knocked off and stepped on. But
let it pass. That knot in his handker-
| chief meant that he was to remember
something Remember-remember his
silver wedding day, to be sure!
All right; that could be attended tt
in the afternoon. Buy fifty at five
eighths-fi fty-buy-ffty-ffty at five
eighths--' until his collar 1eaped from
his shirt and button whizzed into the
| distance.
Now behold him in the afternoon. for,
lornly examining the knot in search OF
clews as to it's meaning.
This is our silver wedding day, dear.
| Yes, he remembered that. He had g
good memory. And I should so like
that lovely" Lovely what? Why
couldn't he remember what it was she
| had wanted?
Here were twenty-five or more ap
propriate gifts. Take that tea service
now. 1t fitted the description. "Lovels
tea service" sounded right, too. Yes
he would take the tea service. Tha'
settled his obligation to the day. VIVA
lot women thought of these things
And if 1t wasn't right she could ex
change it herself in the morning. Every
thing satisfactory. Send the tea service
His silver wedding day! That wal
twenty-five years, wasn't 1t? Well, well
| twenty hve-but what would wheat d.
in the morning? And how about tina
real estate deal? And why not take ad
vantage of the opportunity in stocks?
He was late for his anniversary din
tner.-Chicago News.