The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-16
TIE EVENING STORY



- NY mother says" wrote Elizabeth
II ne IT1 olafy, that shall lose Tad. and
t.o.l 81 ne. heI mat is exactly what I have
g,5al--1 ing TO do for the last two years.
- = s Douy VINO has had his company
- q VI GOODS store or q picnic can an
a pIsclate my troubles. He is almost as
convenient to drag about at such times
as as, Is a torty-pound hitching weight.
,.- "a entirely bellies his name He
sAlOul0 nave been called Marcus or The
ooore. He is very square, very com
passioned. ---AA
he is perhaps a little more comnnun-
lc1tlVe than a piece of flint ont he is
not so responsive. The occasionsI
sparks that he enits are not the result
u friction, but they snap out at entire
y unexpected moments. For the first
I'VE years OF our acquaintance ! sup
pOsed tnat he had no sense of humor
put am now discovering by his occas-
lonal references to jokes made during
mat time that he has seen the point
IN every instance. I suppose that when
1 am old and ready to forego the vani-
les OF TINS life, shall discover that he
llkes to dance, although I do not get
that impression now as he walks
through the waltzes and two-steps
The way you can tell when Tad is
undergoing emotion is by the color in
his cheeks. although you cannot by
this deduce what the emotion may be.
When he is pleased he Pushes When
he IS angry he fiushes. 1 am not sure
but that when he is hungry he fushes,
too. have spent long moments in
wondering how our malaria-fraught
air and our national diet of pie and
gravy and fried potatoes can trans
mute themselves into the roses and
/ the lilies that suffuse his cheeks and
into the white adamant of his teeth.
Tad really does puzzle me-"
'One time told Tad that I should
not go to a beach party the next even
/ ing or any place with him again as
long as I lived. This was at II D. m.
! By the next mornings post received
a letter from him one line long. 1t
| said in effect that he would call for
me that evening at $50 o'clock.
/ My mother in the meantime had
| predicted that I had lost Tad forever.
| Another time I came a shade near
/ er losing him for good. For a period
/ of fifteen minutes he was not mine. 1t
was when I said one evening in the
| late autumn, while we were sitting on
| the porch of our summer cottage, that
it was duh with all the cottagers gone.
! This was supposed to be a direct allu-
sion to Ferd HeminWay. Tad flushed
so oninously that I should not have
dared finish my sentence had I not
begun it in such a grandiose way.
| The only diversion I continued
unconcernedly, is to watch the sun set.
| " 'El-iz-a-bethr scolded my mother ii
I
more courteous. You will lose Tad
My dear whispered Mrs. Elder
| leaning toward me-Mrs. Elder was
there-he will never speak to vol
/ again, know his mother
Tad rose and strobe away with sucE
| determination that he seemed to be re
nouncing everything in sight. It was 81
awful that I ANONYMOUSLY took aftel
him. With many difficulties beguilee
| him to the Bronneu pier. A stony 81
| lence followed. Then. an hour later
! William Ainsey passed along the ridge
| What are you people doing dow
| there2' he sung out, discovering US By
| the lantern at the boat landing.
THE evening was heavy with Octo'
| Der grayness. pile of leaden cloud:
made the western sky look like one
splotch of ink Yet Ted called oul
quite cheerfully, in reply to Williams
question, We're watching the sun set.
well, it's just gone on that way evel
since.
I thought you promised me-
called down the speaking tube TO Tao
this very evening, that you would
not come here tonight
" Eliza BETH my mothers re-
proachful voice came.
" We'll, I don't care If do lose
him. I rejoined. I should like to
see how I would fee
zone time, although my mother
knows nothing about it, did th1nk
| that I had lost him. I remember just
how it felt. Ny chest seemed like a
great hollow void, in the round center
of which my heart beat thickly. AL
memories of my past were stepped ir
tears. That night at dinner cried
because the cake had lemon icins
when I expected it would have orange
"That thought I really had lost
him is evidenced by the fact that
took down my hair for the night al
7:45, and it cannot be arranged for
public appearance in less than forty
minutes. At $3.50 Tad arrived.
Though it is beside the point, re-
member that got my hair up in the
| minimum of time''-Chicago News.