Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-07-28
JULES YOUNG
MAN


elderly man, = used 70 think that my
daughter had good deal Of sense.
You know her pretty we'll What
would be your opinion Of her, now"
II should say She was exceptionally
bright-migbty pretty girl, too. re-
piled his friend
Up to date-no fooIishness about
her, eb2e
y shouldn't imagine So
Neither should |. Although I'm
her father, | thought she had cut her
eye teeth. Seemed to me she could
size up anybody about as well as /
would myself and-oh, pshawl Why,
sir, that girl ought to be well ii
formed She's read enough. ] forget
what her average was in English lit.
erature when she was at high school,
but it was high. She knew ali about
the poets, from CHANGER to the living
warblers, and she'd read the Dolly
Dialogues and Bernard Shaw. She'd
go to a matinee and come home and
initiate the hero in the love scene till
I'd laugh myself sick Wrote a josh
novel herself once and | swear I'd
have it published if ] hadn't thought
she'd get to writing for a profession
and Of course | didn't want that. She
seemed to be next to tld lss-that's
the point
i understand"
I've had men come to the house
who thought they were pretty smart
and they'd begin to talk to the young
woman in kindergarten style and 1t
wouldn't be but a little while before
she'd have them steaming themselves
to keep up their end. She read Ibsen.
Yes, sir"
We'll, you may, but I'm not so sure
that ! do. I'm all mixed up. About
three months ago Tom brought a
young chap named Steever to the
house. Well. / didn't take any partic-
ular notice of him. He seemed about
the average sort of a young chump.
Wore his hair parted in the middle
and slicked down over his temples
something like the girls used to in
81 or Whereabouts. ! don't know that
I'd have noticed that particularly II
Julie hadn't slicked down her hair the
same way after he left and given us
an imitation of him. She guyed him
to the queens taste, too"
'Well?"
He called two or three times, but
there were half dozen others call
ing-always have been since jules
Lat
put up. She went to her aunts at
Bribery Heights soon after that to
stay until after Easter and only got
back last week. Young Steever called
the same night she got in He didn't
stay long, though. Julie seemes to con
vey to his presumed intelligence the
fact that he was slightly superfuoas
and he departed. / thought she had
jolted him little too hard and l told
her so. Well, | know she says, but
then he is too stupid for anything.
Il didn't see anything more of the
fellow until the other night, though
understood that he had called. / was
going into the library to look for
some papers I'd left on the table
when | heard the young mans voice,
and | stopped short at the door l
didn't mean to listen, exactly, only
there was a tone in his voice that
made me curious TO Know what he
was saying, Know what it was? He
was tellipg some girl that her teeth
we're just like pearls when she
Pearls! Pearly teeth, Ell?
And then he got on to the subject of
her hair That was like spun silk
with sunbeams caught in its meshes
What? BY George, | stood there UNI
til / had a crick in my knees and if
he didn't ring in about all the old
chestnuts you ever heard of-lilies
and roses and rubies and diamonds
the whole blamed vegetable and min
eral kingdom as applied to feminine
charms. And all ] could hear Julie
say was, Now, you know you don't
mean that and Don't be so foolish
Il tiptoed away to my own particu-
lar cubby hole, trying to keep from
chucklng out loud Thinks l to my
self, jules tOlling him along beauti-
lQllys ALI SHE SlIlHSiHS MN lHpuSH.
| had intended to go to bed about that
time. but | couldn't help waiting for
Julie TO come and tell me all about it.
If there's anything l like it's a good
laugh and jules representations al
ways amuse me-
In a little less than an hour heard
the street door close and then there
came a rap al my door and Julie stuck
her head in.
IAN right l said bring your
Slyphlike form in and tell me all about
It. He's an eloquent boy, isn't he?
Wet
Jimmy and /, she says.
Who in the nation is Jimmy?
asked her
'Jimmy-Mr. Steever, she says.
Dad, he's coming to see you to-mor-
row. He wants to ask you for some
thing He
Then she sat down on my knee
and told me about IT, No, sir there
isn't any girl that has any sense.
don't care who she is H-ChiQago