The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-21
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL Dsss
Out Of His Class

spotted necktie, g DON'T think Il ii go 90
with you toscall on Miss Sparks You
go if you want to.''
She's a mighty nice girl, = urged
his friend with the square chin.
Maybe, = said the man with
spotted necktie, uncertainty. But
say don't feel comfortable
trying to talk to girl who says things.
the other way around. managed to.
remember e 6 g one or two of her remarks
the evening 4 called don her, and asked
my sister if she could make head or
tail them, I couldn't. 1 tried to
look intelligent and change the subject
when Miss Sparks sprung them on me.
My sister said that any person Of COM
mon sense would know. they were cpl
grams and that Miss Sparks must be a
brilliant young woman. Now, if YOU
want to go up against bunch of cpl
e grams yo1n 60 on, but I call it cruelty
The young man with the square chin
.Anyhow, it isn't every girl who is ii a.
witty as that!
Thank heaven!0 said the young
man with the spotted tie, fervently.
wouldn't mind Miss Sparks be-
ing witty herself" he continued, IF
she din It expect fellow to get into
the game and answer back. It makes
my head ache. / like a comfortahle
jolly girl like Nell Cashe, who tells a
IelloW to go on, now, and that he g the
limit and laughs at everything he says
| Wnen ne doesn't say anything in par
ticular. Now Miss Sparks die n t lanph
once when I was there!O - :
| II bet she did after Won were
gone, unused the other young man ont
loud and then strangled the remark
with cough. Nell Cashe is all RIGHT
put she hash t an ounce of sense in her
''Oh, I don't know about that!,, OBJ
| ]ected the young man with the spotted
tie, frowning. "She's always inter
ested IN my accounts of baseball games
and boxing matches. She says I'm a
regular r, case. Now, any one can under
sense IN girl sitting back and MAX
ing you uncomfortable with an amused
sort OF twinkle. in her eyes as tho she
were studying a new bug under a micro
scope. Why. she said that the baseball
game she enjoyed the most was the one
she stayed away from. Something must
be wrong with any one who doesn It
care for baseball. And she asked me
IT l cared for hammered brasses and
!
or something when I said t .didn t sup
pose girls were interested in brass
knuckles and police courts.
1t sent shiver down my spine
every time her eyes wandered to the
piles of books and magazines on the
library table. [ was afraid she ID ask
| it I'D read 'em. Folks who like that
sort OF stuff are always so superior.
They can It understand that by the time
| a fho l. L;
in the green sheet of the newspaper he
hash It time for anything else
Nell Cashe never upsets you
that way! She's always too busy guy
! ing you about some other girl or tell
ing your fortune by palmistry or some
thing entertaining. Say, I'll bet there
isn't ragtime tune that girl can It
play on the piano! She's wonder. !"
She must be-" agreed the young
ri asked Miss Sparks for some
music went on the young man with
the spotted tie, aggrievedly, "and she
| played the worst piece I ever heard.
| There WASH It scrap of tune to it that
a fellow could whistle and it kept
breaking into fool runs and trills where
you didn't expect, them. I like piece
you can keep track of. I think she
said it was by Shopang. He must be
a new one and I bet he won It last
long,
Miss Sparks was graduated in music
/ in Berlin said the other young man,
mildly. : :
| II don't care if she was graduated
in Hongkong," said the young man
with the spotted tie, defantly. "And
from that piece she played I should
4 have guessed China instead of Ger
many. Oh. go on and call. Get your
mind elevated and acquire culture in
large chunks if you like it! I'm going
to call on Nell Cashe and enjoy myself
and not have to tie my. brains up in
an allegorical significance in her cues
tion as to whether don It think the
weather fine for this time of wear.
Good by--here where I turn off!''-
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