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spectacular qualities and nobody ever
really thought Of Homer when they
were to be filled. Truth be told Homer
never thought of going after them him
self. In fact Homer never pushed him
self. Folks said he was not am
bilious.
But the years with all their toll and
hardships and disappointment brought
one great Joy and light to Homer's life.
1t was a woman, Of course, and her
dainty, feminine ways gave the love-
starved lad a glimpse into new and
marvellous world. He never ceased to
wonder that she crowned him with her
favors-he who ever had been a by
stander in all the joys and softer side
Of life
The result. Isl easy to guess. He BE-
came her AFFECT and devoted slave. Her
lightest wish was law and there was no
sacrifice too great, no endeavor too
strenuous for him to make at her most
simple suggestion. Because she loved
society he plunged into the gayties of
the town, where he cut most sorry fig
ure, as he was only too painfully con-
scious and where he became the butt
of the clever ones, as he was in all the
walks of life he assayed. Because she
approved of religion he smothered his
convictions and haunted the church of
her denomination, studying its creed
with desperate earnestness and blindIy
accepting it's code. He even attempted
golf and as a last sacrifice joined
home study circle where after a hard
days work he sternly kept himself
awake,
And the woman. Well, she was a
daughter of Eve, and having failed to at
tract any very big fish and having ar
rived at the period of maidens life
when she begins to realize that it is time
to cast an anchor to the windward, she
turned to Homer Not that she was old
or devoid of charms, but she had set her
standard rather high and the knight of
her dreams had not appeared. Besides
she was a young woman of discrimina-
ton and she saw below the common
place exterior of this simple hearted
man, the true gold of his unself1sh char
acter. She appreciated this and she
shrewdly realized that with him she
would be absolutely queen.
But, ah, We daughters of Eve, when.
ever did reason govern your hearts and
your desires? Whenever did not-and
when does not and will not-the gay
cavalier fire your hearts and imagina-
lions and make the plain sturdy plow-
boy seem commonplace and impossible?
And who shall say that the fair Agnes
did not accept Homer with a mental
reservation? And who shall say that
the vision of the gay cavalier did not
still abide In her imagination?
Be all that as it may the fact remains
that one glorious evening she plighted
her troth to Homer with dainty gasp
Of surrender which so filled him with
Joy and reverence that 1t must abide
with him forever. It was many weeks
before he could thoroughly believe that
this splendid creature, this wonderful
being had selected him Of all the world
for a mate and he bowed in reverence
and thanksgiving every time he
thought of 1t, which was some thousand
times day.
Always frugal and saving, he now be-
gan to lay aside money with more than
a miser's avarice against the blissful
day when Agnes should come to his
arms. He was not impatient, as most
lovers are. It was enough for him to
know that she was his. He could wait.
He had been compelled to wait for
everything ever since he was born and
he had learned the lesson III pAt1encS.
Probably this was mistake because
women like to be sought ardentiy and
impatiently-but how was he to know
that, this being the only woman he had
ever known?
We'll, it was the same old story.
While he waited and toiled patiently.
secure in his happiness, the cavalier
came along, smiled upon his mistress
and poor Flooding Homer was forgot
ten. Just how it all happened has been
forgotten in the chronicles of the town.
However, one T. Seymour Esterly an
reared On the social horizon of the town
with more fine clothes than the John
MES ever had seen and with an auto
mobile and debonair air and much
He was there, he an
for rest and recreation after n
strenuous season on the stock market
in Wall street. Need it be recorded how
he swept everything before him? How
mammas courted him and papas gave
him little dinners at the club, how
clubs and societies strove for the
privilege Of entertaining him as an
honored guest-and how the maidens.
sbetrothed and unbetrutned, smiled
upon him? Nay, the dullest magma
ton can see all that.
Then one day tho town was startled
with an elopement. Yes, sad as it was,
Agnes had eloped with T. Seymour
Esterly in most spectacular MANNER
leaving dramatic note to Homer that
she had made great mistake, but had
saved both him and herself by recog-
MIXING the fact that they were not
mates before it was too late-thanks
to the fact that her true affinity had APP
peared. And she begged him to forget
her unworthy self and to find some