The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-24
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.

"Three,'' said Katherine, taking one
last look at the empty horizon, then
seating herself in front of her friend,
"three is a recurring decimal. It
goes on and on and on forever, and if
you write it for thousand years you
are still as far from the end as when
you began. It will carry you round
the world and back again, and never di-
minish. It is the mathematical en-
blem of the nature Of true love-. ~
els it so serious as all that. Kate,
or are you just fooling again?' asked
Dorothy, more soberly than heretofore.
"Has he spoken to you?' J., -.
~ttSpokens He has done nothing but
speak, and I have istened-oh, SO in
tently, and with such deep understand
ing. he has never before met such
woman as 1, and has frankly told me
ct am very glad he appreciates you,
DEAR .-- ~.
eyes, you see, Dorothy, I am really
much deeper than the ordinary woman.
Who, for instance, could find such a
beautiful love smile from book of
arithmetic costing rs cents, as I have
unearthed from decimal fractionss, With >
that example in mind how can you
doubt that other volumes Of college
learning reveal to me their inner mean
ingg John presented to me, as he said
goodbye, a beautifully bound copy of
that celebrated textbook, Saunders
Analytical Chemistry with particular
~ tender passages marked in pencil, by
his own dear hand. - a.
Rather bewildered, for Kate's express
sion was one of pathos, unreiieved by
any CLEAN of humor, Dorothy neverthe-
less laughed, altho the laugh brought no
echo from Katherine:
uAnd did YOU give him a volume of
Browning In returns''-
unsympathetic7 rs it impossible for
you to comprehend the unseen link that
binds John and me9 ] rummaged the
book store until I found a charming
gist,s Pocket Companion, covered with
beautiful brown limp Russia leather
thought the Russia binding was SO in
spirational--with a sweet little clasp
that keeps it closedtypical of our
hands at parting. On the fly-leaf )
wrote: ITO J. L., in remembrance OF
many interesting conversations with his
friend. K. X It only needed another
3 K to be emblematic and political,
"Reminiscences of the :olden times, when
: YOU people Of the south, Dorothy, were
making it hot for us deserving folk in
the north. I hadn't time to 60 thru
the book very sthorofy, but L found
many references to limestone, which l
marked, and one particularly choice bit
of English relating to the dissolution
and consolidation of various miner
. ais I drew paralle1ogram around IN
red ink A friend of mine in motor
launch was good enough to take the lit
tie parcel direct to the CONSERVATION,
and I have no doubt that at this mo-
ment Jack is perusing it, and perhaps
thinking of the giVer. [ hope 1t g up
bought a copy" ..-r"
=: ttYou don't mean to say, Kate, that
your conversation was entirely about
: geology?" ..# " 8.
ttGertainly not. How could you
have become imbued with an idea SO abb
surd? We had many delightful dal-
iances down the romantic groves OF
chemistry, heart-to-heart talks on metal
p: lurgy, and once-ah, shall ever forget
it-while the dusk gently EMBODIED US,
and I gazed into those bright, speaking,
er and nearer; while his low, sonorous
voice in well-chosen words pictured to
me the promise which fortified cement
holds out to the world; that is, ignor-
ant person, Portland cement strength
ened by ribs of steel; and I sat listen
ing breathless as his glowing phrases
prophesied the future, OF this comblna-
tion.'
Katherine closed her eyes, rocked
gently back and forth, and crooned, al
most inaudibly:
"'When you gang ava, Jimmie,
Faur across the sea, laddie.
When ye gang to Russian lands .
What will We send to me, iaddie?
I know what I shall get. It viii prob
ably be. a newly discovered recipe for
the compromising of cement which Will
do away with the necessity of steel
strengthening"
HKate, dear, you are overriding it.
It is quite right that woman should be
mystery to man, but she should not
aspire to become, a mystery to her sis
ter woman. Are you just making fun,
or is there something in all this more
serious than your words imply
Like the steel strengthening in the
cement, it may be there, but you can It
see it, and you can't, touch it, but it