The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-05-31


Woman's love 70 fable,
| will love thee half year,
AS man is able.
Mrs. Browning.
She was one Of those girls who do
everything for the first time ana ten
you SO. She had never danced a waltz;
it was her first experience with a grass
icourt at tennis; she had thought pine
apples grew on pine trees.
She gave little screams OF dehght
over everything, and kept saying:
How exciting! It's just like
fbook."
She visited at an army depot for the
first time, and called Parkhurst per-
fectly sweet. The military folks re-
garded her complacently and spoke OF
her as a dear little thing; they
smiled at her tenderly as on the va
carries OF a pretty child. Capt. FORBES
with whose wife she was Slaylhg)
said she was like April sunshine.
"Unexpected?" said Mrs. FORREST.
mo" replied Capt Forbes, and ne
did not explain
Elsie-her name was Elsie, for it
seems as if sometimes people choose
their own names so as to have them
fit, or else grow into them 50 that they
become appropriate eyentually-was
sweet-tempered and Guttery and full
of song as a canary bird.
She was happy in her pink prints
and dotted muslins, and as pretty as
a rose in the garden.
Under her white parasol, which in
that white. hot sunshine gives not
suggestion Of shade, but only makes
pretty fresh glow on delicate skin,
she could be seen wandering up and
down on he beach by the bathers, out
on the little wharf watching the pretty
children padding through the clear
water, or with her irTepressible camera
taking some ones picture under the
trees.
She never minded the heat or found
it unbecoming; the wind never blew
too roughly for her-indeed, it cannot
for one whose hair only goes into be-
witching curls for it-and she actually
looked pretty in a bathing suit
One day the Forbeses took her out
to visit man-o-war which was lying
off the shore. Elsie delighted the sail
ors who Tin spotless white) manned
the launch by giving delightful series
of 'oh's' when she stepped into the
coquettish little craft to get out to the
ship. and when they laid the white
dancing thing like skittish horse up
to the companion ladder, their delight
at her delight was boundless, though
unspokeD
The day was sparklingly clear, and
the beautiful water was bright hum
ming-bird green over its bed of rock.
1t broke in flashing white under the
prov of the launch, and where there
grew grass below was tainted all hues
of violet on the surface. She held on
to the edge Of the cushions with both
hands lit was not necessary, while her
fluffy light hair blew into her eyes, and
she laughed like a baby taking a bath.
The ship Of war was painted white,
and the brass on her decks and rig
ging shone like the sun. Where she
foated placidly at anchor the deeper
water was a wonderful brilliant hue,
so that one thought OF white bird
against the blue Sky.
She had never been on warship
before, and she had never met a naval
officer before, and she had never been
in love before-until then.
He was a MILDLY with brown eyes;
his hair was brown too, not to mem
ton that fine brown skin. He (oh!
and some others took them over the
ship.
She shuddered over the machine guns
and ecstasied over the chests of flags
and their signals; she raved over the
man whom thy babe play the banjo
for her between decks; she said the
sick bay was dreadful and would give
her the nightmare, she knew, and then
laughed, and when the MILDLY gave her
a cap ribbon she only thanked him
with a shy, bright look.
The MILDLY thought her cute" and
promised her chaperone to call on
them that very evening He did.
In the forenoon he took her for a
drive up the gray-green trees Of the
woods where Elsie said How mys-
terious!" Or How VERDI! at least a
dozen times.
Then Mrs Forbes gave dinner
elsie wore white), and afterward they
discovered that the MILDLY sang and