New-York tribune., 1907-08-18

TN gong l. tel Just how the thing happened.
not because either Doris OF owe eAI-aIl;llcls -5I
10 tie public. 10- what We QlQ ColCelh0U oii'H
ourselves nd one other; but because the news
1are-s has = -r.1le lot OF I1oppycock.-5laIned lies
most q 5c-aci folks Who ddn know a thing about
Il went round telling the biggest lake yarns 80
ever herd L was enough 70 make a le!o" sex
To show how much the papers knew tleE KEEP.
talking about ou- beng mere children an 1ele,re1 81
to the thing a. q boy and girl romance. and al
that sc-- ~ stuff. And moreover we oldli !
Tlisre--- t-l- ages as one New York paper sald
did 5lr -rr-rn ashamed o1 ouT ages. anu "e
Ue-en't mere children - either DORIS was nhle-
teen and vas rr'e1lt y-tlree- had peei: out o.
College ea-. and Doris was coming our l--aI lai-
And Il 7ea-- : a-lvore's business. ANYHOW
And II ne D:-!e about my wanting 10 lld.I
her because -e- people had lot o. -noney-"IlN.
anyone --s- knows ANYTHING al al knows that
Doris father : dead and that she lSn due TO gtt
more -laa ne OF s.x hundred thousand from her
uncle I1-- because she lived with the ol'4ll
Mosiers -.e1-le-eutssders. / Inean-thousnt she
vas one u -.r children; but she Wasn l sht "as
jrst the Old ae-ltle-rlars niece: and all she got
coming - e = i-1=1 what her father. Cu1llrlll1ls
Mosia- -.- N 4--,s1 with her mother But i Do-ls
hadn't ta5 cent i wouldn have made any u'l-
fe-encv and i knock the tar out oi the lelI'N ~
SAYS i would. And Id have done II before tins
whole -es=-,a-,e- Once. Well, that : al -1ght-
70 begin Al tce beginning, Ike the fellows VINO
write The stories n the magazines YOU Teaa on ls
When -.e were Kids IN New York We lived on oiIp-
s--e sides 0- the street. That was down loNi-,
Things have changed heap down there no an
DORIS saws t.ev'le turned our house INTO q herman
restat-ar.- E,1- when we lived there, Iourteei;
years ago about. i all right Inc MS l-ile
met Do-.--a1-vav the first time remember o
II The square which just around the e'1iit-
from where -ve lived / was rolling hoop. ana -
vas Do-.s We we're on the same SIDE OF the a!h-
told her she j better get out OF my way ana se
sad d better gel out OF hers le1l pul looPs
bumped each other. and | grabbed hers ana thTeN
i INTO the fountain She got Jolly mad ana thTeI
Ter stick a me- and lust by luck OF course II t'1F-
tie cheek After that We were good iilell'i9-
We sye-e pretty near. Of age. YOU see ana she
Easn b.t 60: sissy In those days sile 1ad Tern
bly, red hat- and lots Of fTeckles.
guess fell n love with her when 1 was stXtee'!
and she Twelve. the first time mean uSed
To fall love NTH her and get over II eFeTE Eea-
@ Then When l E-ent TO prep Sctloo my Culli
lad gl-. picture on his chlffonIieT ana salu TX
was engaged . her. / don't believe ne really vas
because The g!-i looked about twenty ana ne N'tS
only seventeen. But | sent TO DORIS tor picture,
and she had some taken specially And they were
peaches. She sent me the proofs ana ch"se I'u'
styles The two she sent me when they were doilt
We're just as different as anything; YOU WouIdl
nave known tllev we're the same girl % c@Ae4
one Of them Doris and the other Lucille, ana to-
the fellows / Was engaged TO both of them
And that went ali right until a churnp named quo
Folsom took them both out of the mirror, where
had them stuck. and looked At the backs o. them
DOTS had gone and written Pete from LOT,
with all her love On each and i forgotten
Il. But the fellows were crazy about those pc
tuTes. Sud used 70 beg to take MN nome u
VISIT Al vacation And Doris was getting 70 DC q
me locker about that time. 1 tell YOU oi oouIse
she WASH pretty she : now; put she was
getting her looks fast
And the next spring / went home-Id fiunked
u rrath- and chem. and was feeling blt down II
tlte mouth She fairly took breath away II >
!uI'ny how girls change that way. You take them
nome one night horneiy mud fences, ana the
next afternoon YOU them and they Just SIMPLY
IiYoT YOU. That was the way Doris did, sort 81
blossomed cut overnight. And she was awfully
e9ihI'athetic about the fiunking and all that ana