The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1907-06-27

Womans love no fable,
will love thee half year,
AS a man is able.
Mrs. Browning.
She was one of those girls who DO
everything for the first time and tei'
you so. She had never danced waltz;
it was her first experience with grass
court at tennis; she had thought pine
apples grew on pine trees.
She gave little screams OF dellght
over everything, and kept saying;
How exciting! It's just like a
book"
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 Oh
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 staying
said she was like April sunshine
"UneXpected?" said Mrs. FORREST
No" replied Capt. Forbes, and he
did not explain.
Elsie-her name was Elsie, for 1t
seems as ii sometimes people choose
their own names 50 as TO have them
fit, or else grow into them so that they
become appropriate cventually-"as
sweet-tempered and fluttery and tull
of song as a canary bird.
She was happy in Der pink prints
and dotted muslins, and as pretty as
rose in the garden,
Under her white rarasol, 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 the beach by the bathers, out
on the little wharf watching the pretty
children padding through the clear
water, or with her irreDressible camera
taking some ones picture under the
trees.
She never minded the heat or found
1t unbecoming; the wind never blew
too roughly for her-indeed, ii cannot
for one whose hair only goes into be-
witching curls for it-and she actually
looked pretty in bathing suit.
One day the Forbeses took her out
to visit a man-o'-war which was lying
off the shore. Elsie delighted the sail
ors who lin spotless white) manned
the launch by giving a delightful series
of "oh's" when she stepped into the
coquettish little craft to get out 10 the
ship, and when they laid the white
dancing thing like a skitt.sh horse up
TO the companion ladder, their delight
at her delight was boundless, though
unspolien.
The day was sparklingly clear, and
the beautiful water was bright hum
ming-bird green over It's 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 Git was not necessary, while her
fluffy light hair blew into her eyes, and
she laughed like baby taking bath.
The ship of war was painted white,
and the brass on her decks and rig
ging shone like the sun, Where she
fioated placidly at anchor the deeper
water was a wonderful brilliant hue,
SO that one thought of a white bird
against the blue sky.
She had never been on a warship
before, aud she had never met 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 men
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-greea 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