The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-03-11

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the one that had a
rival. You needn't tip your head back
and look through your glasses that
way!
We'll then, / met him last spring.
and | was attracted right away. be-
cause he was big and strong and all
that. We weren't engaged though, un.
I'll June, and after that everything
was lovely until the cool days came,
this fall.
Cool days. That isn't so bad. But
wouldn't you be cool yourself If you
got note after note saying, Can't take
that walk this aft. It's too good a day
TO practice or, I'm sending you both
the season tickets for that lecture
course. Better got some girl to 80
with you. | might have known, when
] bought them, that | couldn't waste
October afternoons at lectures, but,
you see, | never was engaged before
and suppose it went TO my head
1T was football. you see, uncle. and
man might as well be a Mormon as
try to be true TO football and a girl at
the same time. Days would pass with
out his coming near me, and when he
did come he couldn't talk about a
thing but tackles ond bucking the line.
AT first l didn't show that | felt
hurt Instead, got up little evening
supper-the kind he always liked Do
you suppose he ate It? He looked re.
proachful. as II | ought to have known
without being told that he lived on
birdseed and mush in football season
and he never touched a crumb!
Then he followed that by telling me
that he'd have to go 10 bed at six
every night after this and get up and
take long runs in the early morning
| But he said Oscar Keith had agreed
TO be his sub in taking me to the the
| at9r the next evening-an engagement
we'd had for two weeks-and he
seemed to think l ought to be very
grateful for his kindness in arranging
that.
We'll Oscar Keith Ycu know him
A Phi. D.-never played football I'm his
life-but he was an attentive escort
and quite interesting He found out
that I'd read few things myself, too.
THE night after the theater up came
Mr. Keith again with the word that
! Kenneth had sprained his ankle prac
ticing, and was in the depths of woe
not because he couldn't come to see
me-oh, no!-but because he might
lave TO miss playing in the game Sat
urday. That was the night Mr. Keith
brought me the copy Of Peer Gynt
from his Ibsen set. A few evenings
later he came up on purpose TO tel
me just where Ken wanted me to slt
on the grand stand Saturday, so that
! could see him best The ankle wa:
coming all right, IT seemed. but
didn't get one word direct from Ken
and couldn't help showing how fell
about It when Mr. Keith delivered his
verbal message.
"Yes, l went to the football game
It was the third one of my life. There
were girls all around me, screeching
Go II Ken! Go II! Go IT. Co it!
just as If he were an animal, and h,
looked enough like some queer animal
too! Those awful toys! Why, from
the minute he trotted into the fielC
with that noseguard on | could hav,
gone through the floor!
But the girls went on shrieldpg ant
jumping up and down, and the terribl,
mixed-up game went on. until at last
without a bit of warning, they tIrnet
and pounced on me, and told me hov
proud / was because Ken's magnifcen
playing had won that game! Thei
they rushed me down to the gate ant
just as we got there, Kenneth was car
ried out on the shoulders Of four boys
Such fright His hair was Wild
there was mud plastered all over hi
F-.----u-------1 forehead and on