The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-11

T0rgOtteD tnat COMPARISONS are OQlOuS.
Our meter is not to compare. but TO
take what pIeases us from each.
How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour
And gather honey all the day
From every opening flower.
Watts. You see. I'm still down among
the VS.. oh. Dorothy. how can you
sit there so placidly when the Conster-
nation has just faded from sight?
Selfish creature,
"Oh, give me tears for others woes
And patience for mine own.
/ don't know who wrote that. but you
have no tears for others woes. merely
greeting them with ribald laughter
for Dorothy, with the well read letter
in her hand, was making the rafters
ring with her merriment, something
that had never before happened dur
ing her long tenancy of that room.
Kate turned her head slowly round,
and the expression on her face was
half indignant, half humorous, while
her eyes were uncertain weather
prophets and gave equal indication of
sunshine or rain.
why, Katherine, you look like
tragedy queen, rather than the spirit
of comedy! Is it really Il case of Tit
willow, tit-willow, tit-willow?' You
see. I'm a-rescuing you from the bot
tom of the alphabet and bringing you
up to the Gilbert plane, where | am
more accustomed to you, and under
stand you better. Is this dependency
due to the departure of the Conster-
! nation and the fact that she carries
away with her Jack Lamont, black
smith,
The long sigh terminated in a woe
full Yes"
1.-THE ship that has gone out with
him we call she. If he had eloped
with a real she, then wearing the will
low or singing it, however futile,
might be understandable. As it is l
see nothing in the situation to call for
a sigh"
'That is because you are a hardened
sinner, Dorothy You have no heart,
| or at least if you have it is untouched
and therefore you cannot understand.
If that note in your hand We're a love
missive instead of a letter from your
lawyers, you would be more human
Dorothy"
The hand which held the paper crum
pied it up slightly as Katherine spoke
Business letters are quite necessary
and belong to the world we live in
said Dorothy, a glow of brighter color
suffusing her cheeks. Surely YOU
acquaintance with Mr.. Lamont is OF
the shortest"
HE has called upon me every day
since the night Of the ball." maintained
Katherine stoutly.
"Well, that's only three times"
"Only three! How you talk! OnC
would think you had never beer
schooled in mathematics. Why, tire,
is a magic figure. You can do plent.
of amazing things with it. Don't yol
know that three is a mineral of lover
81 thought two was the number,
chimed Dorothy, with heartless mirth
Three" said Katherine taking on
last look at the empty horizon, thel
seating herself in front of her friend
''three is a recurring decimal. 1t goe
on and on and on forever, and if yol
write it for a thousand years you ar
still as far from the end as when yol
began. 1t will carry you round tn
world and back again and never di
minish. 1t is the mathematical EN-
blem of the nature of true love-"
rs it so serious as all that, Kate, o
are you just fooling again?" asket
Dorothy, more soberly than heretofore
HAS he spoken to you?"
Spoken? He has done nothing bu
speak, and l have listened-oh, so in
tently and with such deep understand
ing. He has never before met such
woman as l and has frankly told N
So"
81 am very glad he appreciates you
dear"
Yes, you see, Dorothy, 1 am reall
much deeper than the ordinary We
} man. Who, for instance, could fin
!. such beautiful love smile from
book of arithmetic costing % cents a
, / have unearthed from decimal fraC
tons? With that example in min(
!, how can you doubt that other volume
of college learning reveal to me thei
! inner meaning? John presented to N
as he said goodby a beautifully boun
, copy Of that celebrated text bool
Saunders Analytical Chemistry wit
particularly tender passages marked
pencil by his own dear hand"
Rather bewildered, for Hates ey
preston was one of pathos. unrelieve
by any CLEAN of humor, Dorothy ney
ertheless laughed. although the laug
brought no echo from Katherine.
And did you give him volume c
Browning in return?'
mo, I didn't How can you be S
unsympathetic? Is it impossible fc
you to comprehend the unseen lin
that binds John and me? l rummage
the book store until | found a charm
ing little edition Of 'Marshalrs Geol,
gists Pocket Companion covered wit
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