The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-11-02

OF course the boys ollied him bit at first but he
was so extremely naughty that they gave him up in
disgust.
Naturally he lost time in taking Ruby Hazel into
his confidence. AS far his emotions
cerned Jim always had the shrinking reticence of
caliODe in a circus parade.
At the of the first day she wearing his col
lege pin her other glittering spoils, and had
conceded in his belief that it absurd for two
people who were friends to call each other by their
last names.
At the end of the week she had told him about
several men who had wanted to marry her, and how
annoying it was to have strange men stare at
the street. She always wondered why they did. Jim
told her. In fact, there wasn't much about Ruby
Hazel that hadn't been talked pretty thoroughly
1t is interesting to recall that matter in what
lofty strain the conversation might start, it would
Invariably get back in time to the freckles on Ruby
Hazels nose or the fact she wore a 5a4 glove.
At the close of the first fortnight ALL in that
nebuous way accustomed to youth, was settled be-
tween them. don't think Jim demanded her hand
in wedlock in many words, that Ruby Hazel had
occasion to refer him to her parents but appeared
in the of their conversation that either had
difficulty in imagining a future in which the other
had no prominent part.
OF course Jim wrote poems to her He believed at
this time that it his natural form of expression
He used to sit his cot in the camp compose
them while the other boys insulted him. 1t the
only time he had considering that the Samese bond
between Ruby Hazel and himself only severed
when the hotel locked up for the night.
He used to recite these illusions to her matter
roaming through the wood paths in the afternoon.
Ruby Hazel said they were grand" and, accepting
staggered by their subli1ny 1t was only afterward
he realized that she used the adjective when she
referred to the weather, novel, his appear
ance in evening clothes.
Of course this beatifc state not destined to con-
tinue. In his early love affairs jim invariably sug
gesed who laboriousy Chambers to the top of
hill only to with great rapidty down the other
side Gradually the sckening conviction borne
upon him that Ruby Hazel failed to live up to the
several requirements that his lofty soul demanded.
The first rift in the lutte made when he discoy
cred that the head waitress at the big Hoel-in
Pines her hair like Ruby Hazel for wave
puff for puff and comb for comb After that he went
downhill rapidly.
The last week of Ruby Hazel's stay in the noun
tains not fraught with joy-at least for jim He
suddenly discovered how fond he of the boys at
the camp and how overwhelmingly good their
companionship. but common decency forced him to
seek Ruby Hazel of old and assume the mad
interest in the freCkles her Also he began
to wonder if the people in the hotel laughing
hin1-not that one would think him called upon to
question the fact. He discovered also that Ruby
Hazels conversation was not thing that would draw
the savants of the earth to her feet and her
anent the people in the hotel and the costumes Of
others which had struck him being naively
witty few short weeks before began to dawn
upon him The perfection of bad taste. In short,
when he put Ruby Hazel her train, bearing the
while the airy persifage of her friends and Ruby
Hazels responsive gggles and it finally disappear
in the distance he felt if the weight of had
been lifted from him.
He spent three days of unmitigated JOY at the camp