The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1907-07-19
Eelfct Misrellany.
Kate's Financiering.

In these days of commercialism they
tell US there is no romance, the one
excludes the other-com m mercialism
no romance; romance, no commercial
ism. Perhaps this is so, yet there
must be few exceptions. | know Of
one. l, real estate agent, discover
ed within a cold, prosaic real estate
transfer the threads Of a most borrow
ing case of duplicity, craftiness and
romance. Tying these threads togeth-
er and showing them to the guilty
person-my cousin-I obtained full
confession after promising never to
tell. The best of it is that the other
int crested person does not suspect the
romance in which he figured.
About year before these events,
my cousin Kate had, to prove ber in.
dependence, obtained a position as
ste noe rapher for an architectural firm
in town. Here were employed sever.
al young draughtsmen, who promptly
became interested in Kate, but she
treated them all impersonally, except
one. In this matter, among many
others, Kate showed her queerness OF
taste. for Kate the fy-away, Kate the
frt. Kate the conquerer, chose to
'adopt" Billy Thorne.
Billy Thorne was a quiet, hard
working fellow, generally, considered
rather prosaic. He got fair salary
and saved most of it, never went any
where and was never known to talk
to "a girl. Hence, there was great
won derment in the Office when ese
morning in walked Billy Therne With
the stenographer. He repeated this
performance several times in the next
few weeks, and even went out to lunch
with her. He carried on in this way
until he became a regular caller on
W, tuesdays and Sundays. Then
Billy began to think. Billy had ideas
on certain matters. He thought that
man ought not to propose to a girl
till he owned a house; that man
should never get in debt was another
ax om.
Inasmuch as his bank account grew
slowly he could see no possibility OF
further progress in his love affair, and
he knew that he must 60 either back
ward or forward Hence, he was not
at all smiling when he rang the bell at
Ka'e's home on the balmy Sunday at.
ternoon, nor did Kate's proposition to
take a walk cheer him greatly. They
had taken walks before and Billy had
found that contemplation of admirable
building sites one could not buy wa
depressing.
Although Billy had never SPOKE n
Of building sites in personal way,
nor txpounded his idea on debt aid
marriage to Kate, she, being ohscr-
want, had put this and that together
and got fairly good idea of the state
of afflirs. Hence she understood B l.
Tvs GUINNESS and let him walk alonr
at her side. scowling and silent.
AS they had done before, they stop
ped and read certain sign on GER
tain lot. Billy laughed-a little bit
terly-and said: "If we could only
have au earthquake I'd be happy
Kate looked puzzled and he exp ain
ed: can uncle of mine left me 200
acres of rocks on the Maine coast, and
a nice, accommodating earthquake
might, in general mixup, set a few
acres down here, where ! could use
them"
"What part of Maine are they IN?
asked Kate.
"Other side of Calais I've been
tr, i, Q 10 sell that land for several
years but nobody wants it"
| odd ou ever ADVERTISED"