Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-10

OF course the boys jollied him bit at first but he
was SO extremely naughty that they gave him up in
disgust
Naturally he lost no time in taking Ruby Hazel into
his confidence AS far as his emotions were con-
cerned, Jim always had the shrinking retcence OF
caliope in circus parade
At the end of the first day she wearing his col
lege pin among her other glittering spoils and had
coincided in his belief that it was absurd for two
people who 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 to have strange men stare at one on
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 over pretty thoroughly
by that time.
1t is interesting to recall that no matter in what
lofty strain the conversation might start it would
invariably get back in time to the freckles Ruby
Hazels the fact she wore 5M glove.
At the close of the first fortnight ALL in that vague
nebulous way accustomed to youth, was settled be-
tween them. don't think Jim demanded her hand
in wedlock in many words or that Ruby Hazel had
occasion to refer him to her parents but 1t appeared
difficulty in imagining future in which the other
had no prominent part
OF course Jim wrote poems to her He believed at
this time that it was his natural form of expression
He used to sit his cot in the camp and compose
them while the other boys insulted him. 1t was the
only time he had considering that the Samese bond
between Ruby Hazel and himself was only severed
when the hotel locked up for the night
He used to recite these efusions to her matter
OF course adrift the lake moonlight nights, or
roaming through the wood paths in the afternoon.
Ruby Hazel said they grand" and, accepting
this according to Webster Jim assumed that she
staggered by their submity. 1t only afterward
he realized that she used the adjective when she
referred to the weather, novel, his appear
ance in evening clothes
OF this beatfc state not destined to
tinue In his early love affairs Jim Invariably sug
gested man who laborously Chambers to the top of
hill only to with great rapdity down the other
side. Gradually the sickening conviction was 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 was made when he dscov-
cred that the head waitress at the big Hotelin-the
Pines wore her hair like Ruby Hazel wave for wave,
puff for puff and comb for comb. After that he went
downhill rapidly.
The last week of Ruby Hazels stay in the noun
tains was not fraught with ioy-at least for jim He
suddenly discovered how fond he of the boys at
the camp and how overwhelmingly good their
companonship, but common decency forced him to
seek Ruby Hazel of old and assume the same mad
interest in the freckles on her nose Also he began
to wonder if the people in the hotel laughing at
him-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 savans of the earth to her feet and her remarks
anent the people in the hotel and the costumes OF
. others which had struck him as being so navey
witty few short weeks before, now began to dawn
upon him as The perfection of bad taste In short
when he put Ruby Hazel on her train, bearing the
while the airy persfage of her friends and RUBY
Hazes responsive gigges, and 1t finally disappear
in the distance he felt If the weight of worlds had
been lifted from him
He spent three days of unmtigated joy at the camp