The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-01
MADE A MISTAKE
IN THE YOUNG MAN
(Chicago News.)

"Blue?" repeated the young woman
with the siispieiously red eyes as she
hunted for another handkerchief Il
should say anybody had right to be
blue who had been treated as have!
1t isn't because was so awfully fond
of him. either. But 1t makes me so
mad when 1 think"
There's a customer down at the
other end of the counter" broke in her
friend. who was measuring off French
flannel
Let her wait" glOOmily retOrted the
blue young woman. The flOorwalker
isn't anywhere in sight. Somehow these
ginghams and percales make me feel
worse. / suppose il was all the fault
of my reading that article on how to
make yourself fascinating. It said to
find out what a man was interested in
and gently lead him to talking. about
II. And who ever heard of man from
Canada who wasn't just crazy over ice
and skating and such things?"
They always wear knit toboggan
caps. too, helped the girl at the flannel
counter. Il remember q picture on
calendar. Was it Jimmy Burslaw?'
Yes, it was" admitted the blue
young woman. And you know per-
fectly well he has rushed me ever since
he was put on this floor. Didn't he take
me to the employees dance i'll car
riage, I'd like TO know?
Nom, we haven't any ginghams like
that.
1T was way at the bottom of the
pile and l amt going TO lift bolts OF
cloth for any woman today, if she does
wear a sealskin coat
E+z
And he was that devoted" added the
girl measuring flannel.
"Well, | amt saying anything about
that" replied the blue young woman
with dignity. But when the zero
weather began I started to telling him
how 1 loved the bracing cold and
adored skating and how l yearned TO
enjoy the coasting we had back home
when / was kid. / thought he'd see
that I sympathized with his ideas and
entered into his enjOyments and was
really jolly companion"
can you skater" inquired her COM
panion, doubtfully-
Il can make a stab at it," reluctant
ly admitted the girl who was blue.
But, to be honest, if there Is anything
that gives me the ague from top TO toe
it is to have to get mOre'n a yard away
from a steam radiator on chilly night
Anybody who wants the crystal air
and the still wintry stars and the rest
of ii can have them and welcome, hut II
is Just agony to NE. | most die.
Talk about heroinesi 1 guess l vas
one the first time Jimmie Burslaw
wanted me to go skating. 1t pains me
yet to think of the smile / wore oil
evening. / said I'd never enjoyed any
thing so in all my life and that lie was
the only man / knew who was athletic
and loved outdoor sports. and of course
he couldn't do much of anything hut
offer TO take me again, could he?"
90 no could aV.ay x-1
of it," admitted the girl who was sell
ing flanncls-
well. we skated and tobogganed and
then we skated some more from that
time on, and 1 spent all my salary
buying cough syrups and chest pTOJee-
tors and glycerine for my Chapped
hands," mournfully related the first
girl.
Nom, the pink gingham is all sold.
well. I cheered up when l remem-
bered that winter couldn't last always
and / had lots of chances before an
other one came. So l vetoed oyster
suppers and nice warm theatres and
the Cinch club and endured Arctic
weather with Jimmie. He seem ID Sc
sensible otherwise that / couldn't see
why he had to be weakminded abOu;
wanting to freeze to death when he
didn't have TO. And after all [ en-
duTe0- she broke OH anu HuHtSu 1Oi
her handkerchief again.
Didn't he get busy?'' asked the girl
at the flannel counter,
"Busy?" quavered the other as she
shipped off samples for a persistent
customer. I've just heard that he told
his sisters husband. who is a cousin Cf
an aunt of mine, who told me, that he
used to kind of like me, but | was a
lunatic over outdoor sports and would
not enjoy myself otherwise, and he had
had enough of frostbitten fingers and
toes and was going to slide out Of the
game to save his life. He said Mamie
Peters, who doesn't bulge outside the
door from November till April, looked
good to him, and a fellow could enjoy
her society and be comfortable H. a
civilized way at the same time! And
he goes to see her every other evening
Nom, l don't know where the sep
ladders are.
After all the misery 1 endured. too"
''Well. it's a perfect shamew said the
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