The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-04-18
The DethrOnement
of Douglas.
BY JANE iNGRAhaM.
lsU;, by NJ. NJ. Cunningham.

class of girls who bow to physical
strength In the opposite sex. Frail. al
most fowerlike In her beauty. the sort
of girl who had been protected and
served all her life. she yet decorated
her tiny morning room with etchings
and small statuettes of classic heroes
famed for their physical prowess, and
she could sit through u veritable bliz-
zard to watch a football match and
shout herself hoarse for Ted's college
team.
Ted was her brother, and he said
that somewhere in Harriet's makeup
was a strain from the blood OF an an
cestral belle who had cheered on her
hero in the old tournament days, for
the Winthrops could trace their lineage
to the tournament days and further,
and. even though Mr. Winthrop had
lost q large slice of the old family for
tune through i'll advised investments.
they maintained their social standing,
lived in rather severe but elegant fash
ion ami held fast to every tradition In
Guiding the firm belief that no lady
rides IN a street car or other public
conveyance. She may walk abroad
for exercise only, but when calling or
shopping the plain. rather old fashion
ed brougham of the depleted Win
throp stables was brought into service.
That was why when many other
girls with more money 10 spend on
shopping tripped merr1iy up and down
the great retail thoroughfare Harriet
Winthrop chafed in the Winthrop
brougham, caught. In a blockade OF
snarling motormon, sharp faced chauf-
feurs and obstinate cabbies. The
brougham swung 10 one side, the
wheels grating the curb, and Harriet
leaned forward to see how close they
were to the shop wherein. could be
found certain piece Of silvery blue
gauze marked down to post holiday
prices. Then, with gasp and shud-
der, she leaned back in the carriage
and closed her eyes. She had forgotten
the silvery gauze. the shop, the jam OF
vehicles-everything save the tall.
SQUARE shouldered figure OF man.
whose entire attention seemed to be
centered on the tint of pancakes he was
turning In the window of white front
restaurant.
The brougham moved forward few
inches, then several feet. Very soon
II would be out of range. so Harriet
took one more glimpse at the win
dow to make sure that her eyes had
not deceived her. No, 1t was he, and
this time he was actually handing the
white aproned waitress plate piled
high with golden brown cakes.
What was Jerry Douglas doing in
that window, and how could he bestow
upon the white aproned girl precisely
the same frank, cordial smile with
which he had greeted Harriet at that
last dance, after Teddy's team had
won through Douglas clever coachingf
She bought half yard more gauze
than she needed and went home firm
ly convinced that Jerry Douglas had
been cooking cakes to pay wager.
That night she went to a dance where
many mutual friends gathered. but no
one seemed to have leard OF the esca-
pade, and she was too roud to make
inquiries. The next day she went back
to the shop so close TO the restaurant.
A bit Of pale blue velvet ribbon would
set Off that silver gauze, but she decid-
ed that, after all she did not care
whether the silver gauze was develop
ed into creation or not. Nothing mat
tered save that her idol had crumbled
at her very feet or, more properly
speaking, within few feet Of the
wheels Of her brougham, for there
again was Jerry Douglas, turning what
she thought must be very fat and indi-
gestible fried biscuits.
So IL was not an election wager or
anything of that sort. All, she knew!
He had gone in for sociology. He was
studying the condition of the working
classes. Next thing he would be living
In one of those dreadful settlement
houses, holding club meetings for raga'
mullins and poor factory girls and
writing silly things for magazines
this man whom she had watched with
baited breath on the football field,
whom she had pictured as sallying
forth to pit his magnificent strength
physical and mental, against the mag
mates OF the commercial and financial
world
Cooking cakes in restaurant win,
dow!
Harriet Winthrop walked with firm
deliberate step to her desk and took
down from the wall above 1t picture
showing a group OF lusty young men in
football attire and also a certain in
dlvidual picture of a young man with
finely formed head and broad. square
shoulders. She thrust the two behind
some boxes on the top shelf Of hei
clothespress and then sat down for q
good cry.
or course she might have found out
what II all meant II Teddy had beer
home, but Teddy after leaving college
had gone to Paris to follow up hi