Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-06-10
IN D NE BUT
the BRAVE !"
Elfe prysdale vas d peach.

Ellie Drysdale was a peach
Put her in bottle, and label her
From California" and you couldn't
Rave told her from the marvellous prod
net of the land of sunshine, fruit and
flowers.
There are not many like Elfie, She
had been admitted to the third de-
gree Of the Order of Man Killers.
She did things with her eyes that
old ladies' disapproved, and she did
them--well, she did them SO that it
hurt for about three months, and then
hemed.
Soft eyes and soft hair had Ellie,
and, as we .approach the footlights and
speak with fitting quayer While the
orchestra sympathizes in G.hat let
lis state that her mouth was the kind
you'd bite your way through III
miles of dense, tropical jungle to kiss,
and she had the figure Of a thousand
dollar bank note--so fine figure that
her princess gown made no bones
about showing it off upon every pos
sible occasion.
So much for Elhe Too much, per-
haps, fogeh9 was too much for al
most eNkyIne save Tommy Spind-
ticker. And even Tommy had Ellie
pretty bad. The minute she gave
him the housekeeping handshake, it
was all up with Tommy
Then they went at it.
,yir1 hn.
fore, and he knew the game Violets
he knew in midwinteE and fve-pound
boxes of chocolates, and cabs and
theater tickets But, curiously enough,
such expenditures failed to capture
her Elfe had her chamber wall pa
pered with love letters, and what she
didn't have time to read she gave to
her French maid to answer.
Tommy bought so horse power
auto, raised a Vandyke beard wrote
for the magazines, had scandal with
a show-girl-hut it was no use Elites
pose was still the patronizing affable,
and she refused to discuss personali-
ties.
Utility WtlJ anu llclei dpBNhN4IAtAS
and jungle fever, but even this failed
to interest Elfe.
An old man in whom he confided
told him to neglect her. Tommy tried
1t for a week and Ellie didn't seem to
mind it bit. She bought a new hat
and went to the opera with boy
of II.
Then Tommy made pilgrimage
to the far east and engaged prayer
wheel in all old Buddhist temple,
geared it to a gas, engine, and let it
run for 40 days. At the end of that
time his plea was answered. He ar
rived at home just as Elites engage
ment to a divinity student was an
nounted. Tommy waited till the eve Of
the wedding.
That night, with four Of his frater-
nifty, masked and with false mus
taches, he fell upon Elfie as she was
coming home from church, thrust her
into a cab, and drove her to a lonely
vacant house in the suburbs. Here
the divinity student was waiting,
bound hand and foot Elfie's screams
had been mufied in a medicated veil,
and when she came to her senses
Tommy was in a dress suit The four
members of his fraternity supported
her vigorously.
"Wilt thou have this man Tommy
to be tiny husband?H the divinity stu
dent muttered fearfully, prodded from
behind with a hat pin.
Il wilt" Ellie exclaimed in a hrm
voice,
"Did | do it all right" asked Tommy,
tenderly when the guests had depart
ed and they were enfin seules.
1T was perfect!" she murmured,
smacking her wonderful lips.
Then she grew calmer.
There is no girl in the whole
world she said, slowly, who doesn't
simply long to be abducted a hur-
,, ried marriage is better than nothing
an elopement is good enough, but to be
run away with against ones will
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