The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-09-24
NY First Experience
with Dan Cupid
BY Elsie chastaIn.

She was sweet. susceptible 10
was one over whom Is summers hau
lightly passed, leaving his mar WI.
hinged with gray, and the gray matter
underneath the wavy crop-unhard'
ened. But to her he was all tnat was
wise, noble and desirable; and to MN
she was perfection In truth, 1t hau
been a case of love at first sight.
They had first met at party. she
had worn white. He was partial 10
white. Her sunny hair had been ar
ranged loosely on her graceful neck.
He never had liked girls who did their
hair high. In fact, she had been
wholly, seductively charming, ana ne
had succumbed to those charms
lie had worn the regulation black
suit. of course! But, ah! how broad
his shoulders were; how merry his
eyes. A strange, incomprehensible'
ecstatic emotion had taken possession
of her soul. He had asked to take her
home. but she had not thought best
May | call?" he had asked.
She had felt the hot blood leap to
her cheeks. If she only dared say
"yes!" But no; there was mamma to
consider. Mamma, who was so aw'
fully, uncompromisingly set on the
proprieties. Mamma, who thought her
far too young to have masculine adj
mirers. And to have one call! Oh! A
SILVER ran down her spinal column.
The young man, waiting for an an
swer OWNED her thoughts.
Perhaps your mother would OBJ
iect?" he had suggested, and with sad
conviction she had answered:
"Yes-she would"
But must see you some time he
had insisted Dear insistence! She
had thought for a moment, then:
Mamma is going calling tomorrow
afternoon and l can meet you down
the river, right behind Blakes green
houses. at three o'clock. Will that do?
He had been enraptured with the plan.
and the following day they met as
they had agreed.
He suggested a boat ride She ac-
quiesced, and he rented Mr.. Blake's
boat. He assisted her to seat. then
took his place at the oars. Something
was wrong about his way of handling
them, and the boat refused to move.
Don't you know how to row." she
ventured after some moments of fran
tic, red-faced, but vain endeavors on
his part.
We'll. I-er-never did before" he
replied, then blurted out: Can your"
Why, yes" she said.
Suppose you do, then" They
changed places and she rowed him up
and down the river until her tender
hands were blistered and her heart
was sore. She was woefully disap.
pointed in him. Never before had she
met man who could not row. But he
talked cntertainingly, and she forgave
him. True love overlooks many i'm,
projections.
After that afternoon they met FIRE.
quently. Sympathetic young friends
discovered how the land lay, and came
CALAMITY to the rescue, as young
friends will do at all times.
One evening she retired to her room
early, telling her mother that she
must study. Not so, however. She
had, instead, promised him to take a
moonlight stroll. Her window was not
far from the ground, and with the aid
of a foreordained cracker box she man.
aged to escape from the house.
During that stroll he proposed. Told
her how he loved her. Fell on his
knees in knightly fashion and begged
her in impassloned tones to fly with
him; to leave her cruel mother and
her unhappy home for life of honey
and roses and-himself,
She blushed, suffered him to kiss
her hand, and consented. In one week
she could make the necessary prepar.
atoms and then they would fly. All,
the unutterable bliss of that meet.
ing!
FINALLY they parted, and she crept
stealthily around the house. As she
neared the parlor window she heard
sounds of merriment She peered in
A peculiar scene revealed itaelf to her
view.
There sat her usually dignified
mother, laughing until the tears ran
down her cheeks On his knees he.
fore her, with clasped hands and
sentimental EXPRESSION
spread over his pug nose and freckles
was her small brother. He was sneal,'
ing. declaiming, and as the sister rea.
lied the import of his words she
turned cold with dread.
100000, Celeste. darling oroo,
listen to me! | love you! | love Won,
Promise me that you will be MINI
oh, do-oo-oo! Leave your cruel motber
your happy home, and fiy.yy with maj
Life won't be nothin' without vor.oo
My heart is breaking, Ouch.ch.cb,"
Waiting to hear no more reaIi7irr
that her secret was discovered tba
young victim of unsympathetic liz
made for her room with all nossihIa
speed, hoping to get there before ,ho
cruel mother" should decide to v;a,.
1t. She had just mounted the cracrn,
box and was cautiously RAISING 10.
head over the sill when the dno.
opened and mamma NOT lo,,,.,., 'O'