The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-11-06
AN IDYL OF
THE SEASHoRE
A Romance Along the Usual
Lines, but With an Ending
Somewhat Different.
From the New York Sun.

ana Is lne girl.
The young fellow at that time had a
Job IN a New York hardware store. He
was a hustling, alert salesman and u pref
" good handshaker, and got $40 a week
by way of salary.
When he reached the New England sea-
shore resort, however, he didn't look like
any $50 a week hardware clerk. On the
contrary he looked like several different
shades of prompt money.
He had a number of very nossy pairs
OF white duck trousers, a bunch OF outing
shirts that were. as he himself we'll knew
and said. all the bonbons, and other at
tractive wardrobe features.
IN addition he possessed winning ways
Wnen he left for the resort he had two
weeks off with pay. a llttla bank wad in
MS pocket and a determination to have q
sun heap OF a good time for himself and
MS money while he was away from IL
OIL New York.
Inc hotel was, as he found when he
got there, Uttered, cluttered, loaded up
damned. stuffed and packed TO the
&un'ls with oddles and slews and slathers
OF pretty girls. Peaches, all of them.
Lockers, every one of them. They were
Oil beautiful cnough to cause IA young
hardware clerk on two weeks leave OF
absence to suffer ut least momentarily
from the blind staggers at the first sigh,
of 'enn.
Ana TO match this tremendous assert
ment of pretty girls scattered all over anG
around the seashore hotel there were Jus,
-FOUR male persons. The hardware clerk
didn't have to be even a little bit con.
celted to discern that he had the other
three male persons backed off the boards
III every imaginable respect.
ne could see that they wouldn't do al
all. The girls had been toleratins 'en
around, but the clerk saw right away tina,
.hey We're all platers and that there
wasn't going to be any trouble for him
TO get in good, or pretty good.
AS a matter of fact, he didn't nave any
He just looked 'em all over with Tho
greatest care, and il was all right.
He didn't have any bother whatever il
getting introduced 10 her. Fact is, There
wasn't any Introduction.
She was"being chaperoned by her aunt
put the chaperon didn't figure at all. TIL
hardware clerk permitted his lordly
cho1ce To fan upon this raving. staving
maddening beauty, and all the rest OF
the girls Immediately began to knock her
OF course, whereas they'd been paradins
around the hotel piazzas with arms wrap.
PED around her waist before the one pre-.
sentable youth, the hardware clerk, hat
made his appearance upon the scene.
NOW, at the outset the hardware clerl
only meant to be a gay dog and an awful
cutup and clip among the girls. But he
hadn't been going around with this one
De- " AI2 ScicCliOl y TWO Gays
petore, he began to perceive that he was
in bad.
That is to say, he found that he wa.
FALLING most hope1essly and fatuously ant
adiotically in love with the girl.
Fatuously and idiotically because 4
didn't take him long to find out that The
girl really belonged to a moneyed kine
OF family In these New York parts.
And me peddling alligator files cne
monkey wrenches for two sawbucks thu
lunar week! was the way he expressed
1t mentally when he found himself fall
ing so enormously in love.
I'm a fine iron butcher to be thinking
about asking a girl like that to tie uI
with me, / sure am"
However,. he didn't feel like grabbing hi
vacation. so to speak. He couldn't MAX,
out how he stood with the gtrl-who can
but he observed that she seemed to Xix,
to go about with him. He doped it GU,
thai the only possible or imaginable rea
son for this was that he was the onl,
practicable male person about the hote
premises, and he was sure that this wa.
the only correct appraisal OF the situa
ton.
They sat on tho sand during the Ions
forenoons under the shade of the big UNI
hrella listening to the melancholy mono
tone of the sea and chucking sane into
each others shoes.
They paraded along the seas verge un.
der the same old, big old moon OF all tn.
ages.
He didn't whisper anything to her abou
the state of his feelings. Yet he couldn'
help but glance at her With a heap o.
wistfulness as the two weeks vacation
drew to a close, and once or twice III
fancied that she returned the wistfu
gaze.
But he wasn't going to take tho chance
on making the bad break Of declaring
himself unless he knew positively that ht
had at least a little bit OF q one in {
hundred chance
So after tn. most delirious two week:
OF his life he returned to New York tn.
most miserable hardware clerk on tn.
face OF the inhabitable globe.
When he had parted from the girl in {
shadowy corner of the hotel piazza on tn.
night before his departure he had beer
eoreiy tempted to tell her things. He re
Trained. however, by a gigantic effort. al
though he did pick a long golden hail
from the lapel OF his blue serge coat wher
he got to his room at that.
She invited him upon parting to be SURF
TO call upon her in New York in the
autumn. and he told her that he sure
would, and
But just a moment, please.
Now. II this were one Of those hilarious
made to order yarns there's not q doub'
in life that the average reader would ge,
q whole lot more good out Of 1t.
But 1t isn't one of those things. Or
the contrary, it's a strictly veracfous mar
rative.
The professional funny men would hav.
the world believe that young folks who
meet each other at the seashore never
by the remotest a even think Of
keeping up the acquaintance made dow
by the seas verge when they get bach
home. and that such seashore affair.
never. never on earth result in anything
worth mentioning.
But they do. .
They result. as a matter of fact, in {
heap Of marriages.
The professional screech evoker would
wind the story up in this manner:
He'd have the girl drop into the hard
ware store on some gray day OF the fol,
/ HE Home Was Trouble.
I Mrs. Henpeck-You seem to like to e
4 70 the Simpsons.
| Mr.. Henpeck-Yes.
4 Mrs. He~npeck-she's a nne hostess.
~ Mr. EJnrrool- EC;ro Che ol-ro,,. ,,oLo,