The Winslow mail., 1909-05-29
ADVENTURES OF
A SUMNER Girl

a point which l shall remember this
year
The mere fact that 1 was busy every
sncond, rushing around some e1here of
other, really does not overbalance the
ether fact that three-quarters of the
time | was rushing around with small
hcys-infants who wore tricolor bands
about their hats and smoked pipes and
who were absolutely of no use excep
to fill up vacant space in the scenery.
It was a popularity empty of practica,
results. When you come to think
Hhout it, results are what everybody
in this world is working for. When
you have six of your best friends mar
ried off in one winter, as | did las,
winter, and are not even engaged
yourself, it is enough to make you
serious.
I could weep when l remember the
hours | devoted to padding around in
Jimmy Brent's canoe, just because
knew | looked more picturesque with
my hair all blown about than any
other way. Jimmy himself was the
sort who darkly hint at their dreadful
pasts, but aren't old enough to vote
and look as if they ate bread and
milk for supper every night before
going to sleep at eight o'clock. Mean
while that perfectly stunning younc
lawyer who was supposed to be follow
ing my progress over the lake with
jealous eyes went and got engaged
to a girl who did nothing but en-
broider centerpieces in a corner of the
piazza and whose lingerie waists in
yariably pulled up in the back. | sup
pose that was the reason she always
sat down so much-to conceal her mis-
fit waists. 1t is fearful to contemplat
what man will do in sheer despera
tion and l shall always blame myself
for that mans ruined life.
Then that little theory about not al
ways being on hand when man looks
for you | am quite able to prove erro
neous. DR.. Parks was one of those
lazy, assured sort of men who are
used to having girls break their necks
trying to please them. 1t occurred to
me that l had heard somewhere that
The most elusive man may be won by.
giving him treatment of the opposite
sort from that to which he has been
accustomed. 1t wasn't that | was In
owe with DR.. Parks, for you could
just as readily squander your affec
lions on half-morocco octave volume
# some treatise on the stone age, but
Slx- h..
10 keep the other girls from growing
disagreeable through thinking they
could cut me out al any time.
| did not like to join the crowd of
worshipers about Dr. Parks, so l tried
sitting off by myself and giving him
1nly fieeting smiles of recognition,
with kindly word now and then, as
If | were entirely absorbed in my own
thoughts and yet took a mild interest
in the rest of the world. 1t attracted
him. it really did, but the trouble was
hat he was indolent, and as there
always were three or four girls wait
ing around for him l didn't see much
of him until l began to be more cor
dial
1t is an art to know when you are
just cordial enough. At last the point
vas reached where / thought it best to
be missing occasionally from my cor
Aer, so that he would be disturbed in
ind and wonder not only where |
was but with whom / was. There
were always some OF the small college
boys about whom l could annex for
oxs and walks.
The third time | did this / stumbled
N the doctor and the girl who had
neen most assiduously and slavishly