Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-06-03
The DisaffectSon Of Adelaide
By Laura Simmons
Copyright. 1909. by J. B. uppincott Coz

'Nnat ueuceuly SOOu luCh' hou
slipped into the only vacant seat In
the fast.moving express and found
myself at Rosalle's side. please take
me along." I pleaded. 'I'll go any
where you say. Don't shake me on.
I'm going. any way-since you press
me so hard" added satirically, for
my beloved's expression was none too
cordial.
whats the natter" demanded.
"Still grumbling about Adelaide? IN
wager you are going out there to call
this morning Me. too; 80 glad hap
pened along!"
II suppose"-Rosalie punctuated her
remarks by wrathful, futile little tugs
at her small. mouse.gray gloves as she
jerked out the words-'T suppose am
expected to call sooner or later. She's
been married over year now, go
may as we'll have II over with. But 1
don't pretend to have forgiven her. or
course we shall hear that she's been
rapturously happy. buried In that I'M
possible little village. with her aesthet-
ic housekeeping and absurd ideals as
the wife Of a struggling professor
That brilliant, wonderful woman! /
confess I've never quite recovered
from the shock!"
Don't take II so hard, dear" (having
proposed to Resale regularly once q
week since New Years, feel l'rivi-
legged about the 'dear").s why
shouldn't a woman marry II she likes?
And Adelaide was certainly a beauty.
in spite of her Ph.D. remember that
she wore something pink at the Scien.
lists reception last year-something
all soft and messy and chiffony-you'd
never have dreamed that she was an
Psychologist. Besides, one couldn't ex-
pect a woman as charming as she to
remain single forever" sighed plain
lively, and stole q glance sidewise to
see whether my shot had taken effect.
Never was more dismal failure. Ros-
allies expression was most discourag-
ing, and her lovely nose was tilted
to an alarming angle.
Never mind Adelaide" fastened
TO add, tenderly. Just permit poor
inferior being to tell you how cruelty,
heartlessly lovely you are looking to-
day in that yellow-no, drab-er-yes,
drab affair"
This drab affair."" interposed my
lady, in chilling tones, lis an oyster
gray crepon. combined with val"
"val?" l repeated wistfully. And
what's val? Really, Resale, | think
you might explain some of these mys-
FERROUS terms. When fellow has
been up half the night grinding away
over Blackstone, and Is crammed full
Of Torts and Mortgages and things
like that, q little more knowledge can't
possibly injure him. And have q
morbid yearning to learn about val"
such a future before her! Such
glorious promise! Oh, 1t is positively
tragic!" Rosalie's evaporation
seemed to attain a climax as We
alighted at the pretty rural station and
looked about us, before vending our
way up the solitary village street. IAN
authority on everything Egyptian, too!
Could tell you all about the Ptolemys,
and hieroglyphics, and-and cunei'
forms-and things nobody else ever
knows anything about"
"Or cares, either. Say, Rosie. there's
that little gold-dust curl again, just
over your left ear"
And we were to have lecture
course from her this very fall! And
now to think how she has slumped,
become lost in the crowd, and doing
Just nothing after ALL"
"Sh-h! It's the next housed" We
found ourselves approaching a quaint
but most attractive little cottage,
which, as we simultaneously observed,
looked exactly like Adelaide.
"She always did have a knack with
flowers" admitted Rosalie tentatively,
as we paused to inspect the wonders
of the midsummer garden-the fame
of peoples along the walk, and the
ethereal pinks and impassioned pur-
pies of the morningglories, as they
mounted ambitiously above the trel-
. lis.work Of the broad piazza.
What Kaleidoscope retreat"
cried admiringly. Haven't l always
told you, Rosie girl. that there are In
finite possibilities in any spot-even
in a suburban village, where every
prospect pleases, and only man Is
artificial? Now. don't you fancy that
you and I can find just another such
q coy bungalow hereabouts-"
Jimmy"
had known beforehand that she
would say exactly that, In exactly that
way. turned up my coat-collar and
.I,tvorad raai0nodlv