Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-04-13
MAKING GOOD"
(To be continued.)

Woman Who Sets a H18h standard
Makes Men Grow.
Alice Eames walked into the library,
an open letter in her hand.
tom has written TO ask me to go TO
the Junior Prom at Hillsover, mother.
she said. and there was a queer little
catch in her voice.
Mrs. Eames looked up from her book.
"How delightful, my dear!' she cried,
enthusiastically you've looked for
ward so much to going | know, and
now you shaL have the prettiest gown
we can plan together"
But I'm not going answered the
girl, and the little catch had turned
into a genuine sob.
Not going' exclaimed Mrs. Games,
IN establishment. why, what is the
matter? Tell me l thought you and
Tom were such good friends"
I'VE were, mother :! cried Alice. And
it was something more, for at Christ
mas Tom told me he cared for me, and
| promised" her voice broke again.
But he's in with the swiftest set in
college, Ted Lanham and Joe Grover
and all those rich boys that we're in
prep school with him. / told him that
he would have to break with them If
he wanted me"
What has he done now?' demanded
her mother Il had heard nothing"
"No, 1 didn't tell YOU answered the
~;rl slI ,r-oc Gu burf that I pOtlld0'f
1t was just the silliest sort OF scrape,
what dad would call sophomore. A
lot of his fraternity drove to Lebanon,
and drank more than they should, and
then had a general smash-up at one
of the dance halls there. l heard
something about it. l asked Tom, and
he told me-straight. He never lies,
you know l was angry and disap-
pointed, of course, and said So" Alice
lifted her head proudly. And that's
all there Is about it."
Don't you think that you're little
hard on Tom. girlieY' asked Mrs.
Eames. wistfully. Aren't you going to
give him another chanceY'
les, uOLuSL. lCpilC0 AAANC, - my
but not the chance of the girl who
sells her forgiveness Just for the sake
of a good time. He'd despise me If I
was like that, and I'd despise myself,
too. I'm going up stairs TO write him
that / can't go,'' And she walked out
of the room, her head still nobly erect.
The letter, so hard to write, reached
Tom as he sat in his uncle's study
wrestling with the professor over an
intricate bit of calculus, and his face
dropped dolefully as he read It
when do you expect Miss Eames|
Professor Lee inquired, pleasantly.
For answer Tom held out the letter
in silence; then, when his uncle had
finished reading it, he said:
Its all that fool Lebanon parade.
No glad rags for mine this prom Alice
is great, / know, but she's the sort Of
girl that's dreadfully hard on a fell
low"
But that's the kind of a woman a
man wants" answered his uncle. ITS
the woman who sets standards almost
out of our reach who makes us grow"
The professor eyes softened as he look
ed across his study at the picture of a
woman who had at once made his life
hard and very very beautiful for him.
eff Helen of Troy set the world at
war she made men heroes" he quoted
slowly, Then he added, with quizzi-
cal glance at his nephew, tom, it's
up TO you!"
you're dead right, Uncle Ned !"
cried Tom. new light of determination
coming into his face Its up to me.
and-l'm going to make good ~
Youths Companion.