The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-28
HUNTING AN ideal,
BY M. QUAD.

an ideal and because he had n.,.ar
found her. He had looked and lonred
and hoped, but she had not crossed his
path She did not until after his for
ueth birthday. Then fate or fortune
or something else smiled on him.
MI. Hutchinson was strollinc up
ruth avenue, New York, when his eve
caught photo in showcase. There
she was-the counterfeit of the woman
ne had carried in his mind for thou
sands OF days. Her hair was down.
ana she was draped as an angel. How
the photographers get on to the angel
business without going to heaven is
none OF the public's business. You can
take their angels or leave them. This
particular angel. as near as the old
bachelor could figure out, had blond
nalr, blue eyes. ruby lips, and her voice
was the trill of bird.
Inc ideal hunter stood long before
the picture and made up his mind to
nunt the earth over to find the original
lie did not go upstairs to find the
artist. He waited down below for the
artists boy. and that rising young man
replied to him:
Ihat gal? She came in a carriage
and had a poodle. Took away our
breath in minute. If l growed I'D
and had the scads-geew
| But her name. boy-her name and
address, demanded the man with the
beating heart.
| You can search me- The boss has
got 1t in book. and he keeps the book
ID safe. She must be a Fifth avenue
hler. though, and if you walk up and
down long huff you'll be sure to meet
her"
Ii 1t hadn't been for the dreams that
MI. Hutchinson dreamed his legs and
his perseverance would have given
out. He had various dreams of the
angel In the show case, and they al
ways heartened him up for the next
days hunt. In those dreams he was
always saving her from going over
Niagara falls, from mad bull. from
JOY ride auto going ninety miles an
hour and from other things.
March gave way to April. and still
the search went on. Sometimes it
ralned on the Searcher and sometimes
| It didn't. Sometimes be caught sight
or face in carriage and hope eter-
nal dubbed up in his breast, and some
times he simply saw females and drag
| ged his weary legs along. One must
| even give credit to the rat that gnaws
| through two inch plank. Clubmen
wondered and talked, but they didn't
get hold of the truth. They took it
that Mr.. Hutchinson was haunting
Fifth avenue in search of a site to
erect an old mans home, If they had
any other idea he was a man not to
be questioned.
April dragged away and May came
in. Up one side of the avenue and
down the other. just the same The
photo still remained in the showcase.
and it was scrutinized regularly at
least twice day. The photographers
boy still remained, and gradually a
feeling of pity came into his young
heart for the persevering searcher. He
always encouraged him with a nod
when they met. but it was well along
in May when he waited at the show
case with smile on his face to say:
Say, I've got news. That angel was
in the gallery ag'in yesterday"
"You don't tell me"' gasped Mr..
Hutchinson.
Sure as shootin', and she ordered
the boss to send fifty of her photos
to Coney Island. Said she was going
down there today"
But what for:"
Dunno. That's what she said. Meb-
be her dad has rented Dreamland for
a bungalow. You orter find her down
there in day"
you are sure it was the same?"
Sure Mike, Can't any one tell an
angel after seeing her oncest? You go |
right down there tomorrow and youth
find her
What was money to the searcher
when the search was so near ended?
Another five changed hands, and at
the club that evening they noticed the
great change in Mr.. Hutchinson. He
was Joyous and loquaciouS, and they
said he had finally bought the site. He
was down at Coney by 10 O'Clock next |
forenoon. By noon he had made sure
that no angels were registered at any |
of the hotels. By O'Clock he had ex-
hausted the bungalow idea. Then a
feeling of despair crept into his heart. |
and he entered a concert hall to brace |
I'D on sandwich and a glass of beer. |
He didn't brace. He wouldn't have |
got into the place if he hadn't fallen |
in. At the door, in big, cheap frame, |
were dozen photos of the actresses
then doing the high kicking on the |
stage, and that of the angel of the |
showcase led all the rest. Mr.. Hutch |
inson fell into the hall and on TO a |
chair, and for five minutes things |
buzZed in his head, and he couldn't |
give his order to the waiter, who was |
wondering if he was dead beat. Then |
he saw the stage and his angel She |
was warbling and distinguishing at /
.ha roof Summed paralyZpd and dunn /