The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-02-22
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I gaze out seaward and imagine they
! can heas the songs of mermads.
ilsi On a certain day in the present
/ twentieth century Philip Gillett was
among those who walked. He was q
! young man at the beach with his
/ mother and sister, and his occupation
when al Eome in New York was pre-
pairing himself for architecture. II,
Gid that mostly by looking at one ol
two skyscrapers day from the out
side and spending $500 per week al
lowed by his father. 1t was his faith
er who had insisted that the yonna
man take up architecture. There new
el had been an architect in the Gil
! lctt family and he wanted one. lie
Lad q manor house, and he wanted q
hennery built and he wanted to point
To ii after it was finished and say.
4 Gillett did that!"
On this particular day Philip Gil
lett had toothache and he set out &,
walk II Off His sister had told hin,
10 hold wad of cotton saturated viii.
peppermint essence in his mouth, and
70 KEEP his mouth shut He thought
q good deal Of his sister, and he was
obeying her
Toothache affects a person pecuiai
~ particularly a man 1t gives him
wfat Is known as a crouch. He
wants 10 stand on the beach and see
4 dentist drown III the sea. He isn't
to blame, bur everybody else Is. And
what made young Mr.. Gillett cfosseT
still was the fact that he had 10
chew cotton and keep him moltth
sltur. 1t was not dignified. It was
taking undue advantage OF a fellow.
Among those who motored that
day were Miss Edna Blair and Miss
Kitty Waldron, girl chums They
we're in Miss Kitty's auto, and sac
vas running it herself. After getting
out of the crowd, and heading up the
shore, they saw 4 young man half a
mile ahead OF them, he was scuffling
a!ong on the hard track and was In
u-eir path The honkl honk. was
sounded, but he paid no attention.
He wanted to be run over and have
that aching tooth smashed out.
The automobile passed him within
two feet and in spite of himself he
gave a jump and swallowed the pep
permint soaked wad of cotton He had
to produce more cotton and NOR,
peppermint for his aching tooth.
Mr.. Giletts walk had extended
Two miles when he sat down on a hum
mock and resorted to more pepper
mine. His sister was right; it be-
san 10 have a soothing effect He
began 10 feel glad that he was alive
ardt away from the snow heaps Of
New York City Just then he caughl
sight Of the auto returning. AS it
drew near, he saw that Miss Edna
Rlair was passably good looking and
at Miss Kitty Waldron was more so
The auto was aiming TO pass him
within a few feet, but that was ali
right. He reasoned that the girls de-
sired q nearer view of the young man,
whom they had so frightened, and he
vas right about it. They didn't seeL
10 see him, of course, but that was
false pretense.
And after that Fate stepped in. The
auto was exactly opposite Philip to
an inch. and exactly six feet and one
and a half inches away, when from
tie exploded with q bang. The two
Young ladies screamed. The auto ran
wild until half buried in the sand.
The young man was blown over on
Lis back by the concussion and swal-
lowed his wad Of cotton for the see
end time in an hour.
He would have been less than hn-
man il he hadn't arisen with face
as red as paint and cross all the way
through. He grabbed his hat and
might have gone running over the
sand dunes had not sweet and plain,
I've voice reached his ears
"Oh. sir. please do help us. We
have bnTsted tire,
Yes, he would help. AS a gentle
nan he must do so: but he made up
lis mind to DO no more. That is, he
wouldn't speak a VOID TO those girls
7 hey had fed him on cotton, so to
speak. and he would have his revenge
THEN he inspected the tire
q hope you were not hit by one of
he flying pieces. said Miss Kitty
i her most ingratiatine manner, "a
No reply.
win we have TO walk back TO- the
loiel?"
No answer
You see we have spare tire
iere?'
No answer.
llr Gilleit owned an auto himself.
n TACT, his mother and sister were
roment. He ESy all about tires.
4e took the iah fgm its place. and
without motioni| the girls 10
lescend he went at it, and had the
ire replaced inside Of twelve min
ties, He might have done It in ten
Except for overhearipg such observs-