Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1910-07-16
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: lthe two other young men who Ba'
J { str:brted themselves between TIL
Inch and the wicker chair noddet
grTvely at each other
Well" said the one IN tile chat
VITA icud sigh, If ie will do II hs
Aill ! ~ oppose. and there's no stop
ring HIM! Dick always was stub
borur'
Yes" said the one on the couch
I'VE might as we'll close our eyes or
the sad sight and try to forget IT,, be
cause worrying will do no good. Still
it's hard to see him running these
terrible risks. Dickie, Dickis, pause
In timer
What's the matter with you fell
lows?" mumbled the one at tie desk
without stopping his busy pen.
| Nothing Is the matter With us,'
replied the young man In the wicker
chair with great dignity. Every one
in the world isn't selfish. Occasion
ally Bill and l devote some time to
thinking about others. Just now you
are on our minds. We wish. yOu
wouldn't, Dickiel"
Wouldn't what?" snapped the one
/ at the desk, slancing up in an an
noyed way
They simply shook their heads Mt
| him and did not answer.
When the young man at the desk
again was. hard at work the young
man on thu couch spoke up. They
tnyf1l onrnA n
court" he said. plaintively. They
go splashing their inmOst thoughts all
over a sheet of paper and inventing
new pet names. for the only girl on
earth without stopping to remember
that in five. years she'll be miles, be-
hind them in their forward rush. But
she'll not forgett She'll have all thnse
poetic epistles tied up with pink rib
bon ready to- hand over to her lawyer
and she'll have ON a becoming dress
and a flower hat and she'll make
pathetic eyes at the jury whenever
she isn't weeping bitterly overr she
perfidy of her false lover. So the Jury
will arise as one sympathetic nan
and"
Jaw, cut IL oati'' growled the man
at the writing desk II can't Think"
You don't need to think, believe
mel" responded the young man In the
wicker chair. The less you think
the BETTER for when the letters are
produced in court maybe you can
make a plea of insanity stick.
Write, sort of wild and rambling.
Dickie. That's your only salvation
The girl. will Like what you say all
the better, because she will think you
are intoxicated with love for her.
Later on the Judge will say, Poor. de-
mented. mani and let you Off with a
warning to your family to look after
you.
Think. Dickte, how dreadful it will
be after you have achieted side
whiskers and reputation to have a
bunch. of those letters come out on
the fr0nt pages of the newspapers
wheres all your neighbors can enjoy
them with their breakfast coffee !!
You'll feel so comfortable sprinting
Gown the street for your car knowing
MAI SLOPAR dAS WdANAAllA lOu lIOuj
hehina their parlorr window curtains
and saying, How could 1t be possible
\ Such a nice man and. with such love
ly wAiskersr"
And it really isn't necessary" de.
Glazed the man on the couch. when
You fee9 that way and find yourself
looking for pen and paper just go and
take a cold shower bath. That will
help. If it does not get you into a
sufficiently sensible frame of mind
put little cracked ice on your fore
head
Il knew man once who persisted
in writing to- a. girl and what do you
think happened to him? She married
him! Yes, sih that's what she did
Took him in the bloom of his youth
and tied him up for life. Writing
those supelheated letters sort oil
hypnotized him into thinking he really
felt the way he said he felt Of
course, the infatuation wore off and
then consider his awful state OF
mind"
Il wouldn't be as funny as you two
think you are for anything!" broke
OFT the badgered one at the desk.
"Ot course you wouldn't if you coulC
help ii, Dickie," soOthed the younl
man In the chair. But you are. AM
young man writing a love letter is too
far gone to control himself withou
good advice. Fortunately, we are her,
to advise you. Say-he's beginning
second letter! Great heavens. Is h
as bad as thats Writing 'em whole
sale TO lot of foolish girls who trus
him? Oh, l say, I'd stick up for hin
In court If he was just plain foolis
and made love to one girl. but friend
ship fiinches at duplicity and decor
ton! Don't expect me to help 20
out when the whole half-dozen c
them sue you simultaneously 70
breach of promised"
| "NOr met" threatened the voun