The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-02-10
Washington, Dec. %.

Darling Club: Sorry | couldn't ac-
cept your invitation to spend the holi-
DAYS with you in New York. Ethel
Brown Cthat lovely junior, you re-
member,) had insisted on Lou and me
spending the Christmas vacation at
her home in Washington. OF course
we were delighted to accept and here
we are. We arrived only yesterday
and tonight Ethel gives a dance in
our honor.
She says we shall meet some lovely
people, and she is expecting her
brother and his chum this afternoon.
They are Princeton seniors and al
ways spend their holidays together.
Ethel says they are like the Siamese
twins.
There-Ethel is calling. I must
"a day later. Oh, Club, I've some
thing so funny and so delicious to tell
you. Last night at the party Lou and
l were having a picnic dancing and
chatting with some army officers
whom we thought the most charming
men we had ever met. Lou was prom
enading with one of them. l had Just
finished my fourth dance, and was
standing under the chandelier quite
flushed and elated. Happening to
glance toward the door l saw-whom
do you think?-Max and Paul, the
heroes of our last summers drowning
episode
They were coming straight toward
me, with Ethel who had them in tow,
her face beaming with delight | felt
that ! was becoming slowly petritied.
To meet those men of all others in
the world at that time and place.
My first impulse was to run, but
did not dare. A sense of the fitness of
things kept me rooted to the spot and
I trust that did not betray all that
l felt, as Ethel joyously presented
My brother, Paul, and his friend, Mr..
Ellander of New York" They had
arrived on a later train than was ex-
pected and had only just succeeded,
they said, in getting into their evening
clothes at that moment
They had recognized me as quickly
as | had them. l could see it in their
eyes, but even lynx-eyed Chappy her
self could not have detected it in their
manner.
Just then Lou came promenading
by, and nearly betrayed herself by
looking as if she had suddenly met the
ghost of her great-grandmother But
I fixed" her with my eye and said
Don't you dare as plainly as eyes
could speak, and she fortunately re-
covered her senses and behaved very
well indeed, during the ordeal of an
introduction.
We were soon launched into a gen /
eral conversation, which, notwith-
standing the winter holidays, seemed .
to turn quite naturally to summer
sports.
DO you swim?" asked Brother
Paul." innocently, his eyes twinkling
with fun
"Oh, a little" I answered. 81 can
manage to keep my head above water
Do you?"
well, I'm learning" he replied. II
took some lessons last summer, and .
with practise shall be able to make
some headway next season. I'm very
timid about water; always was from
a child. and"
Don't believe him." interrupted
Ethel. "He is a champion swimmer,
and mamma and I can never get him
to go with us to Saratoga in the sum-
mer. He always will go with Mr.. FL
lender to the seashore, and last sum-
mer they saved two girls from drown
ing. 1t was all out in the papers;
didn't you see it? Let's see, what were
the names? Miss Hall and Miss John
son. were they not? Do tell about it,
Paul, won't your"
You'd better tell it yourself, Ethel.
I'm a modest man, and never boast of
my heroic deeds, and I'm sure Max
feels the same Besides, we are living
in the hope Of meeting those two
young ladies again some time, in the
distant future, and we want to make
a good impression Do you think, Miss
Mills" he said, turning to me. that
a young lady would like to have
stranger go about and tell people how
he had once had the honor of rescuing
her from a watery grave? It's beastly
warm here; let's try to find a breath
OF air" he added giving me no oppor-
tunity of answering his question.
We walked to an open window
why did you leave -- Beach SO