The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1911-12-15
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TMIMyTAls0 thor JAMES
VIZ ~ By HELEN HELP
The Genevieve Who Married Another

I SO James never said a word 10
Geneyleye and Genevieye went and
married another and was unhappy
almost ever after
James. however, did not marry an
other With the persistence OF his
/ type in following a program, he kept
on not telling girls he loved them.
And maybe he didn't. Who can tell?
But now. after-well. after a certain
number of years. Genevieve went back
home because she was widow and
could go back home. or away from
home, or to the wilds of the Fiji is
lands or 10 the depths of great cities.
and there was nobody to say her nay.
But Genevieve chose just TO go back
home. And back home was James.
James heard that Genevieye was
home again for a while and he went
to call, that being the proper thing for
old friends 10 do. Well. there was
Geneyieve. She was all alone, but
she didn't fret about il. She was not
so young. but she was extremely alive
and when James came to think 1t
over as he strolled in the summer
moonlight. she was really much young
err
Because Geneyieye. in her youth,
had been a serious-minded young per-
son. And now she could laugh and
laugh-and her eyes laughed and
crinkled up at the corners, and her
hands were apt 70 grab the arm OF
the sympathetic bystander and give
1t little shake OF pure good fellow
ship. Geneyieve was quantities more
fun. though, maybe, James was not
awake to II. than she had been when
she wore the apple blossoms and
dreamed strenuous dreams.
so James htrolled home in the
moonlight. tall and ever so good TO
look at. manhood thrilling in him.
) firm. white hands dug thoughfully
, into his pockets.
Il wonder" unused James
James kept on calling and strolling
, home in the moonlight. and pretty
soon he stopped wondering and began
to hope lie had been loving for a
considerable period
thrilling with that VOL tone she loved
yes. and have let the cat out OF
the bag now. haven't I? Because
Genevieve-well. Genevieve was very
glad when James got ready TO SPEAK
about this
They are happy-so happy that they
believe that nobody ever dreamed
happiness so good as theirs Thel
are saying nothing about not beint
not so young-but not because thel
are lodging the issue, in tenderness
for each other. as the stories whimpe
about when they tell OF middle-age'
lovers" middle-age6. in sooth' The
simply never think OF II at all. The
are plenty young enough. Never
debutante in her teens. never col
legian in his twenties. with his eager
far-away look, are any happier thai
these two.
They say romance is OF youth alone
that old age may have, perhaps. II
dim reflection OF the earlier rose, bu
that forty stands as bare to the com
monplace as the stripped branches o
a tree. waiting midway between tn
bourgeoning Of the summer and IN
glistening diamonds of the frost king
crown-but don't you ever believe II
There isn't a year in all the year
ID OF our lives. there isn't a minute @
all that tinkle in a silyery shove
ID from the tiny clock upon your mantle
Ie that isn't full Of romance.
Love OF youth alone? oh, very vel
lie But II you really think so, you woul
lie better speak TO the undertaken an
is be quick about it. Because you ar
Re dead already.
v Genevieve. says James. with tina
ID deep note she loves. "Genevieye
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