The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1912-09-05

was the only correct appraisal of the
situation.
They sat on the sand during the
long forenoons under the shade of the
big umbrella listening to the melan-
choly monotone of the sea and chuck
ing sane into each others SHOES.
They raraded along the seas verge
under the same old, big old moon OF
all the ages.
He didn't whisper anything to her
about the state of his feelings. Yet
he couldn't help but glance at her with
a heap of usefulness as the two
weeks vacation drew to a c'ose, and
once or twice he fancled thai she re-
turned the wistful gaze.
But he wasn't going to take the
chance of making the bad break Of de-
claring himself unless he knew posi-.
lively that he had at least a little bit
of a one in a hundred chance.
So after the most delirious two
weeks of his life he returned to New
clerk on the face OF the inhabitable
globe.
When he had parted from the girl
in a shadowy corner OF the hotel piaz-
"a on the night before his departure
he had been soTely tempted to tell her
things. He refrained, however, by a
gigantic effort, although he did pick
a long golden hair from the lapel of
his blue serge oat when he got to his
room at that.
She invited him upon parting to be
sure to call upon her in New York
in the autumn, and he told her that
he sure would, and
But just a moment, please.
Now, if this were one of those hi
l~arious, made to order yarns there's
not a doubt in life that the average
reader would get a whole lot more
good out of it.
But it isn't ore of those things. On
the contrary, it's a strictly veracious
narrative.
The professional funny men would
have the world believe that young
folks who meet each other at the sea
shore never by the remostest chance
ever think of keeping up the acquaint-
ance made down by the seas verge
when they get back home, and that
such seashore affairs never, never on
earth result in anything worth men
~tioning.
But they do.
They result, as a matter of fact, in
a heap of marriages.
The professional screech evoker
would wind up the story in his man
ner:
He'd have the girl drop into the
hardware store some gray day of the
following October to look at a pair of
roller skates or to examine some and
for the hall fireplace at her rich
home, and she'd come face to face with
the young hardware clerk. upon whose
blue serge lapel she'd left a couple.
if not more, of her golden hairs at the
.seashore a few months before.
The jokesmith would have the young
start with an expression of acute
pleasure to greet the young woman,
addressing her with the phrase, "Oh,
Miss Gotgilt. how exceedingly well
look, And don't 0 recall our
Jolly times at the seashore a little
ago?" And then the young WON
would draw herself up to her full
in a most freezing manner and
address him as if he We're a lightning
bug or a German carp, asking him to
good enough to show her a coal
scuttle, and that would be the windup
the seashore according to
he usual view of it.
This, however, is different. for real
ife doesn't trot to pole with the joke
gag
Consequently. as q simple matter of
act, when this yrung oma returned
O New York the hardware clerk called
lpon her at her folks handsome home
Utmost Immediately, and he got a
mighty pleasant reception from her.
md she looked mighty glad to see him
She introduced him to her father
nd mother and he made a prompt hit
With both of the cd folks by his frank
md on the level manner. They may
md probably cid have all sorts of
,ther ideas for the girl. but when she
old them, a few months after the
Dung hardware clerk had called, that
ed asked her to marry him n that
he'd fixed the date for the following
une=the June of 19OS-they accepted {
situation as it was framed up, and
he marriage came off exactly as per
rogram.
It's a prosaic sort C finish and all {
Ike that. maybe, but facts are facts
not fancies. and so the prosaic !
rindup really can't be helped a bit ,
raa cne Himself. S
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