Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-20
Daysey Mayme
and Her Folks
By FRANCES L. GARsIDE.

love. No disease with name 50
long it has to be worn in loops
to keep it from dragging on the ground
has as many varied symptoms as the
sickness of love.
A very marked symptom is the desire
to visit photographer. The girl who is
lin love always wants to have her pic
ture taken.
Best Beloved may not nave expressed
any yearning for a picture, but the girl
is sure thar this is due to his shyness;
that he longs to have one on his dress
ing case to be his last vision at night
and his first in morning, she never
doubts.
There are two photograph albums at
the home of Lysander John Appleton
the one in his den containing pictures
of their poor kin. and the one in the
parlor holding the photographs of rela
tives who are distinguished.
of the members of the family, Daysey
Mayme visits the photographers often
est. going regularly with every new at
tack of love.
Il will have my picture taken she
said one day last week, for | am in
love up to my eyebrows and I know HE
wants one
So she had her picture taken and
showed it to HIM next time he called.
Now. Best Beloved has convinced
Daysey Mayme that he loves every hair
on her head Though it would denote
infinitely greater affection if he loved
every hair in her top bureau drawer).
and naturally he was compelled to ask
for a picture. though his dressing case
| is covered whit girls pictures now.
ooh. / couldn't think of such a thing,
sdid Daysey Mayme; sit wouldn't be
proper"
But He Coaxed Again.
| A man who has as MANY admirers as
good-looking clerk at a soda fountain
must have in order to keep his job isn't
accustomed to refusals. The next time
| he called he coaxed again.
Il haven't one to spare" said Daysey
| Mayme. "They were taken for my dear
relatives, and l have just enough to go
| round"
| Best Beloved didn't want one partic-
ularly His landlady had frequently
threatened if he brought another girls
| picture to be moved when she busted
! she would raise his board.
But he was determined to have one
now it had been refused him. and coax
| ed so steadily the next time he called
| that Daysey Mayme with great reluc-
| lance gave him one. And the next day
a picture appeared on his dresser of q
girl wearing just four pounds OF hair,
and her dress cut so low in front that
! if her Dear Relatives had seen it they
would have screamed.
IL IL
of the dresser, then it was hidden be-
! hind the picture of a girl who calls at
] the soda fountain three times every
morning and always gets 25-cent
drink
| For Daysey Mayme has a rival Every
girl who loves good-looking clerk at =
soda fountain has many rivals. or the
| man couldn't hold his job.
Many Corners in His Heart.
/ Best Beloved has told so many girls
he has corner of his heart set apart
/ for them that that organ must resemble
a hornets nest
Woe and alas, and all me. but there is
sorrow ahead for Daysey Mayme,
| When girl discovers her sweetheart
! is False. the world is Dark, Indeed.
| "On one occasion" said Daysey MAY
me to her Aunt Maria. to whom she
pours out her heart as regularly as it
/ fills up, II felt that | could not go on
living. While | sat wrapped in gloom.
wondering what there was in life worth
going on for. | got whiff of the choeo-
late pie mother was making.
1T gave me an inspiration There
was the pie ahead to cheer me till din
ner time And after dinner | put off
the determination to die of grief till
after breakfast next morning because
| of the strawberries and cream Then
there was a new dress. | would live /