The Lakeland evening telegram., 1913-04-22
IT WAS A COLD DAY
eY ELIZABETH ALLEN.

Isn't this q lovely winter day!" re-
joiced the hostess as the young wom-
IN with tho extra ane lynx furs came
IN.
"Oh, by all means!" agreed the
young woman with savage politenesa.
@ she made for the open fireplace.
"Still. you can talk till you're black in
the face about the Joys Of SNOW and
ice and ruddy cheeks and al the rest
OF that rubbish. but a. for myself give
me . thermometer that 10 climbing to
the top like . new.rich family on the
social warpath. You might throw in
. few palm leaf fans and . case Of
sunburn into the bargain-Iu take
them ALL"
what has happened?" inquired the
hostess. "You are 20 violent, dear"
Violent" echoed the young woman
who had just come in. hurting her mum
at the Pekinese spaniel and dashins
her gloves into . thicket Of Boston
fern. I'm = mild ethereal sephyr
compared with what Id have to be II
expressed the sum total OF my emo
tions! In fact, have 20 many emo.
tions that I feel like the person who
lives In q two-by.four nat with folding
beds squeezed into one corner and has
her grandmother's mahogany four
poster bestowed on her! I've got to
move, that's all! Violent! Come here.
Chow, and let me bite you!"
leave that poor. innocent dog
alonei" ordered the hostess. hurried.
". 'Is your new velvet dress spoiled.
or what7"
The young woman sank into chair
and groaned a. she regarded the ilre.
"Worse," she related. Beyond the
limit Of the impossible! You know
Winston Wilder, don't you-the one
we all call Winnie because he looks
like 1T Why, once when We were hav.
Ing conundrums somebody asked,
why b q Winston Wilderr and the
answer was, Because he was out when
the foolkiller called!' I don't know
why any Of us have tolerated Winnie
al these years except that be ID gen
orally harmless, in spite Of his super
natural conceit.
"Then, too, az for myself. ] always
w1s interested In counting the six
haiyD Of his mustache and seeing II BY
chance there were seven, but there
never were. think he has those ok
glued On, and even they are kind Of
pink. He isn't even decorative at Z
tea, because he insists on talking and
that shrill voice Of his sends every one
home. We have accepted him - one
Of the drawbacks to existence. We'll.
when Winnie appeared yesterday afe
ernoon and said he had come to take
me skating he seemed % sure aboet Il
that went. Besides. had nothing
else to do and I like to skate an0
thought could forget he was aloaG.
I'VE had q lovely time at first. until
noticed that II was frightfully oolA
When I get chilled my face always b
comes 20 frozen that the muscles
won't work and Z can't talk. lts jsst
% though they were set In . wise:
didn't know II had happened untilWto
4 aie began to propose to me-"
Il "Propose!" shricked the hosteeA
4 "Well, perhaps you wouldn't call u
proposing II you are finicky abes'
words" admitted the young woman
who had dropped m. Rather he b
gan to Inform me that he had decided
10 marry me. It never would occur h
Winnie to ask q girl about . littlt
thing like that--liis idea II that Sht
would hurl herself at him in hysterica
tears Of Joy should he but mentor
that she had q chance to get him. Al
coon az realized what he was doing
turned upon him with chilling sen
,ence on my lips-where 1t stayed.
couldn't yet out word, 20 I sawel
the air wildly and protestingly will
one hand.
"T know what I have said ha,
startled and overcome you,' remarke,
Winnie as he grabbed my hand ant
pulled It down, but try to be calm
Try to control yourself! 1t isn't D
strange when you come to think Of ]
you are q very attractive girl II yo'
aren't Q beauty and never would maj
~ for money anyhow. I want m,
wife to be girl who has been brough
up frugally. 20 she won't expect dia
mond tiaras and ten servants to wal
On her. A woman's place is the home
making things cheerful for her hus
, hand, don't you thfnk?'
II made some stnangling, guttura
sounds and Winnie beamcd at m
soothingly. I knew you thought %
he said. You can trust to my tndl
nent. knew you cared for me, deaf
even though you we're at such pain
b conceal It The knowledge tina
you did 90 was what first touches N
would have been unmanl9
sparn your anectioa!'
Il stopped short at this and pount
I'd On the Ice with ono skate an
shared at him and waved my hand
aAd tried to talk and ny face simpl
weuldnt work
"'Pooe girf!' Winnie said. stin sootl
inely. I shan take you home - reco,
q ftom u excitement OF the M