The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-06-06
PAYS TO Be GOOD
One Was Pretty Bad, but the
Other Was Good Enough
for Both.
BY JOANNA SINGLE.

Richards sat down and wrote the
letter with a distinctly virtuous feel
ing. He liked the Golden Rule. IL
his girl was off in the country and in
process of what Richards graphically
called acting up" with a chap like
Eaton, he would thank any friend for
putting him wise. Richards was al
ways more beief than elegant.
Therefore in the stuffy little coun-
try postoffice he pushed his hat back
from his plump. perspiring counte-
nance and with his tongue slightly
protruding to help him along, he pen
ned the following letter shutting his
ears to all June outside. He wrote
thus:
Dear Fred:-
You must have gone off your nut
to stick there making a little more
beastly cash on this first day of June!
What's the use of making more money
to get married on and meanwhile let
ting the other fellow get the girl? AS
l understand it, you aren't any too
solid with Rose. It's nothing to me,
of course, but in that case why allow
absence to make her heart grow fond
er of that chump Eaton? He's here
and right on the job, and owes you
no good will, besides being dead crazy
after her from the start. Come out
OF 1t and look after your own inter-
ests. This is my first and last holler
on the subject.
Il might add, If it's necessary, that
she looks like wild posy Her moth
er doesn't object to Eatons filthy
lucre, neither does Rose dislike his
motor and his boat, being a human
girl. The moonlight on the lake is
glorious. / stayed with her last night
till she hated me, and l want to do
some fussing on my own account in
stead of looking after your property.
If | wasn't so fat I'd take her away
from you myself.
"Rosie's mother is certainly the
ideal country hostess and l must say
l like early June better than late
September for an outing. It's great,
after toiling on a city newspaper all
winter. l feel like a colt turned out
to PASTURE want to kick conven-
but l don't. 1t pays to be good.
But not too good-to a girl. If you
are, she marries somebody else.
Elsie Ragan is coming out tomor-
row. She doesn't mind my figure and
laughs at my jokes. Come on out
Saturday and let the office go to
thunder. Note my reserve!
Yours,
"DICKY."
p. S.-Dude all up In your white
hannels when you come. D.
"P. s. again.-While l think of it.
who knows much about Eaton, save
that he comes from out west?
Where'd he get his money, and who
the Sam Patch is he. anyhow? D."
Fred Knowlton read the letter with
a puzzled frown. His work needed
him-and apparently Miss Rose Carey
thought she didn't. He called himself
a fool for being bound to a girl who
would as yet give him but a half-pron-
ise. She said she was not sure of
herself, which might mean that she
was too sure of him, and willing to
have another free summer. The en-
gagged girl is more or less under sur
veillance, bound by a thousand ham
pering little conventions. Had Rose
been openly betrothed to Frederic she
could not have motored about with
this new breezy young westerner thus
waking envy in various female
bosoms. Dicky was right in calling
her a human girl
AS that gentleman left the postoffice
he saw her whizzing by with Eaton,
her hair golden cloud in the sun and
wind He gave another good wish to
his friend Fred, and went his fat and
happy way to the lake for a swim.
Sweltering in town, for the summer