The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-09-19
BRAVERY NOT ALIKE
Girl Puts Lovers to Test; One
Afraid of Fire, Other
of Water.
BY cLAUDINE sIssoN.
"oh, l had forgotten to tell you"
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"Oh, had forgotten to tell you"
MY stars-wh-at."
Mr.. Allison, the banker, was writ
ing letters in his library when his
daughter Maude entered, and finding
him busy she curled up in one of the
big chairs and was half asleep when
he laid aside his pen and spoke to her.
There is to be war with Timbucto."
"Gracious!"
And every young man in the coun-
try over eighteen will have to co."
That's awful"
Il was figuring this afternoon on the
effect 1t would have on you"
"on meH Why, father, girls don't go
to war!"
But their beaux do"
oh, you were only teasingl"
laughed Maude as her color height
ened.
Il figured that you would lose your
seventeen young men and have to sub
stltute bachelors and widowers."
Only sixteen, papal"
We'll, I'm expecting three or four
of them here tonight to ask my con-
A. yO0 0Oh WdnS ~ BOI uAAOd
up In the row you'd better be going"
Stop joking and ask me where
want to go this summer"
''Well?"
ITO the seashore. They are going
to open a new hotel at Rosamond
Beach,"
Il knew that a fortnight ago, and
our arrangements are all made"
You dear, good mani"
Our board will cost us nothing.
get 81 per week apiece for the young
men who will follow you up there.
Twice 16 is 80 and there you are"
Miss Maude Allison didn't have 16
beaux. She didn't have half that num-
Der. There were only five who called,
and three Of them made their calls as
formal as If visiting an orphan asylum.
The race lay between Walter Davis
and Hugh Lee. That is, they imagined
1t did. Just what Miss Maude imagined
was a different thing. Neither young
man could complain that she showed
the other any preference. The father
might have had one. but he was not
mixing in.
There are plenty of men, young and
OLD, who have been In doubt for a time
as to which of two girls or widows
to make their wife. The agricultural
department at Washington has statis-
tics showing that men have courted no
less than four women at one and the
same time, and ended by not marrying
any one OF them. Therefore, 1t would
not be fair to charge Miss Maude with
being firtatious.
Sixteen young men did not appear
at Rosamond Beach the next day after
the Allisons were installed. Fourteen
could not get away but two could and
did. OF course, they were Walter Da-
Wis and Hugh Lee. OF course. they
were greatly surprised to meet each
other at the depot. OF course, they
did not refer to the Allisons. OF course,
each one was going up for day or
two to see what the new hotel looked
like. Their respective starts of sur
prise at seeing Miss Maude on the
Veranda would have insured them sal
aries Of SIC per In the old days of the
dime museums.
Miss Maude also gave a start of sur
prise. She explained that she had no
more thought Of seeing them up there
than she had of meeting the man in
the moon. How on earth did they know
where to come? She was glad to see
them, of course, very, very glad, (their
hearts bounded) but why hadn't they
thought to bring Billy Sims and Kyle
Harris? (Their hearts shrank like cab
bage leaves in an August day.
Maude's father caught her words and
smiled. She wasn't giving her hand
away very much.
One afternoon after three or four