Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1913-07-18
The FATES uNK|ND USE FOR OLD NAILS !
Times Changes Atfrighted Bach
eIor After Fifteen Years
of Absence.

1t was exceedingly hot IN Tucano,
and Jack Wilson stretched himself
to full length in the canvas ham.
mock on the awning-shaded bungalow
porch. Then he reached to the table
at his side and took the tall glass OF
fruit punch, cooling his parched throat
with the refreshing beverage. and five
minutes later was fast asleep. Sleep
Is blessed boon when the scorching
winds blow across Brazil. and espe-
cially II kind dreams take you to the
north. where snow.clad mountains and
cooling breeZes abound the greater
part Of the time.
Jack came to Brazil fifteen years
previous In search Of fortune, and
fewer than four girls to return and
wed them when fortune deigned to
smile upon his honest efforts to court
her-for Jack was always counting
some one. The tickle dame had not
only smiled, but laughed heartily. and
the shekels rolled Jacks way. When
he awoke from his dreams 1t suddenly
dawned upon his heat-dulled senses
that he was very lonely man, and
had been for many year. Entering the
bungalow, he opened a small oaken
chest and from the top tray took sew.
eral photographs and studied them
carefully. Each one represented a
pretty, laughing girl, and each had a
sentiment expressed In ink on the
back, and the names signing these
were: Ellen. Barry. Lillian and Isabel.
He placed the photographs In his
suitcase and packed 1t full of articles
needed for long journey.
1t was unbearably hot in Tucano.
A month later found Jack mounting
the brownstone steps Of a residence In
Chicago, for this was where Ellen
lived.
A maid opened the door and ushered
him into the sitting room to wait until
Miss Ellen returned from her shopping
tour.
He sat at the window nervously
turning the leaves Of a magazine and
glancing now and then toward the
stoop. Finally woman weighing
about 220 pounds laboriously mounted
the steps and rang the bell He heard
excited whispers in the hall and rec
ognized Ellen's voice. While the lady,
assisted by her maid, was changing
her dress, Jack made hasty exit and
when he turned the corner paused q
minute to wipe the heavy beads of
perspiration from his brow.
The next week he departed for
Cleveland, the home Of Mary, and
when he inquired at the old number
they directed him to house six
blocks away.
Again he mounted steps and rang
q bell, which was answered by q
woman to whose skirts chung four
small children-it was Mary. Luck
lily she did not recognize him and
Jack, stammering, asked IL Mrs. Par
ker lived there and was CURLY in
formed that she did not. He returned
to the hotel, ate a good dinner. re-
covered his stunned senses and then
boarded train for New York.
Lillian lived at Mount Vernon in q
pretty Queen Anne cottage and Jack
settled back in the tonneau Of the
motor car, anticipating the renewal
of his old-time friendship with dainty,
blond Lillian. Arriving at the house,
for the third time he rang bell and
when the trim maid opened the door
he asked for Lillian.
Dear me, sir, she's been dead eight
years and more. Sorry, sir"
Poor Jack began to believe that the
Furies were close at his heels, but
II fate had chosen Isabel for him,
she was the one he would marry.
E Isabel dwelt at Easthampton and
was a school teacher, so Jack decided
to make the trip in the motor car.
He and Isabel could be married and
continue on through Canada for their
honeymoon. He arrived at the little
Massachusetts town on Saturday aft
ernoon, and. going to the old-fash-
Toned home of the Arnolds, inquired
for Isabel She was lecturing, he was
told, at the town hall. Jack always
admired her intellectually and has
tened to the hall, proud that he was
to be the husband OF a woman who
could address an audience Entering
the hall he saw on the platform a tall,
spare, specialized woman whose long
arms were gesticulating wildly as she
emphatically propounded the worthy
subject Of equal suffrage. He re-
NAMED but ten minutes. and jumping
into the car directed the chauffeur to
retrace the roads to New York. Dur
ing the ride he had ample time to
collect his thoughts and make plans
Tor the future, deciding finally to take
the first boat to Brazil.
Jack realized that even in the states
1t was exceedingly hot at times-and
besides. fall is delightful season in
Brazil.-New York Press.