The Calumet news., 1913-06-07
A Modest Girl
With Long Hair
By SADIE oLCou

snybody look AT ber without Der blush
in al Overt"
'Humph" grunted Tom
Re Lon YOU don't count much on T,
woman's bein' 50 modest AS that. DC
your
Jake. I'm goin 10 answer your ques
ton hy tellin' you story. Oncet
bad ~ 20 down 10 Denver to get some
sSSayin' done bad struck some dir;
thst ] thought might pan ont purity
good So ! took some chunks with me
aud started on my own horse When
got within ten miles or so OF the city
II was Eettin dark. and put up at a
I tavern. My room was In an l. To the
buildin. and | could look right across
TO another L and into a wnder. where
there was gal standln' before look
in glass Combin her hair And. her
I room bein lower than mine. | could
see Just how long il was II reached
I TO the floor and was thick as a Shcaf
o wheat
"lf there's a feature about woman To
/ please your humble servant it's fine
! aud wavy as the surface Of lake. and
/ il shined under the light a them kero
/ sene lamps 10 beat the band | fell I'm
| love with her at oncet-or. rather. |
! fell in love with her hair-aud | vowed
| wouldn't leave the place till Ia made
her acquaintance
The next moruin' | saw her go out
and walk up the road | fist went after
her. and when ! caught up with her
| says. says |:
ITS fine moruin. miss
she looked down at the ground and
didn't say nothin'. so ! said some more:
mo offenSe. miss. I'm miner from
up around Georgetown. purity rough.
but honest. saw YOU combin that
wonderful head % hair o yuurn and
Did your she said. kind o. fright
ened like
Yes You don't mind man secin
YOU With il unloosened do you?'
Ladies' don't usually appear before
gentlemen that way, she said so mod.
est-like that ! wanted TO put redhot
pokers in my eyes for iookn' nj it.
and ! told her that her hair was so
splendid that she'd ought to wear il
down her back all the time. | axed
her IL ! couldn't walk a ways with
her, aud she said she wasn't used TO
walkin' with gentlemen as she hadn't
been introduced 10. but | locked so
good and kind and nice that she would
not mind my walkin' n little ways.
WAL got 10 telin' her about
what brought me 10 Denver, and she
looked kind q interested when | told
her ! thought I'd struck payin dirt.
She said for my sake she hoped !
wouldn't he disappointed We was
talkin' when we come To puddle,
and she waited while | went ahead,
for she had 10 lift her skirt couple
of inches. and she was So modest that
she wouldn't lot mo see her foot So,
you see. ! bad two things 10 love. her
hair and her modcSty. and there was
even more of the last than the first
I'VE walked some time together, and
was gettin more and more in love
all the time But bimeby she came to
n house aud went in. 80 ] had to leave
her at the door ! KEEP watch TO see
her combin her hair ag'in. and toward
svenin' she went into her room and
took the hair down. and just as ] was
beginnin' 10 feast my eyes on II she
closed the blinds
Now. If that wasn't modesty ] don't
know what you'd call II
The next mornin ! saw ber 20 out
ag'in and Joined her ag'n, telin' her
that I was goin' into town 10 get my
sn NIPPLES assayed She said she hoped
they'd turn ont well aud must let her
know took the samples into Denver
and left 'em there, "a call for 'em In
two days. While ! was a.waitin saw
p lot o the gal with the long hair and
did some courtin' that is. would a
done it il she hadn't been so deuced
modest | accidentally touched her
hand oncet. and | thought she was
gon' To have II 1T
when ! went into Denver 10 get the
assayers report on my samples he told |
me there was not enough gold in a
ton 10 buy n plug q tobacco ! went |
back disappointed. but 10y this time | |
was So dead in love that didn't mind F!
my setback IN the other matter. ] con.
fded what the assayer said to the gal. |
and that was the Inst | saw of her in |
those parts Where she went didn't !
know. but Il was plain she didn't have |
any use for n miner without mine.
'T had y friend in Denver. 81 ! went
in there 10 borrow enough money I"
get back TO camp While ! was walk.
in up the main street where all the |
shops Is | saw crowd before win.
der went 10 see what was 'goin' on, |
and standin there In the winder with !
her hair hangin down to her heels WAS
the gal I'd fallen IN love with. princ.. |
pally for her mOdesty. while u fcller
stood before the shop pointiD her Opt |
as havln' growed her hair by usin' Dr |
hair restorer
II don't want to discourage you. Jake.
but when them gals is too deuced mod.
est iiIst you look our for EN-"
lis that true story, Tom7' asked
Jake
True rs gospel
What do you s'pose made her put
on all tbatT
"I dunno Reckon you'I find ont |