The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-26
THE EVENING STORY
Betrayed by the Camera.
(By Lawrence Alfred Clay.)


love with Mary Parker. Her old father
said George would never amount to
shucks and forbade him the house. AT
q George had his salary raised to -
a week, and he and Mary Parker at
once eloped and were married. -
THE idiots will bring UP in the poor
house within two years." growled
Mary's father.
Thirty years later George Lyndhurst
was worth 100000 and he had trouble
on his mind. 1t was about his daugh-s
ter Jessie.
'Well, ma, what do you think?" he
asked his wife one evening.
us there going to be another warp
ST had a call at the Office today from
a young man named Burt Gleason"
Yes, I know him."
He said he was in love with JESSIE
ard she with him, and he wanted my
consent to a marriage
But you didn't give it?'
mot much! What's been going on
around here, anyhow? / hadn't heard
anything about Jessie being in love-"
We'll, she's been sort of keeping
company with that young man for sew
eral months, but I didn't think there
was anything very serious about it.
There are other young men that call
here
Seems to me you ought to have sus-
pected.'
II couldn't be peeking and listening.
/ had a talk with her awhile ago, and
I cautioned her about getting too thick
with young Gleason"
He's in a music store at 50 week.
Dear mei'
And his father is only carpenter"
You don't say!'
And the boy will never be able to
earn SIS a. week"
"Ofl course not"
And I told him So And now I'm
going to tell Jessie, and I want you to
back me up in it. She must not throw
herself away on a young man whose
sole capital, as near as I can find out,
is head of curly hair"
''Of course I'll back your said the
wife; but, see herei Don't say a word
to her. Maybe she's not in love, but
If she is you'll arouse opposition. The
talk you gave the fellow today may
show him that his case is hopeless.
Let's get her to go down to the coun-,
try III Aunt Betty's for a few weeks,
and I'll warrant you she'll forget all
about him. Leave it all to me and
I'll work it as smooth as grease
There's consistency for you! A hum
dred times over Miss Jessie had heard
her father brag how he had begun life
on 81 a week; how he had fallen in
love and determined to possess the
girl; how her father had thrown him
down, and how he had lived to show
she was informed of the result There
defiance and taken each other for bet
ter or5worse. and yet were conspiring
to head a daughter away from the
same thingl
Of course, Miss Jessie knew that her
lover was going to call on the father
and put the question. and, of course,
she was informed of hte result There
was a great chance for her to play
the martyr or the heroine, but she ac-
cepted neither role. On the contrary,
she quietly replied:
when the time comes we shall get
married.
But when will the time Gomez
II can't say. Father and mother are
Matching some plan to prevent When
1 know what it is I can answer your
question"
A week later the mother sat down
with the daughter and said, with con-
siderable anxiety in her tones:
Jessie, L think your appetite has
fallen away"
Yes, mother"
and you sigh in your, Sleep
Il think I do"
"And you are absent-minded.
Yes
"And you have thinking spells that
last half an hour sometimes
81 know it,
ct was going to have the doctor pre-
scribe strong tonic, but happened to
think of Aunt Betty"
''She's a dear old soul"'
Indeed she is, and she's got a nice
farm and everything comfortable
around her.
How wish L could visit her for a
few weeks!'
You do? Why. that is the very
thing was going to proposei 1 was
talking with your father only last eve
ming.
And is he willing for me to go?''
Not only willing but anxious
Dear, good father"'
And you can go in three days.
The next evening, when young --r
Gleason and young Miss Lyndhurst met
by appointment. there was giggling and
chuckling and chortling.
What luckr' she said.
TITS fiercer he answered.
But VINO proposed ft?''
They did,
What geesei"
Great opportunity here for the moral
list to warn parents not to conspire
against their children, lest the said
children beat them at their own game,
but it is passed over in the confusion
of trunk packing and making a start
for Aunt Betty's.
And now for secret. A good half of
the pictures shown at the movies" are
stray pictures taken here and there and
a play built around them. The man
with the camera is everywhere. and he
finds ready sale for his pictures
He was at Aunt Betty's when Miss
Jessie arrived in a farmers wagon. He
made his snapshot for the beginning of
a play Later on he took her as she
reclined in a hammock; then climbing
an apple tree, then as she welcor led
young Mr.. Gleason, then as they sat or
wandered together, then as they drove
away together behind Aunt Betty's cid
white horse to get married by a coun-
try parson on the yeranda of his house
The camera man had to take a dog