The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1913-09-05
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The DethrOnement
Of Douglas
It Didn't Last Long After the
Explanation Came.
BY JANE iNeRAHAM.

class of girls who bow to physical
strength in the opposite sex. Frail, al
most fowerlike in her beauty, the sort
of girl who had been protected and
served all her life, she yet decorated
her tiny morning room with etchings
pnd small statuettes of classic heroes
tanned for their physical prowess, and
lhe could sit through a veritable bliz-
Eard to watch football match and
shout herself hoarse for Ted's college
team.
Ted was her brother, and he said
that somewhere in Harriet's makeup
was a strain from the blood of an an
cestral belle who had cheered on her
hero in the old tournament days, for
the Winthrops could trace their lineage
to the tournament days and further,
and, even though Mr.. Winthrop had
lost large slice of the old family for
tune through i'll advised investments,
they maintained their social standing,
lived in rather severe but elegant fash
ion and held fast to every tradition, In
Guiding the firm belief that no lady
rides in a street car or other public
| conveyance. She may walk abroad
| for exercise only, but when calling or
shopping the plain, rather old fashion
ed brougham of the depleted Win
throp stables was brought into service.
That was why when many other
girls with more money to spend on
shopping tripped merrily up and down
the great retail thorOughfare Harriet
Winthrop chafed In the Winthrop
brougham, caught In blockade Of
snarling motormen, sharp faced chauf-
feurs and obstinate cabbies. The
brougham swung to one side. the
wheels grating the curb, and Harriet
leaned forward to see how close they
were to the shop wherein could be
found certain piece of silvery blue
gauze marked down to post holiday
prices. Then. with gasp and shud-
der, she leaned back in the carriage
and closed her eyes. She had forgotten
the silvery gauze, the shop, the jam OF
vehicles everything save the tall,
square shouldered figure Of man.
whose entire attention seemed to be
centered on the tint of pancakes he was
turning In the window of white front
restaurant. tsa
The brougham moved forward few
inches, then several feet. Very soon
1t would be out of range. so Harriet
took one. more glimpse at the win
dow to make sure that her eyes had
not deceived her No. 1t was he. and
this time he was actually handling the
white aproned waitress n plate piled
high with golden brown cakes.
What was Jerry Douglas doing In
that window, and how could he bestow
upon the white aproned girl precisely
the same frank. cordial smile with
which he had greeted Harriet at that
, last dance, after Teddy's team had
won through Douglas clever coaching
, She bought half a yard more gauze
than she needed and went home firm
ly convinced that Jerry Douglas had
been cooking cakes to pay a wager
That night she went to dance where
many mutual friends gathered; but NJ
one seemed to have heard of the esca
. pade, and she was too proud to make
( inquiries. The next day she went bacl
| 10 the shop so close to the restaurant
J A bit OF pale blue velvet ribbon would
set off that silver gauze, but she decid
] ed that, after all. she did not care
, whether the silver gauze was develop
I ed into creation or not. Nothing mat
2 tered save that her idol had crumblet
I at her very feet or, more properl.
. speaking, within few feet of tn,
4 wheels of her brougham. for ther'
q again was Jerry Douglas, turning wha
/ she thought must be very fat and indi
!. gestible fried biscuits.
$ so Il was not an election wager o
y anything of that sort All. she knew
{ He had gone in for sociology. He wa
a studying the condition of the working
classes. Next thing he would be livin
in one of these dreadful settlemen
houses, holding club meetings for raga
mullins and poor factory girls an
writing silly things for magazines
this man whom she had watched wit
baited breath on the football field
whom she had pictured as sallyin
IOrLH 10 PIT MS ulaSuluScHl at'ShS''
physical and mental, against the mas
mates of the commercial and financi'
world.
Cooking cakes in a restaurant wir
dow!
Harriet Winthrop walked with firm
deliberate step to her desk and too
Gown from the wall above 1t pictur
showing group Of lusty young men
football attire and also certain II
dlvidual picture of a young man wit
a finely formed head and broad, squar
shoulders. She thrust the two benin
some boxes on the top shelf of he
ie elothespress and then sat down for
to good cry
or course she might have found OF
~ what II all meant If Teddy had bee
or home. but Teddy, after leaving colleg
. had gone to Paris to follow up h
studies In naval architecture. An.
how It did not matter. OF course