Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-23

w stunning solitaire! l sup
pose it means that you and
Billy Tucker have finally decided
{ to"
1T means" said the girl caller.
hastily, that Billy Tucker and are
merely friends, Ethel"
Really? Then, who is the happy
man? Remember, you always said I
was to be your maid of honor"
That's the reason 1 came over,
my dear, so that you should be the
first of all to see my ring"
What an exquisite gem. But of
course. l am expiring to know who
| the man is
We'll, the story begins with the
senior ball at college last spring, Just
before commencement. Billy had al
ways acted as if no journey would be
too long or too arduous for him to
take If few moments Of my society
were the cause of 1t. So l asked him
TO come east for the bali. Then
| told all my friends what splendid
dancer he was and how good looking
and entertaining. l don't see how l
| ever could have thought Billy par
! tcnlarly good looking and he really
isn't very brilliant talker. And |
know at least one man who dances d
great deal better than Billy does
We'll, do you know, at 8 o'clock
| the night of the ball, when I was
quite excited by the thought of seeing
Billy inside of another half-hour, |
received telegram saying he was
unavoidably detained at home!
A Hurry Call.
My dear, l was so angry and dis
| appointed that l actually cried. One
| of the Junior girls felt 50 sorry for
me that she went to the telephone and
called up her brothers fraternity
house. where she knew quite a num-
Der of the men. But her brother and
every one of her friends had engage
nents for the evening.
Well she said to her brother,
, you've simply got to send some man
/ over for Alice, whether it's any one
we know or not. This is a very i'm
portant affair and the last dance in
her college life, and it would be a
shame for her to miss 1t. Now hurry
and get somebody as nice as you
can
She told me afterward that her
| brother laughed and said he, would
! get me man if he had to hire one
Cheer up, Alice she admonishe1
me when she left the telephone
/ There will be a Mr. Somebody for
as the renowned Billy Tucker, it will
be better for you than being on the
side lines
Il naturally didn't expect very
much, so you may imagine how
pleased | was when a stunning young
man appeared at our hall and aske 1
for me. The awkwardness l felt at
the situation was quickly dissipated
by his, ease of manner. He was a
perfect dancer, and l had such a good
time that | quite forgot my anger at
Billy. When Mr.. Thaxter-for that
was his name-Was departing | In
vited him to call before l should
leave for home the next week.
I'm afraid l must not he said.
I think you should know that ! am
general student factotum at the Beta
M house and that l was hired for
this pleasant service-that | took the
job he smiled ensagingly, because
| needed the money. You see. I'm not
in society at all
The Approach.
81 don't care if YOU aren't | said
like you better than lot of men
who are in society. l wish you'd call,
anyway
81 won't call. but l shall always
remember this as specially happy
evening. Good might and good by.
He hurried away before l could think
OF anything to say.
II, was awfully blue, you see.
was furious at Billy. and l felt that
should never see that nice Mi
in PpallV E'thal I like
him so well that | was almost sorry
had met him.
Well. when I got home father de-
cided to take us out to the Yellow
stone. | didn't think of him or Billy,
or any other man after that. just
determined to leave men out Of my
good times The very first night we
got into the park, mother met an old
friend who told her about an inter
esting young man she knew at the
hotel who had worked his way
through college because his grand
father. who had brought him up,
didn't believe in wasting money on
higher education But when he was
finally graduated this year his grand
father was fairly bursting with pride
and was giving him trip through
the Wcst
The Same.
of course. the remarkable young
man was your Mr. Thaxter," re-
/ marked Ethel.
We'll" laughed Alice, "he wasn't
my Mr.. Thaxter quite then, but he
was after We had taken a few horse
back rides together. The poor fellow
had thought he'd have to struggle
and make his own way so ne wouldn't
come to see me down at the college
when I invited him, for he said he
thought it would be years before he
could ever ask a girl to marry him.
and he sli3 he knew that IL he saw
much more of me he'd find it awfully
hard not to ask. His grandfather Is
going 10 give him a start in business