Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-20
SHE REALLY WAS AN
UNATHLETIC GIRL.
WISHED THAT SHE WERE AT HOME INSTEAD
TRAPslNG ABOUT AFTER THE ENGLISH WOMAN GOLFERS
HER IMAGINATION sLooMED UNDER THE INSPIRATION OF
SPORTING WHAT CAME OF IT.

ing around she found the yellow and
green blazer on her right
Wasn't her playing perfect till that
E~assie to the ditch cost her six?" the
gay blazer continued If the wind
hadn't been blowing a gale that never
would have happened"
She Talks as Golfers Do. /
"To0 bad shemissed her putt at IN
fourteenth" the Unathletic One found
herself saying, as though inspired
Some way her terror at being left
alcne with these golf enthusiasts had
suddenly left her. Perhaps it was the
hracng air or an after-gloW from
watching the fine game, or perhaps lt
was because Mrs. b. and the other peo-
Die who knew her were on the other
side of the porch, and she was Ieft
alone among strangers who did not
know that she had never Considered
icining the golf club, but was presi-
dent of the Monday Afternoon Club,
for which she was at present writing
n naper on Bismarck that her fear
suddenly left her and she joined IN the
| conversation.
| THAT snort elSHleclltH-iipiS fiS'' 80
was the best yet" a woman IN a Nor
| folk Jacket and a green felt hat SAD
, Did you ever see anything TO oeat
| ito she addressed the Unathletlc ono
"Neyer: she reached the green on her
/ teo shot, and hor3-amany puts was II
that took her bah into the cup?
Two" said the Norfolk Jacket
beautiful playing
"HoW much of an improvement was
veur inward journey on your our :
i ward1p some enc asked the EnSilsA
Five strokes better. said the cham
nion. got my feet little damp at IN
fourth. didn't /, when l fell into
/ ditch? That was a pretty place to get
myself ~
The president of the Monday After
! noon club was sorry when the part
broke UP. ,a
VINO is that woman" some one
] sked as she said goodby and went III
search of Mrs. B.
ooh 7 don't know" the Yellow Green
PLACER said. there are so many mem
bers I don't pretend to keep theii'
STRAIGHT. but she's some regular all
, round athletic woman who knows nov
TO get all the fun out OF me-
yes. she is" agreed the Nofloih
Jacket. 1T does one good to see Wo-
man like that once in Whlle wiz
lives a game for the games sake, wh.
con ride and swim and fish, and do al
| the other things that keep yon youhe
ord make Won want to live. see nov
/ ehe walks, you'd know from her gan
that she was enjoying life.
Neither the Norfolk Jacket nor thz
vcllow- Green Blazer belonged to u
Monday Afternoon Club. and teey lla
NOT met the new president whom III
members spoke of as that quiet uu'
terribly scholarly Mrs. G, VINO new
cares much for society. but IS reah9
lust the one to represent truly III
| eraFv society.
Mrs. B. had gone and so her friend
walked away from the club alone
across the green ofthe links, and as
she swung along she hummed to her-
self. She was sure now that her stock
ings were not only purple but that
there was a slight check visible III
them, and she was sure she had never
felt better in her life.
| ITS the only way to live" she said
to herself. Il wish every woman
would get out into the fresh air ana
play a little"
What have you been doing?" he
asked careiessly. you've got lot
more color than usual You're looking
WELL
"Oh, I don't believe I can make you
| understand what l have been doing,
| said his wife: Il don't understand 1t
myself | went over to the Golf Club
this afternoon to watch champion
match"
Il didn't Mrs B. invited me and /
went to please her, and l felt just
like a fish out of water for awhile,
!, and then when the game began some
thing seemed to happen to me. | was
simply a different person and so en-
thusiastic about the game that
walked miles to watch the piaylhs'
someway | lost Mrs. B. and got in
with a crowd of people who were with
the champions. One of the women
had on beautiful yellow-gr blazer
and another one o Norfolk jacket ana
a cocky little hat and green STOCKINGS,
hut | don't know who they were, m
sure. And You'll never believe 1t, ana
l can't explain it, but l thought that
was some one I'm not. Don't look
Mt me in that queer way; l knew you
wouldn't understand, but someway L
cot it into my head that l was as
athletic as all the others were.
I'm sure | can't explain TINS, saio
her husband: II always knew you haa
n splendid Imagination, but L never
knew it to so to such lengths before
What are you going to do to hve up
to the reputation you've made
..rve Just got to be athletic, sald
the president of the Monday After
noon club, with decision.
Good for YOU" said her Better
Half. ,u che
I'm so glad you don't mind she
sai0. with a sigh of relief. It's pretty
hard to tell what did come over me
This afternoon. I just seemed sudden
lv to wake up to the kind of outdoor
fun that 1 have been misslng' ana
that I'm not going to miss any longer,
Rut there's one thing l never couiu
make you understand, Know anu
that's the way my stockings kept