The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-11
The Euenine Story
A Gentle Young Man.
INV Dom la Grange.)

A Gentle Young Man.
By Don La Grange)
Young Mr.. Roy Sinclair was ceieorat-
ing his birthday by sitting IN = .vuns
chair on the veranda and smoking d
few cigarettes and slipping lemonade.
Not a whoop-not yell. None OF ms
college classmates there to indulge III
the college yell and to wiring his nan9
and say: Let's go into the CITY am IN
the walk to look at him in establishment
and saw: well I'll be hanged. Your
twenty-second birthday to-day and you
come in for your Uncle Pete's whooping
big legacy and you are sitting mere as
quiet as an old hen on her nest.
Had his mother been asked to give
an account # Roy's life and adventures
IN to date she would have paragrapneo
it off as follows: 40
VERY quiet as Child Wnen Tue
understand at once tnat SQuaiAAne ~
FAINT is q nuisance. ~.
.sVerv ouiett as a child. When the
cat bit him for pulling her tail he wepe'
but made no hoiler to bring out the
fire department. .~
"As a youth he was not slamDahs,
even when a dime was gwen MIN "
spend on Fourth of July.
EEL out Of trees-fell into the river
fell off the roOf-licked and got nckeo
| fell in love and fell out, and had the
usual number of stone bruises ana
bumps, but all quietly-very quietiy.
that's what his mother would nave
said. and his many friends could nave
added that there had been no great
change in the last five years ne was
no sissy, but he didn't seem 10 snink -
| necessary to shout his name ana pres.
ence as he moved along. He lett tnat
tn others and when they brought up IN
no,ice stations he quietly appeared ana
bal them out.
A. the hour that the quiet and gentle
Mr.. Sinclair was slipping lemonade on
his mothers veranda, Miss Bertna Jul
mon was riding along the highway IN
her runabout Had her mother told OF
| the girls adventures since baDynooo II
would have made bad impression. AS
a baby she kick d and sQualled; as
lf-grown girl she was famous A0r "e1
Impotence. 49, h.r
mother called in a specialist. 1t ISM
nerves" said the man after observing
/ the case for a quarter Of an hour.
| Then what can 1t be-:
Her temperament. Sne Is VIVA. as
t;on all the time. She has never made
an EFFORT to control herself. II she
thoueht of crossing the sea shed want
to 20 right aboard liner within an
hour
.Rut is there no remedy?" asked the
Eyes. and you could have applied it
wears ago. but you didn't do It,
You can't do anything with her.
You and the others OF the ramlly love
her. Of course, and OF course she loves
Won. but you antagOnize her at the
same time. If she falls in love with
and marries the wrong man there II
he a Kilkenny cat fight and divorce.
II it's the right man her temperament
will change" o."
ga ouiet gentleman-a man VINO IS
somewhat lethargic instead OF impui.
sive-a man with frmness combined
with his lentleness
us thez { such a man in the whole
state, dOctor?
! 1t wasn't a good morning for riding
| ont It had rained during the night,
and the highways were muddy.
"Of course you won't go out this
morning." said Mrs. Gormon to her
| Very promptly Miss Bertha thought
| NJ going out, and in five minutes she
was in fidgets. In ten she was OUT.
| Before she had gone q mile she was
! impatient at her impatience in coming
out.
ahouts won't say that an impatient
nerson can't drive one, but will admit
that II such a person goes driving all
over the road and yanking levers and
handles about there is a chance OF an
| oc;6ar+ And that is lust what Miss
partha was doing as she approached
tha house where the quiet and gentle
NJ C;rcIair sat He regarded her
-.,;+,, ;,+arast-nuiet interest. He de-
| cided that the machine was out OF
..tns+ the fence.
w IA having quietly come to these