The Washington herald., 1914-08-11
A GENTLE YOUNG MAN.
By DON La GRANGE.
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Young Mr.. Roy Sinclair was celebrating
his birthday by sitting In q lounge chair
on the verands and smoking q few cigar
cites and slipping lemonade. Not q whoop
mot q yell. None OF his college class
mates there to indulge in the college yell
and to wiring his hand and say: Lets
go into the city and burn up things"
No friend coming up the walk to look at
him in astonishment and say: well. III
be hanged! Your twenty-second birth
day today and you come In for your
Uncle Pets's whooplng big legacy and
you are sitting here as quiet as an old
hen on. her nest"
Had his mother been asked to give
an account Of Roy's life and adventures
up TO date she would have paragraphed
It on as follows: r
Very quiet as a baby. Seemed to
understand at once that a squalling in
fant Is a nuisance.
Every quiet as a child. When the cat
bit him for pulling her tail he wept, but
made no holler to bring out the fire de-
partment.
9 eAs-a youth he was not slam-bans.
even when a dime was given him to
spend on Fourth Of July.
Fell out of trees-fell into the river
fell on the roof-licked and got licked
fell in love and fell out, and had the
usual number of stone bruises and
bumps. but all quietly-very quietly"
That's what his mother would have
said, and his many friends could have
added that there had been no great
change in the last five years. He was
no sissy. but he didn't seem 70 think
IL necessary to shout his name and pres
ence as he moved along. He left that
70 others, and when they brought up In
police stations he quietly appeared and
bailed them out.
At the hour that the quiet and gentle Mr..
Sinclair was slipping lemonade on his
mothers veranda, Miss Bertha Gormon
was riding along the highway in her rum
about Had her mother told Of the girls
adventures since babyhood 1t would have
made a bad impression. As a baby she
kicked and SQualled: as a child she was
not obedient; as a haIf-grown girl she
was famous for her impatience.
When she was a young lady her mother
called in a specialist. ''It isn't nerves"
said the man after observing the case for
a quarter Of an hour.
Then what can Il be7''
Her temperament She Is what is
known as an impatient. She wants action
all the time. She has never made an
effort to control herself. If she thought |
of crossing the sea she'd want TO go |
right aboard a liner within an hour"
but is there no remedyT' asked the
mother.
yes, and you could have applied it
years ago, but you didn't do IT,"
And now"
You can't do anything with her. You |
and the others OF the family love her. Of /
course, and of course she loves you, but |
you antagonize her at the same time. II
she falls in love with and marries the
wrong man there'll be a Kilkenny cat l
Eight and a divorce. II it's the right /
man her Temperament will change"
And who viii be the right manT
"a quiet gentleman-a man who is
somewhat lethapgic instead of impulsive
"a man with firmness combined with his
gentleness."
rs there such man in the whole
State. doctor?'
Probably a hundred Of them"
It wasn't a good morning for riding |
put. 1t had rainec during the night, and |
the highways were muddy.
''Of course, you won't go out this /
said Mrs. Gormon to her
daughter.
Very promptly Miss Bertha thought Of
going out, and in I'VE minutes she was In /
had gone a mile she was impatient at /
her impatienee in coming out
The builders Of autos and runabouts
won't say that an impatient person can't
drive one, but will admit that II such a
and yanking levers and handles about /
that is just what Miss Bertha was doing