The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-01
TOM SHOWED SIGNS OF ACE
As Diagnosed By the Girl Who
 Likes to Talk.
(Chicago NeIws)

(Chicago News)
 q am sad," began the girl whd likes to talk, because I have dis covered one of my friends growing his part. You begin to grow olds you know, when you consider crea,A ture comfort before romance" tIs this to be- a high-brovv lee l ture2, inquired the very young man i in considerable alarm.
 t Never, declared the girl who l likes to talk " iris but the outpcur- ings of broken heart and you can safely stay Tom always has been 1 one of these blithesome men that one wants around when one is blue. you know. His chief charm was that he was always game for anything. Hei was never too tired or too bored or too disinterested to join in and he I always enjoyed himself
 l why, Tom could travel eight I miles to the north side to get a girl
 and bring her back eight miles to a party on the south side and then repeat the trip to take her home ana turn in at his house at a. m. and Eget up at 2 and still keep on liking 1 the girl and the party That's tlle
 sort he wasi He was young in spite
 of the birthdays that kept coming l Imagine then, my surpriselH "TeH me the worst, begged the very young man.
 T will, promised the girl who l likes to talk. t.I simply must con fide in some one-and, besides. it l may serve as g. warning
 Just the other night had some friends in and invited a. cFarrnlng new girl for Toms special benefit
 We've been trying to marry Tom for l years, you understand, and this time I had great hopes told him be- iforehand that expected him to take
 Miss Bendler home. duite q distance, 1 but she was charming enough t5 make it worth the trip Tom beam ed as usual. h the middle Of the evening caught him ya,wning and l he excused himself by saying that he had been up five nights running and was dead for sleep
 You used to say accused hirnlf that Napoleon was the only sensible
 man on earth because he got along with three hours, SEumber a night ! Whats come over you 2 Tom flatly declared he had never made such fool remark-and he meant ft. It twas then Isnoticed the little wrinkle
 about his eyes. oh, he seemed to like Miss Bendler well enough
 'e.At 10s30 caught him Hlrrep- I.tftiously looking at his watch He sec he explained, I've got to get up at 6:SO tomorrow and was utterly stern. I told him that if he expected to get out of escorting Miss Bender home he was exceedinEIy mistaken and that was ashamed Of him on general principles What about the time he was so crazy about 1.-the smith girl, who lived ina Evans ton, and made the trip out there from 1 the south side four times a week and about the time he stayed up all night
 to get the broken down automobile I party home just because Avis Gear i was one of lem?
 From looked quite cross. He re- I quested me to take my memory out l and see what chloroform would do
 for it. Then he grunpiIy went back I to Miss Bendler. When somebody politely nurmured that # must be l getting late Tom whipped out his
 watch instantly, and in pepetrat- I inely loud voice saad: Yes, it is 20 l minutes to 11'--but Miss Bender just i smiled sweatay and never stirred. I ssWhen she remarked five minutes l later that it was still snowipg, Tom i ispoke emphat1cally. He said that in ] might be blockaded and people who I were out never would succeed tn get ting home He added that some I times the drifts in Chicago were so I deep that one could not walk through lthem and no taxi could negotiate 1 them, and that he hoped-dubiously l-he hoped this present storm was I not going to be that kind Miss Bend | Ter listened. round eyed, and n1uru1JIr- | ed that the weather here must be kl perfectly terrible at times and then I settled back more coxily tn her chair. Toms jaw set in dumb despair. I .sEvery time the hall clock would | chime he would start like a stricken l deer-and when Miss Bender finally
 rose to her feet he bounded go his, as if there were springs under him. He, stood first on one foot and then I the other when she dallied over her I them they were going down tho
 Street in a splendid imitation of Chris titan martyrs fleeing from the licus, I Tom actually pushed Miss Bendlsl in his haste. My psychic self told l me that he was yawning all the while 1 he rushed too!
 s'Iow. how is a man to make an I impression on a girl if he acts like that? The worst of it was, he didn. t
 care what impression hs madel All sI he could think of was tha slunber l he was missing and how late it would be when he got homel And, aB said, that's the first sign of age realize Tom is no longer youngl"
 .'GeeF' breathed the very young man. Why, I've been that way ever
 since I can remembert That's no sign!"
 ~It's a sign you're so juvenile you
 haven't even reached the first edse
 of romance cruely said the girl who
 likes to talk. srWait till you fall
 in love, little one! think I'll give
 Tom a pair of carpet clippers hiG neF birthday and a crutchs"