Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-10-28
His Ideal Girl
BY MARY MORRISON RAYNAL.

BY MARY MORRISON RAYNAL.
Copyright, Paget Newspaper Service.
The only trouble about having col
lege president for father Is that it
makes you so fearfully elastic in your
affections. AS soon as you get to low
ing somebody good and hard he grad
yates, so you have to begin all over
again.
But no more lovemaking for ME!
I've met my Waterloo; my hearts
dead within me. think it might help
to tell you about it--theres nothing so
CHASTITY as bearing sorrow alone. is
there?
Well, you know l don't care for
blonde men, they are SO Englishy. And
l don't care for handsome men, they
are so conceited. But this man, both
blonde and handsome, was divine.
met him at the October German. After
the dance everybody was teasing me
about my rush from the Yankee. "Hel-
ems Yankee" they called him. He
was mine, too, by right Of discovery.
He had come down here for his
health, some heart trouble, regina pee.
toris, think they called it. That's
the reason he did SO little work, and
had so much time to frivol with US.
OF course / held my breath to see
II he was coming TO call. When he
did, though, had the modification OF
my life. He had been abusing his
boarding house, and without thinking
l said:
do come in the dining room and
let ME find you something to eat!"
When we got in there, will you be-
lieve It? couldn't find anything but
bread and preserves. That's the aw-
full part about having so many little
brothers, they are more devouring
than a plague Of locusts. Imagine
| feeding that swell Bostonian on bread
and preserves just as if he had been
| tramp. He was nice about 1t
though, pretending that it reminded
him of childhood days.
| After that he was here continually.
Such good times as we did have! He
was so clever l fairly sprained my
mind keeping up with him. And as
for sentiment, he piled it on, thinking
We liked that sort OF thing down here.
He was always talking about affini-
ties, mental telepathy, and ideal
womanbood. He held, with Browning,
that soul rested here merely for the
meeting and minglins with that other
soul for which it was created. Having
lost that, it lost what it had lived for.
Then growing more personal, he told
me that his father instantly recog-
nized, upon meeting his future wife,
the ideal of his cherishing. Naturally
he expected to do the same.
Terribly exciting, wasn't IL? / strug
gled TO live up TO my idea of his ideal
girl until almost had nervous pros
tration. When a tender pause would
come in the conversation, with the fire
fickering low, I'd think surely he was
going TO tell NE that l was it. Blu;
he only implied unutterable things
was never really tangible.
We got on famously, though, until
Junior speaking. That's a great time
In our college. The mothers and best
girls all come. the star-speakers com
pete for the orators medal, and the
Glee club furnishes music between
each number. Darlington, the leader
of the Glee club, is Il quiet fellow witt
lovely voice. When the boys heart
that his sister, who was coming, haC
voice 100, they asked for her to sins
solo.
That night the hall was packed, TIL
juniors quaking, when suddenly some
thing burst from behind the scenes
We were too dazed to believe ou
eyes. There fiuttered a buXom per
son in frock that had almost run t
train. In a musical voice she begaI
to sing:
ANY rags, any bones, any bot
ties today?
For the old ragman is ercomin'
this way"
Flirting her fan as she sang, sh,
ogled the student body with her bolt
black eyes. The boys, thinking it tn,
biggest circus they'd ever struck, ap
piauded until they all but knocked
the flour out.
There, in the midst, sat father will
the poor old professors, petrified witt
horror. They couldn't very well draj
the lady off the stage, and there wa
no more stopping her than an alarm
clock. Actually. in her ardor, she lift
ed up her train to cakewalk up an,
down before their reproachful eyes.
Oh, it was rich! laughed until
cried, then felt so sorry for Caring
ton ! almost cried in earnest-to hav
sister come to his own college t
make such a fool of herself. Later W
found she was only his stepsistel
who'd always lived in Texas, SO b
hardly knew her himself.
AS the girl had pile Of money he
mother had brought her up here I
cut her wisdom teeth on us, then sh
was going to take her to New Yor
to catch a crown prince. For Carranl
tons sake called on her and she die
MT seem quite so breezy off the stage