Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-24

I Thank heaven, that piano below us
has stopped it's everlasting tum -tum
ming, and ] can at least make a try NJ
getting some air." exclaimed Edward
Haze violently throwing open his win
40" III the seventh-story apartment of
MS aunt Mrs. Fielding. dropping into
I a MOTIFS chair beside IT and fishing in
ms pockets for cigarette papers and to-
bacco.
Ned, called his aunt from the open
door OF the living room. the degree OF
! cr"suness you're developing is alarm
ing You should, seek a remedy before
1t grows an% worse"
And what remedy would YOU pre-.
! scribe? he quericd. strokinE his Gig
arctic wrapper and pinching IL together
a, the ends
he best would he to hunt ND some
nice CIR! and take her for a stroll in
mas lovely moonlight. Summer nights
IKE this were made for young folks TO
be out in"
lie crossed his long. blue serge legs
ana struck q match on the sole of his
low shoe before answering.
Your remedy doesn't appeal to me
aunt, and II il did where am to hunt?
~ tried to take nice girl out in
the moonlight without a proper intro
auction the police or some of your yari
Gus protective societies would be after
me In "a tiify. and for a newcomer in
New York with only business ac.
dualntanccs 10 get properly introduced
TO 4 girl is about as easy a lob as So
curing personal interview with
royalty"
Oh. 1t was pitiful.
In n whole cltyfulr
Girls he knew none"
misGuotcd Mrs. Fielding. joining him
beside the window and laying a COM
Portable, motherly hand on his Closely
cropped dark head.
Ana there are hundreds Of fellows in
inns town In the same case"
He leaned from the window. blowing
ont spirals OF smoke and drawing in
tVngSful OF dew cooled air Suddenly
he t"rked his head 10 one side. then held
II stil! In listening pose. The sounds OF
pleasantly modulatcd womcn's voices
1oated clearly up from somewhere. Ed
ward looked down and by tho light az
the moon could make out figures seated
in little balcony belonging TO the
apartment below. He could no, see
the faces Of the speakcrs-onN the
tops Of two s!lvcrcd heads
Clara is very lovely, Cousin Cyn-
ihia." one OF the women was saying. "If
New York men have eyes, girl like
that Will be urged To desert music for
before long"
Not II they have cars and have heard
her maddcning strummlng." muttered
Edward from his window.
Sh -sh sh.' whispered his aunt-also
frankly cavesdroHping.
Their eyes will do them no good ,
without mutual acquaintance, Edith"
he lady addressed as Cousin Cvnthin'
replied. No matter how much a man
Idnlires a girl in a city like this he dare
cot approach her without an introduce |
tion-and II he did dare. her ONLY |
curse would be TO ignore him absolute
y Clara doesn't know a single young
i&n in New York, and has no acuuaint- ,
irces who are likely to introduce men
o her"
What shame And Clara girl
'reated for the express purpose of
making some man happy-with her
beauty. her charm, her angelic dispos!-
ion and her talent for homcmakinE,"
lust what YOU want. Ned whisp-
rcd his aunt
Maybe so. but how the deuce am 1
o meet herr
"Ah. there's test for your in
'Sh sh sh." cautioned Ned Listen"
Cousin Cynthia The guest was say
hS- IN glad | came TO visit YOU