The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-07-10
TOO VICTORIAN
BY JANE OSBORN.

iuh i<fhtNf, ~ you want W DO atjh04
lmely Victorian Just 80 ahead and
Nope around the way you are doing
now Seventeen year-oId Ruth Les.
ter lda's pretty golden-baired sister
looked up from her algebra and
glanced whimsically over her study
spectacles. Thank fortune, I've never
been In loveOh, there's no use say.
ing YOU aren't Nowadays girls come
right out and say 50 when they are.
But ! suppose II you insist on being
Victorian you just won't be frank
about Il. ] WAS saying that il ever
did fall in love and then lost out the
way you have we'll, you needn't look
30 offended. you know you have why
wouldn't NOPE around about IT, ia
use my brains, same as man would
Well smarty, since you know il
all," Ida said, going over TO her sister
and closing the algebra she WAS study
Ing, what sort or plot would YOU
perpetrate. Would yon 90 down 70
Matthews apartment through the
dumb waiter shaft and steal the young
hero away IA the Silly night2'
Now you're talkingiT said Ruth,
springng to her feet THAT might
be good plot II the hero wasn't six
feet one and the heroine only FIVE feet
three. I've thought out something
even craftier than that The facts
IN the case are thus Here Ruth DO.
gan tabulating them on page OF her
algebra notebook Hero is really
very fond Of heroine II not actually
In love with her Hero naturally timid
and not much Of a ladys man. Hero
lives IN same apartment house az
heroine, and just before heroine gets
him 70 the proposing point she plays
her cards wrong and tries to make the
hero Jealous Hero, instead of getting
iealouA, Just gets case OF cold pedal
extremlties Deadlock follows"
Here is where the craft comes in
You remember that little baby ring
with the blne.enamel forget-me-nots
that the hero gave the heroine in a
moment or sentimental fervor at
picnic last summer Now don't look
surprised OF course ! know he gave
II to You Haven't ! seen you wear
1t around your neck on piece OF
white ribbon every night since? DC
you think keep my eyes IN my pa
jana pockets Now II the hero thought
the heroine had lost that ring and
thought she cared lot for 1t he'd
think that she cared lot for him
without having 10 be told so.
"Of course you haven't lost the ring.
but just the same you can put an
advertisement In all the papers like
this
"LOSTA baby ring with small
lorget.menots, or smal intrinsic
worth, but highly priced lby the own.
er Reward s75
Now sooner or later, the hero is
bound TO read that advertisement, and
after he puts his shrewd masculine
wits to work Tor about half an holr
Il will begin 10 dawn on him that the
poor little hye-feetthree heroine
misses him, wants to see him, lotes
him dearly"
Il was week later and the adver-
tisement had appeared for hve DAVIS
IN the three local papers Then one
day Ida came to Ruth's room and ln4
terrupted her IN the midst OF her algeS |
bra. Ruth removed her spectacles
and focused her eyes on her sister
ITS so funny Ida was crushing
an open letter In her hand. Someone \
has found the ring, yet / atill have
II.
"Goosel'' was Ruth's reioinder ITS
Matthew that answered He didn't
find II He's Just saying he did He
thinks heis being crafty just The way
said he would and he thinks you
did lose Il ana he's just pretending
he found II SO as to have chance
To see you"
III he did write that letter, / am
sure he Is very clever for | never
would have thought that It was from
him and J am not at all sure that II
Is even now. See. the writer SAYS
he viii return the ring to the owner
II she Will meet him in the mall at
the park at four o'clock this after.
noon. And she is TO know him be-
cause he will wear a red rose and -"
How did he know II was a girl
that lost the ring ana how did he know
that the man in the park is just
'cross the way from the owners
I'm sure don't know. but comet
lences like that'are not unusual Any
gNy | shall keep the appointment
done
At six o'clock Ruth, still poring
Ner her algebra, saw very pink
aeed brightaved sister dash into her
DOM.
Who DO you think I've been walking
9TH, and he $ coming back after din.
err Matthew Rut Il wasn't he that
irote the letter n fact. ! didn't wait
or the man with the red rose, Mat
hew Just happened to be there and
ihen told him | was waiting for the
IAN with a red rose ne told me that
he man only wanted To kidnap me or
like that Don't you sees
was as plain as day after Matthew
Snlained It to me But girls never
link OF practical things like that.
Iatthew hadn't even seen the adver-
sement ia the paper and when / told