The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-02-01
| ONE AWKWARD
UNG MAN Won OUT
D Cure for Embarrassment
The Country and Found
a Wife.
LAWRENCE ALFRED CLAY.

AWHENCE Affixed CLAY.
Eht. 1912, by Associated Literary
Press.)
6e world Of today a young man
Is been about is credited with
share Of self-confdence, and
lad any rough points to begin
have had them polished down
tact with society.
kiln Graham was an exception.
had given him q handsome
3 1t had many Grahams before
His figure was good, too, but
Il about in a continual state Of
Easement and awkwardness.
evous young women and the
at his clubs kept him on edge
time. He realized his draw
A man may realize that he
backache, but that doesn't cure
bhe. He would brace up now
zen and try to be assertive, but
fort only made things worse.
Ia man is embarrassed and awk-
and has stammer added to 1t
, steps on a girls train and sits
on a fifty-dollar fan and refers
blew as Jones, what's the use
pggling further?
Zen l was your age l was just
way" said a middle-aged club
rho liked the boy and felt pity
m.
lied when he said he was just
way, but he lied with good in
n II all liars had good intentions
i would be no evil In tipping
ID back on their hind legs and
for half a day at a time.
~ you see a doctor about it?"
ii young Graham.
>Cktainly not. A doctor can cure
'jneasles, but he's got no remedy
y1ur CASE
IAN wh-what shall l d-do!"
~ out the town for awhile and
IN the country to some village
Yin on the ground floor. Rub
~ with Tom, Dick and Harry.
= with the people. Talk, fish,
~tpund. You've seen Europe, but
Are villages twenty miles away
hven't seen. You've attended
ms and high teas, but you've
kaken a straw ride. You've seen
#dames and angel girls in eve
ftire, but you've not f1irted with
age belle. Go to, young mani"
a week later young Graham
lp Harpersville. Nice little town,
Rtlver, nice people, good fishing,
k<Qlr! He was surprised at find
oh a place in America. Some
Embarrassed and somewhat awk.
but not so much as he expected
he found the old-fashioned inn
had stopped at worse in Eu
md felt the romance of it
was Uncle Hiram Buzz to wei
him as he had welcomed every
br for the last fifteen years.
III, my son. come to stay g
he began.
~ hope So
"a to hear 1t. Well treat you
Cost of living has gone way
we are not robbers here. Come
Ne city, l s'pose?"
SIR"
rs there all we'll when yor
link So"
n to hear It. Some one hal
led that the cholera would bt
This summer but we amt a BIZ
= of It up here. Dye like tht
e the town."
sir"
II to hear that, because I know
u all like you. You jest pitci
49, N and be one of us. There.
hts every day or two-picnics
ing, fishing. dancing, goinl
nerries-oh, Wen take keer O
"a there were three or four yount
y hat wore very large cuffs ant
: Ugh collars who called and in
lie stranger to have a game o
- the dusty old table, and thu
1ed's daughter introduced hin
163eral girls, and within a weel
young man was surprised him
It seemed that he had neve
~ among real people before
~ was no polish-no formality
j boys laughed loudly, and tn,
y Viewed gum. Franklin Graham
learning something new ever.
!. md he was rather glad of it.
h had been In Harpersville tel
II Nhen he went fishing. A freckl
- boy guided him to a spot be
4 the old sawmill. and befor
|D1ng away whispered to him tia
girl sitting there with the pol
line was Miss Greenleaf. MI
l&nm's bashfulness returned wit
N. He realized that the girl wa
p6fior to any one he had yet seel
1Set in the village. She didn't cal
10 him that fishing was good. Il
she didn't even appear to motto
presence. Was there a certai
oette about fishing? What wa
81 Was a young man supposed +
5nce, hat In hand, and ask gil
ease might he fish In that river?
had been standing undecide
i two or three minutes when tn
looked up and queried:
come to fish,"
les"
Nell, why don't you fish. them"
hereupon, in his excitement, NJ
ham stepped on his own feet an
down and rolled over on tn
hks.