The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1916-12-14

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Poets have sung q lovs n ~ soxang]
tor centuries No ens ever Nd al
poem q young love h au1nnn: 60
tainly not IN winter. Il cemes Win
the bidding leavos, ana & alDo ceD0
With peepanquiiy. Place . yenag ~
near Z younG nan On q warn. -
shiny 0Ay - Apeil q Nay. - ~
young man near The Girl. and Dove =
inst - o1ee % bud in thelr hearts aa|
leaves On Tie tree2
ways this Gpglng 01seaso 0an1coseD ~
ELI n tAese yooneIeeGA u 0any|
cases o. would s1pposo TIT tAey I'D
been seized With a ovoGu1oo tor each
other. Sometimes eonbe0p& but nes-l
e. indi6eGunce. th0ngA tAeFo = nothing
they a1eempe 70 sheW Doro than TIA
4 case In point
Benny Aphessoa I'D reached the aee
when . boy = especially particular -
to hiD cEavatDl Ho Was a6m1Ejng him.
self IN Z pier glass upea dooulng hi
new spring suit ard his 0rsk s1lk at.
Olivia TreadWo1 ~ 1use passsd ~
49, when her 0ethee otn6led ~ -
veftisemsnts Tor bargains b ulses'
apparel On tAs very day that Deany
put on his 'tile" ard Ouie doased hsr
nrst woman's truck thsy cav each Oh
e for the 6rst time. Behind the
TroadWeu home Wa q garden. and
against The further end OF The garden
was the rear of Z house into which he'd
recently moved the Apherson family.
On this beautifully bright spring
morning Aiss Ollie. frem TIE rear
drawing room Of her home. espied Ben
| ny In the rear drawing room Of hia
home admiring before the pier glass
bis new plug hat He bowed b his
image. taking or hin hat 30 IN lmagi-
nary lady, walked past Tho giass. arst
showing one side then the othef.
smirked at himself-or. rather. at IL
imaginary girl-showed . digni1ed -
periority. indeed. practiced al manner
Of ways Of attracting. even Of crushing
her. While 50 engaged be evidently
heard some one approaching. for he
hurriedly placed the hat on the win
dow sill and passed out OF Ollie's sight.
All this Miss Ollie observed. un0b-
served herself. Az soon - tho young
Apollo disappeared she was seized with
a terrible temptation. The gardener
was engaged In removing the flowers
from the conservatory and placing
them in the garden without Having
planted a large number. he watered
them with the garden hose and had
gone somewhere else. leaving the hose
on the ground. There was the shining
hat balanced on the window sill. there
was the hose and there was the girl
The result was what was to have been
expected. The girl went down and
out into the garden and began to put
more water on the already well wa
tered plants. casting from time to time
furtive glances at the rear window IL
which Apollo had placed his hat Hav.
ing satisfied herself that no one was
looking, with assumed carelessneSs she
diverted the stream from one flower
bed to another. and in doing SO the
stream struck the hat. 1t disappeared
from view. Unconscious apparently Of
what she had done, Miss Ollie cOntin
ued to water the flowers for a few
minutes. then dropped the hose ant
went into the house.
The young lady deceived herself II
she thought she was unObserved. Ben
; ny from an upper window had caugh,
sight of her In the garden waterin,
the flowers. Now. CIR! watering
flowers on a bright spring morning
BILE sight. Benny stood back from tn
window, far enough to he out Of sight
took up pair OF opera glasses ant
, flashed his eyes on Miss TreadwelI
, seeing every intent In her features Al
we'll as If he had been close beside her
, ! When she diverted the stream from
= the flower beds he saw a look OF ma
, liciOus mischief on her face and won
dered. Later. when he went down
stairs for his hat and saw it on tn
floor its beautiful sheen ruined by
drenching. that look was explained.
II any one had told Benny that hi
: feelings toward his neighbOr were no
concentrated desire for revenge. tina
they were instead the opening Of tn
love bud in his heart, he would hav
II laughed sardOnically. While he wa
# gazing on the ruin before him he wa
l. trying to think OF some method o
d crushing the perpetrator. No apprG
e pirate method occurred to him ut tn
a time. and when next he saw Mis-
e Treadwell she was in the garden mir
d ping the flowers TO make bouQue
Il looking So attractive that he wished b
r were with her instead of separate
g from her 10y wall and the absenc
1t Of an acquaintance. He hoped sh
It would look up at him. but since sh
did not he coughed to attract her a
tention.