Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-22

81 did forget to Introduce 1nyself.'
laughed the girl We'll. I'm no one I'm
particulnr--just Rita Malone. very
much ut your service. But my boy ia
celebrity. He is Bert kerrigan. star
pitcher Of the Giants. May Introduce
you to him at the Polo Grounds to.
morrow
But 1t was not at the Polo Grounds
| met Bert Kerrigan.
Tucked off in corner OF her brain,
every girl has picture Of the man
she wants TO marry.
Sometimes they draw him and tint
MN with the delicate softneas of Il
Gainsborough Blue Boy; spmetimes he
Is as viri!e and bold IA u Sargent port
rait: sometimes he is as impression
is'ic as that geometry bCnk struck by
a-cvclonc tangle Of colors known as
Nude Descending u Staircase"
Every girl has her Prince O. Dreams.
Molly thinks he must he ambassador
10 the Court Of ST. JamoB-and contents
herself with the frcckle- faced grocery
boy; Susan vows she will marry any
one but a physician. and ends up by
adorinK n follower Of Aesoulapius, and
breaks her faith with herself for the
sake of one who keeps the oath of
iiippocrates.
Some adore dreams that never come
ever prove untrue! Hut real worship
is given to popular heroeH--men who
are not just average citizens. who can.
not he done up into bundles like pileA
of fagots and dealt with In statistical
groups-but who get whole paragraphs
on the front pages of the papers and
In who's Who in America"
The leading playwright and his lead
Ing man; the star cartoonist and the
author of the years best seller: the
golden haired movie hero and the Eol-
den-voiced opera singer are admired
Of women and decried sometimes by
the bundle f-fagots" men.
But Nature was physical before she
was psychical or psychological Man
ran before he rhymed. lie aimed at
hidden foes before he aimed at cpl
grams. Sc Nature insists that the nor
NAL human shall give the greatest,
deepest. most honest admiration to him
who cNcels In clean physical sports.
To-day We award our olympian vic.
tors iaureis-thc laurels of praise
which make outsiders envious.
Now. when Hercules has .Apollo'x
beauty. and nature has added some OF
the wisdom of plain common sense.
when her hero is no fool to strut and
pose fargetful that he did not mold
his nose or articulate the bones of his
arin-thcn you have nero dcserv-
ing dreams and iaurcls and love. Such
was Bert kerrigRn.
Mr.. kerrixan is tall. weli-built
young man. who might pose for
montgomery Flagg or a Praxit eles
splendid. manly way. There might be
man! girls TO ch~Fish him AS the
RICH, Prince" come TO life-onIy he
picked out his own little princess"
and on the day of which I write she
sat before me in my Office trying to
u
other girl" of whom her anonymous
letter had told
Rita Malone seemed restored 10 faith
when she left me. If IT had beer
more than seems" / should have no
Slor: TO tell.
When Jimmy came in to pay his re
spects the next morning gloom still
had possession OF him. Since | couldn't
quite understand his viewpoint, made
no attempt to discuss it, but instead
tried the cheering cfcC; of bit OF
gossip.
The pretty girl YOU so cavalierly
ignored yesterday afternoon was Bert
kerrigans fiancce. Now. aren't YOU
sorry you didn't try TO make friends
in high places"
That simple remark had a rather
startling effect. Jimmy seemed 10 dis
miss all consideration OF his own ar
fairs for very earnest consideration
OF my hit OF news.
What did She want: Why lidn',
you tell me?" began Mr., barton, ex-
citedIy. and his interest showed no
signs of waning when found Rita'S
letter and showed fl 70 him. He read
II with more care than that ill-written
auonymous epistle seemed TO deserve.
and Immediately thereafter he whirled
upon me with an air of gcneralship
more In keepinG with j. II. and his
previous manner Of gloom
Tn1 Ill
It's trap" he CALCULATED SO .orcibly
that immediately was constrained to
make every effort to obey.
found Mrs. Patrick Maione's num-
Der In the telephone book and asked
Moiiie 10 get II quickly. a moment
later voice with Il bit OF the brogue
Informed me that this was Mrs Ma
lone. but that Rita had gone out.
why, bless your heart dcarie, she
didn't tell me where she vas goin' at
All. She just came out on the porch
where was settin a spell ago and
when she started away | asked her
where she was goin'. and Rita says
10 me: on important business ana
THAT'S not at all the way she's after
treatin' her mother generally.
And the worst Of il is, just after
she went, the phone rang and her
younS man wanted to speak to her
too. When I'm after tellin him that
she is'lt mere, hut had to go and meet
some one. he seemed almost as excited
M you are now. Miss.
u do be thinkin' it's strange that nv
Rita should have so many people ex-
cited about her all of sudden, and
be so secretiike with her own mother,
too. Why. only yesterday she got
letter she wouldn't show me at all.
and even Bert.s letters she most gen
orally shows me. I don't understand
IL, and III thank you if you be en-
plainin'."
IL seemed cruel TO interrupt such
flow OF rhetoric. and smiled TO my
self as imagined the unschoolcd
woman who was eXcitodly pouring out
her difficulties TO the first human be-
ing who offered her an emotional out
let.
However. even Beatrice Fairfax is
exceptionally compelled to be cruel in
order to be kind SO. in the interests
of her daughters fate, had to leave
Mrs. Maione's request unanswered for
the present
We'll. Jimmy. you may have gath
cred from my manner that wasn't
talking to our pretty little Rita" said