The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-03-01
Spring Love
By ETHEL HOLMES

poem OF young love in autumn; Ger
tainly not in winter. 1t comes with
the budding leaves, and II also comes
with propinquity. Place young girl
neac young man ON warm, sun
shiny day in April or May or the
young man near the girl. and love Is
just as sure 10 bud I'm their hearts as
leaves on the trees.
Ii Is singular how many different
ways this spring disease manlfests IT.
self In these youngsters. In many
cases one would suppose that they had
been seized with an aversion for each
other. Sometimes contempt but new.
er indifference, though there is nothing
they attempt to show more than this.
A case In point.
Benny Apherson had reached the age
when boy is especially particular as
to his cravats He was admiring him
self in a pier glass upon DOMINIC his
new spring suit and his first silk hat.
Olivia Treadwell had just passed the
age when her mother studied the ad.
vertisements for bargains in misses
apparel. On the very day that Benny
put on his title" and Ollie donned her
first woman's frock they saw each 9th
err for the first time. Behind the
Treadwell home was a garden, and
against the farther end of the garden
was the rear of house into which had
recently moved the Apherson family.
On this beautifully bright spring
morning Miss Ollie, from the real |
drawing room OF her home, espied Ben
NY in the rear drawing room of his
home admiring before the pier glass
his new plug hat. He bowed to his
image. taking off his hat to an imagi. !
nary lady, walked past the glass. first
showing one side then the other,
smirked at himself-or, rather, at the
imaginary girl-showed dignified SUI
periority, indeed, practiced all manner
of ways Of attracting. even of crushing
her While so engaged he evidently
heard some one approaching, for he
hurriedly placed the hat on the win
dow sill and passed out OF Ollies sight
All this Miss Ollie observed. unob-
served herself. AS soon as the 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 in
which Apollo had placed his hat Hav- =
ing satisfied herself that no one was
looking. with assumed earelessness 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- h
ued to water the flowers for few
then dropped the hose and n
went INTO the mousse.
The young lady deceived herself If
,he thought she was unobserved Ben
~ from an upper window had caught
sight of her In the garden watering 4
he flowers. Now. a cir, watering y
lowers on bright spring morning.
wen with a garden hose. is delecta- lit
de sight. Benny stood back from the IN
III 70 rh 20 ha % eli /
ook up a pair of opera glasses and at
dashed his eyes on Miss Treadwell. ma ma
eeing every intent in her features as an
veil as If he had been close beside her. III
When she diverted the stream from 81
he flower beds he saw look of ma liza
icious mischief on her face and won fol
Iered. Later. when he went down. an
taiys for his hat and saw il on the Al
oof, its beautiful sheen ruined by a
that look was explained.
If any one had told Benny that his
ceilings toward his neighbor were not
concentrated desire for revenge. that E
1ey were instead the opening of the m
we bud in his heart, he would have
Iughed sardonically. While he was
azing on the ruin before him he was
wing to think of some method OF &
rushing the perpetrator. No appro- -
rate method occurred to him at the
me. and when next he saw Miss
she was in the garden nip au
ng the flowers to make a bouquet. Pi'
oking so attractive that he wished he ~
ere with her instead of separated ah,
ON her by wall and the absence mi
an acquaintance. He hoped she
ould look up at him, but since she
d not he coughed to attract her at a.
ntion. so
Now. If Miss Ollie had not been al
ady conscious of Mr. Apherson's
essence his ruse would have sue
eded Since she was conscious OF GA
e fact that he was admiring her. she Av
mt on plucking the flowers without abe
the slightest curiosity In due
e premises. old
rhis is not love story. il is simply sey
exposition of certain apparent In. IRE
lsistencies pertaining to spring love , DO
spring age. Mr.. Aphers0n made "a
IS Treadwelrs acquaintance. and ~,
IRE was an affair between them. but , n
the kind usually denominatea pup n