The Washington times., 1916-01-29
Where Does 1t Come -.
From The Divine Folly
OF Youthful LoUers
Wnifred Black Compares Tea With "Par of Fools,
and That With Clubman and Woman
of the World.
By WINIFRED BLACK.

and moon when the men were talk
ing. and once. when some one salh
the cub got up and walked out of the
room in rage.
said we'd insulted his mother. or
something, I don't know what:
/ ton about that!
He'll come to his senses some day.
when it's too late, and he's tied down
to a little nobody. l beg your pardon,
sonal in it, but you know what /
mean.
And he has his fathers looks-Jack
was always handsome fellow-and II
he'd set his mind to It he might marry
| money and amount to something.
What fool he ISL
What fool she is" said the woman
of the world.
What fools they both are" said the
man and the woman together. And /
stirred my tea.
Ana when we were walking out Of
the room. who should come wal king
into II but the Two Fools themselves,
together-the boy and the girll
or all the radiant. delighted heads
, in-the-clouds and heads-in- -the-air crea-
! lures that ever lived. the Two Fools
| we're certainly the prize winners.
Something in my glance. as I saw
them, attracted their attention, I sup
pose. and then asked me to stay and
81 DdCk ana nave TEA WIN tnen1.
why, thank you," said I, "I'n be
delighted"
! The club man stared in amazement
| The woman Of the world actually gasp
ed.
I'm starving to death" said
| brazenly, "and thirsty no end"
! And / left the woman Of the world
and the club man looking after me in
blank astonishment and utter disap-
proval.
Dat a~tl
and thirsty. Starkving for youth and
| light-hearted gayety. Thirsty FOR a
sight of simple happiness 1t was a
good thing I stayed. I got plenty of
They'd been shopping-getting the
trunk-THE trunk. They were only go
| ing to take one.
| wv" shan't need a lot OF fuss and
feathers out there" said the girl fool.
| Nary a feather" said the boy fool,
and then they both laughed as If some
| one bad made the cleverest joke in the
world, and laughed. too. and the
waiter-who was anything in the world
but perfect-got so interested in us and
what we were saying that he forgot
to bring the tea until the p'rl fool
pulled herself together and asked for
It In what was SO plainly intended to
| be matronly and housewifelv tone
that knew perfectly well that the boy
fool was stepping on her foot under the
| table.
! l wanted to step on it myself. she
was 50 irresistible.
Wisdom. Youth and Divine Folly.
We lot the mullins get cold. AMI we
didn't know what was in the sand
wiches. but we knew what was going "a
| be in the little house out West. Every
| picture on the wall we knew, and every
book in the bookcase. and we fairly
saw the curtains that were going tc
! hang between the dining room and the
living room being woven on the LOOM
| The garden we saw, too. Here by the
teapot was the violet bed. and there b,
the sugar were the pansies. Heavens
there's storm coming. Run into tn,
house. little gardener or you'll get wet
And We laughed and we almost cried
And We planned and hoped, and all a
once the fresh faces and the clear
happy eyes seemed to fade before m,
| sight, and ] saw again in fancy wha
I had seen half an hour before at tina
same table-two sad. embittered faces
two pairs Of cold and calculating eyes
and ! wondered OF the four which tw,
were the greatest pair Of fools.
| Wisdom. they say. Is from the gods
But, oh. where does it come from. then
this divine folly that makes this old
gray world Of ours worth living in
(Copy't 1915. by Newspaper Feature Service.