The daily Alaskan., 1917-11-05
SYNOPSIS

william Baxter. aged seventeen, falls At first sight In calf love with young Miss Pratt on vIs!t to friends of his. Ills little sister. Jane. ts a fly In the ointment
 William Is sent by hls mother to help Genesis, darky of all work. bring home some washtubs she had purchased. They arc accompanied by Clematls Genesis mongrel dog. Miss Pratt. escorted by her friends. comes along with her dog, Flopit. A doghght ensues.
 The dogs are separated. William van ishes. disguised, under a boiler. That evening he takes his fathers dress suit and calls upon Miss Pratt and her friend, Miss Parcher.
 Jane. 0 knowing yOsngster. explains certain matters conceAllng Williams love atralr to her mother. She also knows the fact that William has abstrRcted his fR- ther's dress suit
 Williams attentions to Miss Pratt and those of rivals get on MT. Parcher's nerves. Jane tells Mir. PRrcher in secret that Wll- Ham can't get his fathers dress suit any longer because t is being altered.
 Mrs. Baxter tells William S9 0 has sent Mir. Baxter's dress suit to the tailor for alterations. He Is creStfallen and Quarrels with Jane,
 Mrs. Baxter gives a party for Miss Pratt. William, descending the stairs falls and tears his best suit He had sat on James paint hnG with mother present. able suit.
 His troubles detain him till the party iS syer, to his great chagrln. Later he diS- Susses matrimony with the aged parent or Genesis Jane is present at the dlScus- sion.
 William goes for walk with Miss Pratt HwinEinE his fathers borrowed cane, Jane unheeded. advises an umbrella II rains. and William gets wet.
 Jane from her oGserva tIons. tells her l parents that she thirEs William is mar lied The parents nt first alarmed, dis miss ,he subject. William gOes p!cnick- ing. and a new rival turns up.
 The rival monopolizes Miss Pratt. He brags about his love for smoking, Ant | William gives him some cigarettes.
 The rival Ia made III and retires from the field. Genesis tells Jane of how he Ia going to Ce q waiter cn occasions and where he Is going to buy a secondhand dress suit. William oTerheaFs.
 Williams heart Is set on a dress suit so he can go to . farewell party arranged for Miss Pratt. His father refuses to buy him ons. William disappears during the day time.
 Jane reveals that William Is working to earn money for the dress suit; also that he was dlckering with a secondhand deal CT to whom he had taken personal prop erty. but who demanded A balance In money. Mrs. Baxter stops the transac- tlon.
 Mrs. Baxter. however, has Mir. BaIter's evening suit taken in, and William goes happily to rhe party. Arriving lato, he finds Miss Pratt much engaged. 1 William, to his dsmay, has to dance with a stout stranger. To add to his chaErin, he 's accused of flirting by MiHs | Pratt
 Jane makes friends with little girl across the way. whose family is moving in Playing together the children arouse Williams Ire. They VOW vengeance upon him.
 William writes a touching farewell note and poem. which he inclOses In a box Of candy for Miss Pratt. He goes to the sta- ton with the box.
 He spies Miss Pratt and a party of young friends and goes toward them. He creates derISioR and turns to find Jane and her young friend pa"@ding after hlm and getting even. A brief goodJy and a surprise at the end