The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1917-06-14
How She
Won Him
By RICHARD MARLEY

When Donald Barker had been grad
uated at college with high honorstA and
came down to Mayside with Phi Beta
Kappa key dangling at his watch
chain Evelyn Clarke and l became
rivals for his favor We girls had al
ways considered Evelyn booky, but
rather to show off than possessing any
depth Of knowledge She, Donald and
l were sitting on the porch one morn
ing, / with my crochet work, Donald
strumming his mandolin, while Evelyn
was holding in her lap work recently
issue on the cave man.
"Mr. Barker she said, do. you real
ly think that man has lived on the
earth hundreds of thousands Of years?"
Il don't KNOW" replied Donald, still
picking away on his mandolin, 'hav-
ing only been here about twenty years
myself"
1t was plain to any one that he had
no desire to air his knowledge, but
Evelyn persisted:
Here's picture In this book of
bison painted on the wall of cave.
| The animal has been extinct for many
| thousands Of years, and yet the pic
| ture must have been painted by a
man"
"How about the baseball team of
your college this year?' 1 asked him,
with view to changing the sub
ject.
'The best we've had in many years."
he said, Frightening up at being able
to talk on an ordinary subject. Our
fellows have got new twirler, who Is
going to develop into wonder
Evelyn was turning the leaves Of the
book, but / noticed that she was look
ing ut the pictures.
Heres a man." she said, referring
to picture of primitive man that
somebody had built Of plaster on a
jawbone found in n cave, who lived
not less than 25,OOO years ago"
Donald frowned. 1t was evident that
he wanted to get away. from heavy
subjects and feed on light ones. 1,
having failed to turn Evelyn from
what was going on many thousands OF
years ago by introducing modern base.
ball, concluded to try another tack
didn't know much myself, but l re-
solved to utilize what l did know.
Don't you think, Mr.. Barker"
said, that the spectroscope is a won
derful inventionY'
He cast quick glance at me and
caught on ut once.
you mean," he said, that spectral
analysis Is remarkably scientific de.
velopment"
Evelyn looked blank. She knew nc
more about a spectroScope than did
and was evidently uneasy lest she
should be compelled to display her ig
norance.
What do they do with u spectre
scope, anyway, Evt' l asked.
"What do they dO?" she repeated In
patronizing tone, as though she was go
ing to enlighten my ignorance. "Why
they break up ray Of light and In thai
, way find out what the substance that
gives out the ray is made of"
How do they do thatT' l asked.
why, just as have said, by break
ing up ray Of light"
But how can they do it that wayT
/ asked.
She was stumped. l started In t.
talk Of something else, but In a few
, minutes she interrupted me to say:
"Oh, 1 remember now. They do l
through certain lines that appear OF
the rainbow of colors from the break
} ing of the ray"
: How do these lines show it?" ask
ed. had been obliged to learn
short statement of what was askin'
her. / didn't understand it, SO l wa
, obliged to commit it to memory ant
repeat 1t in recitation like parrot
DSaaI was ready for Evelyn in case sh
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