South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-08-21

Missy was a very pretty girl. and
the doctors ultimatum hat she
should have 70 wear glasses, wear
EN- all the time. filled her with un-
comfortable gloom. Ii was the nrst
really dreadful thing that had hap
pened TO Missy In all her IS years
Of life. and IL seemed 10 her quite
as awful as though n had been
condemned 20 clutches or an artin-
cial limb. How horried she would
look Like an old schoolma'am or
somebody's maiden aunt she
might just as well get a cat ard
parrot and settle down. Nobody.
no man. that is. would ever bother
20 look al her now,
Missy's family were very unfeel-
ing. under the circumstances. At
least il seemed so 10 her. Her
brother Tom called her "four-eyes.
and even her father refused 70 ad-
NIT the seriousness OF the affair; ne
did not regard her as a blighted
being.
Well" said Missy. If I have 20
wear the awful things I'm going 20
have a-ristocratic looking ones at
least, the very latest STYLE"
So she presently appeared IN
heavy tortoise spectacles which
made her fair skin and yellow hair
look fairer and yellower by con
trast. Those were dark days for
Missy. she spent hours before her
mirror. rejecting on the leeting
character OF beauty and the way Of
all flesh. When she ventured TO
appear i'm public she was so painful
ly conscious Of her new ~dishgure-
ment that life held no more pleas
ure for her. In short, Missy felt
that her youth was ended. she was
in the sere and yellow leaf.
Just a week after she had acquir-
ed the spectacles Missy happened TO
be eating a Observation-Disclosures
mallow nut angels o. delight in
Marcy's candy store when a young
man came in and sat down at a
table near her. He was a soldier.
a very young one. and Missy. after
a hasty glance at him assured her
self that he was Gerald Robbins.
whom she had known years ago in
the eighth grade. Goodness She
did hope that he wouldn't recognize
her with those awful spectacles, she
would be so ashamed. OF course
there wasn't much chance thar he
would. her identity vas certainly
c~amouhased. but what would he
think of her if he should!
Gerald Robbins, however. did rec
-~s- -. Af+l. aor-ara1 minutes
Of surreptitious staring. during
which Missy's eyes were downcast
and her cheeks bewitchingly pink,
he came over and spoke to her.
Excuse me. but YOU are Missy
Graham. aren't YOU Good gra-
cious. / haven't seen you for years,
Mind if ! sit down. Have another
sundae with me. can't you
Missy was polite to him, of
course. for he was a very nice boy.
but all the time she was so painful
~ conscious of her spectacles that
she was rather shyly subdued, for
Missy.
Good gracious" she thought.
However did he recognize me!
He's awfully nice about it. though,
pretending not TO notice them
Indeed, Gerald succeeded very
well in pretending not 10 notice
them. When he looked at her his
glance was as frankly admiring as
though she had not been ~dishgured
/ for life. He even walked home with
her. and told her all about himself.
He had moved west some years
before. it seemed, but now he vas
back in Boston. enlisted i'm the ra-
dio school at Harvard. He didn't
have many friends left i'm town, a
/ fellow forgets to write letters. YOU
know. and people forset him.
/ Sometimes he got awfully lonesome.
So. under the circumstances the
only thing thai Missy could do was
20 ask him TO come and call some
time. OF course she didn't suppose
for a minute hat he'd want 10
come. but she did her duty.
Much to Missy's surprise he did
want 10 come. he came the very
next night. And all the time he
kept up that admirable pretense of
not noticing her glasses. He never
even mentioned them. Missy be-
gan TO feel fairly at ease i'm his
/ company after his third call. for of