Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1919-01-30

lanes Morgan was thinking!
81 wonder why the girls never seem
clad TO see me? They never act just
0loin glad when l come along. The
fellows. too-they're all right. only
we'll. I'm not really intimate with any
of them"
lanes had logged along in the little
town where his family had been as
comfortably off as most of the families
of their set. He had logged through
the state university just as minimizing
" as he had spent the preceding years.
He drifted into a clerkship in the bank
and mentally wandered through his
dutles as colorlessly as he did every
thing else.
He went to the parties, never think
ing whether he could dance well or not
# had not occurred to him to think
anything about it.
The night before he had heard the
following conversation between two of
Hayiland's most charming girls:
81 wish James Morgan would stay
from the parties. He is the awkward
est creature 1 ever saw, and the home
Hest"
EVERY time he asks me TO dance I
wish | had stayed at home"
"The trouble is, Margery, we've been
fairly polite to him, just because we've
known him always, and he doesn't
realize he's horrid and uninteresting."
Lets drop him. He has no right
to make us iserable-tramping all
over our feet at the dances"
"And such clothesl We don't ex-
pect much in little place like Havi-
land, but he's a positive frightr'
The two girls, Margery Raymond
and Alice Wrightman, had fallen into
this conversation one night at a party.
James had come around a corner intent
on asking Margery to dance. He would
not have listened Intentionally, but
the knowledge had staggered him. He
tiptoed away from his Waterloo and
went out on the veranda to collect his
scattered wits.
II never dreamed of such thing!"
he told himself. At last he went IN
and babe his hostess goodnight.
This brings us to the day in the
bank when for the first time in his life
he was puzzled. After dinner he went
alone to a moving picture play. 1t was
a western play. The hero was a big
fellow wearing the rough clothes of a
miner-hevertheles he was very po-
lite He raised his hat to the women
he knew and jumped to pick up plate
dropped on the floor by the boarding
house keeper.
%That'S the kind of man a woman !
is proud to have for a son." he heard |
a voice behind him. "What magni- |
6cent figure |" the voice went on. zone |
feels that a strong chest not only in
dicates physical strength, but strength |
of character as WELL"
Instantly James Strengthened his
dropping shoulders.
Looking at the hero, James thought:
He Is a fine-lOoking fellOw-gives one
real pleasure just to look at him.
wonder if I'd play tennis and things if
| could develop my chest"
He noticed the mans manner of tax
ing off his hat to the women he met;
sometimes James only touched his hat,
lazily, with one finger. He knew the
girls so well-why bother? James re-
membered, too, that he didn't jump
quickly to the polite assistance of peO-
PIE. True, he was glad to help any
one in trouble, but this was different
Maybe that's what Margery and
Alice meant. don't do those nice
things" He was puzzled, but went on
with his self-analysis.
He went again to the movies. This
tlme he saw a society play. There was
dancing. James opened his eyes wide
to see how the other fellows danced.
Alice had said he tramped on her feet.
de saw the men, cleverly and grace
fully guiding their partners through
the crush.
Why, that's part of it," he thought.
you're responsible in a way"
Then he noticed clothes. He had
never given his toilet much thought eX-
'ept to be clean. to buy suit when
lecessary-which was seldom pressed
and pale blue tie for Sundays. He
wore it to the bank after it had be-
'ome sOiled.
All the business men in the pictures
we're trim looking, their clothes were
PRESSED and coats buttoned. James
walked along the street with suit coat
ind overcoat open and his hands in his
pockets. None of these men did that.
Yes" he thought, that's the way
o look. 1t isn't because they're movie
len; lots of other men dress that way.
lie noticed, too, the bright. interested
ID alert expressions on their faces
At home he looked in the mirror
lis hair needed trimming. 1t hadn't
cen cut right In the first place. He
40 parted it so near one ear that it
as inches too high on the other side.
le brushed il straight hack He was