The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-02
EVENING STORY
Toms Sort of Girl.
BY JANE OSBORN.


to be unhappy" This is what Tom
Rawdon's substantial older sister said
when she first suspected that while
Tom had told her he was going to
marry one kind of girl, as q matter
of fact he was going to marry another
kind of girl.
The sisters informer was Pete Bre-
vier, one of Toms old pals from the
town where he and the sister both
made their home. The young man had
made hurried trip to the big city and
there had met Tom and his girl" land
suspecting nothing irregular had come
back hurting out to the sister that he
had met tom and that pretty little
cabaret singer that Tom was going to
marry"
In the meantime for some weeks
Toms letters to his sister had had &C.
casional references to the stenographer
at his office-Miss Remson-whom he
hoped some day to make his wife. 'I
hope you aren't going to raise a rum
pus because she isn't a girl of leisure"
Tom wrote home, knowing perfectly
we'll his older sisters ability to raise a
rumpus when things didn't go to suit
her ideas. Miss Remson is as fine a
woman as ever met. She came to
this office as a stenographer a week or
so after I did and tho she hasn't had
exactly the same bringing up that you
have, you are sure to like her"
: Toms sister had thoroly approved,
in fact, she was so sure, before Tom
wrote this, that Tom would be inclined
to choose what she chose to call
some scatter Drained little girl with
L l. L. IL L.
that he. was to marry a girl who was
serious enough to be a stenographer
came as relief.
Then came the confirmation of what
she had always suspected. He had ac-
tually introduced a cabaret dancer is
his fiancee, and of course a cabaret
dancer was a scatter Drained little girl
with her head in her heels. How could
she be anything else if she was a pro-
fessional dancer?
The sister spared no time in pack
ing the few buds she considered nee
esary for such a mission, making her
husband assure her that he would be
quite happy during her absence and
going off to the big city to raise
rumpus."
She didn't even wire to her brother
that she was coming, but after she did
ephoned to his office and announced,
in a voice so cordial that it gave no
warning of her suspicion and inten-
ton. that she was there.
Meet you for dinner? Why, of
course I will" Tom Rawdon said to
the sister over the phone. ST had
asked little Miss Remson - Madge
Remson-to have dinner with me.
You won't mind having her, will you"
Miss Remson-Madge Remson?"
The sisters voice was growing less
cordial. ''I don't seem to remember
Miss Remson."
81 wrote you about it." Tom
laughed. 'She is WORKING here as
stenogra pa1er-that's how L met her
and"
"oh, the stenographer," purred the
sisters voice. II should be delighted.
Where shah I meet your"
"Madge dimes early said Tom, $50
we were figuring on o'clock. I'll
come right over to you at your hotel
and she can have time to run home
and doll up and then meet us at the
hotel. We can dine there as well as
anywhere, and that will be more con-
venient for you"
Madge left early and that gave
TOMS sister an opportunity to make
the first of the little sisterly speeches
that she felt it her duty to deliver.
"She is a perfectly splendid girl,
Tom" she began. I'm entirely salts
fled. She will be credit to the fam
lily. I'm keen Judge of women and
can guarantee that.
Il had hoped you would like her"
faltered Tom, who was always a little
bit in terror, of his substantial sister.
81 didn't see how you could help lik-
ing her, but I never dared hope you
would say as much as that" And of
courst it was not Toms sisters way to
say such nice things without reason.
'She is a lovely girl, Tom, and not
the kind of girl to trifle with" She
looked intently at him so as to strike
contrition to his heart, but apparently
there was no such result.
There were several other meetings
between the sister and the fiancee, and
on each one the sister was more favor
ably impressed than on the last. Tom
was working harder in his office than
he had ever worked before. He told
his sister that was the result of being
engaged to Madge. She was inspira-
ton enough to make any man do his
best, and of this the sister entirely
approved. No silly little girl whose
head was in her heels could have this
effect on a man, that was certain.
The substantial sister remained in
the city two weeks and no inkling did
she get of the cabaret dancer friend of
her brothers whom he had once intro
duced as his fiancee. Well, perhaps he
had thought better of his folly. She
would not force a confidence out of
him but she would not go back home
till she had "cinched" the matter with
Madge Remson. With this end in view
she urged Tom to make a formal an
nouncement of the engagement.
I'VE had hardly wanted to do that"
Tom protested. "A few people know
of it. but because Madge is working
she doesn't want to wear an engage
ment ring or have it announced till
just before we are married"
There is no reason why you can't
be married in a very little while" said
the sister. an the meantime the very
fact that she is working is reason
enough why she should have the en-
gagement announced 1t is something
that is due to every girl who has given
her promise to marry Tom 1 really
insist that it be announced. I won't
go home until you do
Perhaps this last stipulation had
something to do with it, for the next
day Tom told his sister that Madge
had consented to announce their en-
gaCement. In fact they had gone so