Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-11-20

Keep this up all nighti What do you
mean by itT
For an instant she seemed con-
fused. THAT'S what cOtilllOns are
for, aren't theyT she murmured.
what do you mean: what they're
for?
$50 that a girl can dance with a
person she wants tor
Georges huskness increased. swell,
do you mean yOu-you want to dance
with me all the time-all evening"
"Well, this much of it-eVidently"
she laughed.
as it because you want to even
things up for making me angry-I
mean for hurting my feelings on the
way homer?
With her eyes averted-for girls of
nineteen can be as shy as boys,
sometimes - she said, swell you
only got angry because / couldn't
dance the cOtillion with you. IL
didn't feel terribly hurt with you for
getting angry about that"
"Was there any other reason2 Did
my telling you 1 liked you have any
thing to do with it?"
She looked up gently and as George
met her eyes something exquisitely
touching yet queerly delightful gave
him catch in the throat. She looked
instantly away, and turning, ran out
from the palm grove, where they
stood, to the dancing floor.
"COme ont" she cried. Lets
dancep'
He followed her.
"See here-I-I-" he stammered.
''YOu mean Do YOU"
"No, no" she laughed. Lets
dancer
He put his arm about her almost
TREMENDOUSLY and they began to waltz.
1t was a happy dance for both Of
| them.
Christmas day is the children's, but
the holidays are youths dancing
time. The holidays belong to the
early twenties and the teens, home
from school and college. 1t is the
liveliest time in life, the happiest of
the irresponsible times in life. Moth
ers echo its happiness-nothing is
like a mother who has a son home
from college, except another mother
with a son home from college. Yet
they give up their sons to the daugh-
ters of other mothers, and find it
proud rapture enough to be allowed
to sit and watch.
Thus Isabel watched George and
Lucy dancing as together they danced
away the holidays Of that year into
the past.
"They seem to get along better than
they did at first, those two children,
Fanny Minafer said, sitting beside
her at the Sharons' dance a week
after the Assembly. "They seemed t.
be always having little quarrels OF
some sort at first. At least Georgt
did: he seemed to be continually
pecking at that lovely, dainty little
Lucy, and being cross with her Ovel
nothing"
PeckingT" Isabel laughed. "Wha
a word to use about George! thinl
/ never knew a more angelicall!
amiable disposition in my life"
Miss Fanny echoed her sister-in
laws laugh, but it was rueful echo
and not sweet. He's amiable to you !!
she said. "That's all the side of hin
you ever happen to see. And VIII,
wouldn't he be amiable to anybOd,
that simply fell down and wOrshipe'
him every minute of her life? Mos
of us wouldw
isn't he worth wOrshiping? JUS
look at him"
; ooh, I'm not going to argue wit
you about GeOrge!! said Miss Fanny
"I'in fond enough of him, for tina
matter. He can be charming, and he
: certainly stunning looking, if only
LET the if only go, DEAR" Isabe
suggested goOd-naturedly Lets tai
about that dinner you thought
should"
'1T' Miss Fanny interrupted qulcF
ly. Didn't you want to give it yOul
self?"
Indeed 1 did, my dear" said Isl
bel heartily. II only meant that III
less you had proposed it perhaps
wouldn't"
But here Eugene came for her
dance, and she left the sentence III
completed. Holiday dances can b
happy for youth renewed as well q
for youth in bud-and yet it was nc
with the air of a rival that Mis-
Fanny watched her brothers viii
dancing with the widower. Mis-
Fanny's eyes narrowed a little, bU
! only as if her mind engaged in hop
full calculation. She looked please'
| Continued next week.