Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-28

handsome women he met on his
trips of dinner and dt theat ter, par
slightest twinge of anything akin
to the green monster. Once be-
fore he went away we had been
talking of q man he knew and who
was intensely jealous of the girl he
was to marry, so much so that he
nede them both miserable most OF
IF one loves in the right way
it seems to M ethey must trust
also" 1 had remarked, blushing as
lie isn't altogether to blame
Frank had returned. She is very
pretty, and fond of admiration"
What woman isn't?'
care you"
COR course 1 am
II thought you too busy, toe
Intrigued BY flatterry."
well don't think so any more
Say all the nice things you know
to me. | shall appreciate them
had answered gay1y. 1t always
hurt me a little when Frank or
anyone else took it for granted
was different from other women
that my work made me think less
of the little amenities of life and
with Frank, of love. Surely because
did net indicate they were old-fogy
or cared nothing for the lighter side
of life.
1t hal suddenly come to me with
ting into sort Of rut. mad not
realized 1t until Annie came to live
with me. I had gone to bed risen
in the morning, eaten my solitary
breakfast, gone to work. returned
home at night eaten my lonely din
hnnU npOnnn1IpS
or other equally Vital-to me-Sub-
iect This was only occasionally
varied by franks calls. or by an eve
ming at the opera or some concert
Without Frank as escort / would
lose even this quiet relaxation.
annie, pull me out" I said to her
when we reached the apartment the
second day she was with me.
Pull you oUt-out of What?" Her
look of amazement made me laugh
heartily.
'Out of the rut in which I have
become mired. Make me do things.
Don't let me talk business when
! away from the office. Well get the
| lightest sort of literature and mix
enough of it in with the necessary
reading we must do SO that we will
be in no danger of being called
blue. stockings but you must watch
me, compel me to be yOung-I am
young you know-not as young as
! you are but not an old woman
either"
II should say not! Why no one
in their senses would ever think OF
you as old"
"Oh yes, they would" My thoughts
flew to Frank.
We'll whoever does is no friend
of mine" and laughing gaily we sat
down to our dinner.
Annie eXerted herself that eve
ming. She told me stories. she min
| licked several people in the office
not to make sport of them, but tC
entertain me, and her mimicry was
! so life-likc, so convulsising that
laughed more than [ had since father
/ ad been taken away.
! Then sitting down to TIE piano she
played "a few chords-she only play
ed by ear-and in an imitable sing
song chant repeated some verses she
! had heard Oh the vaudeville stage
There! are you in ruiz" she
asked, wheeling about on the stool
was laughing uproariously as was
Ellen, who had stationed herself in
| the doorway.
some one to liven us up" Ellen said
when she could speak. Miss Olive
amt laughed like that for years tc
my certain knowledge"
She told the trutl-. Not ,yer
when with Frank had L laughed very
| iHICn Ildu experienced Qul6l
contenment but I had seldom beer
amused enough to laugh. AMI it is
not to be wondered at when one
| thought that our conversation had
been mostly serious and my great
! loss so recent.
You are cure for the blues
Annie. Where die you ever learn
to. do such things, to be so enter
| taining""
Il never learned--I never nave
been taught much of anything II
just comes natural. 1 have minicked
ever since 1 was a tiny tot, danced
or the sidewalk before I could talk
have always loved music. Some
day [ may really know something
about it," this last wistfuIly.
THAT day isn't FAR Off" I told
too