The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-07-27
Polly Has an Adventure and
Makes Ne1D Friend

could look over my head and they did
not seem to mind.
But the sun was hot and the crowd
vas something awful You could fairy
cut the heat. A woman was standing
next to me and she kept waving flag
and cheering. in weak kind Of voice.
What is it all about?" 1 asNed- And
she said it was something about the
wearing of the green. of course
ki.ow il was Ireland, and tnen 1 remeT-
bered about the man with the French
sounding name who has come over here
10 save Ireland.
The woman was lovely, but very frail-
looking, and her voice had such plain
tive sound, that after while ! STOKE 20
her, and said something about its being
SO warm. The weather is about the only
tf ing one can think ABOUT conseeutively,
Just now. so We both agreed that II was.
ard then she began to tell me about
rs and and while she was in the midst
of a description that reminded me of
those old books that we used to read at
your grandmothers, Rossmoyne and
Airy, Fairy Lillian, and Dolores. sudden
ly the lovely lady crumpled up and hung
herself over my arm-Just they do in
towels. Now, Patty, you know what 1T
would be to depend on my strong arm
for your support. So young man
standing the other side caught her
and held her while a woman screamed
frcm the fountain at Bryant parK. IN his
nice new Panama, and brought her
to. between us-.us" being a nice young
woman In a smart serge suit.
Then l proposed that we should take
her to my room and give her some
tea. And we did. Penny Will naver
get over IL long as she lives. You
should have seen her face when l told
her.
r-Ao Tx.
strange woman
But she had tainted" / explained
very carefully. And she told me that
all of her brothers were lost in the war
And most of her uncles and cousins"
But Penny could not see any connec-
ton between tea and relations who had
given their lives for freedom. Penny
has to have a diagram to see anything
We had peachy time. she was
Scotch-Irish and a cousin of Lord Aber-
deem. and the woman who was with her
waa studying at Columbia, but she had
liver abroad.
VERY likely said Penny. Penny Is
one of these provincial people who think
because --he has never been in London,
no one -hould know anything about
fogs. You-.---ow the kind. She does not
even like one to use the broad a
She said: Very likely she would be
standing a street corner looking at a
parade"
but / was standing on corner look
ing at parade. I said.
your said Penny You never heard |
SO much concerted scorn.
But to go back tc - tea rarty- We
had tea in my room. and sandwiches
and salad bought in the tearoom.
When they left they took my address.
and the lovely lady who tainted said |
she going to take me out In her 1
car And she did. She came the very /
next afternoon. after phoning me, and i
she had a coachman and footman- n
ard Penny was NADER than ever We II
went to the Ritz and had tea. and then u
hE5 long drive along the river. Al
And--now hold your breath, Patty.i
What do you suppose? She is a cousin
o. the Man in Grey Tweeds. The cat II
and mouse man-you remember. They
have home millionaires' row, and
IL is all perfectly proper. for I have !
looked them UP in the social Blue Book. Il
But Penny will not believe IL. She has Il
NJ romance In her soul, and of course we II
all know that adventure comes to the 1
adventuresome." Il
Ever yours.
forgot to say that I went home with L
her. after tea and later walked back with I
her cousin. The Gilded Youth that Pen I
ny loathes. Don't think + have ceased L
to love Penny-far from it. She Is a i
dear soul. when one has IA headache or 4
tonthache. But she has no patience /
with people who have hearts and souls. /
And, alas, Patty. have both.