Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1920-03-26

young chap, just out of school, Il ~
began In Western New York, and ~
some of you know the hero I'm 49,
morally certain l reckon it'll be
safe to tell his name right here in "a
the buzzum of the family. but to be
on the safe side. I'll call him Stan n
ley. He manufactures something :
that's advertised In all the big mag
azines, and most of the ladies use o
it to help out their complexion Any of you that
have been to guessing school can finish out his
name for yourselves" is3 +tfl
s "Oh, know" little Mrs. Smith twlnkled. II
always buy his dental cream. Bill won't let me
put the massage stuff on my face Says my
skins good enough, and he"
3,'sYoure next all right" Jones assured her.
"Stan used to be the lyeliest fellow In our crowd
5 Folks said nothing lessn cyclone or having Il
leg cut off would ever settle him down. He had
lots of sense and could learn anything he set his
mind to. Trouble with him was that things came
TOO easy. He liked to strum guitar and dance
and skate and ride wheel and make love TO the
girls.u When met him last February couldn't
believe he the same chap. There's nothing
like smashing mans heart to settle him down..
fse II find that the of family have the same
effect" Bob White safd, solemnly whereat the
other members of the club laughed. ifG
~ like the family, but I've sometimes thought
it would be a good scheme to take the cares by
sproxy the way you do" Briggs remarked. "Your
sisters kids and the kids of the club have made
"Stan didn't have any kids nor even any nieces
and nephews, TO poster him. If he had 1t wouldn't
have gone so hard with him." Jones averred. 'He
was the only child. and his mother died when he
was about fifteen. He and his dad and an Old
maid aunt lived together, and / reckon he had to
tear around Il good deal to keep from dying OF
of slow stagnation In that house He couldn't
have been moren % when two new girls came TO
rowr He'd run the gamut of all the old girls, and
he wasn't the sort TO fall in love with girl he'd
grown up with. Not but what he could have had
any Of ,em for the asking. Oh he wasn't, what
YOU call firt" as he caught the look in Mrs
4 Johnson's eyes. "Stan didn't break any hearts.
He took care to let the girls know 1t was all play.
and suppose he never would have got In dead
earnest If It hadn't been for the two strangers
that dropped In on us the same week. One OF EN-
was a tall girl. with serious dark eyes and a rich
81 contr,lto voice She'd been studying art in New
York and her folks were all in Europe for the
summer and she didn't want to 60 along, SO they
sent her out there to visit her uncle and do some
s.etchingF - ~ Al MI
.-The other girl was tiny bit Off thing, with
!. yellow hair and big brown eyes and complexion
I like peaches and cream. When she sang It re-
minded you Of Baltimore orlole. When she
s danced she made you think of a trick pony in a
circus She could cut more dainty little capers
and do more amusing things'n any dozen girls
I'd ever seen, met her the same night Stan did,
md we'd both met the other girl a couple, OF
nights before i saw in second that there was
going to be something doing In the old town that
summer. And didn't miss my guess can tell
YOU Half the boys were dead crazy about the
little GIRL and she didn't make any bones of her
preference for Stan. Well. I woke up to the fact.
one starlight night, that the taii one was In love
with him. had yearnipg for her nyself, and
that's how came to surprise the secret from her.
'Stan had paid her. lot of attention. all right,
and ltywas clear case Of the litHesvixen cutting
her out, for the fun Of showing us that she could
Hut he didn't xet M mis- nerye 70 prnpnse I'LL AZ
lost the end OF summer. and then she led hin