The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-10
OLD-EASHIONED
BY GRACE {. RILEY.
l@. 1920. by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.


"What has come over girls today?"
questioned Grandmother Eldredge of
her granddaughter. thine was that
girl had one dress for Sundays and
parties. and one for every day. Two
dresses are sufficient for any girls
happiness!"
"Oh. grandmother. today a girl could
win no victories on a two-dress cam
paignI'
i've feeling. Ruth. that there
would be fewer bachelor girls today if
there were more old-fashioned ones
who expected less in the way Of dress
and gayety."
Grandmother, you're old fashioned
why, if the girl had no variety of
pretty clothes. the boys would never
look twice at them" Ruth donned a
lovely little hat and went forth con
WINGED that in its folds and feathers
lay the lure which would bring Wey-
man Standish to her feet.
Two blocks away, Weyman was pur-
suing a similar argument with his
chum. REX, its all very well for you
to urge me to marry. You know right
well my heart is set on Ruth Eldredge.
but Lord my years salary would not
take care of Ruth for six months.
Therefore, discretion being the better
part of valor, remain single"
+ When Ruth reached home, she found
a letter from Chloris Hunter urging
her to come to a girls camp in the
mountains:
"Once you've tried a horse for COM
panion, you will say with the rest of
us on our return in the fall. The more
| see of some men. the better | like
my horse Put all your evening gowns
and dancing slippers in the closet. don
a MILDLY blouse, and join % of the
finest girls that ever rode q boss"
: wrote Chloris, gayly; and something
awoke in Ruth-a desire to try this
: thing with her beloved Chloris.
t A month later. on "Flighty," she
1 was gallOping across country. With
a an hours advance, she was trying to
: elude the girls, who once found her
!, trail but lost it again. She retraced
u her path while they went ahead. Her
beautiful bronze gold hair, tossed by
! the wind framed her lovely laughing
face; the sun had kissed her cheeks TO
n warm, glowing color and had Ruth
If gaZed then in her mirror She would
Is have been amazed at her own beauty.
i She was thinking of home. Dear
, Weyman. | wish / knew the secret
L.
= Her horse neighed two or three times
n before attracting attention. what is
V it, Flighty-see something's" she asked.
it "Was that an echo-surely heard an
: other horse" She turned in her sad
II die. Standing by the roadside, whin-
nying piteously, was handsome roam
!. where's your rider. Beauty?" She
m asked. Sensing trouble. she dismount
&c ed and leading Flighty. went to the
Of roan's side. There on the ground wa:
tn man, unconscious.
q Thanks be to my first aid lessons,
thought Ruth as she set to work Sh,
q was finally successful in bringin:
! him to.
ms Don't try to talk yet" she admon
n ished him.
r. 'You are nurse?" he finally asked
= mo, I'm just a worthless butterfly
~ trying to spread her wings in the Lane
i of usefulness" size answered. "Cal
t. you tell me now what made you fall?
1--WE been Incorporating in
lodge up yonder-the call to ride wa
too urgent to be denied, and took ad
vantage of my pals absence to Sc
Flicker out"
"Where is the lodge?"
"Just across those lots-I guess
can make it," He rose, but again SAN
Imply on the turf.
''Try again and don't be afraid t
lean on me-" This time he was NOR
successful. "TH bring your hors
over when I've disposed of you"
AS they neared the lodge, Ruth say
a man on the porch.
"My pal" said the sick man. with
X wealth of affection in his tone. Ruth
heart stood still. Even as she recoc
nized Weyman. he knew her, and cam
forward quickly to meet them.
Jack, you deserve thraShlnG, Il
sternIy spoke first to RuihS compar
ion, the while his eyes questioned be
with a caress in their depths as sb
never had seen there before.
81 know it, old man, hut I'll he a
right in a minute" Without anotht
word Weyman helped his friend inr
the lodge When lie came out. Rut
was gone. AS he was cOndemning hin
self for his apparent neglect of III
she again came into view, leadh
Flicker.
. Ruth" Weyman said. when /
Joined her, "if you knew the tempe
- you have stirred up in my heart, 90
would queil it AZ once by saying SC
would marry me.
"The storm was a long time CONT
I'D. wasn't it, Weyman?"
81 tI+ hos hapn rumbIiug i'm tho "A