Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1920-03-26

young chap, just out of school, It -
began in Western New York, and
of you know the hero, I'm
morally certain. / reckon It'll be
safe to tell his name right here in 80
the buzzum of the family, but to be
on the safe side, I'll call him Stan
ley He manufactures something
that's advertised in all the big mag -
azines, and most of the ladies use
it to help out their complexion Any of you that
have been to guessing school can finish cut his
name for yourselves
"Oh I know little Mrs. Smith twinklad. 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"
You're next, ali right" Jones assured her.
"Stan used to be the lyeliest fellow in our crowd.
Folks said nothing lessn cyclone or having a
leg cut off would ever settle him down, lie 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 strim q guitar and dance
and skate and ride wheel and make love to the
girls When met him last February couldn't
believe he was the chap. There's nothing
like smashing mans heart to settle him down."
81 find that the cares of family have the same
effect" Bob White said, solemnly wheraat the
other members of the club laughed.
II like the family, but I've sometimes thought
1t would be good scheme to take the cares by
proxy the way you do" Briggs remarked. your
quite a serious decent man Of you"
"Stan didn't have any kids, nor even any nieces
and nephews to poster him. II he had. 1t wouldn't
have gone SO hard with him." Jones ayerref. HE
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 good deal to keep from dying of
of slow stagnation In that house. He couldn't
have been more'n % when two new girls came to
town. 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 On, he wasn't what
you call a hrt," as he caught the look 10 Mrs.
J0hnsOns eyes. "Stan didn't break any hearts.
He took TO let the girls know 1t was all play,
and ! suppose he never would have got IN dead
earnest II II hadn't been for the two strangers
that dropped In on us the same week. One of ,em
was tall GIRL with serious dark eyes and rich
cOntralto 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 go along so they
sent her out there to visit her uncle and 10 some
sketching
THE other girl was tiny bit of a thing, with
yellow hair and big brown eyes and complexion
like peaches and cream. When she sang 1t re-
minded you Of Baltimore orlole. When she
danced she made you think of trick pony In
circus, She could cut more dainty little capers
and do more amusing thlngs'n any dozen girls
I'd ever seen. met her the same night Stan did
and we'd both met the other girl couple of
nights before / saw in a 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, woke up to the fact
one starlight night, that the tall one In love
with him. had yearning for her myself. and
that's how / came to surprise the secret from her
Stan had paid her lotSof attention. IN right,
and il was clear case Of the>Iittle vixen cutting
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