Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1921-05-25
To Win the Love of
Philip Utard
By DORA NOLAN

&c by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate,
That "a woman with fair opportun-
ity and without an absolute hump
may marry whom she likes" And
vanity Fair" being the book chosen
as the weeks English lesson for the
senior class at the Pitman high, 1t
came naturally about that this frag-
ment of the philosophy of wise man
should be the subject of discussion by
group Of girl students gathered In
a corner of the big assembly room
why, it's no more to be doubted
that Professor Banks toupel' This
calm statement by Susan Belden ought
to have settled the question forever
for hadn't Susan Uttered the steps
Of Pitman's school system with heart
breaks? Nor was she the prettiest
girl in the class, by several.
Some budding iconOelast in the
group murmured, soto voce, "Her
mother feeds 'em!" This drew smoth-
cred giggles. But 1t was Anne TsSs".,::,
the acknowledged brains Of the senior
class. who had the temerity to open
ly qualify the dictum of the class
belle.
you can win man, girls, by trick
cry. But you can't keep him by the
same method-not If he's worth IT,"
Came a day when this shaft sped at
a fair mark, was 10 turn, boomerang
like. and fly back at the archer.
Fate seems TO have her own In
scrutible reasons for requiring certain
pairs of individuals to ''fall In" side
by side and march in step, even when
there is no particular sympathy. or
even liking. 1t was that way at school
land afterward--with sue Belden.
daughter of the proprietor Of the
towns one little department store,
and Anne Tyson, whose father was
the towns leading physician.
They lived on the same street,
played in the same group as children,
were members of the same class in
"higf," both graduated from the com
mercial eourse--and then obtained po-
sitions I'm the same office-that Of a
big chair factory, which was Pitman's
leading industry. And TO top 1t off
fate carried her fantasy so far as to
plunge them both I'm love with the
same man Mt the same time.
Philip Utard, son of the senior
member of the firm, had been trans.
ferred from the Boston headquarters
to the Pltman plant to learn the de-
tails of production. And gossip spec
ulated as 70 whether he would not fol-
low the example of his father and Of
an elder brother-and acquire also a
life partner from among the estab-
llshment's female personnel. That
was getting TO be quite the Utard
way.
If Philip did mediate any such
step It was soon apparent enough--to
the watchful gossips--tAat his choice
lay between Anne Tyson and Susan
Belden, for Philip divided his leisure
very evenly between the Tyson and
Belden homes, or eseorting the girls
alternately to such entertainments as
the town afforded Perhaps he en-
joyed the company of Anne's father,
for Doctor Tyson was man of broad
and genial culture. And 1t was sim
said of Sues mother that she "fed
EN-"
Anyway. on a certain day In Janu-
AIRY II would have been necessary for
Phil Utard himself to toss up penny
had he been pinned down to deci-
sion there and then.
II was on this day. that Susan took
close note of Anne's heightened color
rs Utard passed close to their desks.
She leaned slightly toward Anne. and
with a laugh that was Just a little
machine made. inquired whether she
remembered the schooroom discus
sion on the Thackerayism. "What
cocksure little idiots we were!" she
exclaimed. "Wise men change their
minds. don't they, Anne-and wise
women?"
There was challenge In the girls
voice But from the well-poised Anne
It got no response beyond non-com-
INITIAL sometimes"
Yet the thoughts of Anne were 'long,
lunH tHuuSntS III lne ilouF intervening
between her arrival home and the
serving of dinner by the rotund Luz
cinda, boss of the Tyson menage. This
hour Anne hahltually spent before the
fire in the living room awaiting the
doctors return from his afternoon
round of calls.
II was here that Anne confessed to
herself what she had never confessed
before-that for weeks she had been
trying with all her might and main
Ike the nursery rhyme man OF the
bramble hush-to win the love of Pail
lp Utard And had She, like the
bramble bush man. scratched out both
her eyes in the proceeding?
Just because she considered herself
n more fit wife than Sue Belden for a
man of Philips mentality. did Il fol
low that she would be able To make
him happier? Suppose that. with de-
lberate effort, she won him--wouldn't