The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-27
Youths Alone
AnOWROnance
rn NORA COLE SKINNER.

All. Romancel How many of us
look for II in vain: how many of
us never catch up with Il; how many
OF. us wait longingly till we find
The one prince charming and pre-
sumauly live happily ever aftcr3
Put when one IL young and looks
AT the world through rose tinted
glasses. or else magic mirror, Ro-
man, waits, yes, even beckons. at
every lurn,
Il % summer Sent to n lumber
yard to have a breadboard made.
youth makes inquiry o. nice look
,uV young man who ushers her back
10 where the one who 81 authority
on such things has his desk. lie is
NOT lu however, 80 the nice looking
,young man stays to entertain Youth,
aithoHrh, TO be truthful. his salary
Is NJ. paid him to perform such
pleas no duties.
Hu.-icdly, the man who knows all
about breadboards comes back, and
Will, 'aking another immediate and
sudd,r departure. says
81 M too busy now, Smith, see IL
YOU can't take her order"
Now smith Is the bookkeeper. but
he mtnfully undertakes TO find out
iust what Youth wants, and the re-
sllt s the order, which would usu-
ally tahy week 10 turn out-lumber
Yard not being keen about bread
boards is marked rush" and
Youth departs. leaving her telephone
numbcr 'in case It is ready sooner
than Oxpcctcd"--and the book ceper
follows her out 20 the waiting Ford
Is this romance? Don't say you
cant detect 1t or you acknowledge
yOuro getting old.
II this had been Middleage want
ing to buy the whole lumber yard,
DO you suppose Smith. or Jones. or
anyone else, would have stopped
his bookkeeping any longer than to
say. First door to your right?"
That afternoon after a tphone call
aatng that the breadboard had been
mira u'ously turned out in one day,
Youth hitches up her, Ford and en-
counters Romance once more-foi
apparently the breadboard man has
resigned his Job in favor of tho
young man booLkeeper. who proud
ly delivers the bundle, carrying 1t
exactly one block down the street
10 where the car is parked, unmind-
iul OF the fact that tomorrow is th~
first Of the month, and If he doesn't
lind that SO i-2-cent shortage today,
his books won't balance, and the old
man viii rave.
on the way home watermelon
wagon with wheels almost falling
of is drawn up near the walk and
dilapidated looking farm lad calls:
Don't you want to buy water
meion7"
Youth shakes her head--and
smiles her No" to which the boy
replies: Lady. II you'll just stop
I'll give you one"--and Youth is sent
into an eXstatic state OF giggles last.
ing until she arrives safely home.
Or perhaps It is another morning
and Youth starts walking forth to-
wards town. clad in n freshly laun-
dercd gingham and n boyish blue
sailor hat The sky is clear, no rain
has dampened the thirsty earth for
over a month, who would have
dreamed that today II would sud
denly begin to pour in torrents, and
Youth, dripping from head to foot,
would have to take refuge under the
awning Of n garage?
A mechanic comes out and asks
her to come inside: another sug-
gests that y'There's n chair I'm the
office II you want to sit down" and
when, the rain subsiding little. an
other, after inquiring where she
lives, says Lady. " you'll get in this
car well take you homc--we're 60
lnR your way -Sne BAlly ClltnDS IN
the repair truck with the knowledge
that they are going her way" to
get TO the opposite ead OF town.
All, Middlaage. would this give you
thrill? 1t does Youth. She does not
reed to devour love stories to find
Romance. even the hardened street
car conductor holds his car for her.
and the elevator boy comes back a
floor when she wants to get on. That
smile and that thank you" far out
weigh tho scowls of other passen-
] gers
Yes. conductors and elevator boys
I mechanics. and hookkecpers. know
Romance when they see Il. Some
j 7oople f.-d II around them every
n here they go. some only find 1t
nee. while others do not find it
n ever
II you belong to the last class.
4 get you a pair of rose colored
glasses put a song in your heart, n
sgile on your lips and n light in
n YOU eyes, and start out looking for
adventure Then, and only then,
you will have found romance and
eternal youth, youth more eternal,
indeed, than II you had drunG from
mat fountain which Ponce de Leon
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