News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-08-03
To Win the Love Of
Philip Utard
BY DORA NOLAN
20 by acknowledgements Syndicate)

as the weeks English lesson for the
senior class at the Pitman high, II
came naturally about that this frag'
nient Of the philosophy Of wise man
should be the subject of discussion by
a group Of girl students gathered in
al corner of the big assembly room
"Why, it's no more to be doubted
shat Professor Banks toupe" This
calm statement by Susan Beden ought
to have settled the question forever
for hadn't Susan Uttered the steps
of Pitmans school system with heart
breaks? Nor was she the prettiest
girl in the class, by several.
Some budding iconOclast in the
group murmured, sotto yoce, "Her
mother feeds 'em!" This drew smoth-
erred giggles. But 1t was Anne Tyson,
the acknowledged brains Of the senior
GLASS, who had the temerity to open
.ay qualify the dictum of the class
belle.
You can win man, girls, by tricls-
cry. But you can't keep him by the
same method-not if he's worth it."
Game a day when this shaft, sped at
"a fair mark, was to turn, boomerang
dixie, and fly back at the archer.
FATE seems to have her own in
ssc,utible reasons for requiring certain
pairs of individuals to 'fall in" side
10y side and march in step, even when
there is no particular sympathy, or
even liking. 1t was that way at school
and afterward-with Sue Belden,
daughter of the proprietor of the
towns one little department store,
aand 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
''high," both graduated from the COM
amercial course-and then obtained po-
ssitions in the same of1ice-that of
Eb3g chair factory, which was Pitman's
aloading industry. And to top it off
G&te carried her fantasy so far as to
plunge them both in love with the
same man at the same time.
Philip Utard, son of the senior
member of the firm, had been trans
ferred from the Boston headquarters
to the Pitman plant to learn the de-
tails of production. And gossip spec
ulated as to whether he would not fol
Tow the example of his father and of
an elder brother-and acquire also
life partner from among the estab-
lishments female personnel. That
20 In hA or.1
way.
If Philip did mediate any such
step 1t was soon apparent enough-to
She watchful gossips-that his choice
Hay between Anne Tyson and Susan
Bc!den, for Philip divided his leisure
very evenly between the Tyson and
Belden homes, or escorting the girls
alternately to, such entertainments as
the town afforded. Perhaps he en-
.ioyed the company of Anne's father.
for Doctor Tyson was a man of broad
and genial culture. And it was still
said OF Sues mother that she fed
lena" =
Anyway, on a certain day in Janu-
AIRY it would have been necessary for
Phil Utard himself to toss up penny
mad he been pinned down to a deci-
sion there and then.
1t 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 schoolroOm 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 a challenge in the girls
voice But from the well-poised Anne
at got no response beyond a non-com-
initial sometimes"
Yet the thoughts of Anne were 'long, |
dong thoughts in tile hour intervening |
between her arrival home and the |
serving of dinner by the rotund Luz
.cnda, boss of the Tyson menage. This |
hour Anne habitually spent before the |
fire in the living room awaiting the |
doctors return from his afternoon /
round of calls.
1t 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
'like the nursery rhyme man of the
lbramble bush-to win the love of Phil
ip Ttard. And had she, like the
brambie bush man, scratched out both
her eyes in the proceeding?
gust because she considered herself |
n more fit wife than Sue Belden for
ss7n Of Philips mentality did it fol-
low that she would be able to make
i'm happier? Suppose that, with de-
berate effort. she won him-wouldn't
.ip be very likely to discover later
tlat he had been the man
O., ner choice, instead of her being /
the woman of his? And would that
make for happiness for either? There
was nothing for her to do but jump
1'igRt back into that bush