The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-28
ANDREW AND IM0GENE
BS ROE EItLkERsoN

1 We'll said Imogenc as she sat pulling Virginia Creeper's ears, Tiny
 Curtis has broken her engagement with Tip Summers.
 For the love of the Board of Health! exclaimed Andrew.
 l No said 1mogene 'it was not to 1 be a eugenic marriage"
 | Well, what is the reason? ?? asked l Andrew. He has been her shadow for
 two yedrs.''
 Yes, know he has said Imogene, that was exactly what won Tiny. He
 was the most persistent suitor any girl
 ever had in the world.
 "He proposed to her first at a New Years party. but he had had several glasses of wine and Tiny was not sure that he was sure of himself and besides,
 while she liked him she was not really
 in love with him.
 1 She told him all this and told him 1 that she would not give him an an swer then, said he started in the most
 ardent courtshp you ever heard of.
 Every day during that year she got 1 some sort of little bunch of flowers from him. He never missed day. 1 It tFas maybe just bunch of carna- l tiorfss or a single rose, but every day
 brocght something
 l Then there came in each morning 5
 mai, the leaf torn off his daily calendar
 the day before and on it was written a l lead pencil memorandum of love. It
 was just some little bit of sentiment
 some little thought he had had about her during the day or something of the ] sort.
 l Every morning she received some sort
 of . letter from him pointing out some ladvnntAge of marrying him. It was not
 a lave letter you know, but just a straightforward letter such as a busi-
 ness man would write who had a good proposition and wanted to show it in | its best light.
 | Besides all this every day she got
 some sort of little original postcard
 from him. It was not much: Just a crude little pencil sketch or ssometning | of that sort: but as the. continued drop
 ping of water wears away the hardest storre SO all these things began to nave
 weight with Tiny.
 "She knew. of course, that Tip was one of the busiest men in the city, and | that the big factory he represented was dependent entirely on him for it's man agement and when a man who is all business like that takes the tim to stop on his way down town every morning and buy girl posy, write her let l ter and postcard every day and send her the pad off his calendar, he is cer- tain,y in love and she accepted him at Christmas time.
 | EVeFytnlnS was lovely LII lHe Oliici night she met Mrs. Wright at bridge party and Mrs. Wright told her that
 her husband, who is an advertising man, l had just worked himself out of good | job She said he had been carrying on I a courtship for busy man and now l the man was engaged and had fired ! him, and before Tiny was through i pumping her she found out that Tip had never seen one of the letters, the pos- tals, the calendar, the flowers or any thing. He had simply planned the cam paign and had hired MT. Wright to carry
 out the details Of course she broke the engagement I think it was the most
 heartless thing ever heard of. don't youf"
 1 .Its was a winner!" laughed Andrew Shed better freeze onto that guy. She will never be hungry if she marries
 him. 1 (Ctpyright Twenty-first Century Press ! 1921