Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-03-03
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CHAPTER with his grandfather
small Ramsey ,Milholland is watching the
Decoration Lay Parade" In the home
town. The old gentleman. a veteran Of
the civil war, endeaVors to impress the
youngster with the signihcance Of the
great conflict, and many years afterward
the boy was to remember his words with
startling vividness
CHAPTER lin the schoolroom, a
few years afterward, Ramsey was not
distinguished for remarkable ability,
though his two pronounced dislikes were
arithmetic and REGULATIONS" In sharp
contrast to Ramsey'a backwardness Is
the precocity Nof little Dora iocum, q
young lady whom in his bitterness he de-
nominates Teachers Pet.
CHAPTER 1II.-In high school, where
he and Dora are classmates Ramsey
continues to feel that the girl delights to
manifest her superiority, and the vindic-
tiveness he generates becomes alarming,
eliminating in the resolution that some
day he would show" her.
CHAPTER Wat a class picnic Ram
sey. to his intense surprise, appears to
attract the favorable attention of Miss
Milla Rust, a young lady Of about his
own age and the acknowledged belle Of
fall into creek while talking with Ram
sey, and that youth promptly plunges to
the rescue. The water is only some three
feet deep. but Milla's gratitude for his
heroic act is embarrassing. He Is in fact
taken captive by the fair one, to his great
CONSERVATION
CHAPTER v.-The acquaintance ripens,
Ramsey and Milla openly keeping com
pany," while the formers parents Won
der. His mother indeed goes so far as
to express some disapproval of his choice,
even limiting that Dora Yocum would be
tt,h In ,t.Nr& ttS>t,
which the youth receives with horror.
CHAPTER vI.-At this period our hero
gets the thrill of his first kiss" Milla
being very willing partner in the act.
Her fiippancy over the matter discon-
certs Ramsey immensely, but shortly aft
onward the girl departs for visit to
Chicago. She leaves an endearing missive
for Ramsey, which adds to his feeling of
melancholy.
CHAPTER vI1.-Shortly after Milla's
departure, her friend, Sadie Clews, in
been married to her cousin and is not
coming back, so that little romance is
ended. Within a few months Ramsey
and his closest friend, Fred Mitchell,
go to the state university, Ramsey's chief
feeling being one of relief that he has got
away from the detested Dora. To his hor-
ror he finds she is also student at the
university. Induced to join debating
society Ramsey Is chosen as Dora's OPP
ponent in a debate dealing with the mat
ter of Germany's right to invade Bel
GUM, Dora being assigned the negative
side of the argument. Partly on account
of his feelings toward Dora, and his nat
ural nervousness, he makes a miserable
showing and Dora carries off the honors
A brash youngster named Lnski objects
to the showing made by Ramsey and be-
comes personal in his remarks. The mat
ter ends with Ramsey, In the university
vernacular, giving Linski peach OF a
punch on the snoot"
CHAPTER VI1I.-Dora appears to have
made a decided hit with her fellow stu
dents, 10 Ramsey's supreme wonderment
A rumor of his affair with the tickle
Mnla spreads and he gets the reputation
of a man of experience and woman
hater."
CHAPTER IX-The story comes to the
spring of 1915 and the sinking of the Lusi.
tana, The university is stirred to 1t:
depths Faculty and frat societies alike
wire the government offering their serv-
ices in the war which they believe to bC
Inevitable Dora, holding the belief tha
all war Is wrong, sees with horror the
spirit of the students, which is an Intense
desire to call Germany to account Sht
seeks Ramsey and endeavors to impress
him with her pacfist Views.