Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1922-03-03
VALENTINE TRAIL

BY RUBY DOUGLAS

hearts and Cupids made of chocolate,
and boxes of violets that have been
taken our of the ice-boxl l almost
wish there were no such day as Vak
entine's day"
The girl who made the remark ha<
bobbed hair and one-piece frock.
what would you suggest, Jane?'
asked her chum. "What is there
left?"
Jane did not reply at once. "Thats
just it; don't know what want.
All know is that don't want a lace
paper hearth
Perhaps a real human heart, served
up on : platter as in ancient barr
barrie days, would please you more,
denr?"
mo. / think lust want to fnd
some one original enough to give me
something different" Jane explained.
The chum made audible signs OK
surprise. "Oh, Jane, you are funny.
you, trying to get out of the conveno
tional calf pathi"
Neither of the girls knew that, as
they sat talking thus Nrer the little
tabourette and tea table h,for the big
log fire in the country cuD house a
man had been sitting close by con,
stantly reading a sporting paper,
Il think I'll be a sport myself" he
concluded quickly. 81 like that girls
voice l like her looks. / think I'd
like her philosophy"
FHhnpntgr.nr, no 81
who she was, where she lived. He
then set his brains to work to origi-
nate an idea for a valentine.
His mind had created thought.
at depends on the snowfall, but
Pm just sport enough to think that
Cupid-though not of chocolate-will
implore the gods TO see that have a
snowy setting for February 14p
Jane Hall lived in the community
adjoining the country club at which
she was having a tea the afternoon
that Tom Hayes overheard her petu-
liant remark about st. Valentine and
his customs.
"The big idea," Tom decided. SIS to
let the girl guess who is her Valen-
tine.
On the night of february 10 a
wonderful carpet of white snow COW
cred the ground.
Tom, feeling like a cut-throat or sec
ond-story operator, stole noiselessly
through the virgin snow to the Halls
garden.
He had a garden trowel, n package
of large red hearts cut from paper,
some red fluid that looked like paint.
/ Underneath the window OF Jane he
/ dug out a heart-shaped hole and
! placed witt n it "a great red piper heart.
Then he walked on through the gar
/ den, dropping drops of red In the
snow and every few feet adding an
/ other heart. The trail wendell Off
/ down into the woods in the rear OF
/ the Hall home and disappeared into
! space.
IF she's anything of sport she'll
follow this train, and II leads straight
10 my heart" lie said triumphantly.
''Tl make her notice me, anyway"
he thought, by way of excusing him
self.
When Jane put up her shades TO
look out at the weather on the morn
ing Of st. Valentines day she rubbed
her eyes to see If they told her the
truth.
Her heart thumped wildly as she
dressed and went out of doors without
waking the family. she had put on
her raDbers and sport clothes, so she
followed the trail OF hearts to the
woods. At tie end she found a note
hung to the limb of tree.
IF you want to find your Valentine
play golf in the snow this afternoon.
The red golf ball l have placed be-
meath the last heart in the trail. I'll
be waiting for you at the seventh hole,
ana when | see the red bali driven
from the sixth / shall know that you
are on your way"
Jane did not know at first what to
do, Her conversation with her chum.
Grace, at the country club, came to
her mind with the natural association
Of ideas. At first she accused Grace
Of the idea, and then she knew that
Grace would never have had either
the energy or the originality to think
of 1t.
81 shall go, anyway" she decided.
After lunch she surprised the family
by announcing that she was going to
the club for a game Of golf
you're nutty, sis said her brother.
And Off she went to the golf course,
the red bail hidden in her pocket She
kept her golf clubs in her locker
Her cheeks were the color of the
ban she was playing with when she
reached the sixth hole and told her
caddy to go on ahead Of her.
AS she approached the seventh hole
across the wonderful white falrway
that led 10 It she saw man in golf
clothes awaiting her Her excitement
almost choked her, her daring some
what stunned her.
I'm afraid I'm not as pretty as a
lace heart" the man began, extending
his hand and himself a little embar-