Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-06-30
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CHAPTER With his grandfather.
small Ramsey Milholland Is watching the
Decoration Day Parade" In the home
town. The old gentleman, veteran OF
youngster with the significance of the
great conflict, and many years afterward
the boy was to remember his words with
startling V1vidnesS.
CHAPTER HIN the schoolroom, a
few years afterward, Ramsey was not
distinguished for remarkable ability,
though his two pronounced dislikes were
arithmetic and "Recitations." In sharp
contrast to Ramseys backwardness Is
the precocity of little Dora Yocum, a
young lady whom in his bitterness he de-
nomnates Teachers Pet"
CHAPTER HIN high school, where
he and Dora are classmates, Ramsey
continues to feel that the girl delights to
manifest her superiority, and the vindic-
t1yeness he generates becomes alarming,
eliminating in the resolution that some
day be would show her.
CHAPTER IV.-At class picnic Ram
sey, to his intense surprise, appears to
attract the favorable attention of Miss
Mllla Rust, young lady Of about his
own age and the acknowledged belle of
the class. Milla has the misfortune to
fall into creek while talking with Ram
sey, and that youth promptly plunges to
feet deep. but Millas 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 NformerS parents won
der. His mothe. Indeed goes so far as
to express some dlsapproval of his choice,
even limiting that Dora Yocum would be
a more suitable companion, a suggestion
which the youth receives with horror.<
CHAPTER Vl.-At this period our hero
gets the thrill of his FIRST kiss" Milla
being very willing partner in the act
Her f1ippancy over the matter discon-
certs Ramsey immensely, but shortly aft
erward the girl departs for a visit to
Chicago. She leaves an endearing missive
for Ramsey, which adds to his feeling of
melancholy.
CHAPTER VII-Shortly after Milla's
departure, her friend, Sadie Clews, in
forms Ramsey that his inamorata has
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 a student at the
university. Induced to join a debating
society, Ramsey is chosen as Dora's op-
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 Ldnski 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 LinsN a peach Of
punch the snoot."
CHAPTER VIII.-Dora appears to have
made a decided hit with her fellow stu
dents, to Ramsey's supreme wonderment
A rumor of his affair" with the tickle
Milla spreads and he gets the reputation
of a man of experience and a woman
hater."
CHAPTER IX.-The story comes to the
spring of 1915 and the sinking of the Lusi-
tania The university is stirred to its
depths. Faculty and frat" societies alike
wire the government offering their serv-
ices in the war whiclf they believe to be
inevitable Dora, holding the belief that
all war is wrong, sees with horror the
spirit of the students, which Is an intense
desire to call Germany to account She
seeks Ramsey and endeavors to impress
him with her pacifist views.