Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1922-09-25

kIE DAISY, the nifty young Geogia peach
With the melodious daown Saouth accent, was
leading back to the Big Burg after short
at Saratoga, where the bosses were run
Daisy loved the bosses. In her country, before
Yvers Of modern tircan commerce had ratified
nance out of life fast steeds and fair ladies'
The headline attractions of those celestial
south of MI Mason's and Mr.. Nxons line
loved the combination. She contributed the
nd carried them wherever the ponies operated
alone her love OF thoroughbred equinity lured
Saratoga At that propinqutous spa were
/; and those crowds were prosperous, bols
and numerous. Dasy's profession thrved
Just that surrounding. For h9r calling.
ne knows, was the intricate and precarious
extracting from the pockets of the populace
handsome living which the world owed her
Abraham Lincoln had rudely given her great
athers slaves their freedom and thus driven
this life.
had plucked a reasonable residue from the
places OF the wads and the wallets during
ason--not much, but the assessed modicum
time spent. Daisy collected the living the
IN world owed her by no harum scatum guess
but on an efficiency system like any other
ate business institution; she calculated SO
for expense, SO much more for overhead, wear
ar, leakage aud breakage, depreciation good
bid taxes, to which she added pro rata sink
nd and the profit dividend; all that totaled
500 a day. and that was the round figure
as the quota.
toga hadn't run any ahead of this objective.
polies had been hitting the sporty rather con-
ly, and currency was comparatively scarce.
d Of a cleanup, the racing span had been just
and apple sauce, and Daisy felt aggrieved.
bcided to give the upstate resort the Autumn
Id glide back TO Manhattan, where the tof-
buyers and the heavy influx of foreign fish
yield a handsomer per diem. The books
been any too sweet to her for she had ven
= few Of her hard-hooked dollars against the
entries, and she was peeved with the breaks
bund
ter Lewlands put in miserable breakfast
Ter at the hotel before she made for the train.
/ was shamelessly in love with Daisy. An
hding young merchant of inherited banking
and Christian Vermont stock, he would natur-
BIT dizzy over dip from Dixie-poetc justice
bnic fate the paradoxical peryersity Of
} looks after such as that
lands had met Daisy in the stands, had
ID hard on sight, had gone completely off the
road OF his characteristic balance when she
lrned her appealing Big Bertha eyes on him
et loose that humming-bird Southern lingo,
ed with honey and seasoned with altar of
can Beauties.
by a society bud had whirled a willy Assoc
hrter Lewlands, and many society mother
lined mean harpoon at him. But he had
ID and ducked and side-stepped until Daisys
had thrown up his hands and Daisy's pouting
Ad brought down his guard. When she was
him, the music Of her pappy Georgia talk
her little dulcet intonations. He got to think
, that musical pitch. and his thoughts were
Re as sugary as her voice and wedding bells
yer her notes.
sy took it all in, not exactly decided whether
rk him or ignore him. She was known to him
as Dorothy Pollard. the name which she
registered az the hotel, and he took her for
Flanta deb, adventurous and modern enough
D a-journeying without a chaperone to the
bright spot on the dismal map; a girl whose
| cd with hril ~ OF
who would follow the ponies anywhere TO
her spirited fanCies.
more than a week he had devoted every
able minute to looking into Dasy's eyes and
ling to Daisys lifting, lulling lying.
~, Daisy, though she had her faults and fail
had never leaned toward gold digging or
| next-nastier specially, "cold-fnger work"
p, as everyone should know is the specific art
|cAlng an amorous gent or lady for the valu-
while said loving one is in the act OF using
arms in hugging or the like; and it is an
int profession, just well established as
blowing or the other nobler practises that
been charted, blue-prnted and all but copy
led in the progress through the ages Of the
bus methods whereby property may be trans
Id without recourse to the vulgarties OF trade
TRAFFIC
|ough Daisy had always attracted men she
used her charms only TO oil herself out of
PRS. She depended on her skill and never
Ter allure 10 bring In the returns. Lewlands
-
1t been inspiring. II rather mifed her thar
felt, somehow, repellance against giving him
touch" on the numerous occasions which he
SO utterly preoccupied that she could have
I'd OF his leg and he wouldn't have known she
operating. He had quite disarmed her which
9 dead loss considering how much of her
be was consuming.
ring the farewell breakfast in the course OF
Lewlands earnestly pleaded with Daisy to
y him, to remain al Saratoga for a while
er, a. least, and see IL she couldn't learn 20
for him, 10 give him her home address so
he could follow her-to yield him some sort
Encouragement: something! Daisy toyed with
table tools and listened She had put
tbs Southern Ritz al their first meeting
that she could maintain her standing at
hotel. and she had never staered of the
acter, so she couldn't lean across the board
and talk TO Lewlands like a Dutch niece
explain TO him that he was barking up a
On ivy vine. Everyone loves to pose for wha. he
he is not-for something better, higher finer -
she unconsciously loved his bland acceptance
Ter as rich, proper we'll bred, respectable
she languidly assured him, with many ex-
sions Of regret that she did not love him, and,
efore, it would be futile for him 70 coax fur
hours that could mean only reiterated re-
Is. No. she was not IN love with any other
tand that was trueJ, and she had no defined
ctions against him. But every girl expects
great throbbing, palpitating emotion when
meets the man she loves, and Daisy could get
such reaction from Lewlands as clever and
n and clear and devoted and upright as he
lestlDnably was II ruOSt IarreptahIa hui