Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-10-14
Not Like Other
Girls
By CLARA DELAFIELD

uiyIs Middleton ucw-sH1 She EonL
Not Thar I've ever asked her. ]
wouldn't dare 70 90 that No one
eaald take liberties wItA Eisle. Yoa
So. SIZE never was Ike other girls
There's sort 81 free masonry among
girls. Just as there il among married
women. and among men, - course.
But Elsie always ran By herself
That's what rather pat the girls
against her.
remember when she left college
she adopted & SORT o. hlghbrow atfi-
tu3e to~8rd life Instead 0f going
about uIth the ycung fellows she'd
be OF ~ q nook aith q shady book
mean. on % q shady nook With
book. paetry Usually ana there shed
slt, wrapped Sd meditation fancy free,
aaa listening % the other girls hav-
Ing g good tifae with The boys
I wonder ] wonder Il Elsie really
llked T. STE never wanted anything
% % with the men, She said lore
was sacred thing. and came once
puIy in q lifetime. and 4 sou didn't
End your love retuynesI y0u Just kept
outlet about Il ana went an holding
yourself In as long as you @ed, I'M
I'd yel either died or pinned away.
! remember young Rowell He was
a queer. poeiiral SORT Of chap with
fr-away laos In h.s eyes. and when
be was staying here enc suTumer-lt
must have been hve years a-2--he and
El>Ie t1st naturally grayitated toward
each other. They'd sauHfer Of TO
gefher iut0 tie shade o. the old apple
tres aud sit there with their books In
their hands First young Rowell
would read a biz and then Elsie'd
read q blt-and al the time the other
young FOLKS were enjoying themselves
90 @ bealthfal, nstural say Ia ham
moeks. ana walking OF In pairs, and
buggy driving
Well what naturally happened?
Florence Keith came down fer the
week She was a fluffy little thing
fun u spirits and she hadn't been
here q aav before she Fixed young
RoweH with her basiilean stare. Next
dag. when Elsie wondered of with her
book. young Roweil didn't turn up.
He'd taken Florence Of to see the
hermit III lis eave-Joe Briggs. who
works winters Ia the boiler f1etory
And an thnt week Elsie was LEFT alone
ana az the weekend young R0well
ser Miss Keith On the train Is far
as Philadelphia. and then went On his
+ own say
Marry2 No. nothing but "a sumner
Irritation IL course. Maybe Elsie
WASH; mad. She didn't eat hardly
anything the rest Of her stay here. and
/ she used 70 nope more than ever.
and read her love poems 70 herself
I under the apple tree
You know. the same crowd comes
down here pretty regular year after
/ year Next YEAR Elsie was just the
I same. oBiy q little more 50 She
wouldn't have q thing 20 DO with the
/ young men. and Florence had things
all her own way Young Rowell2
+ Oh he'd gene West Yes. be married
( a rahejeys daughter cut III Utah He
Z doesn't appear again IN tie story
For The lords sake. Elsie. why
don't you make up % some u the
young fellows I asked her. I think
+. Il was tho yer after that you're
/ goo3-iooklng. and yoI can be bright
wbeu you uaut %. wat dyou want
Z tn scare 'em Of for2 They don't
sBnt a blkhbraw. why. the sight ~
4 those books of yours puts the Ed on
4 your chances
t. never forget how Elsie looked
& at me aud answered. " It's better to
have lowed and lost than never to have
+ lowed SIS au"
hadn't a thing 70 SAP 60 that and
{ let her keep on loving next year.
ana tbe next The nth year little
+ Fle0ueg Keith met her fate. shed
( played with the boys hearts 50 long
r was high time she Sat caught her,
SELF Young Middleton was the son
+ So IRE bsnker 81 Boston-eyer hear II
hlm7 Worth a few cool millions. but
! nothing Eike What souls ~ those bank
. er> have ger St1l he vas good
catch and The obi thing was. Flor
Z ance really MSS craEs over him
And there was Elsie with her shady
+ b.uk-I mean her book and her shady
aok. sn3- next thing that happened
was when Eioreace ami Middleton
bad hsd l.ule III was walking
{ along yhe creek sad 0ho should ! see
bu, Middleton ana Elsie. sitting side
IS side staring INFO tie pool
4 ~ha'l newer love again" heard
Elsie SAY ia her wisGul Way zone
llie-oae love Al me lis better 20
have lowed ana laSt Than never 10 have
lowed 81, am
turned and raced baek. Florence.
for the love & Nike get your books
tate hlu Essped Elsie Davis Is
eut for battle
Il was too late Well. what could
ypu e1reet5 They were engaged by
supper time. e.oped that Night. aud
were married next morning over me
state ljne
Size o. an Atoua
pur.nE lecture delivered before
the Royal society ID Tendon Sir oliver
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