The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-03

seeing after the supper Basil meekly /
accompanied her to the kitchen and
consoled himself for his lost dance by
sampling the ice cream.
When Patty entered the big room
again, Paul was coming to her.
So the slight was so slight, but a
compliment after all! OF course it was
his niceness that made him dance with
these others first, she thought!
He is Aifferent.' she said to herself
again exultingly. And she was scarce
ly conscious of anything during the
waltz, except that she was floating in
harmonious rose colored, rhythmical
haze.
1t was all common place enough in
reality-but Patty was too young to
! know that or bother about it. The mu-
sic, the shaded lights the young dam
GERS, the young man in smart flannels
! and the girl in silky blue crepe frock
cut just low enough to show the pretty
roundness of her shoulders and the
firmness of her young arms - there
was nothing unusual in this.
The club house was most ordinary,
| shack hastily put up on the edge of
| small and rather dull little town,
with nothing to make it different from
any other cheap little club house but
| the view of a magnificently timbered
mountain-the Cora's and Maude's
| and Mrs. Werner's and Patties and
| Miles were to be met with anywhere.
| And doubtless in just such houses,
and to just such soothing, ripping
waltz music hundreds of other girls
were dancing and talking about moth
Ing, and falling in love-
But love is miracle whenever it
happens. And this miracle was hap
| pening to Patty, who was not as yet
conscious of it,
Paul began with a lot of extrava-
CANT compliments, suddenly saw that
this was wrong with this particular
girl, dropped them and began asking
about her trip with Mrs. Granger
Num-
1 He did not dance with her again
until the end of the evening. In spite
of the six visitors, there were still
more girls than men, fact that seems
true of most little towns One of the
visitors selfishly devoted himself only
to the prettiest girls. Another one
frankly showed he was bored by this
simple entertainment and drifted into
talk with Mrs. Mum, as being the only
"citified" person to be met there-Mrs
: Mum, as it happened, did not like
, him. A third disappeared to a ham,
mock on the porch with 17-year old
Clarrissi Howe, and only returned for
!, the supper
And Paul after seeing that Mile
had little attention paid to her while
Patty had only to choose her partners,
spent most of his evening dancing
and talking with her.
: And OF this, very curious develop
ment was to come.
Then after time, the party settled
down to that most enjoyable phase
when the youngest ones had been TAX
en- home and the older ones had gone
home and only few intimate friends
: were left. Millie joined a card game
in one corner, not so much because
she liked cards, as because her Slip
per rubbed her heel And Paul and
Patty danced, on and on, the boy
pleased because his partner was SC
/ light, the girl much too exhilerated by
happiness to feel fatigue
What do you do in the evenings q
he asked her.
| I've been reading More's Utopia
+! to Mrs. Num-" she answered
What a serious minded young wo
man-why do you have blonde hail
then? Don't you know golden hail
$ and intellect never go together?" He
t leased, his brown eyes laughing al
e her as he looked down at her "WoulG
q you spend a low brow evening talkins
J. to me tomorrow"
), Patty laughed and nodded. Hel
S heart gave a little leap
e 1t was inevitable that Patty should
= fall lin love with Paul 1t was not in
y evitable that he should fall in low,
with her
TomorroW-What Mile Thought
r ~
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