The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-11-07
THE DAILY
sHC. sTORY
Teaching jim a Lesson
By JANE OSBORN

IF you pasS up Jim Crane =
SNell, you needn't come to me for
sympathy II you never get as good
q chance again That's ali. !" Bruce
Borden spoke with the full au-
Sthority Of twenty two years to his
I kenty year old sister Jane. They
were sitting together alone IN the
\ Borden living room. Bruce had
noticed for. the first time that
Jane was not wearing her en-
4 fragment ring, though It had been
missing from her finger Cor a
week. and then II had suddenly
dawned upon him that he had not
seen Professor James Crane In
the Borden home for seySal days
Bruce demanded explanations
u With brotherly exact.tude and
Jane had in q manner that Bruce
considered much too flip, apnounc-
I'D that she had broken with Jim
and was glad she had done so.
ISIS, you're crazy" Bruce an
toilncedt slamming closed the
iieayy volume he was trying to
sttdy, sYo1'd be darned lucky to
Stnarrys d man like Jim Crane. !
|, guess you don't realize what his
standing is. Why, he's barely
thirty, and It's generally acknowl-
edged that he knows mop about
\ oysters than any man in this
country.
toystersn gaspcd Jane.
.pon,t talk to me about oysters.
Wks wants to marry an oyster ex-
nut don't you realize that to
have won that reputation
Jim has TO be one Of the beat
= scientists IL. the. country? guess
-, you knew how the fellows ad-
se him at college. you'd he sorry
what you've done. He's ono
the most brilliant members Of
X fraternlty.,n
>sHe's a crusty old professor,
Mdsas absent-mtnded as the worst
Of them" snapped Jane. That's
the trouble. We'd only been EN-
gagged two months. and three
times in that time Jim forgot to
call forsme when he had promised
band once he had tickets for the
i sheater. He got interested in
.1ome work In the laboratory, fuss
'TYg around with his old oyster,
BID forgot all about me. And
nee he brought me a loaf Of
cad instead of a box of flowers.
= 3 sister had asked him to get
the bread, SO he had the flowers
sent to his sister and handed me
the BREAD
ssigns! of genius, sis; signs Of
genips, commented Bruce; but
Jane was not to be persuaded.
So matters stood between Prof.
James Crane and his erstwhile
fianee, Jane Borden. Meanwhile.
the professor perceptiby lost
Weight and became more absent
minded than ever, and Jane was
secretly perfectly forlorn. After
two weeks OF the severed engage
ment she had reached the point
where The assured herself that she
Fdid not cwisk ever to renew IT.
that was out Of the questionable
that she would like to be friends.
She admitted to herself that sho
+ lon sd for the sight OF Jim Crane,
Mhappened that week that
4 there gas an exhibition in. town
Promote cd by persons who had in.
ktarest IN seashore property. 1t was
called the Ocean Front Exhibit"
Some interested protector Of the
affair had dumped a number OF
admission tickets on, the secretary
OF Bruce,s fraternity. Bruce had
brought one home for Jane, real
ring that James time hung heavy
Cd her hands, and an afternoon
spent atsany sort Of exhibit would
1 be better than time spent incoming
AT home. Prof. James Crane had
wandered into the fraternity house
after lectures and, feeling too dis
tgaught for more serious work, ac-
cepted a ticket for the exhibit. He
i didn't really intend TO use it him
self but, going to his rooms in his
sisters house where he lived, he
discoYered that this sister had his
aftefnoon.s work planned for him.
It's nurses day OF, and must
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