The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-18

down the hill was popular bridle path, and each year since she nad grown out of boys eyeralis she had been ylsed' appraised surveyed and sssaYed by the male resorters until she yves quite conscious es tss charms she possesssd-w that attracted men
 to mingled with the dssbing girls at the hotel and
 ho of course, met nany nlere. like them Tn town -l year around. Y @
 Tilly got over to the movies now spd then in Winter, and she wasn't entirely ignorant of fei that is, such phases of lifeHes usually interest Sormal girl of seventeen, with man as the cen7 tral pivot She had seen tho Cinderella plots, in which the handsome, rich, noble hero lifts the poor, pretty ingepue to wonders on the wings of great love; she had seen, also, the stories of the poor, deluded girls who believed the honeyed words of strangers and were broken on the wheel of aisil' lusionment and despaiF,
 She had no mad yeaFn for immediate marriage, ssr even an out-and-out affair. Whst she burned Saf was to go to the dances in the hotel, to ride with or talk with the merry, wellrdressed resort CTS. Those girls in the sport togs, who lived the rest of the year in lukuEies and tang pf town and who spent their holidays here with others as for1 tunate-were they any better than she was? Were tlley any pFettlerg
 Her craving was out of the question, of course. Locals" were never encouraged at the hotel, and,
 
 father have permitted her to slylsEk and lOlligag around with them doggoned lazy losfers whom he so heartily despised, even had such things been within her horizon,
 lilly had no mother. For years she had been s the housekeepeF maidof of-ail-woFk and fsFTnhand. She cooked and washed and scrubbed and tended the fowls and beasts, she did the mean chores and she made her own dowdy duds Her only out, standing amusements were 'paFties" where she met the otber youngsters of the hObnailed and patched community, in which she was sought by the crude LothhFios because she was pretty, but was generally disliked because she was regarded as uppity.
 And upplty she wss. She IOathed the folks who were her neighhots and her equals They had nothing to offer, mental physical or spiritual, that intrigued or even interested her. They lacked imagination and they thoroughly were devoid of stclass."
 e6 Flivver~riding with grinning, grimaeng yokels was not in her calendar of recreatiOns, though the other girls hailed such adventures as the mani festations of romance and delight. SpooDing on the porch with the freckled unsubtls EpFsls whose 4 hair was cut round behind and whose wise-egscks weren't so pointed, either, was Ty's dea of some thing not to practise
 Young as she was she had already received several welL-meant, honest proposals of maryiage. John Talber, a prosperous widower nearby, had bluntly besought her to be his bride and share his shngle dwelling and look after him and his four 4 kids. Her father had strongly urged her to jump \, at John-be was good man, a good provider and good butter-and-egg man. lilly hid in the cellar when TaIber, dressed in his mail order best
 ame to press his attack.
 h More than one younger swain, considered eli S sble and even desirable thereabouts, had likewise z put the question to her, and each had been curtly turned down..
 fiily had sworn to herself, behind the closed door of her own chamber, that if she grew to be an old maid like Miss Kelefer, she would never, never yield to any of these dullards.
 ' Her mother had been fragile, delipate, re-