The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1925-07-02
Torrid COurtship


"Yes, Ted and have gone and TAX
en- the fatal step. Yes, we're engag-
ed" The girl in the bathing suit put
one toe in the water and looked medi-
tatiye.
Goodness, and you say it like you'd
tell about motor-ride!" said the
friend in fresh linen on the sand. Il
thought you weren't a bit sure of him.
You said that the doll-eyed child
who's been around here for a month
had him going both ways!"
The girl in the bathing suit planted
her whole foot in the cool water and
smiled. Il know it; I'm surprised my
self
you see, Billy Prather asked me to
row with him at sunrise, and | did,
and got red as a beet. | was hot and
horrid and hungry, and l didn't have
any powder along, for l didn't expect
it TO sizzle at that hour Finally l
poured my wrath out aloud about the
weather, and Billy just listened sort
of wondering like, and then asked,
DO you really think it's hot?' Well
l just made him row me right back,
and l spent the morning getting
bleached!
"At dinner time Fred and his girl,
Nancy, spied me in a direct draft of
an electric fan, enjoying myself, and
they deliberately pulled me away and
tried to get me to dance in the pavil-
ion, and when demonstrated and told
them l was shocked and chagrined
and amazed that they possessed so lit
tie common sense in hot weather they
looked at each other and then at me,
and asked, Why, are you warm?' So
naturally / became all the warmer,
dropped their company and went back
to the fan.
"And while / was there Dorothy
Bane came up with a captivating
smile and begged me to make the
fourth at tennis! l looked pityingly
at her and asked her how often she
had sunstroke, and she laughed and
said, You're not warm in this wealth
er, are you? and then hoped off like
crazy youngster, looking as cool as
a cucumber. She actually wasn't hot
at all!
"And then got up and took stroll
alone, trying to make believe, after
all, that l wasn't so hot, and when
was getting more and more wet with
the heat and counting the minutes
when I'd have to make dash for my
room and apply drying and softening
powder to my shining oountenance be-
fore / could be seen, along came JIM
my in fresh flannels and said he was
off for bully long walk and wouldn't
I come along! / tried to look my
scorn as l declined, explaining lucidly
that it was too hot to breathe, let
alone tramp out in the sun, and he
just said, 'Bosh, it is plenty cool,
and he left me.
$50 by and by, worn and weary, and
wilted beyond recognition, found a
dark corner of the library, and there
all by myself, l wondered what was
the matter with me, and l thought I'd
better go back to the city where /
could bake in peace. When, 10 and
behold, along came Ted. He had his
hat in one hand and handkerchief in
the other, and his face was red and
SIMMER than mine, and he breathed
out hard, mad breath, and said,
Gee, it's fierce and hot. and life isn't
worth living!' Then he scowled at.
me.
"And / just scowled back at him
and said it was perfectly beastly, and
that 1 was mad all through, so many
people had been telling me it was
cool, in the face of common sense,
and, moreover, they looked as if they
really felt cool.
''And then he beamed on me and
asked if l thought honestly and truly
that it was hot and hadn't ever been
hotter, and when ] said Cross my
heart he held out his hand and said
he sincerely believed was the only
sane person in the hotel and wouldn't
l go for motor ride with him.
80 / did, and we found that we
agreed on every single thing in the
universe, and why be single any long
err"
Simple enough" said the friend in
cool white linens.