The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-12-18
How David Helped
Poppy Gale
(copyright.)
By JANE OSBORN

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with business demanding his close at
tention in the city. Still a summer
might be pleasantly spent in one OF
the better sort of suburbs.
So it was that David True leased
for three months a charming house of
Spanish architecture belonging to q
bachelor architect who was passing
the summer in Europe.
What happened next was not at all
what he anticipated. He fell in love
with Poppy Gale, whom he first met at
a dance at the country club to which
he had been inveigled by bachelor
acquaintance. Poppy was there with
her usual circle of masculine satellites.
She was dressed In cool green frock
with a wreath of green leaves round
her shortcut wavy hair and looked, ii
seemed to David True, like wood
land dryad.
He promptly Joined the circle of sat
elites and competed with them for
dances, and was in fact little sur
prised at the good nature the others
showed in letting him have dances that
she had already promised them. Fol
lowing Poppy seemed with them to be
a sort of habit, pleasant enough way
of spending an evening.
| In the club house locker room the
next evening David met his bachelor
acquaintance who had led him to the
| dance.
Seems you were rather taken with
Poppy" commented the acquaintance,
lighting his pipe.
Miss Gale, you mean" answered
David correctingly. "By joye, but she
is charming. Apparently half the men
at the club are mad about her."
ooh, well,' drawled the acquaint-
ance. "Poppy's nice girl-plenty of
pep and good dancer"
"Funny someone doesn't marry her. y
commented David, "or at least get en-
gagged to her."
ooh, WE'LL" again drawled the ac-
quaintance, "Poppy's all right, but
she's got her failings like the rest of
them. You've only met her once. Wait
till you know her better"
Thus challenged David True went
to work to know Poppy better with his
usual directness. He devoted himself
to her at the next dance, asked to call,
received permission, made a formal
first call and then asked for permits
sion to play golf with her the follow
ing Saturday morning. But Poppy
/ oh 6Y,Sf r11o GOLF Che cold
she didn't have time, in fact Saturday
! she was going to be dreadfully busy
with rummage sale.
! The rummage sale, she explained
was for the old mems home in wlech
! she was intensely interested. She won
| he would let her have for the sale, and
| when he eagerly offered his entire
| wardrobe she wondered whether he
would help her collect the things next
| Saturday morning instead Of playing
| golf He could come in his car and
they would run around together. Dav-
| i'd was delighted and from regarding
her as woodland nymph he now re-
| garded her as sort Of up-to-date st.
| Elizabeth as well. He. even helped
with the rummage sale, all Saturday
afternoon, and came away dusty and
much with Poppy. The next time
David called on Poppy she told him of
| her interest in a fresh-air home for
city children. She was trying to get
a sand pile for them. She wondered
whether David would mind motoring
down to the seashore and bringing
back his car full of 1t.
Then she asked him to solicit the
men in the club for donations for an
other favorite charity, and later at a
dance she told him that she would ac-
cept his invitation to go to the shore
with him the following week if he
would help her beg money to furnish
a ward in the children's hospital.
One midsummer day David's ac-
quaintance called upon him just be-
fore dinner. David looked tagged.
Haven't seen you at the club for
weeks" said the acquaintance with a
| grin. "Given up golf?"
"Oh, / haven't had tfme," sighed
David. "And Pm going to ask you
| to come out in the dining room with
| me while we talk. I've only fifteen
minutes. I've promised Poppy to ar
range the books In the library at the
settlement house tonight and she
wants me to call for her at seven
"Hum-m," drawled the acquaintance.
Poppy certainly knows how to dance
hut
"But what?" snapped the weary
David "Of course she's got her hob
bies like all the other girls. And /
| haven't spent the summer just as /
| intended to. But I'll tell you secret.
I've been proposing to Poppy on con-
dition that she wouldn't expect me to
/ go on this way after we were married.
| She was furious-but after while
| she relented Then asked her wheth-
err she'd have me If agreed to found
| a sort of a trust fund for her chart
| ties-so she could hire someone to do
| the things that I've been doing She
| thought fifty thousand dollars would
! do, and I'm game. She said she felt
| that otherwise she couldn't marry me,
because so long as she didn't I'd prob
| ably be bachelor and probably will
ing to do these things for her. and If
she married me then she would be rob-
bing all the clubs and hospitals and
things that she's interested in"
Hmm" commented the acquaint-
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ance "She's nice girl-Poppy."
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