San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-09
The Pretty Bungalow of the
Lorenzo's at Florida City, Fla.

TOR years young Raleigh G. STAN
r. ton, of Florida City, Fla, has 4
been in predicament-a deli NJ
cate and trying predicament for a
conscientious young man. He has
been in love with two nice girls and
no matter how honestly he tried he w
simply couldn't make up his mind
which one he loved best.
With Raleigh it was 100 per cent o.
"How happy I'd with either were
t'other dear charlner away"
To make things more painful, both beau.
tiful girls have been in love with him. And
that placed them in a dilemma, too, be-
cause they were sisters, and they devotedly
loved each other. and not for worlds would
either Of them do anything that would
bring unhappiness to the other.
A little more than year ago Stanton
got his diploma as civil engineer. He
did exceptionally well at school and was
regarded as one of Florida City's most
promising young men. He was ambitious
and wanted to begin practising his pro-
fession and get along in the world. But
before he left the old home town he
wanted to marry He knew that he could
never be happy with any one in the world
but Lorette forenoon her sister Doris
He couldn't leave them behind for some
one else to win away from him. He could
never get his mind on his work until either
Doris or Lorette was Mrs. Stanton. But
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1t was time the Lorenzo sisters mar
ried, too. They were the prettiest girls
in town, and the most popular. Their
trim little bungalow had always been the
gathering place for the young folk of the
little city, but the old crowd, of course.
had gradually broken up, paired off and
married. and the pretty Lorenzo sisters
were getting on-on toward twenty-three
or four.
None of the other boys in town had ever
dreamed of rushing" them. They were,
and always had been, Raleigh Stanton's
"private property" They had never cared
snap of their fingers for any one but
Raleigh. He had never given a thought
to any girl but them. They wanted to
marry just as much as he did, but he
couldn't marry both Of them. Neither
knew which he liked best.
And poor Raleigh, honestly loving both
of them, didn't know either.
The neighbors saw nothing unusual in
Raleigh Stanton having two sweethearts
instead of the conventional one. Even
small-town gossips get used to a thing if
IT goes on long enough; and the three
cornered love affair, in which there was
no bitterness, or rivalry. OF jealousy, had
been going on as long as any one could
remember.
Back in the days when Lorette and
Doris wore pigtails and big pink bows
Raleigh always met them in the mornings
and carried their books along the shady
street 10 school Even then he liked them
both. and both of them liked him 1t
never occurred to any of them to wonder
which he liked best. They were all three
sweethearts. "They were his queens in
calico, he was their bashful, barefoot
beau" and that's all there was to it.
If one morning he brought an apple to
Doris il was lust naturally understood
that the next morning he would pick
handful of daisies and give them to
Lorette. When they all vowed to love
each other always and he took out his
pocket-knife and carved big heart with
an arrow through it on a pine tree he
saw nothing out of the way in cutting all
three of their, names on the heart-and
neither did they.
Later, when the sisters put up their
hair and he put on long pants, their three
some went on just the same. If Raleigh
happened to meet Lorette on the street
and wanted to do something doggy, he
might take her into the drug store and
buy her an ice cream soda. But next day
he would be sure to walk out with Doris
and buy her an ice cream soda, too
But about the time the three young
lovers graduated from high school, Ra-
leigh now and then got moody on then
picnics together, OF while they were hav
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