Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-17
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swing, a boy sitting so close to her that their two shadow
Jgures seemed TO melt into one. Betty saw his dark coat
black-haired head blotted out the girls face entirely
Betty knew he was kissing her.
George continued to talk of the success of the party.
she dropped encouraging monosyllables from time TO time
o keep him talking while she was busy with her thoughts.
She looked over the tops of the cars parked beneath
me Neranda; toward her came another couple, walking
eisurely to the parked cars. The boys arm was around
She girl; she was looking up into his face, singing. The
Moonlight shone on an auriole of blonde hair framing her
ace in gold. Her low throaty contratlo sang:
Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly,
/ gotta love one man til / die.
Can't help lovin' that mani
" At the conclusion of each short stanza. the boy stoop-
Ii and kissed her.. He opened the door of the parked car
! Id they stepped in.
There was no more of the song.
Betty wondered what she would do if a boy kissed
n like that. Would she slap his face? Would she
:spond! she had long ago made up her mind not to per,
it such liberties; tonight she realized she had never had
. ccasion to protect herself rom them.
Turning impatiently to George she said.
Lets go to the other end, and get away from these
betting parties!'
Strolling along the veranda they passed a couple
which separated hastily as they approached. The boy
at in a big wicker porch chair and the girl was balanced
pcrilously on its arm. Betty wondered if the girl had
been on his knee.
golf course. As the orchestra started up, Betty saw two
Houples come out of the shadows of the trees around the
First ee and stroll toward the house. One girl combed
Der bobbed hair.
George had concluded his long monologue. but Betty
lad long since lost the thread of his story. Her How
Interesting - seemed to satisfy him.
Lets 90 dance" he suggested. "As chairman of the
committee on arrangements it's my duty to be seen on the
loor."
Let me stay here she suggested. There are sew
raj girls on your committee you should dance with. I'll
tay here in the moonlight. II | want to dance Ill come IN.
"Shall l send Pete or one of the boys out to you?'
mo, please, I'd like to be alone with the moon"
Remember" George acclaimed with a ponderous
ttempt at humor. THE ancient Greeks evolved the word
unatic' from the root luna meaning moon. They
bought the rays of the moon made people insane"
81 feel tonight as though there were something in the
DEAF laughed Betty.
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chool pass her up? She recalled with what pleasure
he had once heard a boy refer to her as a part Of the
bighbrow crowd. That must be the trouble. She thought
he average high school boy was far from %highbrow:
|ut she believed she was attractive to the better class Oh
|oys.
Hey. Sister, A boy come toward her from the club
ntrance. "Why so pensive and alone when there is so
nuch important kissing to be done and the incest moon
hat ever-Scuse: Betty" he finished lamely' i didn't
now it was you!'
"No?" She was more confused than he And |
ont come in the kissing group?
She was abashed at her involuntary remark.
Gosh, I would as soon think of trying to kiss the
orty-seventh problem Of Euclid" laughed the boy pass
Until tonight she would have felt c~omplimented at
UGH a statement, but the woman in her was hurt cruelty
Y the remark. She had never felt that way before. what
AS it about her that inspired a remark like that!
She shook her head impatiently an went INTO the
alIroom. where couples .circled in a slow waltz. The stag
ne did not notice her, but George, conyerslng with a pro-
essor of mathematics. came to her immediately and I'M
he'd the waltz with her.
AT the conclusion of the dance many drifted through
&c I'm open windows onto the moonlt veranda. George
pok her to the professor of mathem atics, who tried to IN
uce her to take up teaching as a life work.
She looked at him and at his rather dowdy wife. She
ID not feel as much complimented as she would have a
wv DAYS before. Somehow culture had lost its lure.
She asked George to take her out onto the veranda,
COMPLAINING of the heat. Once outside she turned to him
I'd asked:
George. am | pretty"
"Why. OF course" he answered, as though there was
O doub. of il in his mind. Had he stopped there she would
ave been pleased, but he continued:
But of what consequence is mere prettness? Dog
rs Of girls in our class have doll baby prettiness. 1t Is
cpth of character and brains which really count"
Count how? Count where? Count when? asked
city.
"Count in the final analysis" answered George, pc
antically. who is interested in mere surface things like
rettiness, clothes and things of that sort?"
Every one seems TO BEL commented Betty. plain
Fvely.
"No one who countsl' assured George. Then he
aunched into a general discussion of the beauty of char
cter which sounded to Betty as though he were rehears-
q a speech. She believed he had forgotten her exis-
nee and was talking to an imaginary audience. George
ad wanted to be a lawyer, but. lack of money had forced
i'm to take n position as cashier in a big down town res
urant.
Would he never STOP George had never irritated
er before. She had liked his clearcut way of thinking
nd the logical way he puts his views.
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