Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-01
By ROE

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Betty Brown believes she has de-
voted too much time 10 cu~ltivatiag
her mind and not enough to her
b1ay- She decides 10 take up dane
ing. and goes TO a summer camp for
that purpose. George Harris. her
next-door neighbor, a slow, stolid
boy who had been her hest friend,
70 almost forgotten because Harry
Ford, a happy, careless, joking
ycungster, kisses her rs she was
never kissed before. lie, too, is
lest when Andy Adair kisses her
wild just before she does her first
solo dance. She dances to aud for
Andy, and at the end Of her dance.
when she refuses to go outside with
him, he dashes away, seemingly an
cry with her.
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CHAPTER XIV
The Sunday after Betty had
danced for Andy Adair she was still
wondering why he had gone away
angry with her. She decided to ask
Lois.
Lois. did you notice that as soon
as ] had finished my dance last
night, Andy went home?
wasn't interested In the rest or
US, eh?"
"Nc, il wasn't that. I ought not
70 ten but before ! danced he kiss
ca &c. might as well be honest
about IL; IL thrilled me to death! /
aancsd Tor him, trying to make him
ilEe me more. When ! finished he
begged me te &c out for a walk
VITA him. OF course I couldn't ~.
tor Il would have BEEN impolite 10
leave before the other girls had fin
isAed dancing. Then he jumped an
n went home angry"
Smart kid" laughed Lois. na..
ting her arm.
II don't know what You meant
%asIl be back" Lois spoke with
conviction.
But why did he go?p
2 are either tina dumhest or
. snaertest thing know" Nois
looked &C her c~uriously.
II must be cumb, I don't under
stand u &C all. lie must have known
! couldn't 60 cut with him thnntr
Listen 20 me. lissls one. IN is
never safe TO 70 out in the DARK
with q man in that hunor. IL ven
want TO come back in one pieceI
Never trust yourself with them
when they r agitatet like that
Salome got the head Of John the
Baptist by danring, but many more
women have lost their own heads
trying the same experiment" She
laughed and vfsixed AVA leaving
Betty only half informed.
True to Betty's prediction. Andv
~telephoned on Friday to ask IL he
might come down or the following
Saturday He requested Betty 10
be dressed for a drive. She could
not do this; her parents wrre COM
ing to take her home, as il wax thu
last day OF the camp. hndy, aid
net seem pleased. when he asked
u she would drive with him the fell
lowing week she gladly rensente6.
saturday was q day Of f~areurelIs
a. the camp. Betty regretted Ieav-
irg, Tor II had bean a happy three
months. Whsn they had an said
goodbye. escti assuring the other
they would meet again thu folIou-
irg summer, Betty took the bus
with her folks ana went home. Vera.
ne rsd-hssded girl. avoided her. ard
did not say gpos-hve.
At home Betty put = ta,o~rard
square Of linolsim on her bedroom
tiocF' on which 10 practice her dane
tng. The foot Trail OF her old-fash-
icned brass kei made a splendid
substitute for an exercise bar. w
cry cay. inrsndirtely after bresk-
fast, Betty dis her bar work sws
.xsrt throlsh the reusinss 81 ths
five 1Ances size had learned daring
The
She had developed a natural rra~a
ana her sincerity as 4 student dur
iag ner high school days made Mar
quick at learning. She was hes. ~
Arfohatic. which Selikoff told 49,
was the meet attractive fem 81
dancing for people who aid M.
know Into one routine she hu6
introduced a few seemingly diffi-
cult splits, trout overs and eart.
wheels, Which her father a~pplaud.d
cx~trsvREanfly.
In addition she had a nice waltz
clog fise-step, a soft-shoe mrs.
Der and q iszr encore, the routine