The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-01-30
AFFIRMING ALICE OF HIS
DREAMS
BY Lily Wandel


Jack Seabury looked at Billie
Dorm in Knockers cleaning her golf
clubs theoretically, with stern dis
approval. He vigorously disliked
the athletic type Of girl and Billie
was all Of that, surely. He honest
~ could not remember ever having
heard her say she was tired, OF
chilly or afraid; you could not pro-
tect or take care of a girl like Bill
lie, she stood too firmly on her own
feet. She was not the girl he
dreamed about, lovely feminine
type of sweet delicate beauty and
certainly not named Billie! He
rather fancied the name of Alice,
1t was SO distinctly feminine.
The girl he would marry, this
Alice, would not be sitting on a
tree stump where snakes were Ii
able to be, in Knockers with her
arms burnt nut brown! He fan
cied Alice would be in some fluffy
dress safely on the clubhouse
porch.
Say, Billie" He savagely swish
ed off some leaves with his bras
sic, I'm in love!"
If he had looked up he might
have seen deep red dye Billie's
cheeks and throat, a jubilant shine
come into her velvet blue eyes.
with whom, Jack?" she asked
carelessly, but the brown fingers
scrubbing the putter were not quite
steady.
with a wonderful girl Billie, a
girl of my dreams. I can see her
now, blue eyes Che really did not
know Billie's were blue, for they
were such dark blue, but Billie
sitting there on the tree stump held
her breath; what she had hoped
and longed for was coming true!)
that are gentle and soft" contin-
ued Jack; "hair that is fluffy and
glinty and a skin-the kind that
you love to touch!
And" continued Jack, totally
luscious of the dagger he was
about to fling, "she doesn't play golf
nor ride! And she's afraid of snakes
and once in a while she gets tired"
Billie picked up the putter and
began to rub and scrape, and then
with all the braveness of hero
started to whistle a popular air.
What's her name, Jack?" she asked
in a teasing voice her heart like
leda.
".I think it's Alice" he answered
softly. Funny thing is I've never
met her nor seen her-but I want
to-if only couldp
"Don't despair. Sooner or later
you will; there are plenty of these
Alices, you know. Jack, believe if
we want a thing bad enough we
get it. Just affirm Alice. Every
time you think of this Alice pic
tured in your mind, say very pos
itively, Alice u.s.
It was week later when Jack
noticed new girl at the club. A
girl with pale gold hair, a white,
transparent skin and baby blue
eyes. She was knitting yellow
sweater that lay like a patch of
sunlight on her white frock of
soft silk. Jack lost no time in OBJ
tanning an introduction to Miss
Willard. Almost Immediately he
asked her whether she enjoyed
playing golf.
She shook her pretty head. I'm
afraid I'm not very athletic. I've
never been very strong"
But you, ride? Or drive your
own carr" he waited anxiously for
a negative answer. what is your
first name?" he continued eagerly.
She looked up and smiled. cal
ice."
II thought so," he answered
gravely. II knew it must be AL
ice"
It annoyed him exceedingly an
hour later when he rushed to the
courtroom, his head full of plans of
ordering orchids and roses, to have
his best friend, Phil Raker, stop
him. 81 want to say goodby to you
Jack. I'm leaving for the West"
Jack wasn't bit interested, but
his friends face looked so grief
stricken he was forced to stop and
ask why the hurried trip.
"You wouldn't understand, Jack.
You're a bachelor and I've been
married seven long years; No one