Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1931-04-24
| Wonderful Tag Day
! for Pretty Jane
BY JANE OSBORN
e. 1881. Mcclure Newspaper syndicate.I
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&c. 1881. Mcclure Newspaper syndicateI
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ZANE DONALDSON, twenty, and
y junior in the normal college, would
certainly not have enumerated shyness
as one Of her characteristics.
Then came tag day-the great tas
day, so far as the normal college was
concerned. To be sure Glenton had
hal many such days on her calendar
recently. But none of the other or
CARNATIONS had had five hundred
young women, most of them charming
in one way or another. to go out tag
glng. There were twenty-five names
on list whom the willy committee had
put there because they belonged to the
two-dozen-and-one prettlest girls in the
college-therefore pretty sure to be
the most successful taggers.
Jane Donaldson was one of these.
OF course she would be. Even If Jane
had not been pretty she would have
been a successful tagger. for she had
such a charming voice, and even II
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an ordinary voice, still she would have
been chosen because of her frank, win
some manners that would have made
everyone think her pretty anyway.
James first location was the rail-
road station. She with cIassnate
was to be there from the time The
early morning train drew out until aft.
er the morning rush. The first com
muters' train went at seven-twenty.
but those who came for that train
were young boys working at their first
jobs, laborers some of them with pals
or lunch boxes. Jane felt terribly con.
spicuous and had wild desire to teaI
away the wide oSe-cOlOred ribbon thai
she wore from one shoulder to hec
waist at the opposite side, and the
rOse-colored paper hat that designated
her as an official tagger. She trailed
one commuter timidly and then intend
ed TO step bravely up to address
another as he came hurrying in. But he
was so well dressed and so much brisk
er looking than the others who came for
this early train that her voice failed
again and she stepped back.
The man stopped. He asked her
what she had said. and as she turned
away he went to her inquisitively.
"You started to say something to
me-" ne said. you wanted me to buy
one of your tags. What's the rnatterf
WHY did Won draw backf"
81 think | lost my nerve" admitted
Hare. and added. ''but please hurry.
The train has been In a minute and
I'm afraid II won't wait long. Please
hurry"
The man dropped a dollar bill into
I.ne,s box and bolted-Jane waited
uooerIv--oud in a few minutes he
came hack
~You lost YOUR train" said Jane.
",cJ its all NV fault. I'm SO sorry"
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for tho oevt train but lane left them
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