Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-11-14
Dumb Belle
By ALICE D. L
G. Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate
WNU Service.


Il out after his popular lecture on
psychology before the Women's
Clubs of DENLY because she was so
absolutely lovely. and because she
apparently hadn't assimilated a
single word that he'd said.
He'd had enough and to spare OF
intellectual women.
Because be was comparatively
young and very bronzed and big
and come1y they pursued him
chastely. with cooings born of much
book learning.
He'd come to DENLY, and his new
position In the university well on
the defensive. One glance at the
girls In his advanced classes and
he knew he'd better stick to books.
That's why he fell so hard for Jen-
nie-Lou T%ruesdale that very first mo-
ment he saw her. She couldn't
have been prettier and she couldn't
have looked more gaily un-
ashamedly dumb. He got himself In
troduced directly after the lecture
and looked raptly down at her five
feet one inch of curves, satlny skin,
ultra clothes and general sweetness
and said:
What were you doing at my lee
ture?"
She dlmpled at him and an.
swered with a daring little gurgle
of laughter: "Oh, | had to come.
My aunt's on the committee. Aren't
you tired of saying all those long
words?" He could have kissed her
with the greatest of ease.
When she suggested with a pro
vocative sweep of black, curly
lasnes against IN apple blossom
cheek. Il know a place where you
can dance and get tea with awfully
good rum In it." He said Lets
go" without even thinking of the
reception committee whom he was
MORALLY insulting.
He kissed her going home In the
car, and she said, 'Oh, you
shouldn't, should your" And he said
masterfully, Il should, and | intend
to go on doing So"
After that he spent every waking
instant with her for days. She
thought he was wonderful and told
MIN so, frequently. The simple
things had to be explained to her
in words of n syllable. mo, dear
precious, it's no use blowing up the
tire, 1t has a great big cut In 1t.
You remember you drove over all
that glass?' "Yes, dear, | do have
to study. No. | don't know all the
psychology there Is :" ETC., etc.
They were engaged two weeks
after they met and events pro
crossed smoothly toward a speedy
and elaborate wedding.
Then the blow fell. 1t was a re-
ceptlon. A plain woman came up
to the happy pair. She beamed up
at Ernest.
You're getting a real little treas
ure," she told him. II had Jenny.
Lou In all my courses In the unlver-
sity. and she passed with honors.
She may not know much about your
subject, but she's at the top In her
own"
1t was SCATTERING All Jennie
Louis adorable dumbness had been
a line, thenl Ernest couldn't take
1t. The thing he loved was dead.
He took advantage of a conven-
tlon In the Middle West and went
away. He couldn't bear even to
write to Jennie-Lou. For the first
few days a sense of escape from a
lifetime of companionship and men
tai equality sustained him. But
after that he realized that he want
ed Jennie-Lou. de wanted to hear
her gurgling little laugh and her
delightfully."-. idiotlc questions and
wipe away her facile tears. He
decided to sacrifice everything for
love.
She greeted him ecstatically.
Bad boy, not to write" she chided
him gently. Il should scold you
for that. Darling, we've had thirty.
six new wedding presents. And my
wedding dress Is DONE" she CUR.
gled lnfectiously.
. . .
1t was on the boat that Ernest
summoned up his courage. He had
loved Jennie-Lou enough to give up
the dream of a lifetime and marry
her complete with honors. He had
given up years of comfortable eve
nings of dancing and lovemaking
and foraging In the Ice box for the
horrors Of discussing each others
work.
He held Jennie-Lou close, as he
asked tensely, Sweetheart, what
vas your subject In school?"
SCHOOL," she asked vaguely.
school? Oh. yes! Oh. | never
stayed in college, dear. | think II
would have been too awfully Dor.
ing. don't your she gurgled. Il al
ways forget you keep on and or go
ing to college," She laid a bright
mead against his shoulder. Il took
domestic science" she told him. "Oi
course not the chemistry part and
all that silly stuff about what foods
are which Evprvhndv aatS tho