Show PRIMITIVE MAN I 1 by ELLIS MORE j professor Pio Plo fessor hudiburg Hud lberg iberg had heavy bushy eyebrows knuckly hands bands and features fea turea that were rugged there was no experiment that be would not at tempt ile he was brave in that way dut but when hen it came to making helen burnes acquaintance there his heart failed t and helen burne was of all the girls who studied under very one he wanted to know 1 I never could understand hebald he said to her one day when he had bad at last got up courage enough to talk with her aside from the necessary instruct tlona lions in the laboratory why aoa chose to specialize in chemistry helen looked up at him with bobil bowil derment dement test teat tube in hand am I 1 really so stupid ta she asked and her eyes ot of blue were very wide open indeed it Is not that perhaps I 1 have said more toan I 1 ought not at all helen replied putting down the test tube and wiping her acid stained hands bands on her enveloping apron I 1 I 1 see what you mean you mean that in your native land blondes like me would be picked for the career of a haus I 1 suppose you will have no use for me when you know that I 1 am a I 1 ve re just been elected president of the club here at college one day it wan waa S SLur burday lur day with no laboratory ho bo ire helen came unceremoniously into the lat lal oi 01 atory oh professor hudiburg Hud lberg iberg she began 1 I have just thought that you would do for a part in the suffrage pageant we are getting up tell me you will please ive goue gone ir the list of all the men in cogo co ege go and there tan t another one that looks the part 1 ill you yes said t tl prole pm fessor Bior happily oil oh lovely title said clasping tier bands I 1 you see we are going to depict the evolution of wo woman mantrom from primitive times to the present day A vie e are going to have the primitive roan man tiam damping ping down the primitive woman you 11 do beautifully for that you aro are so eo what shall I 1 call it well you yon have such euch wonderful dark bushy eye brows and you are so BO so rugged 1 1 I I am afraid but I 1 gave my prom ise there was a twinkle in the pro teasers dark eye clearly he was very much amused by any chance are you going to be the woman oh no indeed I 1 am going to be the emancipated woman I 1 chate aliat liat a be cause I 1 wn am president of the society I 1 shall wear a long flowing greek tunic with my hair down my back and all the arts and sciences will come before buforo mo me those will be some of the college boys dressed to symbolic the different subjects and pay me tribute the professor closed his eyes slightly and looked at her with a puzzled air yes yea that to is a very good idea he sold saad after a pause but you are not the one for the part one of those I 1 tall young persons penona there ore are so many amazons in your class would do much better for that final tableau that Is IB only my suggestion you yot would not really like always to remain on that pedestal alone independent self reliant would you ef helen blushed in spite of herself and said precisely what she did not wish to say thai tha depends a great deal i on circumstances no I 1 should I 1 ably become very lonely still it is all arranged I 1 must not change the plans ork tor for the suffrage pageant progressed helen put many hours into the work the affair prom promised iscil to be a really splendid product production loa helen had worked herself pale and worn over it and truth to tell had sadly neglected her studies because of it then ono one day it was the week after the midterm quizzes a very pale little helen appeared rather lim idly in the laboratory of professor 1 I wanted to tell you sho she began bega n and then swallowed a choke in her voice and went on that I 1 am no long or to have anything to do with the suf euf frage pageant it will be carried out as aa I 1 planned but on the results of the quizzes I 1 have hava had bad my warn warning note from the office that means you know that I 1 can take no more active part in college activities till I 1 have raised my it is fair air I 1 sup aup pose I 1 am glad at least that you dian didn t have to give me a bad mark I 1 should have boon been very sorry I 1 wn rn r n sure said the professor it ou had done anything but good work in my department what then of the primitive man that was as what T was going to say the pageant will go on without me of course they will m want ant you for ro hearsel tomorrow afternoon I 1 lave have rehearsed everyone else then you can please tell them that they will have to mil find a new primitive man made my promise 0 t you not to your successor I 1 had hoped for a means of escape although I 1 am so rr that it should bo be one that Is ant to you so far during this interview the young professor had bad been formal embarrassed barr assed end aud as was usual in such euch circumstances he spoke with ith rather more of an accent than he ordinarily did helen had turned to leave the laboratory when ho he saw juat the sug jestion of a tear standing out in her blue eyes helen he said I 1 love youl you Cory richt 1910 by the mcclure newspaper syndicate Synill cato |