Show SOME GOOO SHORT sNot s-Not Fited For the Contest Cleveland Plain Dealer Perkins was sitting in the cornf the club ilduIgfng in the blue i lookIng a sad as a man is perlt to wlthoutbeing arrested as a pub Jeing nuisance Ever and anon he heed sigh that ended in a groan and in va 1 rous other ways made it known to tht section of the world In hIs immediate vicinity that he was In the lat stages of despair Presently his old friend Jorkins appeared on the scene and organized committee or-ganized himself into an Investigating I Why whats the mater old chap One would think that you were rehears ing a melodrama from the way you are goIng on Well that is pretty near what Is the mater A melodrama is the cause of all my sorrow If it were not for Cyrano de Bergorac I would be happy Explain yourself That miserable fad has caused a breach between my fiancee andme and I have lost her forever Impossible exclaimed JorkIns sympathetically Ils is It Well I guess you dont know the circumstances I took MIss MIyuns to see that wretched play and she immediately decIded that she wanted want-ed to be a Precieuse like Roxane and that I must begin t make love to her in highfalutin terms Why that is easy Just get a book of poetical quotations and tum poetcal quotatons tur yourself your-self loose I should think I woUld be great fun and a pleasant change from the humdrum courtships in vogue Oh thats all right but you are not aware of the fact that my chief rival rval is a risIng young political orator who began life as a space writer |