Show MADE A MISTAKE I IN THE YOUNG MAN Chicago News Blue repeated the young oung woman with the suspiciously red eyes as she hunted for another handkerchief I should say anybody had a right to be blue who wio had been treated as I have haveIt haveL It Jt L because I was so 80 awfully fond of him either But it makes me so mad when hen I think Theres a customer down at the theother theother theother other end of the counter broke in her friend who was measuring off French flannel Let her wait walt gloomily retorted the blue young oung woman The floorwalker anywhere fn In sight Somehow these ginghams and percales make me roe feel worse I suppose it was all the fault Of my m reading that article on how ho to tomake tomake tomake make yourself fascinating It J t said to find out what a man was Interested In Inand Inand Inand and gently gentl lead him to talking about it And who ever heard of a man from Canada who ho just crazy ice lee and skating and such things They always alwa s wear knit toboggan caps too helped the girl at tho the flannel counter I remember a 1 picture on a calendar Was Vas It Jimmy Yes it was admitted the blue young oung woman And you know per perfectly well he lie has rushed me ever since he was put on this floor he take me to the es dance in lit a car ear carriage carI Id rd like to know I Nom Som we any ginghams like that It was wan way wa at the bottom of the pile and I aint going to lift bolts of cloth for any an woman today If she does joes wear a sealskin coat oil And he hc was that devoted added the I girl measuring flannel Well Veil I aint saying anything about that replied the th blue young oung woman with dignity But when the zero weather beganI began I started to telling hIm how I 1 loved the bracing cold c ld and adored skating and how I yearned to enjoy the coasting we had back home when I was a kid I thought hed tee ee that I sympathized with hl ideas Idell and entered into his enjoyments and was a really jolly companion Can you ou skate inquired d her cr com corn companion companion panion doubtfully I 1 can make a stab tab at it reluctant reluctantly ly admitted the girl who was blue But to be honest If there Is anything that gives me the ague from top to toe be beIt It is to have to get moren a yard away from a steam radiator on a chilly night Anybody who wants the crystal air and the tho still wintry win tn stars and the rest re t of it can have hae them and welcome but tui it itis itIs itis is just agony to me I most die Talk about heroines I guess I vas as one the first t time Jimmie wanted me to so go o skating It pains me meet yet et to think of the smile I wore all nil evening I said Id never enjoyed any anything anything anything thing so In all my m life and that he lie I was the only man I knew who was athletic and loved outdoor sports ports and of course I he do much of anything Hit but offer to tG take me again could he heI I dont see SO how he could crawl cut Gut Gutof of It admitted the girl giri who was sell seU selling ing log flannels Well we Wt skated and tobogganed and then we ve skated some more from that time on and I spent all aU my salary buying cough syrups and chest protectors tors tots and glycerine for my chapped hands mournfully related the first girl Nom Som the pink gingham is all aU sold Well I cheered up when I remembered remembered bored that winter last always I and I had lots Jots of chances before an another another other one came So I vetoed oyster suppers sU pers and nice warm theatres and nd I Ithe the Cinch club and endured Arctic weather with Jimmie He seem seemed d so i sensible otherwise that I see fee seewhy why wh he had to be about wanting to freeze death when he have to And after ator all III I en endured endured n dured She broke off and hunted for her handkerchief again he get busy asked the yin girl irl I at the tho flannel counter Busy quavered the other as she snipped off samples for a persistent per customer Ive re just heard that he told his sisters husband who is a cousin cf rf an aunt dunt of mine who told me that he used to kind of like mo mn but I was as a lunatic outdoor sports and would not enjoy myself otherwise and he ho had had bad enough of frostbitten lingers and andt toes t Jes and was going to slide out ut of the game save his life He Hf H said Mamie Iamie Peters who budge outside the thedoor thedoor thedoor door from November till April looked hoOked good to him and a fellow could enjoy her society and be comfortable In I a aci civilized ci way wa at the sane same time Ard And he ha goes goes to see sec her every other evening Nom I dont ont know where the stop sep sf ladlers ladders are After all the misery miser I endured too Well Its a perfect shamo shame aid sald the at the flannel counter a |