| Show I < < I > ii < LI I r J1 Ir t AT THE n Do I y vrL = Y tS M A I PRESENTDAY FORD LOVE STORY G r 0 uy y G < J t < < r t < 1711 > > = < h P p A On 1 L Jo I I 11 I Co 11i i Copyright by McClure Phillips I When you have a nice new home In with a portc cochere i the country one I an outside chimney = and a fireplace in I i develop a desire i 11 the reception hall you 1 I friends come to see you i I to have your J The Dovleys did It was a question ol 1 who next l No more cooing young people for awhile t 1 while said Dovely They make me I r I i I feel old H t II 1 I rather like that kind said Mrs t I I i j Dcvely but It shall be as you say You ask a man and Ill find a girl I I f1 Ycs and theyll be flirting In two hours i 1 I Not If you get the right kind 1 i Marsh II Well Ill hunt up Brackett l I II then I thenIs 11f f I I I Is he nice I r I He has kept out of Jail ever since r Ive known him I Ii I i 1 Oh Fred you know what I mean I b r f I suppose I do Then he Isnt He sometimes forgets to tell the young II 1 h woman he meets for the llrst time that j r t He she has the profile of a Gibson girl I r Il c I dances badly He doesnt do tricks with 1 cards lie never wants to cook things l t In a chafing dish He hasnt sense enough to know that he ought to be Claying golf Instead of visiting charity J patients and attending clinics But he good fellow and we used mighty I I I J la a I r f to be chums f i I I That means that youll spend the day I smoking and talking of old times Well I ask him out for over Sunday Ill write to Calla Winthrop f t i To what class does Calla belong Is i j she a good fellow I She Is not She Is a young woman 4 I 1 with an aim in life You mustnt tease 1 it her jFred Her bump of humor is In Ii her chinand Its a dimple I I j I suppose she wears glasses and has I I 1 the grace of a broomstick 1 1 The idea She was the prettiest girl P In our class If you rave over her hair I I shall be Jealous I So It was arranged Mr Dovely hunted x hunt-ed up Marsh in the city and made him promise Mrs Dot ely s letter to Calla 1 I was urgent and brought an acceptance Tho Dovelys were to meet < them at the 653 on Saturday night But when the h t belated commuters dropped by No 11 at Willowbtuik had scuttled on into the I darkness of the suburb two persons 4 I I were left on the station platform One was a broad shouldered young man This was Marsh Tho other was a tall I I I I young woman In a tailor suit and a fur boar Miss Winthrop They seemed to I t foe looking for some one Twice they C had paced past each other carrying I their dress suit cases when the station i i agent came out He had turned out the lights and he locked the waitingroom c door behind him The young woman I I being nearer won Marsh fell back n waiting and alert He saw the agent t wave some directions The young woman wo-man started off Then his turn came r it I Would the gentleman direct him to the r home of Mr DovelyJ Just follow the lady sir Shes going I go-ing there and off went the hungry ticket agent I i I Marsh took the advice It was a brisk pace she was setting but he was soon r In close pursuit and reviewing a most Interesting compound fracture that hade had-e come in that morning The house surgeon I sur-geon had some hopes that amputation I might be necessary If so he had promised prom-ised to make Marsh his first assistant rl I L In the work He would be back in time What another turning He wished I wish-ed he could get hold of a tibia and relocate I I relo-cate the exact spot at which I Young man are you following me r r Eh What was this Here was a II l i young woman under a street lamp She 1 I t was looking sharply at him Oh yes t The one who was going to the Dovelys I See here are you following me iI Why yes said Marsh simply C I Then youd better stop It I Of course certainly No no I dont mean that The man at the station you I t know he told me to S I + Indeed Z Yea he Bald you were going to the II Dovelys So am3 I hope I did not I i frighten you I beg your pardon It Isnt necessary I am not timid 1 Do I understand that you are to be a I I guest there tor am and you f Also l r lain Miss Winthrop Marsh raised his hat and told his name Now said Miss Winthrop IOJ think it will look i u i better 1C we walk together the rest of 1 y 1 the way unless you prefer shadowhlg I t me meI waive all preferences ho said S 1 w May I carry your bag S I1 Miss VInthrop felt quite able to carry I it herself She added that the Dovelys a i house was the third on the right from 11 the corner They walked on in silence t I It was awkward Marsh searched his a t t mind In vain for a safe topic Being I i taken for a highwayman had scattered i his wits Beside there was little in the I manner of the young woman to invite I friendly talk Tho third house on the I right shone vividly against the background I I back-ground of night Streaming out over the l l I snow came the glow from many gas Jets and several big lamps 7 il I I It appears that we are not to be the I only guests suggested Miss Winthrop Looks like a house party or something fr I of the bort Marsh scented a social It It III I I I evening Will you please wait a moment II1I mo-ment Marsh stopped under the streetlight 1 I E I street-light 1 and flashed a time table from his i 1 I pocket He saw a chance of escape z i Its no useor said Miss Winthrop S I The nxt train down is at 1113 and I I I II stops only on signal I looked that up r 1 But I might wait on the platform I i And freeze Beside I should tell Mr 1 1 Dovely and he would go after you I I III 1 And bring me back like a bashful Ifti schoolboy youre right Marsh picked i e 1 l up his bag Ar I I think we should have mi under t i 1 standing first said Miss Winthrop I 11 I 1 Marsh dropped the bag Were you p 1 i told anything about the other guests f I 1t I I No I Imagined I was to be the only 1 i one I I j oneSo did I This Is Kittles work Can t tj r r I you guess why we have been asked out rt r I hereIm I ci + Im afraid not s 1 I it Of course you cant Well it was I If probably that we might meet each d other We are expected to be entertainingly I enter-tainingly Billy We are supposed to begin r I be-gin very distant and formal and by giggling I t gig-gling together In a corner behind a I c I I hook Let rot tell you now that I do hI not propose to do anything so ridiculous I rt 111 ridicu-lous I hope you will not expect It of i me I a meI am sure I shall not Very wells then let us go on Im cold and hungry Dovely himself came to the door He I 7I fl wore an ulster u cap and overshoes To nil Marsh who way in tho van he paid I f I Well youve conic sit lit t Its ulwil I i Oh Brackelt its ycu I thought It vsia ii L 1 tr i I r 1 i 5 c7 f t fr2 flit r t 1 l a rrs t II t I I ti 7 1 J 1 i l I t l I i i t itJk Ji r II I r l t t1r t MISS WINTHROP VA5JUST BOXING MRflAR5H S the plumber I had forgotten Ah somebodY with out This is Miss Winthrop Great Scott 1 mean delighted Com in andand keep l your things on Were in trouble Mrs Dovely they found shivering over a gas log in the drawingroom She was wrapped in a floor rug and was wearing her furs She had been crying too Dovely summed up the situation Hot water heating pipes burst in three I places cold water pipes frozen solid aterbaek in the range a wreck and very plumber in town with more work than he can do in a month How did It happen We went into the city for n few days and let the servants off Got back this morning and have been freezing ever since Gas Jets I find give out heat only in summer Then the illumination was not In our honor Pl1 tin Marsh f My dear fellow t we hadnt thought bout you once Our miseries have kept us too busy But Im going to ask you to stay and share them You dont have to accept though Marsh had quietly taken stock of the immediate future lie had already passed judgment on Miss Winthrop This tall girl with the hair like polished copper he did not like She had too much of superiority and independence In her manner Beside she had not onlY taken him for a robber but had uspeeted him of wanting to flirt wither with-er As well flirt with a pink icicle thought Marsh She would go back on the late train If he went it would ben be-n her company He shivered at the prospect I am going to stay he announced promptly So am I said Miss Winthrop I am going to see that Kittie docs not I reexe She had a line sense of duty Its so good of you paid Mrs Dove 1r weakly How nice that you should get acquainted on the way out here The humor of the situation suddenly appealed to Marsh Oh we flirted outrageously ageously all the time he said Miss Winthrop has already had to warn me Mr Marsh protested Miss Win hrop Didnt you tell me at the corner you would positively refuse to sit with mean me-an giggle behind a I book Yes but You see Mrs Dovely rllyCalla How you have changed h Mrs Dovely almost forgot her half congealed condition Marsh noted the ndignant flush on hiss Winthrops cheeks So did Mrs Dovely Actually flushing she thought And Calla Winthrop oC all girls Meanwhile Dovdy was looking at his riend with a quizzical expression Marsh favored him with a wink Mss Winthrop saw it and bit her lip Mr Marsh is pleased to be humorous humor-ous at my expense Kittle Please do not tale him seriously Now let us see what is to be done Have you had dinner din-ner I nerDinner Not unless you call sardines sar-dines and crackers dinner Miss Mary McClink our cook that was left before noon Sure an Im no Eskimo were her last words Miss Ollle Swenson the maid followed on the next train Mrs Dovely ended by pulling the rug closer around her The movement was eloquent elo-quent of despair Never mind Kittle Im going to see what can be done In the kitchen Cannot I be of some help too asked ask-ed Marsh Possibly if I if I promise not to squeeze your hand I promise said Marsh I Then Miss Winthrop who had lea rend all sorts of domestic sciences n college and who had practiced housekeeping In her home mission work began to make things move She showed the men how to disconnect the water lraek so that a lire might be built In the range she discovered that the fancy fireplace In the dlningroon was really practical and under her direction di-rection Marsh soon had a cheerful fire blazing behl1ld the shiny tiling By this time she had some water boiling and she superintended the thawing of the cold water pipes By 0 oclock the din ingroom table t was set and there wer jji i iy i Koiled 1 hops baked potatoes tea i 1 i i s rcvly lii < A i til lj yu 1 learn lc cio airs II things asked < Mrs Dovely But Miss Winthrop only smiled in her calm way I It was a jolly meal Afterward the men said they would help l with the dishes Then Mr Dovely thought he might catch his plumber and went out sirs Dovely offered to help but confessed essed her ignorance She was told to stay by the fireplace I and thaw So Miss Vinthrop and Marsh undertook the askDid I Did you ever wipe dishes Mr Marsh 7 demanded Miss Winthrop Im an expert said Marsh Where did you learn l 7 In Poverty How that is what we called our barracks at college We boarded ourselves you sec Oh said Miss Winthrop Theres n towel Now what shall I give you I first firstThe glasses please They polish best I when hot You do know something about it dont you It Is nlways so pleasant to be believed be-lieved after you have proved your statements Thats sarcasm Isnt it There I havent rolled up my sleeves Miss Winthrop looked at her dripping hands and then at her silk waist Let me do It said Marsh This distinctly disagreeable young woman he allowed himself to note had arms which were rather plump and graceful In trying not to notice them he looked into her eye She met the glance steadily Now dont be silly Mr Marsh she said It was his turn to flush and he did It However he rallied quickly rr1 couldnt help It You shouldnt encourage en-courage me Why Mr Marsh tIll t-Ill the way you look at me Surely I taw you wink then IV I wink Oh thats the way they all talk the bigger the flirt the greater the saint flhe pretends to be There you almost broke a glass You are trying to tease me now Not for the world My one desire Is to wipe these dishes as soon as possible I possi-ble and get away before you lead me Into any further nonsense I shall be < calling you Dearie next Mr Marsh dont you think this Is very light talk Deplorably so Miss Winthrop But as long as you lead J must follow Tam T-am so easily Influenced Now for the silver Did you mean for me to take your hand then Miss Winthrop was just boxing Mr Marshs ears when Mrs Dovely entered the kitchen Hltytlty What is this l she exclaimed is need a chaperon claimed I guess ed here Youre right Mrs Dovely Hold Marsh wiping away the traces left by wet fingers Veve Miss Winthrops been flirting again Kittle said Miss Winthrop he s I Just dreadful highly Mrs I Dovely was evidently amused T have always understood she said that It took two to get up a flirtation or a quarrel But this has been neither one nor the other protested Miss Winthrop It looked like both said Mrs Dove ly Well that is the way it began You can Imagine the progression It is not necessary to tell how during tho next two days for Sunday it snowed and blisizard bound tho Monday they were affair developed That which had been at first mere word fencing between two stranger natures took the form of a mutual mu-tual jest It bridges many chasms between be-tween people Now a mutual sorrow Is always a bond So docs a mutual Jest only In the latter case the bond Is I much stronger You may weep alone but you 1 W m1 ni9s > DaIIDg a r When Dr Dix deplores the steady decline oC womanhood from Its old Ideals and its deterioration through copying the ways and invading the sphere of his own of men the first Impulse of every man recalling the noble women But when we put personal feeling acquaintance is to resent the imputation current and in unimpeachable disclosed In the news aside and look over the whole field as impeachable statistics it is impossible to resist the conviction that the rector the classes with which he deals have of of Trinity is right American women I deteriorated from the old ideals j of womanhood twenty years ago for two divorced Would it have been possible fifty or even persons in fashionable society to have a wedding the very day of the womans divorce decree at which live of the ten guests had been themselves divorced In the United State In 1000 the censustakers found 1HC77 divorced women that this is an underestimate since many and the statistician in charge warns us divorcees described themselves as single with ruin from megalomania Her head The American woman Is threatened of self she forgets her duty to has been turned by adulation and in her worship husband family and country She becomes unpatriotic bartering her republican and vain shallow becomes extravagant She c can birthright for foreign titles from pleasure to She flits frivolously I She is forgetting how to manage a home pleasure and often from husband to husband Man has placed her upon a I pedestal but such stern yet needful admonition as that of Dr Dlx proves that Il is beginning to topple from her own acts New York World I A Red ll Ghost Story > Christmas had been thrilled A young woman at a country house party one with delicious horrors by tales of ghosts and hobgoblins told by certain of her i fellow guests about a generous fire just before they separated for the night The next morning she appeared at the breakfast table ready for departure and when pressed to explain her reason for going finally confessed that she was afraid to sleep under that t roof another night I She said that about midnight she was awakened by a stealthy step and to her horror saw a specter all In white at the foot of her bed and It raised its claw like hands and actually drew the coverlid off the bed There was no hallucination hallu-cination about It for thc coverlidwis gone While the Interest vas at Its height a belated breakfaster appeared and remarked re-marked genially How cold It vus last night Knowing that the room next to mine was unoccupied un-occupied 1 took the liberty of helping myself to an extra covering from there Country Life In America need ome one to help you when you If laugh I t I Calla Vlnthrop saw at last the humoi of Marsha attitude and came to appreciate n1 appre-ciate It keenly He hud developed her < latent scnst of the absurd In his > turn Brackett Marsh enjoyed the unusual role of Jester He had often envied In ot others the knack of relaxing lightshut f lips by mirth So Mr Dovtiy caught then smiling at each other and wisely t1 put It down an a cape of what she called love tit first sight Tuesday the blockade was lifted They were wading through the banked l snow to the station when Marsh stopped at the first corner It was here Dovely right under this lamp that she began flirting with me he said Oh no said Miss Winthrop It Was before that Jt was when I pretended I j to think you were a highwayman but you didnt see It then I Do you know Fred I feel proud of 1 that match said Mrs Dovely when she handed her husband the cards elx j months later Kittle1 said Dovely youre a wonder won-der Nov mused Mrs Dovely afterward after-ward what do you suppose he meant I 1 by that Ir I t Tho Alleged Now Sayings of Jesus The reported discovery k r archaeologists archaeolo-gists In Egypt of papyri containing sayings attributed to Jesus is of course extremely interesting but is evidently of no great Importance from a theological theologi-cal point of view The dicta are all Introduced In-troduced with the words Jesus saith and apparently were all addressed to I St Thomas With one exception the significance of the newly discovered f dicta t does not differ materially from that of the sayings ascribed to the Savior Sav-ior In the canonical gospels The exception ex-ception to which we refer Is the answer an-swer said to have been returned to the question as to when Christs kingdom should be realized he reply being When ye return to the state of innocence inno-cence which existed before the fall i The currency in Egypt of ouch a dictum which virtually amounts to a prohibition prohibi-tion of sexual relations between men and women may help to explain the appearance ap-pearance of celibacy and anchorltlsm In that country at an early date No warrant war-rant for such it prohibition can be found In the canonical gospels and the celibacy celi-bacy enjoined upon puesta at a comparatively I com-paratively late date by the Church of Home finds moat of its support in what lawyers would describe as an obiter dictum dic-tum uttered by St Paul The precise date to which the paIr1l that we aro now considering belonged seems not to have been authoritatively determined though the discoverers Dr Grenfell and Dr Hunt assert that the writinG on them cannot be referred to a date later than 300 year after Christ and probably prob-ably belonged 1 to a I period earlier by j some 200 years Harpers Weekly j |
