Show I Evening Out Chit tJ tJI I MET U T a young person yesterday whom I 1 had tried half halt an hour the u I before to t b s get by telephone Where U you and your mother between 7 and S last night 1 I de de- 0 At home homco she sho said No So o let me mo see Oh all yes wo we went over to tho the to hear henr their new phonograph and nd had to stay stay- an hour to he hear r all nil the tho records s Wh Why Well ell I tried triM and tried d and tried to set get ct you 1 0 by telephone Marion and I were cre going to the theatre but Marlon n 1 was called on a case caso at nt tho the last minute and tind I 1 thought you'd like to Lo go o. o Like Ike to go 0 she he said solemnly P Ruth you oU ought to be given I cn a month in tn solitary confinement for tor t telling me that Dont Don't you OU know I 1 haven't been to tho the theatre for tor months mouth and that I was wan bored to ex cx extinction ex- ex I unction last night and that I irate hate phonographs phonographs I graphs anyway n n and that Ill I'll 11 ape spend nIl the tho I rest or rue ino day thinking ir If ra Id on only I stayed at home Instead of oC going going- over o to he hear her r that wretched thing Id I'd havo O had such a good soad I time iliac Positively you ou aro are cruel I own o the soft Impeachment I nl certainly to have known better for tor haven't ha I J 1 Jlko Ilko all the rest rost of or th the world suffered agonies of or regret over the them m haw have been c-been opportunities and pleasures pleas pleas- urea ures that the people ople who Just missed be being be- be In ing able ablo to bestow them them upon me me- meIn Instead In Instead In- In stead of or telling mo ma about Indeed I ou ought ht to have havo been especially thou thoughtful about that detail for tor even now I am tormented with useless but tut p persistent per per- l stent s rc regrets over o a beautiful bargain in a n horse that would have havo been j Just t that spirited but o obedient able to mlle to In n two forty two forty ot as a lamb mirage of or a horse that Ive I've been of or and saving for tor man many years ears All All 11 but had n a chance to pick him up for lor you ou Miss s Cameron Tho man that owned him hint had to go JO away and sell him at any Rny acrin sacrifice Jf JC Id I'd been half an nn hour sooner Id I'd have cinched him for tor you ou Of course l Im I'm m awfully grateful for lor my friends friend's kindness In th thinking of me rue But I do wish ho lie hadn't told me about It for or I the tho Iho ghost t of or that lost loaf opportunity nIt will haunt mo me for life and If I were ere to own on a stable o of Arabian marcs mares It would bo be incomplete without that phantom horse Regrets arc most unpleasant things to feel teel might It s are ar Infuriating out of oC all RII proportion to their Importance Tho Tiro pleasures pleasure and opportunities wo 0 just missed misled are tho tiro most tantalizingly I enjoy enjoy- a able things on earth earth earth-aren't aren't arent nt thc they Well Veil then If you assent to that Im I'm going to consider that you OU have havo promIsed prom prom- i sed yourself never to Inflict the knowl knowl- r e edge dge of their lost opportunities upon your our friends 72 I r |