Show the popular girl by THOMAS ARKLE CLARK dau doan of men university of illinois TON did not return to col lege after tho the Chint inns vacation he ile va uns down doun in his studies hie ids in tractors truc tors laid hie ids father did not wish him jilin to con continue e he be told the fellows lie hod had accepted a position the college announced hut but the he real facts were that it uns a erl a very popular girt girl who mho had upset middleton and put an end to hie his college education edde atlon sho she won a pretty girl with pleasant manners nian nere and stylish clothes and a nady ready how flow of or talk and nod exemplary morale it her clothes had been a little lose less correct morale A a little leea less exemplary she might have been less dangerous from tho the time she he had find entered the high school she find kept a string of fellows follows about her und and ehe she had played then them adroitly skillfully and with a bloody steady eye to her own selfish interests it one ever tried to break away she melted immediately and gave him film the impression that he lie iran lie the only one for whom eho she had really cared and he lie usually rushed d back into her train when barton earton entered college he woe was ambitious and gave promise of an excellent t record but she was as attracted by him and he no sooner came under her fier influence than he lost all ambition he ile mas wild after her spent bis his mone on her and neglected everything to be with her she would never let him jilin alone played with him in a tantalizing tanta lising way nay called him on the telephone if he be failed to see her and then U when hen ehe alie had ruined him ag as a student and tired of him as an a lover threw him L aside unemotionally and picked up another victim there had bad been several of them before middleton came a shy sensitive tenderhearted tender hearted boy easily led e easily sally discouraged and in love with the girl 1 his ills attentions altered Aate red her and though she did not really care for bun him ehe she was too calculatingly selfish to let him go she smiled on him and almost insulted him in turn she made engagements with him and then broke them without compunction if a more desired escort came along she counted on his coming whenever he never she back boned and andl 00 too oo weak to resist her she made life for him a constant uncertainty and hell which be he left college to rid himself of such a man Is weak you say any perhaps but a real woman might have strengthened him encouraged him set for him ideals or best of all she might have let him alone there are many such girls with pretty faces and cursedly attractive clothes Iner incapable pable of mal feeling and incapable of at an unselfish thought they come out unscathed many people think from these social escapades but it is not true they pay every one of them sometimes the time of pay anent Is long deferred but they pay to the last farthing cruelly far more than their little petty popularity and pleasures are worth when they come to the point of wanting friends there are none when they want love and real devotion they are gone through tf their trifling with sacred e emotions they become incapable of feeling or appreciating such emotions and the end is loneliness unhappiness and neglect ma 1929 union |