Show HIS WASTED EFFORTS if pearile battershall Fatte Fatt ershall had bad told him to shave have his hair in tufts and to walk down doin main street on his hil hands and hie his heels in n the air tom flanz would have obeyed tier her at least that a what everybody in town eald said they also eald said it waa was per factly ridiculous what a a man could make of himself jost just because he had fallen in love with a girl that fall pearlle pearile began raving raying over the football players on the state university team whose picture pictures viere ere in all abe weekly paper papers and abat made it more serious was the fact that uen ben one ot of the town boys and a rival of tom a waa was on an the team tom torn shivered to think of the holiday vacation when ben would be homo home and pearile could worship him in person tom realized to the full the vagaries of the fei feminine heart lie knew know that mere worth did not co boint int against bras brass buttons or brawn and hen lien tir lit certainly lad isad plenty of the latter lie looked like a young ox at tom bitterly revolted renol ted gazing at the football team as pictured in to the window of petersons drug store every time he went to call on pearlie nowadays slie she recited the football cores scores to him and inquired if it he didn dian t think the run that lien made in the last game waa was perfectly wonderful she said ale e just loved athletic men that nettled it tom flanz flan w waa built on fat and bulky lines but it pearlle pearlie liked em athletic why athletic he be would be there vae was something heroic about tom whole sacrifice ul t himself what be really liked was a big plateful of buckwheat cakes to breakfast and an easy chair and tiding instead oa 0 walking but he held hold grimly to hie diet religiously swung bis his indian clubie painstakingly worked he bs patent exerciser and walked five miles a day im mining training down he be told pearlle pearlt battershall Fatt ershall with pride 1 I really rally have hay got a lot of mus muscle clef I 1 have you she asked absently I 1 bave have thought it did you ever play football when you were at college T what chance tom finni reflected desperately on the way home bad had a fellow tied down by bus busness nees agarrat a great lazy loafer at school who did nothing but chase a football over the ground then he redoubled his exer also els P it as such a serious matter with him that his friends began to take an interest they all aitio I 1 ne that T tom om waa was immolating himself I 1 usa use pear lie Fatt battershall ershall liked athletic men they took a personal interest in his bl cutting out den and when that young gentleman came home at boll day time and took pearlle pearlie to the dance they vwe wore indignant they considered that she was playing un fairly hut but tom kept on with his exercise ara bis his diet lie ile began to gow thin naturally but that did ct c t satisfy him tor for he yearned for the bulit and brawn of however he could not have the bulk without it by fat and this worried nib hir he lie read all the sport porting lg pages ot of the city newspapers in order to enliven his conversation by and gossip and thus prove to pearlle pearlie that ho he took an abiding inte trite at dt in athletics instead of being impressed Impre Mod by br this she took it ae as a matter of course people do like spot and alb fetics she sighed did you happen to lotice what the last football score was 1 I can lift tn pound borto morto than ny other man in town tom told her one esy late in the wante I 1 can you pearlle pearlie ashod politely the use tom flanz a jaw dropped 1 1 I thought you liked athletic men ment he stammered out youre so carzy over the football foe ball news and den 1 1 I lit and things like that beet trying to qualify quality P pearlle earlie I 1 knew know you t like me just tor for myself and iva I 1 been working bard hard athletics this winter I 1 cant play football toot ball but I 1 can do lots of oth other r chines thing st pearlle pearile Fatt battershall ershall looked at him 1 with startled eyes do you mean to say ehe she began indignantly that youve deliberately gone bout about getting thin and scrawny and like a pickled chicken as you bavo bayo ben been lately because you thought I 1 d like you better my goodness tom flaex I 1 like you heaps better when yours you re fat and com fordable for table and I 1 dont care it youre ath letl lett or not nott why you are youl pearlle pearlie breathed tom om maas in a voice broken with emotion way why the dickens you tell me that early I 1 list tat fall think of at all the buck wheat cakes I 1 ve missell mis inta |