TO LOVE!
TO LIVE!
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By R. K. WILKINSON
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VER since she could remember,
Edna May had ioved Henry Ap-
pleton.
Of course at first it wasn't
really love. Not the way sophisticat-
ed people thought about love,
It had all started with a girlish ad-
miration, a sort of worship.
For Henry was truly a hero to be
worshipped.
Even in grammar school he was an
outstanding figure in boyish sports.
And later in high school when he
began to feel his maturity he was
elected captain of the football team,
and was prominent in all social ac-
tivities,
A tall, handsome figure, decidedly
masculine, yet finding time to bask In
the warmth of the worship Edna May
and other girls bestowed upon him,
Afterward, Edna May entered Smith
and Henry went to Harvard.
She could only see him occasionally
then.
But the newspapers played him up
big, predicted he would be the coming
gridiron star.
And through it all Edna May's re-
gard wavered not at all,
The girlish feeling of admiration
ripened and grew into what must be
love,
No other word could explain the
thrill she felt when Henry asked her
to a sophomore hop.
Edna May remembered that
vividly.
She went over big, and this seemed
to please Henry a lot.
Like all college men he had been
afraid of being stuck with a flat tire
on his hands. She'd only danced with
him twice during the evening.
And after it was over four couples
of them went home together In the
same automobile, and Henry had left
her at the door of the dormitory where
she was staying with a hurried good-
night and the merest trace of a hand
squeeze,
hop
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But he must like her, she told her-
self.
He must, or he wouldn't have asked
her to a big event like the sophomore
hop, with dozens of other girls willing
and eager to go,
On three other occasions during the
four years of college she had gone to
Cambrtiige and attended Harvard
functions with Henry.
And during her junior year he had
been her guest at the prom.
But their relations had never got
beyond the brother and sister stage
That was the trouble.
Henry had always acted more like
a brother to her, That sickening "big
brother” stuff.
Just because thelr families were
friends and they had been brought up
together in the same town, had at.
tended the same public schools, played
in the same sand pile
Henry probably thought, she re.
flected bitterly, he had a duty to per-
form. That's why he took her around
some—out of respect to the families
After college Henry came home and
went to work in his father's bank, and
Edna May lived with her folks and
said she'd like to stay home for a
while rather than travel in Europe
for a year at her mother's suggestion,
But the real reason for it was be-
cause she wanted to be near Henry.
Surer than ever she was now that
she loved him.
That feeling that had grown and
ripened and turned from adoration to
admiration and then to respect
couldn't be explained any other way.
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They saw each other frequently.
They played tennis together and
swam and danced at the Country club,
But Henry's attitude remained the
same—a sort of casual Indifference, a
brotherly regard.
If he saw that she had developed
from a gawky girl into full and ap-
pealing maturity, the change failed
to interest him.
He talked to her freely about other
girls, called her attention to any at-
tractive females who appeared from
time to time at the club dances, Iin-
furiated her by paying court to the
young Mrs. Morgan, whose husband
had died of pneumonia two weeks
after their marriage.
It angered her to feel this way.
She knew it was useless, hopeless.
And because of this knowledge she
maintained a careless indifference to-
ward him,
It was only when she seemingly be-
came Interested In Bob Somerville
that Henry's attitude changed.
“Keep away from him, kid,” he ad-
vised.
“Bob's a good scout, but he’s not
for you. He has a trick of getting
girls all haired up about him and
then leaving ‘em flat”
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Edna May's head began to whirl
Was this why Henry had never paid
any attention to her before? Was It
because she had acted goofy about
him, never appeared interested In any-
one else? Was this the key to his
affections?
Thereafter Edna May became more
attentive to Bob than ever.
She spent four or five nights a week
with him. And when Henry asked
her to accompany hind to a club dance
she Informed him sweetly that she
had already promised Bob.
And it worked!
Henry grew alarmed.
He cautioned her about Somerville
again, and recelved a cold retort to
the effect that Edna was now old
enough to take care of herself,
The effect upon Henry made
deliriously happy.
He became angry.
At last she was making some im-
pression; at last Henry was beginning
to realize she was something besides
a kid sister,
She consented once to go out with
him, and Henry spent the evening
handing her brotherly advice, to all
of which she smiled sweetly and
looked wise, Henry raged and took
her home in sullen silence.
Edna May found difficulty In con-
trolling her emotions.
Henry was waking up.
He was, she was sure,
fall. She could tell
Every girl can tell when she Is
making an impression on a man. And
the thought made her deliciously hap-
py. Her happiness couldn't be any
more complete than on that morning,
two days later, when she came to the
breakfast table and picked up the
early edition of the Reporter that was
lying there. She glanced casually at
the headlines and flipped the pages to
the society section,
Right then her heart stopped beat-
ing and the breakfast table and the
room and everything began to swim
and sway crazily.
At first she couldn't believe her
eyes, But she read it again, and then
a third time. There couldn't be any
mistake, It must be true. And there
was Henry's picture and the widow
Morgan's. And there were the black
headlines staring back at her, *Bank-
er's son elopes with young widow.”
* * *
her
beginning to
Edna May got unsteadily to her
feet and somehow reached her room
without uttering a sound.
Even then she didn't cry.
Her hurt was too great. She just
gat before her window and stared out
and saw nothing,
She wished she was dead.
How easy it would be to die now.
would spare her all the years to come,
years of torment and misery.
Edna May suddenly stood
went into her bathroom and took down
a bottle of lodine.
opened her eyes and became conscious
of a burning sensation
ach, and decided she wasn't dead
Her mother was there, bending over
her with anxious eyes,
She wondered why
taken such a large
medicine,
and didn't attempt to explain.
She'd have to try again,
herself. She couldn't go on.
couldn't,
At noon Edna May got up
dressed and went out for a walk, At
the corner of Fisher and
turned and
around a ropedoff area
construction work was going on
She remembered hearing the
ing ery, but her mi
pled to give it much heed. Then she
saw the heavy crane swinging
her, and screamed.
in the face. and she tried to avo
Death!
sought It
ran and prayed
claim her.
Edna May
dose of
crossed over to
where some
warn-
nd was
that It would
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“It's a pity,” the doctor was saying,
“she'll be scarred for life such
a8 good-looking girl, even
though they do get damages, it won't
do much good . .
remove that scar.
Edna May opened
too
her eyes
and father, and smiled,
There was pity and sorrow In their
faces, but Edna May still smiled,
She reached for her mother's hand
and drew her toward the bed. “It
can't be as bad as that,” she sald, “It
could be so much worse. I—I'm lucky
to be alive.”
After a while she thought of Henry
and wondered if he was happy with
the widow Morgan,
She hoped he was, She wanted
every one to be happy. There were so
many important things to do.
Life meant so much.
It was so good-—so good to just be
alive. To feel that you had years and
years to live. How foolish she'd been
to try to crowd it all into so short a
space of time, to have had but a
single purpose In mind.
Edna May closed her eyes again,
but the smile lingered. She shud-
dered, remembering how near death
she had been. She sighed. Life--just
to be allve-—was so sweet,
It was selfish to waste ilfe away.
. + « 8 many things far more Im
portant and necessary than love,
Edna May at last had found herself.
A Weighty Subject
Willam Howard Taft, former Presi
dent of the United States, was a man
of big proportions, both mentally and
physically. He was also blessed with
a keen sense of humor. A Washing.
ton newspaper correspondent once
asked him if he would tell how muck
he weighed. “No, sir,” boomed the
President. “Mr, Reed used to say that
no gentleman could weigh more than
200 pounds. I have amended that to
800." Mr. Taft actually weighed more
than 300 pounds at one time,
Eskimo Children Lucky
The Eskimo child is in some re-
spects the luckiest child In the world,
He is never scolded or whipped and
Is respected and revered by his par-
ents. This Is because the superstition.
dominated Eskimo believes that in the
child the spirit of its dead grandfather
or grandmother lives again. For this
reason, It Is quite common to hear
an Eskimo mother address her child
as mother or father,
Look Her Best.
With the attention
essential is seldom heeded.
neck
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ture,
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with
and shoulders,
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and cheeks, too
nature formed us as we are,
the head,
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protruded, A good way
the crown up. This
while raised,
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attitude,
one
should follow
advice,
which
cents,
costs nothing
and is Invaluable,
tion
body. With the head held high,
thoughts have the
above littleness, oth the
on the mean things of"life,
beauty results,
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selves worthy, the Romans,
to this very day the
their heads high. They
tain majesty of appearance,
stinctively
Today to be said to carry
and a not unworthy pride.
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