Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 295, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1915 — Price of Victory [ARTICLE]

Price of Victory

"You didn't make much of a bit with young 8 nubbins when you beat him at tennis," remarked Uncle Bigelow to his niece, Eudora. "1 noticed something of the sort," laughed Eudora. "Myl It was funny to me to see him scrambling all around the lot after the balls, and be has always considered himself a great player!" "Yes, and you'll never have him for a husband,” said Uncle Bigelow. "A young man who considers himself a good tennis player will never marry a girl who can beat him at IL There's no chance for a girl who beats him, especially If she laughs at him In the bargain.

"There is no romance in being trimmed by a young lady. You may get some nice little tango fellow for a busband, one who knows what to do with his hat on a front porch when calling on girls, and who can balance a napkin and cup and saucer on his knee, but you'll never catch an athlete, a hero, and a sport. "You’re making the same mistake that Flora Peachet made. Flora went out west to seek her fortune. In anticipation of her visit to the land of cow-punchers she learned to shoot and to ride and to lasso and brand steers before she left home.

"The cowboys came to meet her with a whoop and a yell. New girt in town! And the first thing that foolish girl did was to beat them all shooting. When she beat big Ben Bulstrode, he went meekly home to his ranch and was never seen again. He didn’t even think she was pretty any more.

“Then she beat Ted McTiddy at riding, and that defeat was the end of him. He didn’t care for girls with reddish hair, so he said. And last, but not least, handsome Ham Strothers, the champion rope thrower in the west >as shown up by the lady at roping, tying and branding. “Now, it happened that poor Flora was really much taken with Ham, and it nearly broke her heart when he quit coming around. But you can't blame Ham.

“A woman can be greater in intellect, and such superiority will not bother a man, because few men go in for intellect Or she can be bls superior In needlework or china painting. But she mustn’t beat him at anything he goes in for himself. “That fellow Snubbins is a "pretty nice fellow, even if he does play tennis, and I hate to see you lose your chance.”

“Pooh!” answered the girl. "I don’t want him. Why should I? I’m not going to swell any man’s head to win him. They can’t come strutting around me.”

“Very well, then. As long as you feel that way you’ll marry no man at all, or some ladylike man who has no manly pride.”