Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1916 — One Glance Was Enough. [ARTICLE]

One Glance Was Enough.

Charley Towne, the magazine editor and poet, was once asked to aet as the judge of a prize-story competition, open to all aspirants.. He consented. From the publishing house conducting the contest a huge burden of manuscripts was brought to him. Selecting a bulky envelope at random, he opened it and withdrew from it a great number of sheets of foolscap, covered on both sides of the pages with fine writing, done in purple ink and in a feminine hand. Afterward, following his prompt resignation from the j<*> of judge, Mr. Towne forgot the title of the story; but the opening sentence lingered in his memory. It was as follows; —•— “The day the ball was to be that night dawned auspiciously.”