Pictures and the Picturegoer (April - September 1915)

PICTURES AND THE P1CTUREG0ER 44 Webs ending Ai-Rii. 17,1915 TOE>B€ATI L©Wi!^ Adapted from (Seoboh Aide's Film Fable By M0LL1E GUYTON. ux/KS! George (hasn't lie a beautiful I iui m«' ?) Jmd been in love with me some time, and well I knew it too; lull be is such a dear 1 could forgive' anything he did, no matter how .silly or serious it might be. 1 had known for ever. bo long that be wanted to propose to me, bnt 1 expect he thought the Pater and Mater would refuse tiis generous offer, unless he showed them what a chivalrous young gentleman he was; so he set' to work to love Hum too ! Now 1 did not eare for this wholesale love-making at all. and I hinted as much once or twice, but it did not have the slightest effect upon my .id 011 d o ie. My Joints were like water on. a . k'sb.ck; but George is such a duck hiinseii j. ielt i must not grumble. . "" He used to stand for hours listening to my. sister Lil's singing — I couldn't have done so, but George makes an ideal martyr; be is such a gentleman! He used to say. that there was no one who could sing so well as Lil that was because I do not sing m even pretend to do so. One day Lil asked him to go out riding with her. I knew when he started that he would prove his wonderful cleverness in the eont-rolof a horse. 1 had an awful job to push him up into the saddle, but at last he got there, and off he galloped—the horse. I 111 -an. with my darling on his back. Lil said he was a perfect roughrider (I knew it I knew it !>, for he could stay everywhere but in the saddle; but Lil said, she was quite pleased to find he was such a sport : So— that made Georgc"s victory Dumber one. ■Then George used to go shopping with Mater another thine' I would never do. for Mater always kids you to carry all her pa Is. She is a demon when shopping, ;md all her parcels means a car-load. "Well, one day he went out with Matter as usual, and she told me secretly afterwards that she had bought everything she could think of just to see how many parcels he could carry; but George— he is an angel was not to be beaten. He staggered out of the shop and collapsed at the door. 1 would love to have seen him. but anyway L bet the parcels buried most of him -poor George! But Mater said she had to be serious, whereas she would have liked to have screamed with laughter at him. He gathered up all the parcels and managed to get as far as the motor-car with them, lie simply dumped t hem on I he flo >r of the car. and then threw himself in on top of them. Mater expected him to throw her in as well, but he didn't ; and in spite of all he was not a bit crestfallen. Me brought home the Mater and the parcels quite safelj or rather the car did. "That was Gei irge's \ ictory number two! " There remained Pater and m\ brother Tom to conquer. He ladled Pater first being the more important of the two in this vital question. Now, I must tell you Pater is \en keen booting. Well! 1 know Eor a dead cert., George bless his darling hear) ! had never handled a gun before, but when Pater asked him if he would like a daj '. shooting, George just shouted 'Rather! Fm dead nuts on a gun!' And off they went. When they returned. I 'at er said he had never seen such a rotten shut in all his lite; but George swore he had done wonders. As the dear is always right, 1 am quite satisfied thai thi^ made his third victory. •■ Now there came my big, athletic brother's turn. lie was but decided!} »o^ least. Tom s hobb] is gymnastics, and BETTY BROWN", a very popular Essanay player. In the film described ou this page Miss Blown played the part of Kate. naturally George said he was awfully keen on gym. >I believe now that he wasn't) j anyhow the next 11101 nine saw G trotting off to the gym. Ul order to make his last conquest. But Tom was not going to be hustled into lifelong friendship. From what I gather from the description Tom gave of the hour in the gym., he (Tom) and his chum gave George the hottest time of his life, and most of the time he was on the tloor. (Tom told me this much not George, oi com "But. alas! Tom proved thelaststraw for poor George. That same afternoon 1 had a pitiful little note from him to say that he was ' fed up.' As you may well imagine, I was awfully sick when 1 received his epistle, so as a last resource I runs him up on the 'phone, and told him that if he really wanted he must Btop courting all the rest of the family. He seemed unite bucked over this brain-wave of mine, and we arranged to elope. How 1 got through that blessed day I really don't know, hut 1 did. and at last the eventful hour arrived when I should flit like a little bird from my cosj nest and venture my fortunes abroad with George, Wasn't it awfully romantic P " I left a little note on my pillow saying, ' 1 have eloped with George. Forgiveme. Kate!" Quite a short but sweet letter, tun j full of sentiment. was it not g