THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK
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Published Saturday Morning, Twenty-flve
Weeks in the Year, November to May, at
Pinehurst, Moore County, North Carolina.
(Founded by James W. Tufts)
Hirbart L. JUlson, - Editor
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BATUMI AY, FEU. 34, lOOO,
My JLIttle Sweetheart.
I have a blue-eyed sweetheart
She lives across the way;
Can see her as I'm writing,
, Out in the yard at play.
There's sunshine in her manner,
There's gladness in her eye;
I cannot help but love her,
Not even if I'd try.
She always runs to greet me,
When I'm passing that way;
She often comes to see me,
Upon a rainy day.
We talk of things congenial,
Sometimes we paint a bit;
She tells me of her dollies,
Especially of "Kit."
She says she wants a pony,
Also a dog or so;
I'm always very sorry
When's time for her to go.
But this is all a secret
Be mum as you can be;
My sweetheart is only eight
And I'm forty -three.
A Visitor.
I sometimes smoke a pipe with him
When twilight shades begin;
If I had done the opposite,
The Man I Might Have Been.
He never with misfortune met;
Men hail him with acclaim;
He shows me all the gold he makes,
The glory and the fame.
But is he any happier
When all is counted in?
Just one man knows, and he won't tell
The Man I Might Have Been.
McLandburgh Wilson in N. Y. Sun.
Nobody Works at Pinehunit.
Nobody works at Pinehurst,
They all go out and play,
Putting a ball of rubber,
On greens of sand and clay.
Some they play in foursomes,
Others play in twos;
Nobody works at Pinehurst,
But the golf course crews.
T. P. M., with Apologies to "Father."
GOLF CUPID BALKED
IIEKE was an evident
reason why the Widow
Topleigh should have
missed Buffly from the
crowd of danglers always
in attendance on her.
He possessed wealth, leisure and the dig
nity of age, while the others were for the
most part college youngsters, or, if older,
as manifestly ineligible to a prudent
woman. One of the indications that Mrs.
Topleigh possessed prudence was her
Arm resolve not to become, should she
risk a second venture into matrimony, a
"young man's darling." Hence Mrs.
Topleigh could never fathom the seces
sion of BlufHy, for she had in many little
ways made plain to him that she liked
him very much.
BlufHy's first golfing with Mrs. Top
leigh had been accidental the casual
pairing by the club secretary for a mixed
foursome but the subsequent rounds had
been sought with confusion of mind and
palpitation of heart. That earliest mixed
foursome had been marked by a mishap
in swinging back to drive Bluffly had hit
Mrs. Topleigh's arm a sharp blow with
the club and love had come into his life
with the smile with which she accepted
his excuses.
With each succeeding round of the
course with Mrs. Topleigh, Bluffly" s heart
beat with more force. He used to lie
awake nights worrying about the affec
tion for the widow that had come so sud
denly into being and whether he would
be wise to marry or not. After more
than 50 years, Bluffly was in sore per
plexity over the troubles that might be
gin with marriage.
"Women, the best of them, are so
selfish," would be his last conclusion each
night. "I'll say good by to Mrs. Top
leigh after breakfast tomorrow and go off
yachting with the gang."
But at the greeting with the fascinat
ing widow the resolution always faded
into thin air. At the sparkle of her eyes
and the warm handshake Bluffly would
be a true gallant again. The "gang"
all married, by the way had to put in
their time at threesomes in the absence
of Bluffly. They all thought, without a
doubt, that he would marry the widow,
and, not to be too modest about it, this
is what the widow thought.
In the confidence of a conquest, Mrs.
Topleigh quite unconsciously began to
assume a proprietary interest in the rich
bachelor. For one thing she objected to
Red Scrapple as their caddie that fateful
afternoon at Willow Brook, but here she
found an adamantine firmness in Bluffly.
"Not have Bed with us?" cried Bluffly
in protest. " Why, he's the cleverest kid
on the links besides, he always caddies
for me."
" O, very well," was Mrs. Topleigh's
response. To Scrapple, who had always
hid when he saw a woman or a poor
player seeking a caddie, it was not "very
well." He deemed it a condescension to
carry in a mixed foursome, especially
when he had to tote both bags.
The Willow Brook links had formerly
been the Topleigh farm, and in a corner
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of the course was a little graveyard of the
sort often to be met with in quiet country
neighborhoods. A neat fence surrounded
the plot, which now held only the Top
leigh family vault. Should a ball be
sliced into the plot from the tee it was
always called " out of bounds," as a mat
ter of course, and another ball dropped
and played.
It was Mr. Bluffly's ill luck or was it
good luck? to slice his drive from that
tee. The ball soared in a graceful curve
straight toward the clump of trees that
shaded the old burial place.
The college boy who, with Miss Aire,
was their opponent drove off a screamer
true to the line. Bluffly dropped a ball
on the tee, and Mrs. Topleigh only drove
it some 80 yards, into a bunker.
"This will make us 1 up, and with but
1 more to play it will be our match,"
shouted Miss Aire, thoughtlessly. " I'm
sorry for you old folks."
How Mrs. Topleigh hated her for the
speech! There was but one chance to
save the hole.
. "Perhaps the first ball is not out of
bounds," suggested Bluffly.
"I will go over and see," exclaimed
Mrs. Topleigh. "If it is inside, I will
play it."
Off she hurried, lied Scrapple behind
with the clubs, until the intervening
bushes partially hid Mrs. Topleigh from
the others, who were walking on slowly
toward the bunker. Presently, from out
the thicket, a ball came with splendid di
rection and only stopped on the putting
green.
"Hurrah?" yelled Bluffly. "That will
win the hole for us."
" It wras iust within bounds and I had
a beautiful lie," explained Mrs. Topleigh,
when she had rejoined the party. "I
took my. brassy to it."
Miss Aire missed her shot, so the col
lege boy had to play the odd to gain the
green. Mrs. Topleigh and Bluffly won
the hole in 4 to 5, and as they halved the
short one to follow, they were the win
ners of the match.
" So sorry, dear," was Mrs. Topleigh's
parting word with Miss Aire. "You
look so warm and flustered, but a nap
will freshen you for dinner."
"A most remarkable recovery ! Your
shot from the rough undoubtedly won for
us. Another woman would have been
too rattled to make it." This and much
more praise did Bluffly heap on the satis
fied widow. He then and there screwed
up his courage to the sticking point.
" Meet me, won't you, in the conserva
tory after dinner?"
"Why, certainly, Mr. Bluffly," assented
the widow in her sweetest voice, as she
stepped into her carriage. What could
the man mean?
"Great shot that, eh?" continued
Bluffly, still harping on the wonderful
play, to Red Scrapple, as he took his
clubs from that urchin.
" Yer talkin', but der yer wanter know
how she did it?" asked the imp of mis
chief. " She bangs me on the der nut an' sez
she'll do me fer fair if I gives it away
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