Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-06-01
To be C~ontinued.)
WITH ALL MODERN coNvgNleNcEs.
Things That Are Happening Every Day
In the Anti Marriage Flats.

1t was at a meeting of the Young
Woman's Progressive Political Associa-
ton. They greeted each other with an
explosi' re kiss.
II haven't seen you for ages, you dear
thing" said the girl with the peoples in
her hat, I'm 90 glad you came today
this is to be a perfectly ideal meeting.
Are you married yet?'
NO; and I'm not likely to be as long
as / live in a fiat" responded the girl
with the ostrich boa. I'D like to have,
Let ali who enter here leave hope be-
hind carved over the entrance to our
building"
"If you want responsive shoulder to
weep on here is mine. ], too, live in a
flat, and when our landlord wanted a
new name for the uilding | suggested
the Anti atrimonial-he declined it,
though; said il might affect the popu-
larity of 'em. | just hate a fiat! 0,
yes, we have steam heat, gas range
-
Hardwood mantels, porcelain bath
-"
Tiled hearths. electric bells, and all
modern conveniences," groaned the girl
with the peoples. 20, don't; you make
me ill"
Our fiat has no doors at all, only
portieres." moaned the girl with the
feather boa, "and only the man who
doesn't mean anything by it is bold
enough to make love to a girl when a
member OF her family may be in am
bush behind each curtain"
Il know. Aud the awful things that
happen to one when one is temporarily
isolated from ones best clothes. | was
once caught in the bedroom which
opens off the parlor with all my decent
gowns in a wardrobe at the back of the
Hat and a swell New Yorker, who only
had one day In town, waiting in the
parlor to see me. | don't know what
would have happened if Minnie hadn't
gose up to the fiat above and lowered
my tea gown out Of the window in a
basket"
That's nothing. | had been wash
ing my hair in the bathroom n day
and had left part of it there to dry. l
fled to my " room. which also opens
off the parlor, at a sound of the door
bell. 1t was jim, and mamma had to
bring me my hair in a hand satchel be-
fore could go in"
That of a man having 40 sis
ter 70 familiarize-"
Nothing of the sort. 1t is all the
fault of a Hat"
"Well, maybe so. Alma has made
her father move TO the suburbs and take
q whole house."
"Yes; and now | hear that she is go
ing to be married"
"Quite likely. Did you ever hear
how she lost Victor?"
mo- do tell me-"
"Helwas calling on her the very even
ing before she left on that trip TO Kan
sas, and she had strong hopes that he
would commit himself. Just about as
it was time for him to 60, a great hub
bub of voices arose in the next room
and, under cover of 1t, he said: All,
Miss Alma-could-could you"
yes, yes; go on"
"Just then her fathers voice rose loud
and clear: Il tell you now he was
saying, this thing has got to stop!
Alma's extravaganza is enough to ruin
any man! No wonder she is "a and
can't Her mother stopped him
there. but it was too late. Alma asked
Victor what he was going to say. and
he stammered out: 'Could-could you
tell me what time it is?'
"Poor Alma! And | know that by
the time she got back from Kansas he
was engaged to that little school teacher,
who makes over her dresses twice and
puts her money in the bank"
"Yes. o, my goodness! They are
all going and we haven't heard a word
they said. They were going to discuss
the most vital question of the day, and
-"
@For my part. the question We have
been discussing is vital enough for me-"
replied the girl with peoples in her hat,
aud there were tears in her eyes as she
said it. - Chicago Tribune.