The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1895-06-01
Things Thu Are Happening Every Day
In the Marriage Flats.

1t was at a meeting Of the Young
Woman's Progressive Political Associa-
ton. They greeted each other with an
explosive kiss.
n haven't seen you for ages, you dear
thing" said the girl with the peoples in
her hat, I'm 30 glad you came today
this is to be a perfectly ideal meeting.
Are you married yetP"
NO; and I'm not likely to be as long
as l live in a fiat" responded the girl
with the ostrich boa. "l'd like to have,
Let all who enter here leave hope be-
hind, carved over the entrance to our
building"
"lf you want n responsive shoulder to
weep on here is mine. |, too, live in a
flat, and when our landlord wanted a
new name for the building l suggested
the nti-Matrimonial-he declined it,
though; said it might affect the popu-
larity of 'em. l just hate a fiat! O,
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. 80, don't; you make
me ill"
Our flat 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 q
member of her family may be in am
bush behind each curtain"
81 know. And the awful things that
happen to II when m is temporarily
isolated from ones best clothes. was
once caught in the bedroom which
opens off the parlor with all my decent
gowns i'll a wardrobe at the back of the
Hat and a swell New Yorker, who only
had II day in town, waiting in the
parlor to see me. l don't know what
would have happened if Minnie hadn't
my tea gown out of the window in a
basket"
That's nothing. l had been wash
ing my hair in the bathroom Que day
and had left part of it there to dry.
fled to my own room, which also opens
off the parlor, at II sound of the door
bell. 1t was jim, and mamma had to
bring me my hair in a hand satchel be-
fore | could 60 ill.,"
THAT comes of a man having no SIS
ter to familiarize-"
Nothing of the sort. 1t is all the
fault OF a llat!'
"Well, maybe so. Alma has made
her father move to the suburbs and take
a whole house"
"Yes; and now | hear that she is 60.
inc TO be married."
quite likely. Did you ever hea,
how she lost Victor?"
No; do tell me"
"He was calling on her the very even,
ing before she left Oh that trip to Kan
sas, and she had strong hopes that he
would commit himself. just about a
it was time for him to go, a great hub
bub of voices arose in the next room
and, under cover of it, he said: 'Ah
Miss Alma-could-could you"
Yes, yes; go on!'
Just then her fathers voice rose lout
and clear: i tell you now he wa
saying, this thing has got to stop
Alma's extravaganza is enough to ruiz
any man! No wonder she is "a ane
CAN'T Her mother stopped hin
there. but it was too late. Alma asket
Victor what he was going to say. ant
he stammered out: iCouId-could yo,
tell me what time it isp'
Poor Alma! And [ know that b,
the time she got back from Kansas h
was engaged to that little school teacher
who makes over her dresses twice an
puts her money in the bank"
Yes. o, my goodness! They ar
all going, and we haven't heard a wor
they said. They were going to discus
the most vital question Of the day, an