Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-11-19
JOBS THANKFUL MIGHT.
an EfanIl Rnmmerrl

Wy FRANK HummtfNl
don't know that ] cun tell the
story Just ua Il was told TO me. but
thai v what am FuinE 20 try 10 do
The teller 81 II was n man whose
name in ~ no Importance to the teN'nE.
and he told Il late one November uisht
IN fact. u was after We had been lao the
Theatre and were eating indiEesiinle
thinga because we were hungry. and 10
was nearly time 10 go 10 bed.
oh. Of course" he said. "a nose
doesn't mike a hero. Not BY great
deal. Look at Thwaiicas nose. fot In
u should think not" the storyteller
continued. "On tho contrary. We'll. "
may not be quite fair. but YOU must all
promise me not TO ever let him guess
that you know the story
80 We all promised.
And, besides. Thwnltca has long
since repcntcd In sack cloth and ashes
lie would never do such thing now
sun. Thwaitea IN no hcro-nouc OF no
nose.
1T happened like this. Thwnitca
was most uncommoniy good docking
young man IN those days. HIS nose was
big'enough for distinction you under
stand. but no, too biz That and other
good points about him. and the spien-
his dress made him favoritc with the
girls
In those days Thwaltes lived In o.
certain city Of ohio. ana | lived In "a
town. a little smaller than the city. not
very FAR away one ~ those HlfiH who
were attracted by Thwaltos az one time
or another, was named clnrlndn FL
comb. And u would not have mnttcrvd
n the giri had not been out-and-out en-
FaEcd 10 fnc. manly young fellow.
who worked ns machinlat In the rail-
road repair shops. n mnttorcd all the
more because Clarinda was q really
nice girl. take her altogether, only she
certainly had n girls falling Of setting
TOO much store By looks. and clothes.
and such things.
THE other man-the mnch'nlat--wan
1T disadvantage by the side Of
Thwnitca. because he didn't know how
Go dress well. II he had had I'VE thoun-
ana dollars n year. Just Tor that ana
nothing else. Some men are like that.
Well. tho first signs that Ciarlnda
gave that she was going 10 throw over
poor john keeping the other name
dark on purpore-wcro when she began
putting On the wedding. Then she sud
denly took Il into her head that she
must sing In n church choir-thc same
choir ThwaltcH sang In.
Joe gave M going 10 the church he
had been attending ana followed Clar-
india 10 the other one. ono morning.
whom he had escorted hor 90 church.
that Eirl actually had the brass To tell
him after service. Zoe. SIT. Thwnitca
has kindly undertaken 60 oacort me
home. You need not walt
Some people thought there was go.
ing o. be an explosion right there hut
Joe took II all quite meekly and went
home.
"sun Joe ala nothing but obey the
girls orders
well. ~ course. any fool could nee
tho cnd ~ that business. one dny Joe
asked Miss Elcomb n she wouldn't nm
ally Tx a date for the wedding. and she
said she didn't know that she ever
would Tx any day al all. And that
ended n between them-fnr tho time.
"Now. don't know whether
Thwnitoa know ~ what Claflnda FL
comb had dor on his account. lie
used 30 roo n good deaf ~ hof. l know
and u seems natural h. should have
Understood that he had broken up her
engagement with good man. who
could mako her good husband. and
would. hut, perhaps he never thought
Of q one way or tho other. n 40. Il
was a pity.
Joe took 10 mopinF after that dag
when hin girl threw him over. 4 often