The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-02-10

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All of these feelings get hold Of girls
vocal chords when she remarks:
so you're going TO be married?
Eyes, just before Lent was the reply
in this case.
$50 you can begin doing penance right
away?"
We've been down buying furniture,
not needing the remark about penance.
That's the way with people on the verge
of matrimony. They don't even know
anybody else is talking.
Get any tables?"
HE knows all about Chippendale and
things like that
Get any tabies?' a little louder.
He can tell a colonial piece as far as
he can see it."
did you get any tables?" in tones
which would not be ignored
20, yes! A lovely, inlaid mahogany"
Poor thingr'
"What?"
81 said: Poor thingr"
why, what in the world"
Did you get asbestos covers for youS
table?"
What's asbestos? Anyway, we didn't
get it. You don't put table covers on in
laid mahogany loftily.
oO nuCn the worse the HlCuOS6lS-
Did you buy them for the mantels. and
the bureaus, and the chair arms?"
''Of course not"
'Ah, you don't know men"
well. 1 like that! How long since you
found out so much about them?'' with a
whitening scorn quite appropriate from
an engaged TO an unengaged girl.
Since I have lived in bachelors apart
ments o, they're the real thing. They
were built for men and were occupied
by men until a year ago. 1 moved in
last September, and 1 have been en-
larging my stock of information as TO
the habits of the man bachelor species
ever since. Have you seen TO your chan
deliers p"
What do you mean?"
''They should be nine feet from the
floor"
Mine feet!"
"es, ours are only 81 feet. When we
moved in I went around on tiptoe and all
most pulled my arms from their sockets
trying TO turn on the lights. | soon
learned to take a chair. One day the
electrician or the gasman was there, and
l asked him why in the name of all that
was reasonable our chandeliers were huE e
up out of reach that way.
Why, MISS he said, you know these
were arranged for bachelors apartments
For bachelors 1 said. Yes, but not
for giants
% miss? he exclaimed. The lights
were none too high. AS it was. every
globe in the house had been kicked off
when We came in last spring
What do you think of that? o. you
don't know everything. Why, our table
had TO go to the cabinetmaker and have
the fOr 70 oF
inch because the cigars had done burnt
wood pattern all over the top. The same
designs ornament the mantels. the bu-
reau, the arms of the chairs, and the foot
board of the bed. They are varied by the
outlines of glasses and bottles.
Another thing you must look out for
is your portiere> rods. 1 should say hick-
DRY ones would be best. They say hick-
DRY is tough. There is a long, wooden
rod for the portieres between our two
rooms. but it has an awfully Weakened
sag in the middle. How did it get it?
o, the bachelors who have gone before
US used it for a turning pole. You may
think you know a good deal about men,
but let me tell you the place to learn is
in a converted bachelors apartment"
20, said the engaged girl, airily, that
doesn't particularly interest me. My hus-
band will not bea bachelor"
What is he? A widower?"
Indeed he isn't!''
''Divorced?"4
do you think I'd marry - Why, I
am the first girl he ever looked at twice"
"A pause.
But you said he wasn't a bachelor"
He is now. He won't be when he's
my husband Isn't that clear? AS for
kicking off globes, burning up the furni-
ture and turning the place into a gym
nasium. not if / know She inter-
rupted herself IF it pleases him he may
do it, and I'll help. So. therer"
The bachelor girl stared after the girl
who lives at home
The Petruchios are not all dead yet"
she said at last. "AIl the same. it's edi-
flying to live in a converted b. a. house
L wish I'd told her about the carpets
That's a womans weak point. carpets.
And the springs Of the divan, too. Their
broken fortunes might have moved her
And the diamoud-written snatches on the
mirrors and the window panes It might
have been d sort of handwriting on the
wall to her There's nothing to be more
highly recommended to young women
with ideals, I do maintain it. than a So
Journ in a quondam bachelors apart