The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-05

All OF these feelings get hold OF a girls vocal
chords when she remarksi
80 you're going to be married"
Yes. Just before Lent was the reply in this
case.
80 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 matri-
mony. They don't even know anybody else IL
talking.
Get any tables2"
He knows all about Chippendale and things
like that"
Get any tables 2" a little louder.
He can tell a colonial piece as far as he can
see It,"
did you get any tables 7" In tones which
would not be ignored.
"Oh. yes! a lovely. inlaid mahogany -
Poor thingl"
What ?"
II said Poor thingI"
Why. what in the world"-
p you get asbestos covers for your table p
What's asbestos2 I, Anyway, we didn't get
It You ), d0n,t put table covers on inlaid ma
80 much the worse for the mahogany. Did
and the chair armsP"
All. you don't know men,"
We'll. l like thatl How long since you found
out so much about them 2" with q whitening
scorn quite appropriate from an engaged to an
Since 1 have lived in bachelors apartments.
oh. they're the real thing. They were built for
ago. moved in last September. and I have
been enlarEi1G my stock Of Information as to
since. Have you seen to your chandeliers"
."TT lss t Should be nine feet from the floor"
Yes, ours are only sH feet. When we moved
in l went around on tiptoe and almost pulled
day the, electrician or the gasman was there
was reasonable our chandeliers were hung up
out Of reach that way.
arranged for bachelors apartments.
For bachelors 1 said. Yes. but not for
"'oh. miss! he exclaimed. THE lights were
house had been kicked on when we eame in
tn "Wh s1. Dc EGn think We Of o that tln, Oh b.. you ~ don't o =
to a depth Of half an inch because the cigars
had done a burnt-wood pattern, all over the top.
bureau. the arms OF the chairs and the foot
beard O. the bed; They are varied BY the out
hH !" Hn 90 fkias' sSi a6d S S9stlf must look out for !.
your Portiere rods, I should say hickory ones
T TSald b be , best lest, I They say u hickory a1 is t9gsh;
between our two rooms. but 1t has an awfully
weak-kneed sag in the middle. How did II get
1t? oh, the bachelors who have gone before
US used 1t 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
oh" said the engaged girl airily. "u4at
dG1eSYs a., RRsr | SsdPsIg Interest me. NJ huuband
What Is he? A widower~
Indeed he isn'tl'
Divorced 2"
DO you think I'd marry a Why, I am
the first girl he ever looked at twice"
Apause.
But you said he wasn't O bachelor"
He is now, He won't be when he's my hus-
band. Isn't that clear2 AS for kicking on
globes. burning up the furniture and turning
the shs place into a gymnasium net Il | know"I-
may do It, and I'll help. 30 there!"
The girl bachelor stared after the girl who
The Petruchlos are not all dead yet" she
said at last. A the same. it's very editying
70 live In Q converted b. a. house. I wish I'd
told her about the carpets. That's q womap's
weak point. carpets. And the springs OF the
divan. too. Their broken fortunes might have
moved her. And the diamond-w written snatches
on the mirrors and the window panes. 1t might
have been q sort Of handwriting on the wall to
her. There's nothing to be more highly recon-
mended 70. young women with ideals. / do
maintain 1t, than a .sojourn in q Quondam
bachelors apartment"