Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1900-11-15
A SURPRISE FOR PAW
HE WAS TALKING TO NAV ABOUT AN
OTHER WOMAN's AGE.

Discussion, She Grabs Her Sewing,
Goes Into the House and Slams the
Door.
What fools some people are" paw sed
when we were Having a nice sociable
Time on the frunt portch Tkursdy mite.
Il no it" NAV told him. Sometimes il
makes me feel real sad To think they are
So menny people in the world that can't
see their faults as Others see them with
out thinking They are prejudist against
themselves"
"Look captun and his wife next
door, paw says. Il should Think they
OF to no Better"
what have they Been doingT NAV
asst
II rode out in the same car with the
captun today" paw anserd, ''and we got
to talkin about how jeIlus it always
makes woman to Be told some other
woman looks yung. So he told me all
about 1t. He sed he got to plaiging his
wife, telling her Mrs. Bassett doesn't look
day more Than Thirty. The captun's
wife sed she new she Was thirty Five,
and so they Got agoing it, and now she
won't speak to him.
1t makes me perfectly disgusted with
some people" nav sed, when | hear
about the Foolish things they do. If he
wasn't blind he could see his wife was
rite about it,
But what | blame him for" paw says,
rs sticking to it when he could have
peace in the family by lettin his wife
think he Thot the same as she did, becoz
it wouldn't do emmy harm"
And | don't see why she wanted to
go on Talking about it," nav told him
when she new the woman was thurty
Five and it didn't make emmy difference
whether the captun thot so or not'
Yes" paw sed, "and if / would OF
been him | would of let her go ahed
thinkin the way she Pleased as long as
1t made her happy and wouldn't make
Mrs Bassett more'n twenty nine OF
Thurty emmy way and mite
Paw" nav told him, you're just as
sillie as the old fool of captun About
that woman. She'll never see Thirty-six
again, and you no it."
Thirty -six?" paw says. 'Maw, you're
crazy. I'll bet she amt thirty yet. You
can see 1t by her Looks"
You no Better than that" nav sed
eff you don't you must be as blind as o
batt''
There's no use getting into a skirm.
midge about it." paw anserd. 81 ain't
agoin to be like the captun. I no too
mutch about hewmun hatcher for that
IL you want to think you think she's
thirty six go ahead and Think So II
won't hurt her emmy or make emmy DIFF.
ference about what / Think So what's
the use getting mad about it? l believe
in Being sensable about these Things
I'd rather give up even when l no I'm
rite than to have a quarl with q womun
about anuther womun's aige So if it'll
do you emmy good to Think she's six OF
seven years older Than she is go ahead
and be Happy, and l won't say emmy
more about it. | don't beeave in Har-
pin on a thing when you no your breth
is wasted, but / can't see why wimmin
are so blame jellus of one another's
aige, and what's the use ronging her be
hind her back? What good would it do
you il She was forty instead of twenty
seven or twenty-ate? 1t wouldn't make
you emmy younger, would it? That's
sumthing I'd like to have you explane.
If the captun would of had emmy sense
he would of just said all rite when his
wife told him she was FIVE or six years
older than she is and dropped the sub
ject like me. But that's where some
people,
Then nav jumped up and grabbed her
sowing and went in the house and slam
med the Door as hard as she could.
'Well, by George" paw sed after lie
looked around quick two or Three times
becoz he thot he mite get hit by some
thing from behind, that's always the
way when you go to Tawk flosofckle to
a womun. Here / came home all tired
tonight and thot we'd have a nice soshu-
bic time so | could Forget about Biz
ness cares. and that's the way 1t turns
out. No wonder so menny men half to
go way from home to get a little sun
shine in their lives. .'-Georgie in Chicago
Times Herald.