News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1900-11-21

same as in barber shop. Late that
night when the men walked home
ward together they remarked that
Clara was warm hos TESS.
Next evening the treasurer of the
shoe factory was back on the lawn.
So we're all the others. They said
there was no beating place where
you could play shirt waist man un-
der the trees and have a fairy queen
in white come and push cold drinks
at you and not have to sign any tick
ct. They composed hattering songs
about Clara and every time she NOV
ed there was a man right there with
sofa cushion to help her to be COM
Portable.
Ia the meantime the other girls out
the summer resorts were doing the
best they could with these high school
cadets. wearing tides around their
hats, who would rather go out in a
cat boat and get their arms tanned
than TO remain on shore and win the
honest love of an American girl, with
string to it.
CIara's work about this time was
ever SO glossy. She began by asking
the treasurer of the shoe factory to
come with her to the refrigerator to
get out some more imported ginger
ale. All the men volunteered to help
and two or three wanted to tag
along, but Clara drove them back.
They we're gone long time because
the treasurer had to draw all the
corks, and they fused around to-
gether in the pantry fixing upaunch
for the boys. Clara told him how
strong and handy be was, until he
felt an increase in chest measurement.
On successive evenings she had the
treasurer supervise all the arrange
ments. The hired girl had every eve
ening out, because it was so much
more jolly to go out and run the
place yourself 10 less than week
the treasurer was giving orders round
the house. Every evening she would
get him back to the kitchen and tie
an apron around him and ask what
she should do next. She mada him
out to be the only one who could be
trusted. The others were company
! but he was one of the family. And
although he was being worked like
creamery butter he never suspected
it.
Her game was to domesticate him
in advance and let him have a fore
taste of what it is to be boss of your
own house except as to the bills. The
pantry was full of home delicacies
such as he couldn't get at the hotel,
and the service is the best ever. Clara
was right at his elbow with a willing
smile.
1t didn't take him long to realize
that he was missing lot by remain
ing single. He wondered why he had
been so slow in getting onto Clara e
good point. Also he wondered if it
was any open and shut certainty
when a dczan other men, some of them
younger and more gallus, we're after
her in full cry.
Clara had pulled him in, strung and
hung over the side of the boat.
OF course, it all the other girls had
be- en- in town, they would have tum-
bIed long before it ran into certain
ty and probably they would have
formed a V and rushed in to break up
the play. But the other girls were
far away with the old men and the
seminary striplings. Clara had an
open field with no need of any inter
ferring or blocking, and if she fell
down it was her own fault, Besides
she had all these other admirers set
out as decoys to prove that if he did
MT, somebody else might.
The treasurer of the shoe factory
got a large rally on himself and she
had togive in and make promise.
He loves to tell callers how he pro-
posed to his wife in the kitchen and
he doesn't know to this day that she
was expecting it.
Moral As soon as he begins to
frequent the back rooms OF the house
measure him for the harness.