Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-09-22
about it.

about it.
The women, who started in to call
each other by their first names almost
from the beginning, made up lists Of
the things they'd need. The men made
calculations as to how they were going
to pay the initial instruments on the
furniture.
And so the two young married
couples, the Jacksons and the John
sons, moved into their cute little
S22.50-per- month houses side by side.
1t was great for couple of weeks.
Mrs. Jackson and Mrs. Johnson lean
ed over the back fence and told each
other of the funny breaks they had
made in their cooking attempts. Each
inspected the others plant, as finally
arranged, and declared it to be just
too lovely for anything on this earth
or any other earth. They called each
other "Florrie" and "Gertie" from
their respective windows when they
wanted to ask each other something.
They borrowed four bits from each
other to pay the ice man and the
bread man and the milk man when
these insistent persons came around
between paydays-their husbands pay
days. After dinner-they'd help each
other washing and wiping the dishes
they'd appear in the back yard of ono
or the other, in their nice fresh house
jackets, with their arms around each
others waists, and talk about how
queer it seemed that they appeared to
have known each other always.
o, yes they were so thick.
Jackson and Johnson, likewise, got
along bully together. They weren't
quite as hasty to pick up each others
first names as the women, but it wasn't
long after the beginning of the house
keeping scheme before they were adj
dressing each other as Bill and jim.
Jackson strung up his old guitar and
Johnson got new head for his banjo,
and they plunkey- plunked together for
hours in each others abode every even
ing. If they happened to meet down
town they'd shoot one or two in to-
gether and come home real jolly.
Their wives said they never saw two
men pull together SO beautifully. Jack
tAII Tnh IF col hn al
to cop out swift promotion at his Of
fee, and Johnson told Jackson of what
pinhead the chief of his division was.
The four took turns IN entertaining
each other to beer and welsh rarebits,
and they declared these cute, inexpen-
sive little sessions to be just ideal.
Uh-huh, it was perfectly grand for
about fortnight sure enough.
Then one evening when Jackson and
Johnson got home, they found their
wives a bit constrained. Johonson's
wife explained it by saying that
she certainly thought Florrie jack
son ought to leave her enough
milk to do her cooking with,
and that she didn't see why
the Jacksons weren't able to buy their
own coffee, instead of borrowing it all
the time. Jackson's wife explained 1t
by saving the she was more than half
afraid that she had been deceived in
Gertie Johnson Far be it from her to
do anybody an injustice, she went on,
bue she was really afraid that Gertie
Johnson was stingy and had deceitful
nature. Hadn't she, Florrie Jackson.
loaned Gertie johnson 4S cents only
last week to pay for her husbands
laundry when it was delivered at the
door? Why, then, should Gertie john
son act snoopy and put out when she
lad asked her for just little mite
of milk and coffee, her own milk and
coffee having not yet arrived?
"Fergit it," said Johnson to his wife.
"Fergit it," said Jackson to his wife.
Jackson and Johnson plink-plunked
as usual, on their banjo and guitar that
evening, but somehow they weren't
quite as free with each other as they
had been, and the women didn't come
together at all that evening. both of
them having announced that they had
some IA letters apiece to write.
And thus it went on.
ITnconsciously Johnson found HIM
self thinking that the Jacksons didn't
really amount to whole lot, and he
told his wife that in his opinion she'd