The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-06-02
MEN ARE so FOOLISH.

flower shop-the girl With the wavy
bronze hair and the remarkably White
honds mo, I'VE ,nn,e,y observed when
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she las'ehs lhe ollIhe oouii'o'AnAeie P"
the masculine coat lapel-lapsed into
a reverie of words the other afternoon.
~ ia foo, 9, =, fo, men some
$780,. - :, 80 th., ,,,sn,t
t''hes' she s"'o II d 'oae '"' ""SH
IN the least sorroWlul. me p'ot e.e'-
lures are 50 amusing, and yet so UNI
consciously pathetic. that-Well, do
you know, l often think that few of
them, saving your presence-nolhlng
observation-disclosures dye call 1t
exactly right-an there-correctly ad-
justed-properly geared-on straight
-
For Why the b"onZe-halred one
was asked.
"Oh. they do such absurd things, and
they are so very, very easy. During
the before stage l verify believe that
all of them are more or less u~nhinged.
But a mar who came in here during
the noon hour on a day a couple or
weeks ago-I waited on him, for the
proprietor and all of the girls except
myself had gone to l~uncheon-had
about the worst case of it I've seen
yet.
He was such a sensible. 1ine-look-
ing man. too: a giant from the west,
as anybody could see at a glance, with
a tanned face and a fine o~pen-prairte
way of talking, like as if he knew he
| wasn't in church and didn't have TO
whisper or humble his wordS-so
many Washington men do that dread
fully nowadays, don't you think? And
he had big. strong hands, and he didn't
appear as if he had a silly bone in his
big frame.
Well, he walked up to the counter
like a man does when he goes into a
r; ~, t1,, I,l la ,n1pht Sjrht nj n
big bunch of bridal roses that was
swaddling up with white ribbon.
"'How much are those" he asked
me.
Il told him.
"'How many dozen just like that
have you got IN the plant% he asked
me.
"'.About ten dozen l replied.
"'All right-IIl take EN-, he said
quite offhand, and then he begin TO
look at the. other lowers. When he
saw a vase of American Beauty roses
as big as double chrysanthemums, he
asked me:
".\Nhat's the figure for these|
"'Twelve dollars a DOZEN l told him,
Put about five dozen of them with
the Others he said. as if he had been
ordering a box of matches.
Then he fell upon some trays of
violets.
How much?' he inquired.
"'Dollar a hundred | replied.
Got plenty of them?'
"~"Thousands.'
".Well, I'll AXE about two THOUSAND
of EN- he said.
"'Anything else?' l asked him.
"-Well, l dunno he replied, clubbing
his chin like a man in a SOFT of guam
Diary. What do you think"
"'Well.' | said, you've already bought
quite "A few flowers, you know.
is it to be-dinner, 5 o'clock tea, ball,
reception, wedding
mo, no-not a ~wedding-not just
yet, anyhow he replied. hurriedly,
blushing like "A huge school boy. Lat
er, maybe-hope So and for ID moment
he looked so awkward and foolish that
l felt freshly sorry for him. Then he
shook himself together again.
mo. it's not any of those things
YOU mention he went on in a con-
fdential tone. I'm just sending some
flowers up to-er-up to her house,
that's all. You see, it's this way. I'm
only back here from the ranch on a
visit. Well, while l was up at-er-
I'D at her house last evening, why,
two or three punches of flowers came
to her from fel-well, they'd been sent
to her by somebody or other: OF
course, it occurred to me then that l
hadn't thought to send her any flow
ers since 1 struck town. And so that's
why I'm trying to make good by send
ing up a few blossoms now and
"A few. ! said, and | really couldn't
help laughing in the poor hulking crea-
lures face.
"-NNhy, what's the trouble? q he hast
lily ask ed me, with an apprchensive
look on his big. good-natured face.
Haven't l picked out enough
"'Oh. quite enough said l, and just
the right kind. too and at that point
the proprietor came in, and the huge
foolish creature handed him an array
of yellow bills. and the flowers were
got together and sent up to the home
of the lucky young woman in a special
wagon. Now. didn't he need a guard
ian-don't they all need guardians Q
and the bronZe-haired Hebe of the
flower shop laughed rippingly.
But there are exceptions. Of course
and we do have some surprises" she
went on. I'll tell you about one of the
surprise customers.
He first came in here a little more
pensive box of flowers to be sent tt
the home Of a lady who lives on one
of the uptown avenues. After his frs
visit he dropped in, rain, snow, slee'
or shine, every day, and selected :
beautiful lot of flowers to be sent Il
the same Mrs He, of course. nevc1
had any occasion to give his owl
name. All of US girls decided that h.
was a bachelor or a widower-he wa.
a middle-aged man-cultivating tn,
good graceS Of an attractive widow
nroha NV !, we,Ithv widow aud w,