Middletown transcript., 1906-04-14

l. was SO accustomed W Tile IT
relevancy of Mrs. Puffer's re-
marks that I was not at all sur
prised to have her project this
question into conversation bear
ing upon Mr.. Puffer's peculiar
tiles in the choice Of food and
what she called his "fool trick
Of pouring molasses over mashed
potatoes and sprinkling pepper
on watermelon.
/ tell him that if the question of
his being crazy or not ever comes
up and | tell about that mashed
potator-and -molasses trick he'll
be dubbed loony all right, she
had said, and then had asked the
question in regard to the unex-
pected way in which love finds
expression in some natures. 1t
was always easy to carry on a
conversation with the loquacious
Mrs. Puffer, for the reason that
she rarely expected any reply TO
her questions. She either an
swered them herself or continued
the conversation without waiting
for a reply. She chose the latter
method on this occasion, and said
as she poked at the clothes boil
ing on the laundry stove
Yes, l do think that this bust
ness they call love cuts up mighty
queer capers in some folks, or
makes them cut up until there's
ground for suspicioning that they
amt all right in the upper story.
When you hear of some of these
old ladies along in the seventies
taking up with young things in
the twenties and marrying of
them and calling it a love match,
it makes a body feel that it would
of been good thing if that match
could of went out before it was
lit. And when girlrof eighteen
elspes with a man whose grand
daughter of twenty-seven sum-
mers follers them to try and
head them off, it makes good
what ] said at first that it's queer
how love acts in some folks.
But I have an idee that a good
many things are laid onto Cupid
that he amt responsible for, for
often there amt no Simon pure
love about merriages nowadays
-more's the pity. l sometimes
tell folks that l married for love
and I'm working for riches. 1t
is a good deal better way than to
marry for riches and then go to
work to win love. That sort of
thing works about like marrying
o drunkard to reform him, and
that is the beateree in the line of |
pure tomfoolery. I've seen it
tried more times than I've got
fingers and thumbs, and twice |
I've been one of the witnesses
when the divorce trials come off. |
It usually ends not only in broken |
hearts but in broken heads or in |
some other part of peoples anat-
omy being cracked or broken by |
the objeck of affection that didn't
reform fiingin' furniture around
permiscuous like. Did | ever tell
you about Puffer's Aunt Perliny
Moone
Ullnk not, MIS-. PuHor.
No ? Funny if I've left her
out of the Puffer pedigree. II
reckon she's the only one I've
skipped in the year I've been
doing your laundry work. She
was a case, Aunt Perliny was.
It was case where Cupid'cut up
in a way that he ort to of been
ashamed of-the little rascal
This Aunt Perliny Of Puffer's
lived in little town something
like five hundred miles from
here. Her and Puffer writ to
each other mebbe once a year,
an I've often told Puffer that he
ort to write oftener seein' that
his Aunt Perliny was thought to
be worth all the way from three
tofour thousand dollars an there
wasn't but six or seven direct
heirs beside Puffer but ne sad
that if he did go and waste a lot
of paper and postage on her she'd
be just as apt as not TO leave what
she had to some orphan asylum
or home for aged an Indignant
ladies. Wills are like .merriages
you cant tell how they re goin'
to come out. There's turrible
s'prises in boths Amt that right?
| am afraid it is.
Anyhow, both of them are re-
sponsible for a lot Of blasted
hopes. But about Puffer's Aunt !
Perliny. I never laid eyes on !
her until something more than