Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-03-02


I They say ri be in love some day
But i don't know. Pa was in love
enoe--but he's married now. And
hey say cts a wise son that knows
BIS own father" I thought / was
wise" until cupid's darts began ia
worry pa; then he didn't seem like
The same man.
, But it wasn't pas fault he got
nARried. Pas awful handsome,
ANY man that's handsome and a
widOwer and has plenty of money
has a pretty hard time to keep from
getting married. All the un.
nmnned women in town are after
fm. At least, they were All after
And, then, he tried to blamelt on
lsae-he said / needed home and
ssOmeone to look after me, and all
that sort of rot. Of course that
lneant he'd have to get married. /
caught on in a minute. | knew who
Ihe had his eye on. She's been aw-
fully good to me lately.
l suppose pa thought was easy.
BUt I just fooled him. l told him
II guessed we could get along all
night the way we we're.
"But, my boy" said he. eff you
had a home you could have a dog"
I told him I didn't care much for
dogs any more.
'Well, then, YOU could have a
pony"
"Nope," says |, 81 don't like
ponies, either. But say, pop, how
about an automobile?"
"T'll tell you, my boy, if you'll be
real sensible, and try to do things to
please me, III get you an automo-
bile"
] knew what that meant-but,
then, I'd do anything for an auto
naebile.
"All right, pop says I. 81
think it would be bully to keep
house. And then you'd have some
one to look after YOU when you get
sick
"That's the way | like to hear you
talk, my boy" said he.
"Give me a nickel, pa?"
/ knew | had him over barrel,
and he knew it too, so he ponied
up without even asking me what I
wanted it for.
Pa and | lived in hotel-and his
"girl" lived in a flat across the |
street. He and always took a |
walk after dinner. But when he
got ready that evening ! told him
I was tired and that he'd better get
Miss Janc-that was his girl
and take her out for a walk lie
pattcd me on the shoulder and said
he was sorry | didn't feel like 60
ing, and that's the last / saw of
him that evening.
But after that he began going
to Miss James every evening. got |
tired of staying alone so ! began
going with him. guess this wasn't
very satisfactory to him--but /
liked it pretty well One evening he
gave me quarter bet he thought
it was a nicke) and told me I'd
better 90 over TO the hotel
Pa always said had a good head
for business, so after that | made
him this proposition: I'd go back
% the hotel.
4 AT nine O'Clock for % cents;
At ten O'Clock for Is cents;
AT II O'Clock for Ten cents
| made rs cents pretty nearly
every night that way.
Then one night they went out
walking and left me at Miss James.
| guess they had falling out. be-
cause they hadn't been gone long
before they came back. Pa opened
the door and let Miss Jane in and
then went away This sort of sur
prised Miss Jane-shc thought he |
was coming in. She began to bawl.
told her it would be all right some !
day She said she just knew p ed |
never come back. | supposed all |
girls liked something romantic so
told Miss Jane that maybe pad |
90 Jump in the bay like another dis
appointed lover had done that sum
ner. But that didn't seem to cheer
- -, ,-or,r much ha,onso -, |