Sharp County record., 1907-12-13
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"When the bachelor girl come home
from the south" said the little grass
widow. "sho found ne broken-hearted.
Sammie and ! had quareled
"The bachelor girl was unhappy,
too. The little artist fellow she was
helping to feed the winter before had
disappointed her, so We made a com
pact to stand by each other just as
men do. Men were a lot better friends
to each other than women. We had
to own that We went out to dinner
to talk it over. 1t was funny, but the
bachelor girl was q good deal more
bitter than I, who have suffered so
much from men and been married so
many times; but then I am Of very
forgiving and recuperative nature,
taking it all in all as the English say
THAT little fellow, she complained
was the most ungrateful creature she
ever encountered, What thanks did
she get for feeding him? None at all
On the contrary he sneered at her
dinners. Said he could improve on
the cooking. Think Of that. Looking
a gift horse in the mouth like that!
Did | ever hear anything like it?
No I said. He was a brute
"She looked at me hard when ! said
he was brute, then, thinking better
Of It, went on giving him fits,
"Would ! promise her on my word
Of honor not to tell something if she
told it to me?
"Of course, | would.
"Well, then, she leaned over the
table to tell me, so the waiter wouldn't
hear. He had borrowed ten dollars Of
her before she went south. A ten
dollar bill!
"'And to think she went on, that
could care anything for him after
that! That ! could think Of marrying
him! l don't understand myself; l
don't understand myself at ALL she
reiterated
"'While you are under the halluci-
nation, said I, the meanor they treat
{ you the more you care for them; but
just wait till you get out! It's then
/ you see them as they are and hate
them accordingly Why | continued,
there isn't a husband | have had that
/ I would make a doormat Of now ]
have taken such a dislike to them all,
| | saw one on the street the other
day and didn't recognize him, A friend
Of mine who was With,me said, why,
isn't that your hu9band-one Of them,
/ mean" And | looked up and said,
ooh, it isl" And that's tho way you
get once you are out from under the
influence
"The bachelor girl stared at me
hard.
"T believe you are right she said
4 believe you are right Thank heav.
en- am out OF the influenced They
arc no earthly good, these men
"'You are right too said |, but
presently when the waiter showed The
bill at rs I sighed and added, but they
do come IN handy at times. Don't
they"
"As we went on home together she
began again;
",le has phoned me and phoned
me- she said since I have come
homo, but / shall not see him TIL he
pays mo that $40, promise you that
/ shall not see him, Thoy are brutes
These men
"Then she went to her fat In Aar
lon and I didn't see her for the long
est time. But ! began to hear Of her
faint rumors that ondod in my calling
her up one morning on the phone,
"'And so you arc to be married tt
the little brute, they tell me- said
"she laughed In a confused way
Yes said she,
"'Niee way to keep our compact,
said I, Thon like crazy foolish,
added, Did no ever pay you back Tho
ten%
"Tho answer came sharp and quick
THAT question cost me IN Invitation
to tho Wedding,
Ono said she, but | wish yoO
would not let that worry YOU, and shJ
rang off with an angry click
Nov, what do you think of that?