The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-05-18

fully reported breach of promise case
action Tom. whose quarrel, with his
fiancee still burned, sniffed MS con
tempt of the unhappy defendant whose
stilted but earnest attempts to express
his passion in verse had been paseiy
read out in court by sardonic couh'
sci. ,u
Love" he concluded, IAN such-lke
rot ought to be put stop TO- II
makes me Ill to talk about IT,
"Then why talk of it?' SAID MI
Nutts. the druggist. Mr.. Nuts pres
ence was tolerated on the Implied uh-
Outstanding that he refrained from
insidiously introducing any OF ms
mysterious compounds.
why talk of it?" he said again.
"Nothing new has been discovered
about love since the first generation
after Adam. If chap thinks 'es IN
love, an says he's unhappy, e amt In
love at ALL Most likely it's lndlges-
ton. Cause when a chaps really In
love, he simply can't help peinS
'appy.''
Listen to Cupid" said Poty. grin
ming.
But look here. Pinch" said Tom,
"s'pose a chaps in love with gai,
an she amt with him. What about
it them"
| "Nothin' at all to do with 1t" ex-
planned Pinch. Loves thing Dy
! itself, an If chaps got 1t he's nap
pier'n he could be il he amt got II.
II the gals caught it as well, that
very nice, but even II she amt. tne
chaps better OF than if he hadn't got
It."
ITS nv belief" said Potty, memory
touching his eyes and voice, that It's
as much habit as anything else. When
a chaps got into the way OF 1t IKE
it amt easy to get out. It's ike
smokin'. 1t don't matter very mucn
what you smoke SO long as you're
smokin'. an same way it don't matter
. much to a chap who he's in love with
so long as he's in love-"
"Well," said Pinch, come to thini
of it, most things is habits. What's
life but a sort o. habit? There's lou
!. o. people always grumbling about tn
: worry an trouble O. life, an sayin'
}. amt worth livin', but they don't seen
8 very keen on givin' it up. Can't ge
: out of the habit, like. An I've notice.
b that if one O. them kind O people get
q a cold or a headache, he's the one I
n hop into bed an send for doctor
Another thing. too! What's VII
but a habit? First of all. she's Sol
O. worshiped by man; then she D.
q comes a friend, like; but you look
q a man married three or four year
an il his wife amt habit more
she's anything else, well! If she goe
- away for day or two, does ne mis-
. her? Course he does. So he MISE
r his pipe or his halfpint if he's sudde
0. ly cut off EN- Mark yer, too, lots
70 people would rave like mad II 1t WI
d nut to 'em, but If th'd speak the trui
/. which it's as well for them they don
!. they'd say l was quite right"
Ginger glanced at Potty.
:. 1--WE often thought" said he, dar
~ ". that a place where gener
70 swan O. wives could be made now
6. then would be very handy
q WHAT" said Pinch.
he His face glowed with fury and b
w. eyes blazed disgust at Ginger's cal
and philosophic suggestion.
"What?" he repeated. and after
Is, struggle for breath-"You!-"
lu- Words failed him, and with stupt
he dous effort he subsidized into silence
he "A chap could make the swap
u. rectly he begins to find his wife
:. habit" continued Ginger.
- Pinch gradually resumed an appe
ance of sanity as he realized he
ny being chaffed.
nio "Ah. said he hopping his brow, :!
10 didn't exactly see what l meant.
CHI was taIkin' general, not pussonal."
Cd Herein is food for thought and 81
nd analysis.
&c. "Rummest thing about love"
Rnl Jones, "seein' as we're taiR
about it's the idea chaps get i
ish their heads directly they eaten
the rhe idea as nobody else ever KIN
do anything at all about It, Think they
ofa discovered America ev'ry time.
to, "woman." broke in Tom; the
NC way to keep woman in her place Is
1 let her see yer don't think much
uo- her-even IL yer do. Let her see
nsn think she's an inferior. which she
the an nine cases out O ten she'll tn
nan you're right, an treat you with pro
IL respect"
.ers There was a pause. Pinch
the mentally distilling wisdom from
enforced impressions Of lifes exr
ence.
re- You're wrong, Tom," said ne, a
. of ,v. "ouite wrong. Women, for 81