The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-11-19
TWO HENDE )NYILLE
BACHELS DOOMED!

Leap year. most gone an amt
had a single beau all summer! Il
declare if I amt well nigh dis
couraged!"
AN we aint likely to have,
neither. Goodness knows I've
tried hard enough for my part.
Here I've gone an spent seven
dollars for these new teeth an
when Monroe Shepherd asked
me this morning if / d dn't want
to buy pair of shoes, / felt right
smartly encouraged. I lowed it
was my new teeth as made him
speak so soft and gentle like, and
so / looked at him real sweet and
encouraged him as much as a girl
should, but he never said another
word. And Roe Shepherd is
1just one of the cutest bachelors
i there's left in Hendersonville,
! tool"
Mary Ann Jane Wimbkins and
| her sister Mehitible had lived in
| Hendersonville and in the same
house for forty years.
/ They were, to be plain, two
old maids. Their dearest friends
| admitted, with a sigh, that they
/ were likely to die old maids and
:; Homer Hawkins, the popular
| jeweler, felt blue every time he
| thought of them.
Now, there's Jeff Dermid.
It's time that man was mar
ried, / say. Henry Allen says
:. Jeff's engaged and that's what
he's built that new house for,
: but I don't belieVe it. Then
there's Bud Glazener he's al
7 ways talking of getting married
but / don't see no signs of it, nor
: with his brother Alf either"
} The smouldering logs in the
wide fire place burst into a sud-
iden blaze. The Pickering flames
threw fantastic shadows on the
wall and made Mary James
spare form a plump and gen
erous figure.
We'll, | declare, Mary Ann
: Jane air you going to speak to
all the bachelors? Where do ]
: come in? Now, I just want to
: mention it casual like to Mike
: Schenck- he's just that hand
! some! Or else to Frank Edwards,
for Franks a good boy but
mighty unsettled. Then there's
Wilson McCarson. Wilson is
certainly handsome, we'll set
up man, an they say he's that
: good-natured! I certainly al
: ways liked Wilson,, I" replied her
l sister, carefully removing her
; false teeth and placing them in a
glass of water. DIR. Carson had
3 told her they were the naturalist
set of teeth he'd ever made. -
The two white-clad figures
; drew their chairs closer to the
blaze, gazing intently into the fire,
n each busy with her own thoughts.
From a nearby pine thicket came
the lonely cry of an owl, and
: Mary Jane, reaching across the
hearth for the poker inserted it
carefully amongst the glowing
: embers, remarking: There, if
that don't stop that owl / don't
| know what will!' In the dane
: ing flames they seemed to see
pictures bright and pleasing, fo1
: smile, sweet and tender as q
: piece of young home bred pork,
crept gradually over their thin
!. faces.
: 'Now, there's Judge Gullick.
0 The Judge aint as young as he
T uster to be and I've a feelin' in
e me -
h Looking intently at the bright
embers they seemed to see g
! crowd of faces all of them good.
looking all of them familiar
d and both made up their minds
+ that any one of them would do.
q They saw the pleasant face OF
3 Gather Rhodes, assistant cashier
y of the First National Bank.
y They saw Claude Pace, easy and
: smiling. Then there was Will
shire Griffith, and E. w. Ew-
t bank, most confirmed bachelor
8 indeed, and his brother John.
2 Then there was Harry Duffy
. and John Mcintyre, and-and
!, many others, all bachelors, and
g they all looked good to the two
maidens.
T Outside the night was wild and
j wintry. , Fast-fying clouds OBJ
8 scured the crescent moon and the
stars looked cold and far-away.
8 The smoldering logs sent a final
n shower of sparks up the wide
chimney, and the bright glow OF
:. the dying fire cast a ruddy
y 4 I