Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-08-10

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rode on the traction company's re-
pair wagon. was going to give her
poodle as soon us his brother got the
hauling contract III the Ninth. And
the man who always ate spareribs and
spinach and said be was stock
broker asked her to go to "Parsifap
| with him.
Il don't know where this place u.s."
said Aileen while talking it over with
Tidy. but the wedding rings got to
be on before put Il stitch into
travelling dress. Amt that right? Well
l guess!
But. Tidy:
In steaming. chattering. cabbage
scented Bogle's there was almost Il
heart tragedy. Tidy. with the blunt
nose, the hay colored hair, the free
Killed. skin. the bag O. meal figure. had
never had an adnirer. Not Il man
followed her with his eyes when she
went to and fro in the restaurant
save now and then when men glared
with the beast hunger for food None
OF them bantered her gayly to coQuet-
fish interchanges OF wit. None of
them loudly jollied her of MORN
ings us they did Aileen. accusing her.
! when the eggs were slow in coming.
| of late hours in the company of en-
We'd SWANS. No one had ever given
! her turquoise ring or invited her
upon Il voyage to mysterious. distant
| "Parsifal."
Tidy was a good waitress. and the
men tolerated her. They who sat at
her tables spoke to her briefly with
quotations from the bill, Of fare and
then raised their voices in honeyed
and otherwise favored accents elo.
| quently addressed to the fair Aileen
They writhed in their chairs to gaze
| around and over the impeding form of
Tidy. that Aileen's pulchritude might
| season and make ambrosia of their
bacon and eggs.
l. And Tildy was content to be the un-
| wooed drudge if Aileen could receive
the llattery and the homage. The
blunt nose was loyal to the short Gre
| cian SHE was Aileen's friend, and
SAC was ElAS ~ SVC uCA ulC uCA1 u
and wean the attention of men from
smoking |otpie and lemon meringue.
| But deri, below our freckles and hay
coIored hair the unhandsomest OF us
| dream OF Il prince or a princess. not
vicarious. but coming to us alone.
There WAS morning when Aileen
| tripped in to work with slightly
bruised eye and Tildy's solicitude was
| almost enough to heal any optic.
| "Fresh guy" explained Aileen. last
night as was going home at Twenty
third and Sixth. sashayed up. so he
| did. and made a break | turned him
down cold. and be made sneak. but
followed NE down to Eighteenth and
tried his hot air again. Gee. but
slapped him good one side OF the
face! Then he give me that eye.
! Does it look real awful. Til? / should
hate that Mr.. Nicholson should see it
when he comes in for his tea and
toast at 10"
| Tidy listened to the adventure with
breathlesS admiration. No man had
ever tried to follow her She was
safe abroad at any hour of the TWEEN
ty-four What bliss it must have been
to have had man follow one and
| black ones eve for love:
! Among the customers at Bogle's was
a young man named Seeders. who
worked in a laundry Office. Mr.. Seed
ers was thin and bad light hair and
appeared to have been recently rough
dried and starched. He was too diff
dent to aspire to Aliens notice. so
he usually sat at one of Tildy's tables.
where he devoted himself to silence
| and boiled Weaktish.
One day when MIR. Seeders came in
to dinner he had been drinking beer.
There were only two or three custom
ers in the restaurant. When Mr.. Seed
ers had finished his weaktish he got