The Washington times., 1910-10-06
Fathers Love Letter
Paves Way for New Hat
Daughter Long Wanted
By DOROTHY DIX.

ting serious Jim is a typical college
youth. who plays halfback on the var
sity team.
''Wen. I wish you could hear father
oescant on jim. He says X Is e u1vs-
terry 70 him why some man with orii-
nary common sense never comes 70 see
me. and that before he would have
the house filed up and DO with twans-
ing. mandolin playing idiots. with hair
that looked Ike a plate OF cold slauv
had been elnpded over their heads, Or
with creatures that looked ike Bowery
toughs, that he would be an old MID,
and spend his time knitting yarn socks
for the HOtteutots.
Does Not Approve
Of Modern Courtship.
And he doesn't approve OF the nod
ern method OF courtship. Father SAYS
that there was none OF this nOnsenzical
love-making in his time. A man knew
at once whether he wanted a girl or
not. and asked her right on the reel,
before he impoverished her family burn
Ing out electricity and wore out the
parlOr furniture. No, SAYS papa. give
I him the plain spoken, hOnest-hearted
Young men Of his day, who wasted no
time talking poetry or writing love let
: tiers, but who meant business and who
came 70 the point al once.
! 1t accidentally happened that going
| through an old trunk in the garrett I
had come across a bundle Of old let
ters that Papa had written Mamma
I before they were married So one
night. when Papa came home, I was
/ discovered in the library with two or
I tire OF the bNlets-dOux IN my hands.
| anected 70 be much embarrassed
and 70 hide them. and Of course he
bounced on them at once I wouldn't
| on reading one II was the Warnest
/ bunch OF sentiment you ever heard
My Ownest own began reading.
/ Although II is but Two hours since
left your angelic presence I read
| on II seems year To think that
/ twenty-five more hOUrs-a very eter-
/ nity-must elapse before I can again
hold that little hand IL mine and gaze
into the heaven OF those blue eyesF
'Biithering Fool"
Is PaPa's Epithet.
The bIithering foolY Papa howled.
Do you mean 70 tell me, Mary, thar
you would let anybody capable OF
writing such driveling rot hang
around your
&c why. Papa I said. 7 think that Is
Just too sweet for anything Listen 70
this-it is only about twelve pages
about that little cold had when I vas
kept IN the house Two days
Twelve pages about a coldF
l o-4L-GhtG EdpG-
d" And he says 7 went q, that he
| would cut on his whole arm 70 save ms
the pain OF a needle prick IN my finger.
/ Isn't that tender and tOuching2'
! " It's nauseaung,' Papa raved. u Is
the most disgusting thing I ever heard
/ IN my life No wonder people talk
! about the degeneracy Of the times when
a fool writes that kind OF idiOcy 10 q
girl IdiOcy, By jOve. that any Jury
would convict a man OF lunacy on, and
q girl, instead OF being disgusted and
, throwing such a letter IN the FIRE, actu-
ally treasures II and reads IL Ons
! thing I tell you straight, Mary, and that
Is that won't put up with that foolish
ness any longer. II the writer OF that
that-sickening stun ever comes here
again III throw him out This Is M
home for people with paresis, by love 4
/ ism Here. give ne that letter
7 handed over the letter Il was
| signed Tommy Papa's name Is
Thomas Jefferson TOmpkins. He gave
! / one look al Il, turned 70 the date and
: signature, and IN the silence YOU could
: hear the hall clock tick
] And when he did speak. he said,
p casually
on, by the way, did you get that
2 nfty-dollar hat you were talking about
: No2 Well, you had better see about Il
- tomorrow when YOU 80 downtown