Middletown transcript., 1910-10-15
The Modern Way
BIZ GEoRGE HOLT

He paused suggestiveIy.
What Z asked Marion.
Whati echoed her father.
Why, itn probably take a week
to and out whichis flying machine
and which is--What's his name
nowf
But Marion had gone, and in
what mood was indicated by the
noisy slamming Of q door behind
her.
For a few minutes Jeremiah
continued to walk and think.
He was notan unjust man, and it
was not a blockhead that had
pulled barrels of money from the
stocks Of railroad and steamship
lines. He knew just as we'll as
anybody, he said to himself, what
the flying. men were starting.
They'd fall-sure they'd fall
and they'd break their precious
necks-bnt some day a man
would come who didn't fall, and
others would come after him, and
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then-well, thought jeremiah,
that would be the time to unload
some of his railroad stock. But
to have his daughter marry one
of them Especially one who
was in the game too early to be
the one that did not fall! No:
that wouldn't do; it wouldn't do
at all. jeremiah didn't think his
daughter would look well in
black.
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Jsmming a screwdriver into
the front pocket of his overalls,
Jimmie Daniels slid down from q
girder and welcomed Marion as
any young man might have well
coined his best girl, excepting
that he kept his hands, which
we're very black and greasy,
sticking out behind the girls
back like q pair of dislocated
wings.
HoW's it getting along Jimmies
she asked. And anybody could
guess what it was.
Just putting on the finishing
touches, answered Jimmie. That's
the reason I sent word you could
come and see it to-day! Jimmie
pointed at the big machine with
a look not wholly different from
that with which he had greeted
his sweetheart. Isn'tit a beauty?
Somewhat timidly the girl.
drew nearer to the machine
where it balanced on its hangers.
1t doesn't look like one, she
commented.
Like one-what asked Jim
Daniels.
Marion laughed. Dad calls
them crazy Jupe-bugs, she ex.
planned.
Jimmie shifted.
Also he characterizes them as
q pair OF sheets backed by
what was it ?-oh yes, a paraletic
engine.
He doesn't know what he's talk
ing about, Jimmie cried. Just
come and see this engine. It's
got a horsepower TO the pound.
It's the niftiest little machine
that was ever built. / ran it for
forty eight hours at a stretch, in
the test, and it never missed a
spark. Jimmie was growing |
enthusiastic as usual.
Marion looked at Jimmie with |
the understanding of a fellow
workman.
And she stood it all rightf
She did, assented Jimmie.
Then you have got it? asked
Marion.
Jimmie laughed ioyfuHy.
Don't be so awed, he teased.
Yes, I've got it. And it's so
after one knows hoW.iI
just a little valve in the right
place, with an automatic release
and the engine win even run
under water.
I am glad, said Marion simply.
| am glad, it's yours. You're
going to protect IL z
Sure, said Jimmie. Sure / am. i
The papers are alreaey on the
way 10 Washington. Now come
and see the June,bug- say let's
name it the June, hug," he sug-
yested. Perhaps
Never mind. let's do it any
how, laughed Marion. tn be
sun. Dad really has a sense Of
numor, even
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