Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-04-14

ten-forty car into where she WASHES
dishes fer the Women's Exchange
lunch She has to stay until almost
shutdown, and comes home dead-beat.
| don't want to say anything hard or
MI, Simmons, but it do seem he uses
his family keerless like on a good sal
ary."
What" inquired Mr.. Alan from
the doorstep, does the brute do?"
well, l wouldn't skeercely call him
brute. think" said Miss Selma Lue,
as she shook out her duEter and began
on the shelf Of canned tongue. He
runs laundry wagon and he says 1t
| is a advertisement fer the house fer
him to be stylish dresser, but l cant
see why the house has to have his
pants pressed every morning and nave
him wear purple socks and tan shoes,
when his wife is all drug out with
trying to piece along and keep going.
Sometimes l think it must be vanity
in Mr. Simmons, and vanity in man
| is like turkey gobbler a-strutting IN
November"
What about vanity in the ladies,
Miss Selma Lue? You surely don't
approve of that"
Now, Mr.. Alan, you're mad at
what l said about the men and are
! trying to git even with me-" And Miss
Selma Lue smiled over her shoulder
at him. Miss Selma Lues smile was
like broad beam Of sunshine on
summer morning. Don't you know
! the Lord wouldn't have gave women
folks shiny curls, cheeks pink like a
peach, fggers plump beautiful and
eyes blue as the wild violets on the
creek, like Miss Cynthie there, lessen
he intended to excuse them some fer
being proud?"
81 don't believe he would quite
stand for that amount Of pride and
grudge Mr. Simmons the purple socks"
murmured Mr.. Alan over his cigar in
careful soto voce. and Immediately
steered Miss Selma Lue off the dis
turbing topic Of her friends perfec-
tons.
anything interesting in the family
histories of the other two soap boxes.
Miss Selma Lue? 1t seems the thing
On the Bluff to know all about your
neighbors, and my intimacy with your
| Riddles grows apace." There was
winning wholesomeness in Mr.. Alan's
voice that struck kindred note in the
soul Of Miss Selma Lue, and she rev.
! eled in the unbosoming of herself to
| him. His dark eyes shone with inter
! est and his straight mouth had an IN
: expected quirk in the left corner, cas-
lily interpreted as indicative Of a sense
Of humor.
We'll, Pattie Tyne, the little one
that can't hardly set up good yet, IL
jest SO to speak transient. as her ma
have gone on visit to her sister over
to Union City. After she had got the
| other five ready to go, there jest
wasn't nothing to fix Pattie up in fifteen
for visit, so she left her with me- I
wash the blue bingham out Of nights
and piece out with a dress of Bios
SONS when it's needed bad. Looks
like Mis- Tyne breads the sewing ma
chine and a bolt Of caliker like they
was typhoid smallpox"
And last, but not least, tell me the
tale Of Blossom, the lady Of my heart,
the only person who really appreciates
me for my true worth, which is pep
permint candy in limited quantities
and a shoulder cushioned in Drawn
and exalted in height. Blossom is a
lady OF discernment and has the couT-
age Of her predictions"
'Mr. Alan" said Miss Selma Lue az
she sat down on the step by him and,
picking up the little white calico bon
net he had let drop off the nodding
head of the lady in question, began to
plat the ruff1e with caressing fingers,
'tthey amt many people l would tell
| the story Of her to. One way Or an
other, have shet up every soul on
the Bluff as has asked me. Of course
/ Miss .Cynthie knews, fer people can't
help talking pitifulness to her, but the
rest jest found her here, and that is
all they need to know.
cit was a year ago last Christmas
| it happened to me and Charity to find
her About dark when | was busy to
death doing up supper truck-as you
see, that's my busiest time Of day
girl come in here l never saw be-
fore and she looked wild and white.
She, carried a bundle in her arms, but
never suspicioned anything, SO
jest sold her box of crackers and
she went on out. Then plumb forgot
her, as l oughten to have done, for
she wasn't happy-seeming, and sich
as she oughter be on my mind
CTO BE CONTINUED.)