The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1911-03-21
A WIDOWS
WANTS
BY M QUAD
Copyright. 1910. by Associated Lit
erary Press.

NiiiaSC VI SIoWell tudI bedCOu I1cu-
dersOn had his eye on the Widow Gla-
zier. Why not? The deacon was
fifty-fve and q widower and wanted a
home. The widow was fifty and lone
ly.
Deacon Henderson dropped into the
widows cottage one day, and after
cOmplimenting her on her hollyhocks
and tomato vines he said:
"Widder, do you know what the folks
are saying:'
la, no.
They are saying that yOun me
ought to get married.
But L can't get my breath, It's all
so sudden. Deacon. if we get mar
ried well live in your house, won't
WEI"
/ I'VE will"
"And you'll put down a new carpet
| Oh the paror floor"
/ For why? The one there is a good
one
I It's rag carpet. and its twenty
| years old. l helped Sarah cut and sew
I the rags. | shall want Il brussels
! with patterns Of roses
I'm. Too muclf extravaganza"
Then l won't marry YOU"
The deacon went away in n huff and
trying to make himself believe that
he had Il lucky escape. However, aft
err thinking it over for week he re-
turned to say:
Il guess I'd be willing to buy that
carpet
But / want something else. We
must have three lace curtains They
must be long huff to sweep the floor"
store carpet and store curtains."
shouted the deacon in diSmay why.
| widder, you'd bankrupt us in 4 month.
No, no. Green paper shades are good
! huff for us"
Then | guess we won't get mar
ried. Folks have limited that you was
stingy, and now l see You are
Away went the deacon for the sec
Ond time, and for two days he patted
himself on the back. He could figure
that he lad saved over SO on that
deal. The rag carpet and the paper
shades looked good to him as he sat
in the parlOr. but after three or four
days he found the Old loneliness creep
ing over him. He would give in to
her. He waited one day more and
then called on her under pretense that
he had mislaid his family almanac
and wanted to know when the moon
would be in her third quarter After
finding that out he said:
We'll, wilder. Inebbe you are right
about the carpet and curtains"
Deacon, I've been thinking since
You were here we must have four
Stuffed chairs to put in that parlor to
go with the new carpets and cur
tains"'
Saints and sinners, Stuffed chairs
Stuffed chairs in our parlOr! Never
Wilder GlaZier, never, The carpet
and curtains would tempt Satan huff
l don't propose to risk any more"
-Four stuffed chairs, deacon, ant
mebbe sofa TO boot"
"Pm going home. Good day.
Those stuffed chairs, with an addi
tional sofa looming up in the near flu
ture. were n shock to the deacon
They meant extravaganza; they mean
vanity; they meant the breaking dOwI
of long erected barriers. No; it coul(
not be. He must continue his lonely
life by his lonesome He did cOntinu,
it for ten long days and nights. TheI
he went over to ask the Widow Gla
zier if the later bug had yet appeared
i'm her garden and TO offer TO lend he
some paris green to dope him with i
he had. No, the bug had not appear
ed. But the deacon had other thing
to say. Leaning on the we'll curb AM
, the widow standing in her kitchen
door. he observed:
Il s'pose one can sit down on 4 stuff
= ed chair:'
, "Oh, yes
: And they don't make body vain:
| "Never heard Of it,
: "And they are with the money yo
! have to pay for 'em?"
l They surely are,'
t "Well. We might get 'em. Shall W
be married next month";
IL dunno. What about You
house,
: Why, it's there in the same oil
place. amt it?''
YES, but it needs repaintinG."
You mean it wants another coat u
whitewash. Well, me and you will d
that together"
But we won't, deacon. It's got {
be paint-real paint. and two coats a
that. It's got TO be pea green wit
darker green for trimmings
For the first time in his life the des
con lost consciousness and thing
whirled around with him. When h
braced up the widow was saying:
And new front steps, and a ne'
: sidewalk. and a new picket fence. an
, q pump in the well, and then we mus
have brass bedsteads and china diSi