The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-11-09
He Changed
His Mind

my mind about few things" re-
marked the youngish bachelor. Just
now I'm away out on limb, scarce
ly knowing which way to jump in re-
gard to the matrimonial possibilities
of this life.
You know, ever since I've been
old enough to think out my wants for
myself I've planned to wait until I
could make satisfactory arrange
ments with some young creature with
fair assortment of personal charms
and also few bales of the negotiable
yeiloWbacks in her own right, besides
sterling silver key ring containing
keys to safety deposit boxes, summer
homes and all such things.
VI course, l never went into the
boss and told him l was going to quit
my job pending final arrangements
for winning out home with eight
baths and hired help No, I've kept
plugging along all the time, and it
looks as If ] ought to be fairly well
heeled some day, even l should have
to work for 1t all. But up to day be-
fore yesterday l was still counting on
facing world SOME day that would
say: Yes, he married her just for
her money"
1T wasn't that was so sordid as
to leave all such items as mutual
personal regard out of consideration.
l figured that with all the hard work
Ing fathers there are dying of and
leaving their money to daughters
who don't know how to invest 1t or
look after it, there surely ough. to
be one that would appreciate my true
worth and who also would have every
desirable personal quality that !
would find in one with no chattels or
prospects beyond a $40 trousseau.
But I've changed my mind since
passed a day last week with fellow
whom I've been envying for several
years because things seemed to break
so well for him The last time l saw
him before this visit he was about
to be married to the daughter of his
employer. Her dad gave 'em a bum
galow in this suburb for a wedding
present, and she bought red touring
car as long as five room fiat, out of
her own funds. Then an uncle Of
hers turned summer camp of his in
the ST. Lawrence over to them TO use
when they wanted it. Since then I've
heard from my old friend Jim by SOU
venir postal, first from different pla-
ces in Europe, then from Palm Beach
or New Brunswick, according to the
season of the year
That was pretty soft for old Jim,
II seemed to me, especially on hot
days, when l would be sweltering
away at my office and the letter csr
rier would bring me q card that he'd
sent me from some big resort OF ia
the mountains or at The seashsre
felt that could enjoy that sybaritic
life just as we'll as lie could.
We'll, as l started to tell you. | Wis.,
tied Jim a day or SO ago. He apollo
gized for meeting ne with the limou-
sine on such wal II day, but he said
the touring car was in the shop for
repairs after iaunl he'd made up to
enc !.i.e in Wisconsin,
Il saw at once that Jim was
changed Four or I've years ago, be-
lore he was married he was one of
those positive, table pounding fellows
In his talk-had strong opinions
about everything. and didn't mind
telling them. Now he acted so sub
dIed and had such a hangdog look
that l wondered if high living had
knocked all the old-time ginger out
Of him.
After We got to his home and had
handed our hats to a servant in the
front hall | began to discover what
was wrong. Jim's wife was a de-
mure little thing to look at, but she
had Jim jumping every minute of the
time. Honestly, he didn't cut any
more of a figure around that place
than four ounce piece of ice in a
six-foot refrigerator.
Mice sort of girl. too, Jim's wife
was, you understand. She fairly out
did herself to show me a good time.
First, she had Jim hustle upstairs aft
| er some new records for the phono-
| yraph. Then she chided him for be-
| ing so dilatory about getting me a
! fresh cigar. Oh, it was Jim this and
| Tim that all the time. She did it in
a pleasant sort of way, but Jim knew
what he had to do, all right He
| came about as near being the head
Of that house as minority stockhold-
er does to getting on the executive
committee Of trust. Jim just help
! ed around, that was all.
1.-The next day he got to talking to
me confidently. He said he was so
! sick and tired of Europe and summer
resorts and winter resorts and so
ciety and money and the people who
had it that he knew he would have
been happy if he could just have mar.
ried some miller's daughter in a jay
town and then could have got a job
! as bookkeeper in feed store and
! lived quietly in a drab cottage back
| of a sawmill
Il saw where Jim was right. too"
Kill or Cure.
Doctor-Well, how are you today?