The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-23
TEE EVENING STORY
Showing Pa How.
(By Clara Inez Deacon.)


After farmer Remsen's wife had
strained the evening milk and got
| things ready for an early breakfast she
| came out on the veranda where her
husband sat smoking ard sat down
with bump and a sigh. Two or three
minutes passed and then the husband
remarked:
I'm gittin' riled up
You don't mean mad?'' was asked.
Yes, do"
| But what in beeswax has riled you?
The spotted cow didn't kick you again
tonight. did she?"
mo, it amt the spotted COW: It's
| the way things are goin' around this
house and the time has come when I
want to know all about it,
81 didn't know as anything dreadful
a moment. ''The meals are being
cooked and the beds made the same as
usual. I guess you've got prickly
| heat"
"And I guess you'n Kitty take me
for a fool!''
Look here, pa" said the wife in a
soothing way. sit would be better for
you to tend to the outdoor work and
| leave me to manage inside. But if you
won't do it I s'pose I'll have to tell you
something. 1t don't amount to shucks,
| but you've got to know or bust. Our
Kitty and Earl Andrews have quar-
relied"
"You don't say!" exclaimed pa with
such vigor that he bit off the stem
of his pipe.
IT There you 60! You'll be falling off
But they've quarreled! Bless my
cats, but I thought something was up.
1 asked about Earl three or four days
ago and you turned me off. So they've
| had row and won't get married?"
what man you are, pa! S'pose
they have quarreled? Young folks in
| love always quarrel. You'n me quar-
reled.'
"But we made it up"
$50 will they if some idiot don't
Spite everything"
And that's the reason Kitty is
moonin' around and ,eatin' nuthin'
| hitching around for a while.
''She amt goin' to die over it.
don't want you to say a word or to
| pretend to notice anything. It's not for
the girls father to mix in such things.
You Jest leave it to me-"
But women amt got heads for
business al ssss Eq
rs this business, you old sun
| fower?" exclaimed the wife. do you
| think you can patch up a lovers quar-
rel the same as you sell butter'n eggs?
No. sir. and that's why I tell you to
keep hands off,"
Yes; but mebbe I'll have to go to
Earl and threaten to lick him.
Hiram Remsen, have you lost the
little sense you ever had ?" was flung
at him like a stone. Jest hear me,
now. You shet up as tight as clam!
Don't you peep! Don't you notice any
thing! Don't you mix in tall. If you
| do
When Miss Kitty returned from
school there had been admiration, love,
an engagement and a quarrel There
are forty different things lovers can
and do quarrel about, and so why
! specify the one thing in this case 1t
is SUFFICIENT to say that both were
agreed they had made a. great mistake
In thinking they were for each other,
ana an the time they knew they were
making great mistake in saying so.
You viii! find the right man and
be happy with him. sighed the young
man as he left the house.
And you the right GIRL
1t was very sad. 1t was so sad that
Miss Kitty went into the house and
kicked the cat, and the young lover
scufhed the two long miles down to
the village through the dust and wish
him.
Pa Remsen's curiosity was not half
satisfied, but ma bossed the roost and
nad a sharp tongue. and he kept hands
on. IL was a hard task for him, and
when the spotted COW kicked him he
kicked back with great vigor.
one day there was a report in the
going to Arizona to teach school at
$40 month, and there were those
who said that she would marry some
rich cattleman within year.
nGGIS the first
report came one that Miss Kitty had
had an offer of $50 a week to go on
the stage and play the part of little
Eva in Uncle Toms Cabin Her
good looks and her talent would insure
her marriage to millionaire before
the end of the second season.
Inc third report was to the effect
tnat Miss Kitty was to accompany a
rich Boston lady as companion on a
trip around the world, to be gone two
years, and that in Paris she would
surely find count to fall in love and
propose to her.
definite, but the fourth was vouched
for by the country paper. 1t could
state on the best of authority, it said
that Miss Kitty Remsen. daughter of
the well known and highly esteemed
farmer Remsen, had been knocked
down by running hog and had her
set by DIR. Cummings. the popular
medico, and the patient was doing
well.
Earl Andrews father had given
FIGURING mill. AS the sad hearted
young man ground the wheat into
flour the gossip of the village reached
his ears and gave him cold chfIIs He
love, but the lost was a different mat
ter. He had rather picked the fuss
for the sake of the making up. He
even knew just what he would reply
when a penitent note from Kitty
brought him back to the farm house
and with tears in her eyes she asked
forgiveness. He would pretend to |
think the matter over for couple of
minutes and then say:
Very well, but don't let it happen |
again."
The sum of money which that
young man would have given to put
things back two weeks he figured out |
on one of his paper flour sacks at
$3.50, 224.S5. He figured it three
times. so there could be no mistak Ike |
about it. The words ssIoved and