The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-01-20
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Inspection

PITY me-" pleaded the newly en-
gagged girl. I'm going next week to
visit Toms family! It's an inspection
visit. of course. though inasmuch as
We are really engaged don't know
what they can do about 1t II they
don't like me, do you? Still. | dread
1t from start to finish. across and back
again. II | had realized that | had it
to 60 through l never never would
have become engaged"
Pooh" said the girl who had been
married year. That's nothing, alb.
solutely nothing! II you want to 60
through real torture as with pins and
needles go visit the family of the man
you aren't engaged to, but suspect
that You are going to he. You might
not break your heart over losing the
man il the family made him throw
you overh ard. but it would hurt your
pride II is a sort of matter Of honor
to win out.
|
IN lo,H"9 whose family thoroughly and
enthusiastically approves of the girl
he picks 9ut to marry. because his
mother and sisters always have the
| perfect one already SELF ctcd and all
the lest OF their lives they cherish Il
gru'!ec AGAINST the girl who has upset
Their carefully laid plans Never Shall
| | forget the first visit | paid To Dicks
family"
Mere You enragcd to HIM" asked
the newly engaged rirl brcathcssly
had been married = Year lick al
ways declares that | was, IN, il isn't
so. He may have hcen engaged 10
me. tlt | wasn't to him, IT., insists
that came % inspect his family. but
1t was the other way round
Frankly. | was scared IL pieces.
related the girl who had been married
a year II did want to make a good
impression. because even II decided
that Dick W. u!dn't do. ii would have
been comforting to have had the farl-
lily clcrnally rcgrottinr my less.
wanted to make them feel that If all
the girls they had ever fancicd for
Dick We're combined into enc the prod
uct couldn't begin to equal ne had
just rot back from yea and half
in Europe, and had the latest things
in clothes and hats. so had some
reason to hopc that should make
hit.
Il arrived late at night and beyond
tho impression that the house was
huge and the family numerous reach
ed no conclusions. The next morning
at breakfast began to distinguish
myself.
while | had been abroad they had
invented several things In the United
States, among them one particular
breakfast food that was a stranger to
me, and when found the maid Offer
Ing me fine assortment of little
bales of hay took one m random be.
cause | seemed to be expected to do
so. took il nonchalantly and dcpOs.
tied upon Tho plate before mo. Then
was offered cream and sugar.
so beran with cream. poured
and poured and the cream disappear.
ed from Si2ht Where il went | can't
inlarinc bni know did begin 10
think the thing mus, he Il sort Of
sponc"
AT last when | ceased 10 pour ON
cream p,,sniration w,s ytardiue an
my brov Thel il WA ,h,t s,v all
hc nonbers 81 DICKS family eolcmu.
~ rnpapnd in toarf,Y fh,ir uattr,s.,s
10 bits Th.v nakoJ ia. stufr ,r and
made airy lnrln mounds of i amid
which the cream eirrled ag i. should
have dono with mluo ana uid,1 Tb,v
wore ir,ttq la leak "a u,.ra nain.d
than ,b., could hrln a, NV dieblav
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