Holbrook argus., 1912-02-27

me, put wasn't to n1mi He insists that 1 came to inspect his family, but 1t was the other way round.
 Frankly, was scared to pieces related the girl who had been married . year. T did want to make a good impression, because, even if I decided that Dick wouldn't do, it would have been comforting to have had the fam lily eternally regretting my loss. wanted to make them feel that if all the girls they had ever fancied for Dick were combined into one the prod uct couldn't begin to equal me. I had just got back from a year and half in Europe, and had the latest things in clothes and hats, so I had some reason to hope that I should make a hit.
 T arrived late at night and beyond the impression that the house was huge and the family numerous I reach cd no conclusions. The next morning -6t breakfast I began to distinguish myself
 While I 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 I found the maid offer ing me a fine assortment of little bales of hay took one at random be- cause I seemed to be expected te do so. took 1t nonchalantly and depos- tied upon the plate before me. Then was offered cream and sugar.
 ''So began with cream. I poured and poured, and the cream disappear. ed from sight Where it went, can't imagine, but I know I did begin to think the thing must be 8 sort of sponge.
 "At last when I ceased to pour on cream precipitation was standing on my brow. Then it was that I saw all the members of Dicks family solemn ly engaged in tearing their mattresses to bits. They f1aked the stuff of and made airy little mounds of 1t, amid which the cream circled, as 1t should have done with mine and didn't. They were trying to look no more pained than they could help at my display of ignorance. I nearly choked on the stuff, but swallowed 1t.
 "When we arose from the table I dashed to the plano to relieve the ten sion and burst into particularly lively ragtime. I could play, and I played until found the whole family lined up most apparently waiting politely for me to finish so they could proceed to the business of the day.
 ''Dick was nearest to me, and he was terribly embarrassed.
 "Would you care to join us?' he stammered when paused, startled. Father always has Scripture reading after breakfast I was much inter- ested after got over my perturbation until 1t came my turn to read-and got come verses filled with the most complicated proper names in the whole book, over which I stumbled and choked and disgraced myself
 "T had to have air after that, so I put on some things and rushed out for walk-and I stumbled and fell the full length of the steps!
 "They carried me in and stayed in bed week with a wrenched ankle, while the whole family waited on me like slaves, and I simply scorched in the realization that I had disgraced myself utterly and absolutely.
 ''But somehow or other Dick and got married finally in spite of it. In a few years I'm going to get up my courage sufficiently to ask my in-laws what they really thought of me that time and what arguments they used to try to dissuade Dick from marrying me. confess that they have been beautifully resigned about me since