Licking Valley courier., 1913-09-04

MY DO believe God gave that
ITI wise angel charge concerning
IdaNS0V me lest ! get dashed, but
N:.2ssSj just got dashed anyway, and
it's my own fault, not the angels. |
have suffered this day until ! want to
lay my face down against the hem of
his garment and wait in the dust for
him to pick me up. shall never be
able to do it myself, and how he's 60
ing to do 1t can't see. but he will
That dinner party last night was bad
enough, but today's been worse. |
didn't sleep until long after daylight
and then Judy came in before o'clock
with letter for me that looked like a
state document. felt in my trembly
bones that 1t was some sort Of sum.
mons affair from Judge Wade, and it
was. looked into the first paragraph
and then decided that had better
get up and dress and have cup of
coffee and single egg before tried
to read It.
Incidenta! 10 my bath and dressing,
! weighed and found that | had lost
all four of those last surplus pounds
and two more In three days. Those
two extra pounds might be construed
to prove love. but exactly on whom |
was utterly unprepared to say. ! did
not even enjoy the thinness. but took
, kind Of already married look IN my
glass and tried to slip the egg past my
bored lips and get myself to chew It
down. 1t was work. and then took
up the judges letter, which also was
work and more of it.
He startel in at the beginning of
overythlng-that is. at the beginning
of the tuberculosis girl, and cried
over the pages of her as II she had
been my own sister At the tenth
page we buried her and took up AL
fred, and / must say ! saw new Al
fred in the judges bouquet strewn ap-
probation Of him, but didn't want
him as bad as | had the day before
when read his own new and old let
ters and cried over his old photographs.
| suppose that was the result Of some
Of what the judge manages the juries
with. He'd be apt to use 1t on wO-
man and she wouldn't find out about
1t until 1t was too late to he anything
but mad. Still. when he began on me
at page 10 felt little better, though
| didn't know myself any better than
! did Alfred when got to page 20.
What l am is just poor. foolish
woman. who has lot more heart than
she can manage with the amount OF
brains she got with 1t at birth, I'm
not any star in a rose colored sky, and
l don't want to inspire anybody. It's
too much of q job. want to be q
healthy, happy woman and n wife to q
man who can inspire himself and man
age me- | want TO marry thin man
and have from Eve to ten thin chill
dren, and when | get to be thirty
want my husband to want me to be as
fat as Aunt Bette, but not let me
An inspiration couldn't be fat, and rn
always in ddnger from hot mullins and
chicken gravy. However, II should
undertake to be all the things Judge
Wade said In that letter he wanted mt
to be TO him, should soon be skin ant
bones from mental and physical exer
else. still, he does live in Hillsboro
and | won't let myself know how my
heart aches at the thought Of leaving
my home and other things It's up II
my throat and ! seem always to b(
swallowing II, the last few days.
All the men who write me letters
seem to get themselves wound up int
skyrocket and then let themselves
explode In the last paragraph, and 4
always upsets my nerves. | was Jus
about TO begin 10 cry again over tn,
last words Of the judge when the onl!
bright spot in the day so far suddenl!
happened. Pet Buford blew In will
the plnkest cheeks and the brightes
eyes ! had seen since looked In tn,
mirror the night OF the dance. She wa
in an awful hurry.
"Molly. DEAR" she said, with he
words literally falling over themselves
"Tom says you'll give us some Of you
dinner leftovers TO take for lunch I,
the auto, for we are going way out I
Wayne county 70 see some awful
fine tobacco he has heard is there.
don't want TO ask mother, for sh
won't let me 20, aud his mother, II h
asked her, will begin 10 talk about us
Tom said come TO you and you wou
understand and tx II quick. lie sal
kiss you for him and tell you he sal
Come on in, the waters fine. Ism
} he n joker" And we kissed and laugl
ed and packed Il basket, and klsse
and laughed again for goodby fc
amused and happy for u few minute
5 and also deserted, It's n very goo
thing for n womans conceit to find OF
how many of her lovers are just max
! believes. ! may have needed Tom
|. DETECTION.
Anyway, don't know when ] eve
I was so glad to see anybody rs J wH
i when Mrs. johnson came In the frol