Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1913-03-27
GETTING THEM tanned
az SARAH JORDAN.

Minnie, by the way. She's been a
member OF our family for six years
and has done the second work. You
can't imagine what vortex of emo
| ton we are plunged into because of
this move of Minnie's 1t is like hav-
ing your father or your mother sud-
| denly arise and say casually: Well,
must be going now. I'm tired of this
| outfit and guess I'll move oni'
Minnie is the least excited of any
of US. l said to her the other day.
as she was laboriously busting the
, tops OF the window casings; Good
ness. Minnie, aren't you getting nery-
GUS and excited over your wedding?
You are so calm and act Just as
| though nothing unusual was going to
happen!' Minnie looked down benign
| 1y from the top of the stepladder.
No. she said, apologetically. Some
how 1t doesn't bother me in the least.
You see, Jim is just an ordinary fell
low and I'm not particularly set up
over getting him Almost any girl
could a-got him--he's so good natured
like
81 sat down at once" said the girl
who likes to talk, because / saw
there were vistas in Minnies mind
had not suspected.
Don't you love him at ALP
asked severely.
Minnie paused in her labors and
looked at me rather plying. That's
as how you look at it, she confided
to me. I'm not much on holding
hands. / tell you, she said with
sudden rush of confession, don't
know as I'd got married if you and
your family hadn't been SO unsteady
the last few years! II you aren't GO
ing down the Nile you're off to Cali
fornia or other heather parts, and ]
like people around me. I'm tired of
staying here for weeks and months
with perhaps just one lone man to
look after.
Let me tell you, when you and
your mother are gone and leave your
father or brother here it's the tele.
phone every other blessed afternoon
and Minnie, won't be home to din
ner tonight" That's no way to live!
| When see that meals on the table
/ want it ct up as though il was
relished-and / will say Jim has a
hearty appetite! He's awful slow
| to think, but he makes good wages,
and tell you it's better to marry be-
meath youi Yes, it is-because then
you'll always be looked up to! Don't
you ever go and marry a man that
knows more than you do.
| Jim he says always for me to do
! lust as l think best. Now, | aim to
have a nice home. | wouldn't marry
a man who couldn't have nice home.
and Jim says to me when we talked
it over: There's $500 saved up to
furnish the house or the fiat or what
ever you pick out for us to live in,
and you just go ahead and blow IT..
If you want red plush you get 1t an
5Sif you want two sets of dishes like
they have where you live you get EN-!
I guess there isn't going TO be nothin'
cheap about our housed"
| That decided me about Jim /
don't think I'm going to have bit
of trouble with him. He's going to
leave everything TO me, you see, and
| that helps lot. Some men hold out
that point where, they realize won-
an knows what's better for 'em than
they dol
But are you sure you dor asked
Minnie doubtfuliy.
'She fiirted the dust cloth disgust
edly. You don't have to live very
long she said, if you keep your eyes
open, before you learn that men are
poor helpless critters. They may
know who to vote for and all that,
but show me a man who knows what
he ought to eat or what he ought to
wear or do any more than a baby,
Look at Mr.. Rob now-you'I1 excuse
me for saying 1t OF your brother-but
do you mind the green silk socks he
brought home just as proud, that you
took back the next day? That poor
man would have worn those socks
right out among people If woman
hadn't been handy to stop him! And |
your father wanting lobster salad at |
midnight, and at his age-not that |
he's not well preserved! And both of |
em just tagging around after you and |
your mother, waiting to be amused |
and told what to do to pass the timei |
why. I've stopped Jim already
from wearing $40 suits when he can
get just as good for SIS. / thought |
he might just as well begin to realize
what it'll mean when he has wife
to buy clothes for! Oh, Jim and me
are going to get along together all
right And Minnie fell to busting
castings.
There doesn't seem to be much
romance about, her wedding, but
have horrible feeling that maybe
she has the right idea about running
happy home!"
Go along with you!" said the man
who was listening. 1--WE men will