The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1913-06-20

SSGS9y a been advanced, l"A
regular to diversions. What Il woman
wants is what you're out OF. She
wants more of a thing when it scarce.
She likes to have souvenirs OF things
that never happened. She likes to be
reminded of things she V heard
of. A onesided view of objects is dis
%iointing to the female composition.
TITS a misfortune Of mine, beGot-
ten by nature and travel" continued
jeff. looking thoughtf,llly between
his elevated feet at the grocery stove,
ito look deeper into some subjects
than most people do. I've breathed
gasoline smoke talking to street crowds
in nearly every town in the United
States. I've held EN- spellbound with
music. oratory. sleight of hand and pre-
varications, while I've sold EN- jeWelry.
medicine. soap. hair tonic and junk OF
other nominations. And during my
travels as a matter of recreation and
expiation, I've taken cogniZance some
of women 1t takes a man a lifetime
to find out about II particular wOm-
an. but if he puts in. say. ten years,
industrious and curious. he cal acquire
the general rudiments of the sex. One
lesson l picked up vas when | vas
working the west with a line of Brazil
ian diamonds and a patent fire kinder
Just after my trip from Savannah
down through the cotton belt with
Dalby's ~anti-eXplosive lamp oil powder.
Twas when the Oklahoma country
was in first bloom. Guthrie was rising
in the middle of it like a lump Of self
raising dough.
by nature and doctrines l an adj
dicted to the habit of discovering choice
places wherein to feed. So | looked
around and found a proposition that
exactly cut the mustard. | found a
restaurant tent Just opened up by an
outfit that had drifted in OF the tail of
the broom. They had knocked together
a box house, where they lived and did
the cooking and served the meals in a
tent pitched against the side. That
tent was joyful with placards on it cal
c,Ilated to redeem the world worn pill
grim from the sinfulness Of boarding
houses and pick-me-up hotels. Try
Mothers Homemade Biscuits whats
the Matter With Our Apple Dumplings
and Hard Sauce:' Hot Cakes and Ma
pie Sirup Like You Ate When a Boy
Our Fried Chicken Never Was Heard
t" C~row'-there was literature doomed
to please the diCestions of man. I said
to myself that mothers wandering boy
should MUNICH there that night. And
50 it came to pass, And there is where
| contracted my case Of Name Dugan.
odd Man Dugan was six feet by one
of Indiana lOafer. and he spent his time
sitting on his shoulder blades in a rock
ing chair in the shanty memorializing
the great corn crop failure Of SO. Ma
Dugan did the cooking, and Name
waited on the table.
LAS SOC as I saw Name | knew
there was a mistake in the census re-
ports. There wasn't but one girl in
the United States. When you come to
specifications it isn't easy. She was
about the size Of an angel, and she had
eyes and ways about her. When YOU
come to the kind Of a girl she was
you'll find a belt of 'em reaching from
the Brooklyn bridge west as far as the
courthouse in Council Bluffs. Ia. They
earn their own living in stores, restau
rants, factories and offices. They'r.
descended straight from Eve, ant
they're the crowd that's got woman'>
rights, and If a man wants to dispute
1t he's in line to get one of then
against his jaw. They're chummy ano
honest and free and tender and sassy
and they look life straight in the eye.
pretty soon l got a regular habi,
of dropping into the tent to eat at il
regular times when there wasn't SC
many around. Name would sail If
with a smile, in a black dress anc
white apron, and say: Hello. jeff
Why don't O come at mealtime'
Want to see how much trouble yo,
can be of course. Friedchickcnbcef
anC
so on. She called me Jeff, but ther,
was no Specifications attached. Desig
nations was all she meant. The from
names of any Of us she used as the,
came to hand. Id cat about tw,
meals before l left and string 'cm on
k a society spread where the,
change plates and wives and josh on,
another festively between bites. Nam,
stood for it, pleasant, for it wasn't NJ
to her to take any canvas off the ten
by declining dollars just because the,
were Clipped in after meal times.
ut wasn't long after there was an
other fellow named +. Collier got tn,
between meals affection. and him an,
me put in bridges between brcakfaS
and dinner and dinner and sumner tha