The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-04-03
MORE MARRYING
SADLY NEEDED
YOUNG MAIDEN AT COLE HANDS
OUT LINE OF DOPE IN A ROAST
ON THE YOUTH OF COLE, N. D.,
THAT SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE
TRUE.

The Cole correspondent of The
Haynes, ~. ID. Register Gazette sent
that paper recently what purports co
be an anonymous letter from a maiden
who is taking the Cole lads to task
for their lack of marrying propensi-
ties. The letter sounds almost too
good to be true-coming from Cole.
IL there is any one in Cole who can
really sling this line of DOPE of the
George AIDE variety. hat person is
certainly burying her talents In Cole.
This kind of stuff would m big
money from the magazines.
Here is what this Cole person pulls:
Reporter: The girls dared me to
write this and / dare you to have At
printed. I've heard that papers don't
print anonymous letters but when you
have rea this you'll see why 1 simply
could not sign my own name to ii.
able girl in Cole I think you should
print my letter. I sure have a kick
coming and so have a lot of other
girls who would make Al 1913 model
wives.
Now / hate to be blunt. but a lot of
these Cole boys sure need a good Jolt.
There are a hundred, more or less. of
manageable girls in this live burg,
and down in their hearts every one OF
them will admit-if she's honest-that
there is a mob of able bodied young
men who are sldestepping this mar
rying business. can name ffty
streWn along the way from Sod Town
to ~Lodgepole who ought to marry.
Every mothers son of them has one
or more James on his STAFF. Sundays
he works her folks for a chicken din
ner. wears out the parlor sofa on
stormy nights and peddles his little
pet line OF slushy gush, but when a
good show oozes into town-Oh, YOU
vanishing kid! He stays 1t, or ''has
to work tonight" Some lumpy work,
NIGHT wahr?
! am pretty well provided myself
and the gink that can pry me loose
and coax me to tackle his "two-lives-
as-one" business has sure got to 20
some. I have got no COB of gloom 10
work off. but looking at it from a
patriotic viewpoint. / really think
there ought to be more mating among
the young people Of Cole and vicinity.
It's a fine country. but it needs people.
Now I have had the same strong
arm around me until my back aches.
and | have heard these same wornout
Sunday night hints about what q
handsome life a single man lives till
/ know them by heart - words and
music. But you a always count on
the quick getaway when the ice gets
too thin. Nothing stirring in the
proposal business.
Oh, they are a cautious crowd, these
Cole ladsi Al girl / know freed one in
discreet biped In pants who Judged
over the dead line and actually talk
ed marriage. Next night he came back
with a tale OF woe about the high
cost Of living. the drudgery that
threatens a poor mans wife,e etc. But
there Is a lot of raw material in Cole
and vicinity that would make good
husbands. and it Is time a marrying
epidemic struck this town good and
hard.
/ can hear the highbrows and the
prims gasp already at this vulgar i'm
pertinence. but | am serious, I hate
to sling slang along this way but /
want the element ! am talking to to
get me" Look at the wedding rec
ords. Pretty slim. eh? And at h a
half the brides are imported from back
east, parcel post paid by the groom.
On the Job boys. The girls win
meet you half way. Here's to the
Lotus life--in Cole.