The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-03-13
GETTING THEM tanned
BY SARAH JORDAN.

Jun SuppOSe yOu are dCqudlHteu Win
Minnie, by the way. She's been
member of our family for six years
and has done the second work. You
can't imagine what a 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 on
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 castings Good
ness, Minnie, aren't you getting nerv-
GUS and excited over your wedding?
You are so calm and act just as
though nothing unusual was going to
happenn Minnie looked down benign
ly from the top Of the stepladder.
No she said, apologetically. Some
how it doesn't bother me in the least.
low and I'm not particularly set up
over getting him. Almost any girl
could a-got him-he's so good natured
like"
L 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 all?' ]
asked severely.
Minnie paused in her labors and
looked at me rather plying. That's
as how you look at IT, she conided
to me I'm not much on holding
hands. I 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! If you aren't 60
ing down the Nile you're off to Cali
fornia or other heather parts, and I
like people around me. I'm tired Of
staying here for weeks and months
with perhaps just one lone man to
look after
"'Lot 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 I won't be home to din
nor tonight" That's TO way to live!
When I see that meals on the table
I want it ct up as though it was
relished-and l will say Jim has
hearty appetite He's awful slow
to think. but he makes good wages,
and I tell you it's better TO marry be
meath you, Yes. It is-because then
youIl 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
Just as I think best. Now. aim to
have a nice home I wouldn't marry
n man who couldn't have a nice home
and Jim says to me when we talked
It over: There's $500 saved up to
furnish the house or the fat or what
ever you pick out for us to live in
and you just go ahead and blow it!
II you want red plush you get It an
II 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 house"
THAT decided me about jim. I
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 a lot. Some men hold out
so long before you get EN- tanned to
that point where they realize a wom-
an knows what's better for EN- than
they do"
"'But are you sure you do?' I asked
Minnie doubtfully.
She firted the dust cloth disgust
eddy 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 man who knows what
he ought to eat or what he ought to
wear or do any more than baby,
Look at Mr.. Rob now-youu excuse
ne for saying it 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 a 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
EN- just tagging around after you and
your mother, waiting TO be amused
and told what to do to pass the time,
Why, I've stopped Jim already
from wearing 800 suits when he can
get just as good for SIS I thought
he might just as well begin to realize
what it'll mean when he has a 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 1
have a horrible feeling that maybe
she has the right idea about running
a happy home,'
GO along with You" said the man
who was listeni&g we men VIII
have to rise up and suppress a few
of you lady revolutionists before long
If you go on this way! You know you
aren't happy unless you're bossed and
tyrannized over!"-Chicago Daily
News.
New Compass a Success.