The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-03-17
GETTING THEM tanned
BY SARAH JORDAN.

SG-G lLc XII. NAO 44AtS " N<-AA-
don't suppose you are acquainted with
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. II is Ike hav.
ing your father or your mother sud
denly arise and say casually: Well, J
must be going now. I'm tired Of this
outfi; 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
happen. Minnie looked down benign
" from the top OF the stepladder.
NO she said, apologetically. Some
how IL doesn't bother me in the least
You see, Jim is just an ordinary fel
low and I'm not particularly set up
over getting him. Almost any girl
could a-got him-he's so good natured
like
Il sat down at once" said the girl
who likes to talk, because l saw
there were yistas in Minnie's 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 confded
to me. I'm not much on holding
hands. I tell YOU she said with a
sudden rush of confession, I 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 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 &c
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 a meals on the table
| want it ct up as though it was
relished-ahd l will say Jim has {
hearty appetite! He's awful SLOW
to think but he makes good wages
and tell you it's better to marry be
meath you Yes, it is-because ther
you'll always be looked up to! DON
you ever go and marry a man tina
! knows more than you do.
"'Jim he says always for me to DE-
Just as | think best. Now, l aim t.
have a nice home. I wouldn't MARI,
a man who couldn't have a nice home
and Jim says to me when we talked
II over: There's $500 saved up t.
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
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-
/ guess there isn't going to be nothin
cheap about our house!"
THAT decided me about jim !.
don't think I'm going to have a BIZ
of trouble with him. He's going tc
leave everything to me, you see, ant
that helps lot Some men hold Out
so long before you get 'em tanned to
that point where they realize a WON
! 60, Il
they do!'
"'But are you sure you do?' asked
Minnie doubtfully.
"She flirted 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'll excuse
me 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 we'll 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 time!
"Why, I've stopped Jim already
from wearing 500 suits when he can
get just as good for SIS. l 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
have horrible feeling that maybe