Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-09-30
FIRE and WATER
BY cLAupiNE sissoN.
80, l had forgotten to tell YOU
"My stars-whatp r

big chairs and was half asleep when
he laid aside his pen and spoke to
her.
"There is to be war with Timbuc-
too"
"Graciousp
"And every young man in the
country over eighteen will have to
CO."
That's awfulp
81 was figuring this afternoon on
The effect it would have on you"
"On me? Why, father, girls don't
go to warp
"But their beaux do"
80, you are only teasing"
laughed Maude as her color height
ened.
81 figured that you would lose
your seventeen young men and have
to substitute bachelors and widow
ers."
"Only sixteen papap
"Well, I'm expecting three or four
of them here tonight to ask my con-
sent. If you don't want to get
mixed up in the row you'd better
be going"
"Stop joking, and ask me where
| want to 60 this summer"
"Well?"
'To the seashore. They are going
to open a new hotel at Rosamond
Beach,"
81 knew that a fortnight ago, and
our arrangements are all made"
"You dear, good man"
Our board will cost us nothing.
I get So per week apiece for the
young men who will follow you up
there. Twice 16 is so and there you
are"
Miss Maude Allison didn't have
sixteen beaux. She didn't have half
that number. There were only five
who called, and three of them made
heir calls as formal as if visiting
an orphan asylum.
The race lay between Walter Da-
Wis and Hugh Lee. That is, they
imagined it did. Just what Miss
Maude imagined was a different
thing.
Neither young man could COM
plain that she showed the other any
preference. The father might have
one, but he was not mixing in.
There are plenty Of men, young
and old, who have been in doubt for
a time as to which of two girls or
widows to make their wife. The
agricultural department at Wash
ington has statistics showing that
men have courted no less than four
women at one and the same time.
and ended by not marrying any one
of them. Therefore it would not be
fair TO Charge Miss Maude with be-
ing flirtatious.
Sixteen young men did not appear
at Rosamond Beach the next day
after the All;sons were installed.
-tn4rteen could not get away, but
two could and ala. Of course they
were Walter Davis and Hugh Lee.
Of course they were greatly sur
prised to meet each otficT,at the de-
pot. Of course they did not refer
TO the Allisons. Of course each one
was going up for day or two to
see what the new hotel looked like.
Their respective starts of surprise
1t seeing Miss Maude on the We
randa would have insu -ed them sal--l
aries of SIC per in the old days of
The dime museums.
Miss Maude also gave a start of
She explained that she .
lad no more thought of seeing them |
Up there than she had of meeting
he man in the moon. How on earth
lid they know where to come?
She was glad to see them. Of !
curse, very, very glad (their hearts
'ounded), but why hadn't they !
bought to bring Billy Sims and
Kyle Harris? (Their hearts shrunk
ike cabbage leaves on an August
lazy
Maude's father caught her words
md smiled. She wasn't giving her
land away very much. !
One afternoon after three or four
lays had passed the talk among six
or eight people on the yeranda in a
yrOuD turned ON bravery No ono