The Topeka state journal., 1913-05-29
you vhas almost feefty?"

| you vhas almost feefty?''
| Yes, I said so.''
| "Und dot your rheurlatis vnas aw
full bad7'
"Vhell. haf few twinges on a we
day"
Get out! You vhas Smoking. If
ask a man how old he thinks you vhas
he says 40 at der outside, und if I ask
him about your rheumatism ne says
| dot you vhas spry enough to lead g
| dance. Do you know dot if I vas like
you I'd be off hunting by der Rocky
| Mountains?'
He smiles and chuckIes, und pooty
soon he drops his voice a leetle und
says, "Cobbler, sometimes 1 think OF
| getting married again."
''Of course. Why not?'
'I vhas alone in der world, you
know. und it vhas. lonely for me-
Certainly it vhas. Good gracious,
if 1 vhas like you I'd be married in
month
ITO a woman about 40 years old: ,
Not on your life! To a girl not
ofer %. You vhant to marry some
one young enough to climb trees, so
fishing, slide down hill und keep der
house lifely.''
He smiles to himself und don't lay
a word for a long time. Den he
leans ofer to me und whispers:
"Cobbler. you should be in der
you happen to know a.young girl of
about 20 you might mention my name
to her"
On Wednesday it vhas der fat
widow womans NIT four grown-up
sons und daughters. She vhas short
und dumpy. She vhalks like some
ducks. She sails in nit her head high
and begins.
"Cobbler, dis may be my last visit
to you"
Eyes. I think of going far, far
avhay."
But vhy?'
"VheI, one of my married daugh-
ters just called me an old fool again.
Dots about one hoondred times I
have heard it from my childrens, ind
1 can't stand it no more"
Your childrens shouldn't talk dot
vhay," I says as she sits down ind
wipes her eyes. "Maype you like to
tell me what it vhas about ?"
''Of course. Dots What 1 am here
for You vhas my cobbler und can be
trusted. Last night 1 had a beau
dot vhas right
He vhas a nice man, und he owns
half brewery.
brewery und don't be married 1 court
you myself. Go on
He says he sees me ten times be-
fore und vhas charmed nit me-"
Anybody must be-"
He likes my figure und my walk,
Haf you efer noticed dose things about
me?"
I vhas blind mans because 1 vhas a
cobbler! What else did he say?"
Have 1? By golly, do you belief
HE takes hold of my hand und
says 1 vhas sylph. Cobbler, vhas
grandly educated, but I forget for n
moment What a sylph vhas. Can you
tell? My daughter says it vhas a
load of hay, but I can't belief dot"
Your daughter vhas shealous. A
sylph, my dear woman, means fe-
1t means dot she vhas wavy und
wobbly. 1t means dot she can spring
ofer mud puddles und shump logs
und bitches. You haf read of Lillian
Russell, der actress. haven't you?"
1T seems like 1 had.
"Vhell, she vhas a sylph one time.
und you don't know how proud she
vhas of it. She beliefs dot der next
thing she will be an angel Den she
eats too many oysters on der one
half shell, und vhas a sy1ph no long
er Instead she vhas a solid. Look
out for one-half she'll oysters. widow
Il shall, thank you. Den you think |
"Of course I do
Dot I ought to be married again -
whole owner of brewery or any |
other good man, und if your chill |
hang"
irens won't like it tell 'em to go |
So it vhas from Monday to Satur-
lay. ofer und ofer again each week. |
speak to all. I flatter all. I lie to |
Ill. But 1 sends dem AWAY happy
md dey comes again, und 1 keep my
customers. Vhas dere some frenzied |,
inances about tdot?-(Copyright, 1912,
oy Associated Literary Press.)