The daily sentinel., 1913-06-10
BIZ c/1Ge01Z7o Preston Pea6O0zo
copyrighted 1911 by Harper & Bros

plain red, you know-for if she had known how
much liked really, it would have been bad for
her. And she found it out day; and you couldn't
walk the same side of the street. she took up so
much room with her headD Well, Miss Robertson
must have been about six feet high, with the most
beautiful white hands, and rings them. I do like
nice hands (for grown peoplc) though of course if
she had ever been wood-carving or digging bait or
really working hard they couldn't have been like that
She used much elegance in talking, too And her
dress was trailing all around on the floor out of the
steamerchar she sitting in; and she had shiny
brown slippers with puffy things them like little bits
of cabbages, but they pretty; liked them
Then she telling all about Europe and Egypt.
And if there's anything l do want, it is wife that
travel. q believe I'd rather do that than any
thing in the world. And then we'll explore Central
Africa, and quiet the savages with barrels of beads
and things) Anyhow, she had everything Ma
poleon's tomb, in Paris and Punch and Judy, and
boys diving for pennies, and dogs running with milk
carts. And it she telling it to- not him
at all. She hardly looked him. He didn't seem to
about any of those things. But she does, and
do l. And she loves to travel, and so do II q mean
i shall when do)
Just then the answer to the note came downstairs
and thought might have to begin and CO. But Just
exactly if she had heard what | was thinking of,
she turned around to the girl and says Maggie bring
the tea out here And she says to me- you walked
all the way didn't you? And it's very warm Wouldn't
you like lemonade, maybe and muffin, perhaps?'
Now, wasn't she just my born Wife? l l
thought she (Of course, if he had been more
interesting her attention mghnt have been attracted
to But he wasn't honestly And so, as | say,
she talked all the time to And she had the lemon
ade made for me. They both of them drank tea when
1t came, nsead-of all the stuff And give you my
word he looked il he'd evenheard of Europe
he was so stiff, and thinking all the time of other
things
Well, when I went, my mind was made up; and I
called her my wife all the way home. And it was
about all l could do to keep it to myself l just
as near shouting out at dinnertme, How about foot
ball now? I've got a wife Hal hal Whatd l tell
you? Who said | wouldn't and all that. (But I
didn't; and now Pm glad I didnt)
awfuly pleased about it for long time I
began to go church before Sunday-school could
sit there and chuckle myself when She trailing
up the aisle to their pew. And you could all that
stacks of pretty hair piled up under hat as big as
will try to tell about her hat. 1t fearfully
big and made of open-work straw like rellis; and
1t had vines it with that purple flower that grows
IN tassels, kind of And altogether it made you think
of sunlmer-house; only it was smaller, of course.
And there l used to sit looking at all that and think
ing to myself how I'd feel if only they all knew
that it going to be My Wife l was really getting
awfully proud of her.
And after church, at the Sunday-school Olive and
Nettie and Dot Tyler-ny, didn't they look chunky
and snubby and puggyl l don't care how much they
were dressed up
All this sounds as if it was going to have happy
ending. But grown people always telling (when
they think aren't listenng) how things end
happily in Real Life. And / believe there's something
in it
We'll, as say, l took to going to church, and
ounday-school began to give headaches regularly
Gust the other way from before). And I went on
eFrands more and more; perfect millions OF errands
that took me down past their house else TO the
village And I'd stop in to know il they wanted any
thing, as long l going Mother used to say
how willing l was; and when errands for
her she used to give back OF the change more
and more So we all very nice about it. And
everything in the world might have gone being
nice forever. Only had to spoil it.
1t all came from my thinking that I'd better speak
to My Wife about it (Miss Robertson mean, OF
course). Stuff always have to go and tell things,
sooner later. If I'd only held my tongue, ever
thing would have stayed just the same, and she would
have kept on being My Wife. Anyway, could have
Kept on calling her that and owning both sides of
the street. But had to go and ask her!
This is how it One evening brought the mail
up to their house for them and sat down on the steps
a minute. And they opened the papers and her
mother said, Gracious y or something like that "Do
listen to this. Here's So-and-sos marrage-and |
never knew We must send her something, Helen
(Thats her name think it is beautifully And
then she says, "Of course" And she went to say:
1t was to be very quiet weddng-ony announce
ments later. That is why didn't hear. But we'll
go and choose something together. What shall it be?
That made me open my eyes pretty wide l had
forgotten all the things that could happen. And if
weddings can be quiet and sudden all that, it
seemed to me that somebody ought to say something
l don't remember exactly what was thinking. But
II made me feel in hurry Perhaps I thought she
might marry somebody else before grew up. Any
way, her mother into the house after something
and began to tell her about it and just gruned once