Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-10-03

mind that when ! find the right one
I'll marry her, but I'm agoing to be
dead sure that she is the right one. l
amt agoing into it blindfold. l don't
buy no pig in no sack, me-
THAT sounds like sense l says.
I don't say that it is sense. but It
sounds like it.. How are you agoing
to find out?'
by using my eyes and my judg-
ment,' he ays I amt been applying
Of them in that direction afore. but
I'm going to. It's a pipe! Amt l at
every kitchen door all times O. day?
Well, here's the way I'll find out.
She's got to be neat and clean her
self, to begin with. I don't want no
sloppy wife. Well. it amt going to
Same way with the way she keeps
things. l step in to fix a w1nder
ketch or something and I take notice
whether the floor is scrubbed an
whether there's grease on the gas
range. l throw my eye on the sink
and squirt up at the ceiling for cob
webs. If the look of things amt sat
isfactory, l cross her off right there
and don't waste no more time.
1.-The next question is whether
she's a HUSTLER says Bill. If she's
up and busy bright and early 1t don't
take me long to get hep. If the shades
is down at her bedroom wtnder at
| half-past seven, count me out right
on that proposition. II she's singing
at her work she's got a cheerful dlspo-
sition. If l see the a scooting every
time she picks up a broom, nix On
that. Not any! Then I've got to find
out how she stacks up On the eats.
Howl Easy! notice the garbage
can when | go to empty it. II there
a mess of scorched cakes and maybe
the half Of a roast and a lot Of stale
bread and a peck or 80 Of oatmeal Ike
there is IN some, it don't take nc Sher'
lock Holmes to figger out that she'll
waste about as much as her husband
can make and send him to the hos
pital with stummick trouble. No sir,
the less garbage there is, the better
her chances'l be- says Bill. Not
when you've got the opportunities that
you've got around a fiat building
"'Well,' says l, that sure sounds
like sense mt it is sense. That's
why I'm giving you the tip, Nels. You
AXE a little less notice Of Hilda or
Helga or whatever her name is and a
little more of what she sets out for
you to empty. You've got the same
opportunities that Bill had.
What kind of a woman did Bill
get? Why, l forgot to tell you about
that. One day he come to me look
ing pleased and told me that he'd
found the right one. A fine, cookbook
ing girl she was. Cook and general
in II. where the Greenwalls are now
Always had on a clean dress and
apron, Bill said; kitchen as neat as a
pin, up at six sharp, sang like a blessed
lark and no waste. Me for her. says
Bill. It's just as easy to pick a good
n as a poor one,' he says.
"'Go to her. says 1. And he did
the very mex day. The only trouble
was, though, that she didn't fancy Bill
and in fact she throwed a dipper Of
hot water over him and told the ice
man and the iceman wiped up the
alley with him and Bill got so mad
that just to spite 'em he married a
girl that was just leaving her place al
13 hat he hadn't investigated. Now
he says the best thing a Teller car
do is to keep his eyes shut. When
he's married, anyway.
$50 there it Is, Nels." concluded the
janitor, as he got down from
the railing. ITS all very we'll for q
man to be careful about taking his
pick, but he's got to be in shape to
stand inspection himself"