The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-07
GETTING THEM tanned
BY SARAH JORDAN.

don't suppose you are acquainted witt
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 vortex OF emo
ton we are plunged into because OF
this move of Minnie's. 1t Is like hav'
ing your father or your mother sud
denly arise and say casually: Well,
must be going now. I'm tired OF this
outfit and guess I'll move on!'
Minnie Is the least excited Of any
of us. / said to her the other day
as she was laboriously dusting 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 af
though nothing unusual was going to
| happen!' Minnie looked down benign
" from the top Of the stepladder.
NO she said apologetically. Some
how 1t 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 / saw
there were vistas 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 pitying. That's
as how you look at It, she confided
to me. I'm not much on holding
hands. I tell you, she said with q
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 tc
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, l won't be home to din
ner tonight" That's no way to live
When see that meals on the table
want 1t ct up as though 1t was
relished-and / will say Jim has 6
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, 1t is-because theI
you'll always be looked up to! Don
you ever go and marry a man tha
knows more than you do.
"Jim he says always for me to d.
| Just as l think best. Now, ! aim t.
have a nice home. I wouldn't MARI,
a man who couldn't have nice home
and Jim says to me when we talked
It 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 1t
II you want red plush you get 1t an
| II you want two sets of dishes like
they have where you live you get 'em'
I 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 bil
of trouble with him. He's going tt
leave everything to me, you see, ant
that helps lot. Some men hold ou'
so long before you get 'em tanned tt
that point where they realize won
an knows what's better for 'em thar
they do!'
"'But are you sure you do?' I asked
Minnie doubtfully.
"She firted the dust cloth disgust
edly. You don't have to live very
long she said, II 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 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 1t 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 well 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. / 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 q horrible feeling that maybe
she has the right idea about running