The Ordway new era., 1913-09-26
GETTING THEM tanned
RY SARAH JORDAN.

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don't suppose you are acquainted with
! Minnie, by the way. She's been a
member of our family for six years
and has done the second work. You
| can't imagine what u 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. l
must be going now. I'm tired of this
outfit and guess I'll move on!'
| Minnie is the least excited of any
of U.S. l said to her the other day,
as she was laboriously busting the
tops of the window casings: Good.
ness, Minnie, aren't you getting nery-
Gus and excited over your wedding
You are SO calm and act just rs
though nothing unusual was going 20
| happen. Minnie looked down benign
ly from the top of the stepladder.
NO she said, apologetically. Some
how it 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 gill
could a-got him-he's SO good natured
iike!'
Il sat down at once" said the girl
who likes to talk. because l 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 plying. 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
sudden rurh of confession, I don't
Know as I'd got married II you and
your family hadn't been SO unsteady
the last few years! II you aren't CO.
Ing down the Nile you're off to Call
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 to
look after.
"'Let me tell you, when you and
your mother are gone and leave yonr
father or brother here it's the te|a-
phone every other blessed afternoon
and Minnie. won't be home to din
ner tonight" That's no way to live!
When | see that a meals on the table
want 1t ct up as though 1t was
relished-and I will say Jim has
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 then
youn always be looked up to! Don't
ecu ever go and marry man that
knows more than you do.
Jim he says always for me to do
just as I think best. Now, aim to
have nice home. wouldn't n"rry
a man who couldn't have a nice homo.
and Jim says to me when we talked
it over: There's $500 saved up to
furnish the house or the fiat or what.
ever you pick out for US to live in.
end you just go ahead and blow It!
e you want red plush you get 1t an
II you want two sets of dishes. like
they have where you live you get 'em!
guess there isn't going to be nothin'
cheap about our housed"
THAT decided me about Jim. ]
DON'T think I'm going to have bit
1f trouble with him. He's going to
cave everything to me, you see, and
hat helps lot. Some men hold out
% long before you get 'em tanned to
that point where they realize WON.
on knows what's better for 'em than
thew dol
"'But are you sure you do?' l asked
Minnie doubttully.
"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
row who to vote for and all that.
Tut show me man who knows what
. ought to eat or what he ought to
v'ear or do any more than a baby!
COX at Mr. Rob now-you'll excuse
1e for sc''rs 1t of your brother-but
% you m'nd the green silk socks he
brought home Just as proud, that You
took back the next day? That poor
nan would have worn those socks
right out among people If a woman
admit been handy to stop him! And
vour father wanting lobster salad at
-,idnight, and at his age-not that
1e's not well preserved! And both of
em just tagging around after you and
vour mother. waiting to be amused
md told what to do to pass the time!
why, I've stopped Jim already
rom wearing $40 suits when he can
ict just as good for SIS. thought
ne might Just as well begin to realize
what it'll mean when he has wife
o buy clothes for! oh. Jim and me
ire going to get along together all
right!' And Minnie fell to dusting
,asings. ta''r7
There doesn't seem to be much
romance about her wedding, but
have a horrible feeling that maybe |
he has the right idea about running |
happy home!" lH3f
go along with you'll" said the man