Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1913-09-11

J just SOt dashed anyway, ana
it's my own fault. not the angels. |
have suffered this day until | want to
lay my face down against the hem OF
his garment and wait in the dust for
him to pick me up | shall never bd
able to do it myself, and how mes 90
ing to do it | can't see. but he will,
That dinner party last night was bad
enough but today's been worse.
didn't sleep until long after daylight
and then Judy came in before S o'clock
with letter for me that looked like a
state document. | felt in my tremby
bones that it was some sort of sum-
mons affair from Judge Wade, and 1t
was | looked into the first paragraph
and then decided that had better
get up and dress and have a cup OF
coffee and n single egg before | tried
to read it.
Incidental to my bath and dressing.
u weighed and found thar had lost
all four of those last surplus pounds
and two more in three days. Those
two extra pounds might he construed
ito prove love. but exactly on whom
was utterly unprepared to say did
not even enjoy the thinneSS but took
kind of already married took IN my
glass and tI1rd 10 Slip the egg past my
bored lips ami get myself to chew 1t
down 1t was work. and then | took
up the Judges letter. which also was
work and more of it.
He started in at the beginning of
everything is, at the beginning
of the tuberculosis girl. and | cried
over the pages of her as if she had
been my own sister. At the tenth
page we buried her and took up AL
fred, and | must say | saw a new AL
fred in the judges bouquet strewn APP
probation of him, but | didn't want
him as bad as | had the day before
when | read his own new and old let
tiers and cried over his old photographs.
I suppose that was the result of some
of what the judge manages the juries
with. He'd be apt to use it on wo-
man and she wouldn't find out about
it until it was too late to be anything
but mad. Still, when he began on me
at page 16 felt little better, though
] didn't know myself any better than
j did Alfred when | got to page 20
What | am is just Il poor. foolish
woman, who has lot more heart than
she can manage with the amount Of
brains she got with it at birth I'm
not any star in Il rose colOted sky. and
] don't want to inspire anybody It's
too much of job. | want TO be Il
healthy. happy woman and Il wife to a
man who can inspire himself and man
age me. | want to marry thin man
and have from five to ten thin chill.
dren. and when | get to be thirty
want my husband to want me to be as
fat as Aunt Bette, but not let me.
An inspiration couldn't be fat. and I'm
always in danger from hot mullins and
chicken gravy However if should
undertake to be all the things Judge
Wade said in that letter he wanted me
to be to him. should soon be skin and
bones from mental and physical eXer-
else Still. he does live in Hillsboro,
and | won't let myself know how my
heart aches at the thought of leaving
my home and other things It's up in
my throat and | seem always to be
swallowing it, the last few days
All the men who write me letters
seem to get themselves wound up into
skvrocket and then let themselves
explode in the last paragraph, and 1t
always upsets my nerves | was just
about to begin to cry again over the
last words of the judge when the only
bright spot in the day so far suddenly
happened Pet BufOrd blew in with
the pinkest cheeks and the brightest
eyes ! had seen since | looked in the
mirror the night of the dance She was
in an awful hurry
molly. dear" she said. with her
words literally falling over themselves,
tom says you'll give us some OF your
dinner leftovers to take for lunch in
the auto for we are going way ont TO
Wavne county to see some aWfully
fine tobacco he has heard is there !
don't want to ask mother. for she
won't let me 90. and his mother. If he
asked her. will begin to talk about US
Tom said come to you and you would
understand and fix it quick. He said
kiss you for him and tell you he said
Come on in, the waters fine Isn't
he a joke" And we kissed and laugh
ed and packed a basket, and kissed
and laughed again for goodhy felt
amused and happy for a few minutes
and also deserted It's a very good
thing for woman's conceit 70 End out
how many Of her lovers are just make
believes I may have needed Tom ;
DETECTION.
Anyway. / don't know when ! ever
was so glad TO see anybody as was
when Mrs Johnson came in the front
door. \ woman who has proved 10
her own satisfaction that marriage is
a failure IS at times & great tonic TO
otter women. ! needed tonc BADLY