The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-10-03

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mind that when / find the right oHs
I'll marry her, but I'm agoing to be
dead sure that she is the right one. |
amt agoing into 1t blindfold. / don't
buy no pig in no sack, me-
That sounds like sense says
4 don't say that it is sense, but 1t
sounds like it. Pow are you agoing
to find out?'
"'By using my eyes and my judg-
ment,' he says 4 amt been applying
of them in that direction afore, but
I'm going to. It's a pipe! Amt | 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. / don't want no
sloppy wife. Well, it amt going &c
take me no time to find that much out
Same way with the way she keeps
things. I step in to fix winder
ketch or something and take notice
whether the floor is scrubbed an
whether there's grease on the gas
range | throw my eye on the sink
and squint up at the ceiling for cob
webs. If the look of things amt sat
isfactory, / cross her off right there
and don't waste no more time.
1.-The next question is WEATHER
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 winder at
n count m MT T.ioht
on that proposition. If she's singing
at her work she's got a cheerful dispo-
sition. If l see the cat scooting every
time she picks up broom, nix cD
that. Not any! Then I've got to find
out how she stacks up on the eats.
How? Easy / notice the garbage
can when l go to empty it. If there's
mess of scorched cakes and maybe
the half of a roast and lot of stale
bread and peck or so of oatmeal like
there is IN some, it don't take no 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'll be-, says Bill. Not
when you've got the opportunities that
you've got around fat building
well, says l, that sure sounds
like sense And it is sense. That's
why I'm giving you the tip, Nels. You
take a little less notice of Hilda or
Helga or whatever her name is and
little more of what she sets out for
you to empty. You've got the same
opportunities that Bill had.
What kind of woman did Bill
get? Why, 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 blessed
lark and no waste. Me for her. says
Bill. It's just as easy to pick good
one as poor one,' he says.
go to her. says l. And he did,
the very next day. The only trouble
was, though, tia. she didn't fancy Bill,
and in fact she tSTowed 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 at
13 that he hadn't Investigated. Now
he says the best thing Teller can
do is to keep his eyes shut. When
he's married, anyway.
$50 there it is, Nels," concluded the
ianitor, as he got down from
It's railing. TITS all very well for a
man - be careful about taking his
pick, but he's got to be in shape to
stand inspection himself"