Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-21


He started in at the beginning of
everything, that is at the beginning OF
the tuberculosis girl and / cried over
the pages of her as if she had been
nv own sister. At the tenth page
we buried her and took up Alfred
and l must say l saw new Alfred
in the judges bouquet-strewn appre-
citation of him, but 1 didn't want MN
as bad as | had The day before when
| read his own new and old letters,
and cried over mis- old photographs.
7 suppose that was the result OF
some of what the judge manages the
.iuries with. He'd be apt to use II on
q woman and she wouldn't find out
about 1t until il was. too late to be
anything but mad. Still When ne
began Oh rac at page sixteen J felt
a little better, though didn't know
myself any better than l did Alfred
when 1 got to page twenty.
What | am, is just poor toolish
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 rose-coloreu
sky. and I don't want to inspire any
bodv: it's too much of a job. L want
to be a healthy happy woman and a
wife to a ,man who can inspire himself
and manage me. | want to marry q
thin man and have from five to ten
thin children, and when. | get TO be
thirty I want my husband to want
me to be as fat as Aunt Bette, but
not let me. An inspiration couldn
be fat and I'm always in danger, from
hot mullins and chicken gravy. How
ever, if l should undertake to De 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 exercise. sun,
he does live in Hillsboro and won
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 a s<yrocket and then let them
selves explode in the last paragraph
and it 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 l had seen since l
looked in the mirror the night or the
dance. She was In an awful hurry.
molly. dear" she said, with her
words literally falling over them
selves, Tom says you'll give us some
of your dinner left-overs to take Tor
lunch in the Hup, for we are going
way out to Wayne county to see
some awfully fine tobacco he has
heard is there. don't want to ask
mother. for she won't let me go; 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 auick. He said kiss You for him
and tell you he said Come on in, the
waters fine Isn't he a joker" And
we kissed and laughed and packed a
basket, and kissed and laughed again
for good-by. l felt amused and happy
for few minutes and also deserted.
It's very good thing for a woman's
conceit to find out how many of her
lovers are Just make-belieyes. ] may
have needed Toms detection.
ANYWAY. | don't know when | ever
was 70 glad to see anybody as | was
when Mrs. johnson came in the front
door. A woman who has proved to
her own satisfaction that marriage is
a failure is at times a great tonic
to other women. needed tonic
badly this morning and l got 1t.
WELL from all my long experience
Molly" she said as she seated herself
and began to hem a dish-towel with
long steady stabs, ''husbapds are just
stick candy in different Jars. They
may look a little different. but they
all taste alike and you soon get tired
of them. In two months you won't
know the difference in being mar
ried to AL Bennett and Mr.. Carter
and you'll have to go on living witt
him maybe fifty years. Luck doesn
strike twice in the same place anc
you can't count on losing two hus'
bands. AIS father was Mr.. John.
sons first cousin and had NOR:
crochets and worse. He had silen
spells that lasted week sand family
prayers three times day, though hi
got drunk twice year for month
at a time. AL looks very much like
him.
Mrs. Johnson. / said after a min
utes silence, while | had decided
whether or not had better tell hei
all about it, If woman's in low
with her husband you can't trust hei