The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-26
GETTING THEM tanned
BY SARAH JORDAN.

don't suppose you are acquainted with
Minnie, by the way. She's been q
member OF our family for six years
and has done the second work You
can't imagine what q vortex OF emo
ton we are plunged into because OF
this move Of Minnie's. It 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 Ill move on'
Minnie Is the least excited Of any
OF US. said to her the other day.
as she was laboriously busting 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 as
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 80 good natured
| like!'
IT sat down at once" said the girl
who likes to talk, because I saw
there were vistas in Minnie's mind ]
had not suspected.
Don't you love him at ALP ]
asked severely.
| Minnie paused In her labors and
looked at me rather plying. That's
| as how you look at It. she conflded
to me. Tn not much on holding
| hands. tell you,' she said with a
sudden rush 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 go
ing down the Nile you're OF 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 to
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, 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 q
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
you'll always be looked up to! Don't
you ever go and marry man that
knows more than you do.
Jim he says always for me to dc
Just as think best. Now, aim ia
have a nice home. / wouldn't marry
4 a man who couldn't have nice home
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.
and you just go ahead and blow it!
If you want red plush you get it an
| II you want two sets Of dishes like
they have where you live you get 'em!
l guess there isn't going to be nothin'
| cheap about our housed"
| udI uSClucU HE dDOuL Jill.
don't think I'm going to have bit
Of trouble with him He's going to
leave everything to me. you see, and
that helps lot. Some men hold out
SO long before you get 'em tanned to
that point where they realize a WON
an knows what's better for 'em than
they dot
"'But are you sure you dor / asked
Minnie doubtfully.
"She flirted the dust cloth disgust.
eddy. You don't have to live very
long she said. IL 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 a man who knows what
he ought to eat OF what he ought to
wear or do any more than a baby!
Look at Mr.. Rob now-you'll excuse
me for saying it 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 II 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 we'll preserved! And both of
EN- 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 $40 suits when he can
get Just as good for SIS. thought
he might just as we'll 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 foil to busting
castings.
There doesn't seem to be much
romance about her wedding, but I
have a horrible feeling that maybe
she has the right idea about running
happy home!"
Go along with you!" said the man
who was listening. I'VE men will
have to rise up and suppress a few
OF you lady revolutionists before long
II you go on this way! You know Won