News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-06-11

GETTING THEM tanned
BY SARAH JORDAN.

Minnie is going to be married, '
said the girl who likes to talk, y
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 a vortex of emo
ton we are plunged into because Of
| this move of Minnie's. 1t is like hay-
ing your father or your mother sud
denly arise and say casually: We'll,
must be going now. I'm tired Of this
outfit and guess I'll move on
Minnie is the least excited of any
of us. I 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
ly from the top of the stepladder
No she said, alphabetically. 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 girl
could a-got him-he's so good natured
like!'
81 sat down at once" said the girl
who likes to talk, because l saw
there were vistas in Minnie's mind l
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 cOnfded !
to me. I'm not much on holding !
hands. I tell YOU she said with
sudden rush of confession, 1 don't
know as I'd got married if you and
your family hadn't heen SO unsteady
the last few years! If you aren't co.
ing down the Nile you're off 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 70
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, I won't be home to din
ner tonight" That's no way to live!
When I see that a meals on the table
/ want it ct up as though it was
relished-and l will say Jim has
hearty appetite! He's awful slow
to think, but he makes good wages
and l tell you it's better to marry pc
meath you! Yes, it is-because then
you'll always be looked up to- Don't
|, you ever go and marry a man that
knows more than you d.
Jim he says always for me to 40
just as I think best Now. l aim 10
have nice home wouldn't marry
a man who couldn't have a nice home,
and Jim says to me when we talAeu I
it over: There's $500 saved up 10
furnish the house or the fiat or what
ever you pick out for us to live in' ;
and you just go ahead and blow II! !
If you want red plush you get it an
If you want two sets of dishes me
they have where you live you get EN-! {
l guess there isn't going to be notnih '
cheap about our howel"
THAT decided ne about jim
don't think I'm going to have a OF
of trouble with him He's going 70
leave everything to ne, you see, anu
that helps a lot. Some men hold ouC
SO long before you get ZEN tameo 70 c
that point where they realize a Foin- t
an knows what's better for EN- 'nan
they do!
But are you sure you do? a'Neu
Minnie doubtfully
She firted the dust cloth dissqst- -
eddy. You don't have to live very A"
long she said, if you keep your eyes
open before you learn that men are ST
poor helpless critters. They IA. may u.
know who to vote for ana all H. b
! but show me a nan Who knows wat Pl