The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1913-12-25

ions even more QlInCulI 10 MAKE lndh
those confronting an umpire in
worlds championship pennant battle.
OF course as to the main point,
have known for three months it is
necessary for me either to marry
some dear girl with plenty of money
of her own, or-horrible alternative!
go to work. | have a cultivated
disinclination to go to work for the
mere base purpose of being paid for
it. Wages is a word abhorrent to my
breeding. 1t smacks of the prole-
tariat of the sordid, the lowly, the
unbaked and soggy undercrust of the
social pie.
Father worked, naturally. Most
fathers of any account do. I under
stand Good old dad! He locked me
out of the loaves and fishes cupboard
all right and tight enough when he
quit. but ! hold no grudge. In his
day and in his way he was good to
me- Here's to him. This is beastly
cheap sherry, but what can one drink,
1T to drink, on $4,000 year? Mar
-iorie has $4,000. If she were my
lance instead of my sister that would
be an, income not half bad, for two
people.
I'm to have my $4,000 per when
I'm forty. Lord Ten years to wait
What an age. That is the reason
this marriage matter perplexes me.
We must admit the nuptial necessity
as a conditional and not a theoretic
conformation
The trouble lies in this-there are
Two of them. / stand between them
even as the Aesopian ass, unknow-
ing where to browse. Charlotte is
fond of me, | know. She has more
than as much as told me so. If only
Grace Dalzelle had Charlotte's money!
| am not quite sure how many mil
lions Charlotte will have some day.
It's something quite incredible. Old
man Flaxhaver is still piling them
up, they say. He's a grouchy old
beast and has views" Thinks men
ought to work Last time l dined at
his house he quizzed me about my
career" Said every American worth
his salt ought to have an aim in life.
Said dad was one of the best men he
ever knew
Mind you, I can marry Charlotte
all right enough, any old day, or
night. She'll elope as fast as I'll
| take her. But I'm in doubt; I'm in
| doubt Old Flaxhaver stickles for his
paternal and parental authority. II
| he got his back up about thinkless
cheeild he might not get it down till
after sackcloth and ashes had done
| their awful worst TO Charlotte and
poor Charley Lavender
My predicament is really no less
than sickening. Grace hasn't cent
worth speaking of. Maybe $4,000
| life insurance Dalzelle left her out
of his wreck. after he had blown his
brains out the day they sky-highet
U. P. to 1000
| It's when I'm with Grace that
fully determine to tell Charlotte
there are insuperable obstacles
which must forever forbid our union
i have it written out, along those
| II 1911 FNHu lHCD
after leave Grace, and my hot blood
cools and the sweet sting of he
kisses no longer burns in my mouth
have to come down to earth anC
remember my duty to myself and. m!
family, if I should ever have one.
can't be expected it is a mans socia
duty to rear lot of paupers.
And this is Decision Day. Marjorie
said she would give me until tonigh
10 quit being fool. Grace and Mar
iorie are chums, you see. Sis say
she will lend me $4,000 year on m,
prospects If marry right" l know
what that means. / might do wors
than right" If there's a prettie
girl in the world than Marjorie Law
ender it's Grace Dalzelle.
And, then, ! love her. Though
am loafer, she, too, loves me.