The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1913-09-05
THE MELTING or MOLLY
Continued from last week.
LEAF
Dashed

Gk&9 Just got dashed anyway, and
It's us " fault. not the angels /
have suffered this dnv until want 10
lay NY face down against the hem OF
his garment and wait IN the dust Tor
hlIu ~ p,ck Inc up shall never he
able tu DO II myself. aud how nps gu
iug To do II can't see. but he will.
That dinner party last night was bad
enough. nut today's been worse
didn't sleep until long after daylight
nnd then Judy came ~ before : o'clock
with % lottrr tor me thar booked like y
stat, document f"lt IN my tremuly
bones that IL was some Sort u sum
mons aGlir from judy, Wudr and =
was 'uokrd INTO the irSt paragraph
aud then decided ttat had ucttel
get up and dress aud nave u cup ui
coffee end q single egg before tried
10 read q
incidental 10 my bath and dressing
weighed aud found that had lost
all four ~ those last surplus pound,
aud twu more IN three days rhuN,
two extra pounds might hC construed
20 prove love but exactly on whom
was utterly u%uprepared 10 say ! lid
not even enjoy the thiuuesS. but took
a kind ~ already married look IN my
glass and tried to slip the egg past my
bored lips and get myself 60 chew IL
down II was work and hen took
up the iudges letter. which also was
work and more OF II
He started IN AZ the beginning %
everythIng-that II. at the D%egiuninl
Of the tuberculosis giri. and crici
over the pn"s or her us " she hHo
beeu my own sister At the tentl
page We buried her and took ny Al
fred. aud ] must say saw a new Al
FREQ IA the judges bouquet strewn AZ
probation Of him, but didn't want
him as bad as had the day before.
when | read his own new and old lot
tiers md cried over his old photographs
/ suppose that was the result ~ some
with He'd he apt to use II on r W.
man and she wouldn't md out about
IL until II was too late TO Oe anything
but mad still, when be began on me-
Al page 10 felt q little better, thouEl
! didn't know myself any better than
did Alfred when got TO page ~
What ! an ~ just a poor. foolish
woman. who has a lot more heart thar
she can manage with the amount ~
brains she got with It az birth I'm
not any star in a rose colored sky and
don't want 10 inspire anybody It's
too much OF a job | want 20 be =
healthy. happy woman and a wife 10 u
man who can inspire himself and man
ago me. want 70 marry a thin man
and have from Ave 10 ten thin chi
dren, and when ! get 20 be thirty
want my husband 10 want me TO be a.
fat as Aunt BEETLE, bur not let ME
An inspiration couldn't be fat and In
always Ia danger from not mullins aud
chicken gravy However, IL should
undertake 20 be al the things Judg,
Wade said In that letter he wanted M
to be 20 him. I should 500 be skin and
bones from mental and physical eEer
else. sui. he does live IN Hiilsboro
and won't let myself know how my
heart aches NJ the thought ~ leaving
my home and other things lts up In
my throat and seem always To he
swallowing II, the last few days
All the men who write me letters
seem 10 get themselves wound up into
II s~kyrOcket and then let themselves
explode IN the last paraGrap h. and II
always upsets my nerves was Just
about 10 begin 70 cry again over IN,
last words ~ thu Judge when ~" oulS
bright spot IN the day So fur suddenly
happened Pet Buford blew boo witt
the pinkeSt cheeks and ,he brightest
eyes / had seen since | looked IN m,
mirror the night 81 the dance She w3te
la an awful hurry
Molly. dear" she said with h"r
words literally falling over themselves
Tom says you'n give us some ~ You,
dinner ieftOvers 10 take fur lunch lu
the auto, for We are going way ont t.
Wayne county 10 see some awfulHy
uur tobacco he has heard l. there
don't want 20 ask mother. for sne
won't let me go, and his mother. II h,
h~h'Nl lttIt VIII bfElU 10 ltlh bIhuI Us
Tom said come % you and you would
understand and fix Il quick lie said
kiss you for him and tell Won he said
Come on Ia, the waters fine Isu
lac "A lokef" And we kissed uud nugh
ci aud packed a basket. and Kissed
and laughed again for rOodby f"l'
amused and happy FOR \ few minutes
aud also deserted. It's q very good
thing for a woman's coucrit 10 md ont
how many ~ her lovers are just max,
believes. may have needed Tom,
DETECTION.
Anyway, | don't know when evel
was so glad 10 see anybody AZ wa,
when Mrs, Johnson came 10 the front
door A woman who has proved (,
her own satisfaction that marriage II
a failure Is nc times II great tonic I,
other women needed 4. tuuic badly
this morning, and ! got H.
We'll, from all my long experience
Molly" she said as she seated herself
and began TO hem a dish towel viii
long, steady stabs, husbands are jus
stick candy In different mrs They