The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-03-19
mirror the night of the dance. She was
in an awful hurry

mirror the night of the dance She was |
in an awful hurry
Molly. dear she said. with her
words literally falling over themselves.
."Tom says you'H give us some of your
dinner leftovers to take for lunch in
the auto. for we are going way out to
Wayne county to see some aWruliy
fine tobacco he has heard is there.
don't want to ask mother. for she
won't let me 90. and his mother. II he
asked her. will begin to talk about US
Tom said come to you and you would
understand and fix it quick He said
kiss YOU for him and tell you he said
Come on in. the waters fine Isn't
he ioke?" And we kissed and laugh
ed and packed basket. and kissed
and laughed again for goodby 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
believes | may have needed Toms
detection.
Anyway. don't know when ! ever
when Mrs Johnson came In the front
door. A woman who has proved to
her own satisfaction that marriage Is
failure is ut times great tonic to
other women needed a tonic badly
this morning. and got it.
well from all my long experiences.
Molly" she said as she seated herself
and began to hem dish towel with
long. steady stabs. Husbands are just
stick candy in different jars. They
may look little different. but they all
taste alike and you soon get tired oi
them. In two months you won't know
the difference in being married to Al
R.nnett and Mr.. Carter and you'll have
10 go on living with him maybe fifty
| years. Luck doesn't strike twice In
| the same place and you can't count on
losing two husbands, AIS father was
Mr. Johnson's first cousin and had
more crochets and worse. He had 81
| lent spells that lasted week and
| family prayers three times day.
though he got drunk twice year for
month at time AL looks very much
like him"
Mrs. Johnson" | said after min
ute's silence. while had decided
whether or not | had better tell heI
all about it If woman's In love
with her husband you can't trust hei
to keep Il secret. but | decided to try
Mrs Johnson. Il really am not en-
gagged exactly to alfred Bennett
though suppose he thinks SO by now
if he has got the answer to that teie
gram But-but something has made
me-made me think about Judge Wade
that is. he-what do you think q
him. Mrs. Johnson | concluded II
the most pitifully perplexed tone o.
voice
"Ali alike. Molly; all as much alik'
as peas in pod: all except JONI
Moore. who's the only exception In al
the male tribe I ever met: His marry
ing once was just accidental and mus
be forgiven him, She fell in love witt
him while he was treating her for ty
nhoid. when his back was turned. as
were, and it was Gods own kindnes
in him that made him marry her whel
he found out how it was with the poo
thing There's not a woman in th1
town who could marry. that wouidn'
marry him at the drop of his hat: bul
thank goodness. that hat Will neve
hrop and I'll have one sensible man t
comfort and doctor me down into m
old age Now. just look at that. MI
Johnsons come home here in the mic
slle of the morning and I'll have to &c
that old paper hunted ont of his des
for him last night ! wonder how h