The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-03-19
LEAF TENTH.
Dashed!

A wise angel charge concerning
I611SoI me lest | get dashed. hnt !
GsNs4J just got dashed anyway. and
it's .ny own fault. not the angels, |
have suffered this day until ! want to
lay my face down against the hem o!
his garment and wait in the dust for
him to pick me mp. ! shall never he
able to do 1t myself. and how he's go
ing to do it can't see, but he will.
That dinner party last night was bad
enough. but today's been worse. |
didn't sleep until long after daylight
and then Judy came in before O'Clock
with q letter for me that looked like
state document. felt in my trembly
bones that it was some sort of sum
mons affair from Judge Wade. and 1t
was looked into the first paragraph
and then decided that | had better
get I'D and dress and have cup OF
vofree and single egg before ! tried
to read it.
| Incidental to my bath and dressing
weighed and found that ! had lost
all four Of those last surplus pounds
/ and two more in three days. Those
two extra pounds might be construed
to prove love. but exactly on whom !
was utterly unprepared to say. ! did
NOT even enjoy the thinness.. hut took
q kind Of already married look in mv
| glass and tried to slip the egg past MY
bored lips and get myself to chew 1t
down. 1t was work. and then TOOK
up the judges letter. which also was
work and more of it.
He started in at the beginning of
everything-that is. at the beginning
of the tuberculosis girl. and cried
over the pages of her as if she had
been my own sister. At the tenth
page we buried her and took up Al
fred. and | must say | saw a new Al
fred In the judges bouquet strewn ap
probation of him. but | didn't wan1
!, him as bad as had the day before
when read his own new and old let
ters and cried over his old photographs
1 suppose that was the result of some
of what the judge manages the jurie:
with. He'd be apt to use 1t on wo
man and Sue wouldn't find out abou
it until it was too late to be anything
hut mad. Still. when be began on MI
t at page 16 felt little better. though
didn't know myself any better thai
did Alfred when got to page 20
What l am is just poor. foolisl
woman, who has lot more heart thai
she can manage with the amount o
| xxy9fI s.f
not any star in a rose colored sky. am
l don't want to inspire anybody. IT.
| too much OF job want TO be
healthy. happy woman and wife to
] man wlio. can inspire himself and maj
age me- ! want to marry thin ma
] and have from five to ten thin chi
/ dren. and when | get to be thirty
] want my husband to want me to be
| fat as Aunt Bette. hut not let M
| An inspiratiou couldn't be fat. and III
always in danger from hot mullins an
; chicken gravy However. it shouI
II undertake to be all the things Juds
II Wade said In that letter he wanted NJ
to be to him. should soon be skin an
bones from mental and physical exc
else. Still. he does live in Hillsbor
and won't let myself know how III
heart aches at the thought of ieavin
4 nv home and other things It's up
i nv throat and | seem always to Z
swallowing it. the last few days
II All the men who write me iettel
seem to get themselves wound up In,
a skyrocket and then let themseiv'
II explode In the last paragraph. and
always upsets my nerves was ju
about to begin to cry again over II
last words of the judge when the on
bright spot in the day so far sudden
happened Pet Buford blew in wi
- the pinkest cheeks and the brighte
al eyes had seen since | looked in Il