Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-21
TIMES REPUBLICAN, MARsHALLTOwN AUGUST q,

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weight and, though his words seeme0
uncouth, his tone was seriously 70
spectful. sS
''I'm glad you enjoyed yourself" said
wallingford. you should go to church
oftener. You need it,
I'm going" asserted Blackie decis-
lively. you'll see Uncle Horace seated
in the pew reserved for we'll dressed
strangers on every Sunday morning
until get back home; then you'll see
him with n season ticket for some
place about row O."
Wallingford, rather glad to be away
for a moment from the train Of calcu-
lation that the visit of Charley Jackson
had set in motion, lent himself to the
smiling consideration Of Blackies new
development.
what will Violet Bonnie say?' he
wanted to know.
II don't know If she ever tried 1t, but
she'd fall for it like Guinea boot
black to grand opera ticket In the
Hrst place. she buys from twelve to
fifteen hats year and she'd be tickle1
into giggle fits with new line of COM
petition. In the second place, she's as
strong for music as I am. 1t isn't
fashionable in our set to be dippy over
high brow music, but every once In q
while we slip away to Carnegie hall
and wonder what it's about and love
some of it till it gasps. heard pipe
organ stun today that made me feel
like balloon and if could have
found friendly shoulder I'd have
sniffied In the third place she'd be
plumb pitachio about this right hand
Of fellowship surprise that they spring
on distinguished strangers
''Call the wagon" interrupted Wal
lingford. you're in Dutch on that last
bet They skip women. They're will
ing to take chances on burglar, but
they have to insist upon knowing all
about lady"
81 don't see why" Indignantly OBJ
jected Blackie violet Bonnie has al
ways made good wherever she was put
and she's as fussy dresser as any Of
them"
THAT doesn't make women love each
other" laughed Wallingford. I'm
glad they made you feel like the guest
of honor. though. How did it happen ?
Did you make speech?"
II helped sing" admitted Blackie,
'but. outside Of that. l kept my mouth
in while when l caught up with an
'A-a-a-ahmen.' i Tapped over one and
said it alone, but nobody giggled.
never saw such a polite bunch in my
life, but. at that. don't see why they
don't have a better road map for the
prayer book, so stranger could chauf-
feur his way around without having
all the natives offer him assistance. l
watched one real sweet faced old lady
for my guide, but darn her, she got
up in the wrong place
You must have picked out church
with as fussy a service as seven gar
cons and a head waiter making su-
zette pancake" observed Wallingford,
chuckling. "You should have chosen an
easier one to begin on. Who sent you
there?'
The pipe organ" answered Blackie
earnestly. ut was the rattiest looking
church in town from the outside. but
the inside. SO high and dim and CULVER
ing with stiffness, made me afraid.
Say, Jim, I'm against the corrupt po-
litical system in this town.
$50 am IT, agreed Waliingford heart
fly. I'D like to hand it JOLT
I'm helping" stated Blackie. with
happy self appreciation. do you know
what the political thieves and outcasts
are trying to do in this town? They
are trying to steal the courthouse and
turn it into den Of infamy. My church
is going to save the city from its shame.
We raised fund of nearly $780,
600 today to buy Courthouse square,
and another days hustling will give us
enough. AS soon as we get that we're
going to start another subscription list
to build the finest cathedral in the mid
die west on the site that was to have
been turned into common dive that
would sap the manhood and woman
hood Of every young person who passed
beneath the shadow Of its wallis"
His adoption Of the mornings pulpit
phrases was entirely unconscious. An
habitual enthusiast, his partisanship
here was absolutely without Ques-
ton.
(To Be Continually