Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-09-05
Evening Story
oRANDMA's OLD BIBLE
BY Donald Allen.
Copyright, 1913, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)


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John Brodie Of the Brodie Mills
was very busy man. He was also
fairly wealthy man. He was also
very pompous man. Furthermore
he congratulated himself that he was
a blue-blooded man.
AS most persons understand It,
blue blood is to the manner born, and
that means rich and cultivated ances.
tors who lived with their noses in
the air and considered themselves the
salt Of the earth. AS some others
understand 1t. blue blood, which is
just as red as a, truck.driver's blood,
comes after a man has scraped about
$4,000 together and got to be mayor
of town of at least 5000 inhabi-
tants. That condition OF affairs had
come to John Brodie.
Sometimes, sad to relate, blue
blooded father and husband will have
a wife and daughter that won't join
hands with him on the question.
That was the case with John Brodie.
His good wife and his daughter
Maggie refused to be blue-blooded.
They refused to be snobs. They re-
fused to be pompous. When they
were lectured about it Miss Maggie
would sometimes preserve silence,
but at others she would flame out
with
why, father. you began life on
$3.50 a day"
"But-but-"
"And your father and grandfather
were mechanical"
"Daughter!"
"And your mother kept house in
two rooms
Maggie, will not hear such TALK"
If John Brodie hadn't been so busy
and blue-blooded and pompous he
might have made certain discovery
Of interest to him long before he
finally got the bump. One Of the
foremen in his mills was young
man named Harry Winfield. He had
won the position on his merits. He
had a widowed mother to care for on
salary none too liberal and there
fore went little into society, but was
respected by all and spoken Of as
young man who would make his way.
Young Winfield had been to the
Brodie house on business number
social gatherings, before Mrs. Brodie
quietly began one evening:
maggie, 1t is being whispered
around that Mr. Winfield is one of
your admirers"
'I hope he is,'' was the answer.
"You. know what your fathers
views are"
II have heard them times enough"
"Mr. Winfield Is not blue-blooded."
Poor boy!"
"He is working man"
"All honor to him!"
IF your father knew that there
was even friendship between you
he'd discharge the young man at.
once" 2;a
He'd rave Of course"
80, then, daughter"
HE may have chance to rave.
If it was left to father to pick out
a husband for me, he'd select some
snob that couldn't live with
week."
Three months later the "raving"
came.
Mr.. Harry Winfield donned his
Sunday suit one Wednesday evening
when he knew that His Honor the
Mayor would be at home, and rang
the bell of his mansion. Miss Mag
gle expected him, and was at the
door to admit him and whisper:
Father is in the library. Go
right in"
I'D rather face battery"
"But you've got to go in
ooh, I'll go In right enough"
And in he went, to be surveyed for
a moment by the father and then
greeted with:
well, Harry, is there strike on
at the mills?"
II think every man is content, SIR"
mo machinery broken down, I
hope?"
None, sir. am here on account
of your daughter"
"My Maggie? Well, what about
herr"
Eve are in love, sir"
''W h -
"And I am asking your consent to
the marriage"
Young man. said the blue-bloodei
mill owner, "have you lost your
senses? Do you realize what you
are saying? You in love with my
daughter! She in love with you!
That's the case. sir" was the
reply Of the trembling lover.
"And she knows you are here this
evening to ask my CONSENT"
"She does"
Zone Of my mill hands in love with
my daughter!" shouted Mr.. Brodie
as he rose up with flashing eyes and
purple face "Your impudence is most
astounding. You must be at least
half insane. answer you no! no!
no! Leave this house, sir! I dis
charge you from the mills! IL"
"Can you say anything against me.
as man. sir?"
you've got the impudence Of the
devil told you to CO."
Three minutes later Mr.. Winfield
was out of the house, and the girl
was in the library and her father was
gesticulating and demanding:
"Tell me if you have fallen in love
with that parvenue Winfield"
"I have!"
"He hasn't got dollar to his
name!"
"You didn't have when you mar