Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-09-24
Evening Story
SHOWING PA HOW.
BY Clara Inez Deacon.
Copyright, 1912, by the Associated
Literary Press.)

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After farmer Remsens wife had
strained the evening milk and got
things ready for an early breakfast
she came out on the veranda where
her husband sat smoking and sat
down with a bump and sigh. Two
or three minutes passed and then the
/, husband remarked:
"I'm gittin' riled up"
"You don't mean mad?" was asked.
Eyes, do"
"But what in beeswax has riled
you? The spotted cow didn't kick
you again tonight, did she?"
mo, it amt the spotted cow. It's
the way things are goin around this
house and the time has come when
I want to know all about it."
II didn't know as anything dreadful
had happened" replied the wife after
a moment. 1.-THE meals are being
cooked and the beds made the same
as usual. I guess you've got prickly
heat"
"And l guess you'n Kitty take me
for fool"
Look here, pa" said the wife in
q soothing way, ut would be better
! for you to tend to the outdoor work
and leave me to manage inside. But
II you don't do it l s'pose I'll have to
1 tell you something. 1t don't amount
/! to shucks, but you've got to know or
bust. Our Kitty and Earl Andrews
have quarreled."
"You don't say!' exclaimed pa with
such yigOr that he bit off the stem OF
his pipe.
sThere you go! You'll be falling
off your chair next!"
But they've quarreled! Bless my
cats, but thought something was
UP. asked about Earl three or four
days ago and you turned me off. So
they've had row and won't get mar
ried?"
What a man you are, pa! Spose
they have quarreled? Young folks in
love always quarrel. You'n me quar-
relied"
But we made it up
80 will they If some idiot don't
spite everything"
"And that's the reason Kitty is
moonin' around and eatin' nuthin' but
tea and toast?" he asked after hitching
around for while.
''She amt goin' to die over 1t. I
don't want you to say word or to pre-
tend to notice anything. It's not for
the girls father to mix in such things.
You jest leave it to me-
But women amt got heads for
business"
SIS this business, you old sun
flower?" exclaimed the wife. "Do you
think you can patch up lovers quar-
rel the same as you sell butter'n eggs?
No, sir, and that's why I tell you to
keep hands off,"
Eyes; but mebbe I'll have to go to
Earl and threaten to lick him.
Hiram Remsen, have you lost the
little sense you ever had?" was flung
at him like stone. "Jest hear me,
now. You shet up as tight as clam;
Don't you peep! Don't you notice any
thing! Don't you mix in tall. If
you do"
when Miss Kitty returned from
school there had been admiration,
love, an engagement and a quarrel.
There are forty different things lovers
can and do quarrel about, and so why
specify the one thing in this case? 1t
Is sufficient to say that both were
agreed they had made a, great mistake
in thinking they were for each other
and all the time they knew they were
making a great mistake in saying SO.
"You will find the right man and be
happy with him." sighed the young
man as he left the house.
"And you the right girl
It was very sad. 1t was 50 sad that
Miss Kitty went into the house and
kicked the cat, and the young lover
scuffed the two long miles down to
the village through the dust and wish
ed tramp were at hand to kick him.
Pa Remsen's curiosity was not half
satisfied, but ma bossed the roost and
had a sharp tongue, and he kept hands
of. 1t was a hard task for him, and
when the spotted COW kicked him, re
kicked back with great vigor.
One day there was report in the
village that Miss Kitty Remsen was
going to Arizona to teach school at
275 a month. and there were those