The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-27

Southern lady looks at things in your
masculine Northern way"
But | could show him tina by his
notions about hot bread and Indigestion.
new cookery and Mrs Shurt.nE. he had
all but disrupted our little society. So
| told him how our ladies had decided
that it was better to bc unsCrn,iiic and
happy; that gloomy and Indifferent hus-
bands were too high price To pay for
pure hygiene and every last one OF
them was going to have three different
kinds Of hot bread for breakfast and
some Of them had broken away from
Mrs. Short!ngs teaching several days
before, and were already winning their
husbands back.
And that surprising man only laughed
and said:
"Sallie Rives. Sallle Rves wonder
| II your rushlight will ever lee turned
| into a Welshach burn,r B"causr If
i, is, half the joy of my life will GO"
laughed apprcciativcly because
| that's always SAT" thing To- do when
you don't know what a man is driving
at. Then Mr.. Durgan said consider
ingly.
IAN the same l must MAKE it up to
the groc,r-and ought to de- something
for the butcher too"
by This time we had got into Char
lottcsvillc. Hardly any one was on the
streets and it was just as well. for when
Mr. Durgan drew up before what used
to hc the old Russell House | almost
screamed
1t was not because the d.shcvoNod
| looking old place had been rcpainted ana
had a new portico and balconies and
lace curtains at every window NJ; It
was because over ;hc door read tn"
| words:
"Mlcajah Carter. proprlctnr.
And in the doorway stood Micaiah
| Garter, smiling and straight not
| droop in him anywhere. And just be-
| hind him s;ood Mamie Lee only the
moment | looked at her face | knew she
was not Mamie Lee any more. There's
a kind of proprietor look a woman gets
the very hour she's married that YOU
| can never mistake. She owns a man
| and she's settled; no more spinster
problems for her, and her husband may
| attend to the matrimonial ones. Nam
| MES face told me tina, and a dozen
other things as Mr. Durgan led me
| into the dining room and sat me at
table laid for four,
| "WeddIng breakfast" explained Mr..
| DurEan proudly. Mrs. Shorting and !
| kidnapped them and got them married
last night and they are running this
hotel. which I have bought, and Carter
is going to fix up his farm az kind
of spring and autumn resort"
I could have seen Mr.. DurGan's hand
in all this without his explanation. But
a Carter and Lee keeping a hotel
All | could do was turn a r,proachful
eye on Mamie.
1T was fathers idea" she said com
posedly. "llc said that M.Cajah would
end up either in restaurant or a luna
tic asylum, and | consider hotel a
lgood compromise. Besides I've always
wanted To he in business. | can help
Micaiah a heap, and | reckon we'll be
as rich as Northernors presently
| "Whcre is Mrs Shorting?" I asked
| Those two men stared at each other.
| "Hcavcns, Kec-aw- tab" said Mr.. Dur
gan, I'VE forgot to ask her TO the break
fast"
81 reckon I couldn't be expected to
remember" said Micaiah comfortably.
or course. Mamie and ! approached
them. After all, it was due to Mrs.
Shortiug'S suggestions that Micajah had
got interested in hotel life. and If she
had not gone with Mr.. Durgan to per-
suade Mamie to elopc they'd never
| ~
: midnight marriage. We began 10 feel
quite friendly toward the poor creature
A., when We thought how ungratcfully
\ those men had treated her.
, But We might have spared our re-
, grets, Presently she swept into the
dining room, the dea eX maoh.nl, acting
like she had courtod Mamie for Mi
Cajah and was also quit" capable Of
showing me how to reward Mr. Dur
gan'S attentions,
when We had got into the motor car
and were starting homcward Mr., Dur
gan said To me in an injured and at
: f'c'ionato tone:
: "Wcll, arent you going To praise
I mo-"
I Praise him I reckon all men are
alike at bottom. and the only way you
: can teach them anything is to marry
= them, and then show them how rldicu-
lous their actions are in the eyes Of
women.
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