The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1915-02-19
her QUEER DREAM
BY BRYANT c. ROGERS.

spit her own wood and built her own
morning tires In freezing weather for
thinking OF second marriage as she
SITS down at her lone breakfast.
II ls understood that the right sort
OF widow is meant-one who can
make delicious pumpkin pie-who
can mold grand biscuit-one with a
sunshlny temper-one who didn't nag
aer tlrst husband-one who can make
rag carpets and turn an old skirt top
so-bottom-one who likes to sew on,
buttons and daily lovingly with
patches-that's the kind of a woman
TO nave in the minds eye when the
widows are referred to.
They have not only legal and NOR
al right to remarry. but it is their
sacred duty to do.so. Both Adam and
Eve were lonesome as two old geese
until they found each other, and how
happy they were for years and years
later!
For five long years the widow. Bell
had been the man of the house as well,
as the woman. John Bell had been q
good husband to her, but the memory
OF even the best helpmate must grow
dim and far away when the widow
awakes in the morning to find hogs
and cows in her garden, or new leak
in the roof of the kitchen.
And the widow Bell was tired of be-
ing her own boss. 1t was all very well
for year or two to lay abed till
nine o'clock In the morning and then
get out of bed and warm over a
couple Of cold potatoes, but the day
came when she fairly longed to hear
the bossy voice of a husband calling
out: .t
Get out of that, you lazy thing, and
hustle me some breakfast! What dye
'spose / married you fort"
And as the widow cut and. sewed
carpet rags she thought and thought
and thought, and she brought for
ward no less than 81 good and sufti-
cient reasons why she should marry
again. There were also q reasons
whE Deacon Mulberry should be the
man. He was only year or two older
than she! he was good-tempered
man: he had been a widower. several
years and must be lonesome, and he
had fair competency. There were
other reasons, but these were sufti-
cient.
Being willing to marry a man Is
only half the program. Is he willing
TO marry you? When widow Bell had
seen widows come and CO. No less
than half a dozen of them had set
their caps for the deacon, and their
scheming had been knocked, in the
head after few weeks. Each one in
turn had, told herself that she was
nearing the goal when the deacon had
kindly but firmly said:
Widow Blank. / esteem you most
highly"
(Blushes and smiles.)
"You can make strawberry short
cake to melt in the mouth"
"a futter of the hearth
your pickles and jams are beyond
compare"
(Both smiles and sighs)
"There is no doubt that we would be
q happy couple
CIT is coming!")
"But. my dear Mrs. Blank, / gave m,
wife to understand as she lay on hel
DIVING bed that L should never, never
re,lace her by another. AS soon as
get around to erect monument to he
memory shall have that promise en-
graved on the stone, that 1T may al
WAYS be before my eyes and serve al
a warning against temptation. Tha
is all. Mrs. Blank-quite all"
And what was that widow to do blu
retire as gracefully as she could from
the combat and knock over chairs ant
break dishes to show the cat that sh
didn't care a peanut for Deacon Mul
berry or any other old deacon?
The good man must be approached
hut not as others had approached him
r. there was not a change OF tactic
It would simply result in-another goo
woman being thrown over the fence
r. was a week or SO after the wido'
Pol, had come to a conclusion tina
chic met the deacon on the street an
stopped him to exclaim:
"Oh, deacon, such a dream as IA
about you last night"
Nothing bad, hope" he replied.
~ was almost mind to 60 to you
house right after breakfast to tell 20
about It."
II must hear what it was
"But you'll be shocked"
.But you can't go on till you hav
told me-
"Weu. If l must I must. They sa
vou are going to put up a monumer
to your wife"
"yas Tm lust waiting for the pric
at marble to come down"
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