The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1915-07-31

III hour cat of twenty four dressing
and undressing
Wasn't cautioned when | left the
house not to invest In chickens. pigs
COWS. autos or winter tones. Went
right out with my head up and able to
look the world in the face. How
have stood Mrs. Bowser's sarcasm az
Ton. as have is II mystery to me,
saturday hanged my clothes after
| got home aud had dinner aud went to
n poker party 1t is what is called
stag party-tiat is. you drink as
many highballs and gin tizzes as seem
proper and lose all the money you
want to.
Very pleasant lot OF fellows and all
surprised to see me. Heard some of
them limiting that Mrs. Bowser must
| be dead
Talked politics and played poker
Talked war and played more poker.
| Talked Panama canal and had
| flush
Held threes and strnishts and big
pairs and never once thought of Mis-.
lbuwscr Free MS air and feeling like
| tonr ycar,oid
What asses men make of themselves
when they marry! Just let Mrs. Row
scr give me one sassy word when she
| gets back. md
| Il have an indistinct recollection OF
dropping sometime: ut poker. but
! whether it was n cent or $40 ] shall
never KNOWN fact. don't care.
| When | set out to have good time
there's nothing stingy about me.
Il remember speaking about going
| home at O'Clock in the morning. but
some one asked what's the use, and
said no more Don't remember getting
home Don't remember policeman
kindly unlocking the front door for me
and calling me regular Jim Dandy,
Can't remember the cook finding me
sitting in the front hall when she came
down The first | knew was up ind
dressed and plying the man who ties
himself to Il wife.
| policeman met me Mt the gate rs |
| started for the office and wanted to
know If WAS going to pay for that
| window. didn't even ask him what
| window he meant. but when he said
the damage was 81 pulled out the
money and paid it like Il man. Cook
brushed feathers Off my clothes and
picked straw out of my hair before
sat down to breakfast. but she was dis
croct-vcry discreet She said she used
To pick feathers and straws when she
| went to concerts.
sunday. Woke up with rccollec'
| tiun-sevcral rccolcctuns: also sore
throat and II headache. breakfast IN
bed More rccollcctions and head
ache than brcakf;lst
Cook very kind and thoughtful. Dis
covered that had lost my watch and
sympathizcd with me.
discovered that had lost my wal
LEI aud said it didn't matter as long as
had had good time.
| II don't think came home in an
ambulance. Neither of my legs Is bro
ken. and why should have done
| steps When II man has II house he
sleeps inside instead of outside of It
| sort of wish Mrs. Bowser was home.
| Cook says have quite fever She
/ attributes II to political excitement
I Mrs Bowser Is one of the hest hands
/ in case of fever ever heard of. |
might reach her, of course. by tele-
( phone. but
"Monday. = Doctor has been here.
says | have had n narrow escape. says
| II man of my age ought to have u wife
[ To hold him down Says there's no par
| ticular harm III moving pictures. vnude'
[ vile shows. music concerts. poker
games and sleeping in the front hall II
/ taken in moderate doses. but that !
seem to have gone and Urerdone the
/ thing.
Cook is Kindness Itself. but she isn't
! Mrs I.Owser
~ now begin to understand why men
marry and why n man Is an ass who
doesn't. There is something sacred
about home.
Cook continues her Kindness. She
has just limited that she has nothing
| to tell Mrs. towscr, who will arrive
ear!y tomorrow morning. | am count
| ing the hours. shall explain to her
/ thar 1t Is II hard cold. but she will sns
pect the truth and forgive me.
| Dear Mrs Bowser! Durn showsl
| Durn freedom