The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-06


 prompt result got from my shot.
 '.The trouble with you Esvelina. y said Sallie. with ruminatiye refectiyes1ess In her eyes, @isg that you have never been married and do not understand how noble 8 man can be under ssYes, should say that you mad hit Evelfnass s trouble exactly on the Lead, 6allie, came in Folks drawl as he rame over the rose hedge from the side. street and seated himself beside Caro- lin on the steps.
 well, if i ever have a husband he'll prove his nobility by being competent to make the correct connection be tween the asafetida spoon and his own baby, was the answer that came with so much force that couldn't stop it after fully realized Polk s presence and sex.
 Helps'' exclaimed Polk weakly while Nell blushed into the fold of her ruffie. Caroline looked slightly shocked and Sallie wholly scandalized 1t my lack of delicacy.
 felt that the place had been reach cd. the audience provided and the time ripe for the first gun in my general revolution planned for Glendale. spoke calmly in a perfect panic of fear.
 am. glad Polk is here to speak for the masculine side of the question" said, looking all the three astonfshed women straight iIlst the face Polk, do you or do you not think that man with wife and seven children ought to assume at least some of the sdoInes lie strain resulting therefrom, like drop- ping the asafetida in the spoon for her while she is wrestling with the young est-bOrn's colic 7
 Do have to answer 2 blended Polk. with despera ton.
 ssYes9''
 Then under the circumstances I think the man ought to say. TO with the spoon, grab a gans go out and shoot up a bear "a 1ltl q couple of wild turkeys for breakfast. throttle some coin out of some nearby business cor poration, send two to Eve trained nurses back to tile wigaVa n, seay d doWntown to lunch and then go home with ten. der little kiss for tie madame who meets him fluffy and smiling at the door That's my idea of true connu-. bfal bliss Applications considered in. the order Sf 9feir recepf ion. Nell, you are sweet enough to eat in that blue muslin I'm glad I asked you to get one just that shade. :
 And the inane chorus of pleased laughs that followed Polk Hayes brain less disposal of the Important question in hand made me ashamed of being a woman, though it was funny. Still I bided my time, and Polk saw the bid- ing. could tell by the expression in the corners of his eyes that he kept turned away from me.
 And in less. than a half hour he was left to my mercies, anything but ten-l der Sallie took Nell and Caroline over home to help her decide how wide a band of white it would be decorous for her to sew i1 the neck of her new black meteor crape. I see 1t coming that we will all have to unite in get ting Sa1lieN out of mourning and into the trappings of frivoHty soon, and I dread it. It takes so many opinions 0n ans given subject to satisfy SaIlie that she ought to keep a tabuiated advice book. M
 Evelina, said Polk xperimentally after he had seen them safely across the street, and he moved along the steps until he sat against my skirts. s.are your family subject to collie P
 No, they have strong brains in stead, I answered icily.
 Said brains subject to collie, though he mused in inpudent undertone.
 laughed. 1T couldn't help it. One of the dangerous things about Polk is that he gets you coTnfortables and