The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-15
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 And as for the daytime, am so busy III day long providing for this perpet- aaI house party that am dead to even friendship by night, Jane is doing sver Glendale from city limits to the river, and I have to spend my time keeping the dear town from finding out what is being done to 1t.
 yShe is hunting out every body's pet. ldea or ideal for some sort of change pr improvement to his, especially his native town. and then leading him gently up to accomplishing it so that be will think he has done it entirei.y z by himself. bl1t vvlII tell the next man lie meets thst Hhere is nothing in the world iilk. a fine energetic woman with rood horse sense Tn fact Jane is scurting the entire male population in A most scanda1ouS fashion and they'll De won before they know it.
 NOV, that Confederate monument ought to have been built long ago out of that boulder from the river instead of hauling In slicEed up granite slab That would CT made the Glendale vol nnteers of sfxty-one feel uncomfo ortable ike they would do in the beds in the city hotels. Grestl idea of mine and that Yankee girlsgreat idea-hey2 r spnttered Uncle Peter, after Jane had spent the evening down with him and Aunt Augusta
 @Ht is a fine idea, Uncle Peter" I agreed, with a concealed gigg1e
 T,ve subscribed the first $5 of ithe $50 for hauling, setting up and inscrib ing it, and we are going to let the Wo-s men give half of It out of the egg mon .ey they have got in that Equality Quilting society Some kind of horse sense epidemic has broken out in this town horse sense, Evelina hey And he went on down the street perfectly delighted at having at last accomplish cd his pet scheme. He thought of it as exclusively his own by now. of c0urse
 And the monument is just the begin ming of what is going to begin in Glen dale Jane says so.
 There could be no better place than This rural community to try out a number of theories I have had Tn po- 1ttaeaI economy as related to the activl- ties Of women, Evelfna,' she said to me today, looking at me in benign and slightly confused way from be- hind her glasses. :tAdr Hayes and ! were just talking some of them over tonight and he seems so interested in seeing me institute some of the most important ones. How could you have ever thought such man as he is lack ing in seriousness of purpose, sdear2'
 ~ feel sure that it was just my own. frivolous streak that called out the fravosoas in Polk, Jane dear.' an gwered, with trepidation, hoping and praying that the ihnnisiticn would not go much further and trying to remeu- az-~ Polk
 Tt may have been that. Jane am s#ered in most naively relieved tone Df voice Hut you dnnst know how happy ana, dear. to see tNRt that streak is only an occasional charming vein that shows in you, but that you are now settling dnyyn steadily to your pT0fession feel sure that when these garden drawings are done you and MT. Hall will have found your correct places in each other's lives, and 1t will be just glorious example; of hnw superbIy a man and woman can work together at the same pro. fession MT. Hardin and I saere talk Ing about it just last night ont on the side porch and, though he said very little, could see how eratifed he was at the honors that had come to you AQQ now I0uCu ue HkoS MT t1dllsa That settled it, and I made up my mind that when the harvest lady left us tonight to sink behind old Harpeth she wasn't going to leave me weakly lonesome She doesn't set until 2 o'clock, and I'm going to take all the time need,
 And as serious and solemn as feel over taking such a step for two as I. am dectd.ng on I can't help looking forward to scribbling terse and in- personal account of my having propos- ed to the man of my choice in this strong minded book, adding few words of sage advice for the five, lock ing it and handing it, key and all, to Jane, with dramatic demand that she put her $1O0, ,0Oo in the trust company and begin to choose the five from those she has had in mind
 Then before she has had time to read it I am going sneakily to get it back and blot or fear out some of the things have written I can decide later what will be data and what will be dangerous to the cause.
 And you will be glad to have me come and live for a time in your home life, dear2, Jane recalled me to the question in hand by saying wistfully. 'sI feel that I have never had such good friends before, anywhere, as these of yours are to me. Evelina.' 2 she added
 That's one time I got Jane complete ly in my arms and showed her what a really good huggfng means south of Mason and Dixon's line. From later developments I am glad she had that slight initiation. 1t must have been eerviceable to her New England dispo- Hftion.
 Then, just as was going to ask some of the plans she-and Po1k-had made, over came Cousin Jasmine, with Cous- In Annie and Mary, with Mrs. liar