The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-01-02
Set Right
By RYLAND BELL

/ asked him If he didn't think better
way would be as the women do it--il
a dishpan, with hot water and a little
mop
Stranger" he said, there isn't any
way woman does thing that can't
be improved on by man. What's the
use O. goin' to the trouble o. heatin'
water and dom the mop work when
you kin do it this way?"
You evidently are not an admirer Of
women"
Reckon If you'd been treated by 'em
as I've been you wouldn't admire EN-
nuther"
What have they done to your
"0h, thar's only one on em ez | got
anything agin. but they're all alike.
| You can't trust 'em nohow."
| "Well. now we've got it narrowed
| down to one, how has she offendedg'
BY this time he had washed the dish
| es and we sat down together on the
! front porch, and he told me the story.
down the road spell is the skule-
| house where | went to git Parnin'
when | was a leetle boy. One o. the
gals lived up this way, and she and |
used to come along home together.
Her name was Alice Starkweather,
She was mighty purity, and when we
was goin' to skule together she wore
her hair in one big rope down her
back, and. it reached purity nigh to her
ankles ALICE she sidled up to me like
kitten to warm brick. / want
much of boy for gals, but somehow
Alice wouldn't let me alone. Eff |
treated her kind a rough her eyes
would git wet and she'd look as II
somepin awful had happened to her
"Bimeby when Alice got to be about
seventeen year old she was sent to
boardin' school. | jest stayed we're
and begun work on the farm. My IA
ther was gittln old, and he needed
me, / wanted to go on rarnin', but l
couldn't l argy'd that when Alice |
come home from boardin' school she'd |
have lot o. hifalutin notions about |
her and she wouIdn' look at me.
$50 when she did come l didn't go I
near her. | met her one day on the I
road to the postofice. She looked at /
me kind o. queer and axed me why /
| hadn't been 10 see her ! knowed |
she didn't care nothin' about me no
more, she hayin been TO boardin
school and | havin' stopped l'arnin' and
gone TO work, so | says kind o. keer
less. You see thars lots to do on the
farm this time o year, and hain't got
time TO go callin''
"She walked on without sayin' any
thing more. You see. | was right. If
she hadn't got uppish and considered
me not good enough for her she'd done
the way she used 70 do when she was
leetle gal; she'd a-tried to bring me
round"
How old did you say she was at this
time"
"Goin' on eighteen"
well. go on with your story"
Alice didn't go back to school no
more. Her rsother died that summer
and Alice had to take keer OF her IA
Their and do the housework. Every
time she met me she'd put on some
more o. them airs she'd got at boardin'
school. till after awhile she scarcely
spoke 10 me at all. IL only showed ]
was right about IL I'm the beginnin'
and | was glad I hadn't made a fool
D myself when she first come home by
lettin' on ] expected IL would be the
same between us as when she went
away. II she'd stayed right we're and
not gone away 20 git a lot o. hifalutin
notions into her head like enough she'd ,
been Twin with me now But that's
The trouble with wimmen: they slop ,
over so easy"
He had finished his story. and II was ,
svident that the rupture was rs hard ,
70 bear now as IL had ever been. lie !
was smoking a clay pipe. and the ra-
,idity Of the puffs showed the state
u his feelings
MY friend" said. don't you think .
{ would have been wiser In you when ,
our sweetheart FIRST came home from
,oarding school 90 permit Der 10 show ,
Ter feelings toward you instead Of as /
uming that she had chaneedr
"But she had changed. or she'd have
ried b get me 20 treat her affection I,
te-llke. same as she used to" :
"She was changed. but not In that !.
vay. She had passed from child TO
roman
whats that got 10 do with itf'
Everything You indicated that you
"a changed 20 Der, and. now that she !.
ed become a woman. she was too 9
roud 70 win you back by the same
lethods a. when you were children
by gosh. stranger . never Thought
that
what you should have done when
Be came hack from boarding school
.as - iei her show whether she bad
hanesd toward sou instead ~ Swing 7
~ the impression that y0u bad chang &
8 toward her I
Wei. nov. that does sound kind e. b
ms he. Doesn't Hf Wbaf dye think z
. l'etter d0f g
SEQ aud trE ber thnt yau're mads o
1nkay = yourself e
without q uard b. aezad his haf g
rd strnHe nwny max he some f8rr z.
- 1t esch stF AtDnt l0 o'cloek ~ nj
me 81 nefinr - 81 he haa beer arnt ?
q ehamunrne A greet Seed hai tsaan u
he'd ~ his - M Hna crest hnE.rl -
- FsH an.rn - Nfr4I ~