The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1915-04-08
.D|GGING OUT 4 FOX
How a Girl Found a Man to Love
and One to Love Her.
By BRYANT c. RoeERs.

harQ all day, and now that evening
had come and the COWS had been
lniiked, the hogs fed. the hens shut
up, and the kitchen wood-box filled up
with dry maple wood. he pulled on HE
boots. with grunt for each boot. and
sat silent.
David had been silent for long ten
minutes when his wife looked up from
her knitting and asked: Tired. pa?"
mot uncommon" was the reply.
"Ain't you goin to read?"
I'm a-thinkin'."
Bout Jessie ccmin' home tomor.
rer?"
Yes"
And you don't seem bit glad
You haven't appeared to take mite
of interest in her for the last month.
want you to tell me what the matter
is. I've been wanting to talk with
you"
The matter is" slowly replied the
husband. that we've been wrong all
through this thing"
You mean with Jessie?"
yes"
How have we been wrong?"
I'VE are farmer folks. We begun
that way, and we shall die that way.
We don't aim TO put on amy style We
can read. write and cipher. We have
a daughter Jessie. She went to dis
triet school and got better education
than either OF u.s..
''Well?" queried the wife
THAT wasn't nun. You got the idea
that we must send her of to boardin'
school and learn her lots more. She
must have heap OF good clothes and
other things. and 1t has been a tight
squeeze to keep her goin'. She's
learned music with the rest Of It, and
play on. It stands there in the par
lor. and how many bushels OF wheat Is
IT goin' to take to pay for II. and what
real good will 1t ever be to anybody
AS farmers daughter. Jessie ought
to marry n farmer. She will have
work to do as a farmers wife. There
win be precious little time to thump
on the pianer. There will be precious
little use for this education that has
cost US so much money. Them are|
the things that have been thinkin Of,
and tell you. ma. we have made q
big mistake"
HAS any one been taIkIn' to you.
paf"
Well. the tin peddIer and the chick
en- buyer have had something to say
Then let us star right there. Aro|
either one Of them educated msnf-
NO"
That's just Why the one d . ped
dler and the other . chicken buyer.
Miss Walters. the school teacher, Il
getting $40 . month and free board,
amt shef''
Yes"
And what Ia Hoyts gal. Thomp-
sons gal. Ridgeway's gal, getting?
They are hired gals at "a month
Why? Because they are Cot educatedl
Hasn't it occurred to you that Jessie
might become . school teacher. and II
she does and goes TO some village she
can earn her $50 q month"
"Mebbe she can" grudgingiy ad-
mitted the husband.
And why do fnrmers' daughters
generally marry farmers' sonsf It's
because they haven't . chance to mar.
~ in another class. The farmer amt
lookin' for an educated wife. An edu-
Gated man amt lookin' for an iRnor-
ant one. Neither . farmers son nor
daughter has much Of chance to pick
nud choose"
There was silence lasting three or
four minutes.
We owed 1t to Jessie. pave owed
It to her. Neither Of us had the
chance to get an education. and we
have had to suffer for It We don't
know much more about the world than
two wooden posts. We've had to work
hard and scrimp and save to give Jes-
sic a show. butt II will come out all
right, and you take my word for II.
Don't ever let her know that you
sorter begrudged her an edecation."
The morrow came and Jessie came
with 1t. She was glad to be home.
and her parents were glad to have her.
She went about singing. and It was
soon shown that education had not
spoiled her for housework. She was
also busy with the roses and vines and
seeds and currant bushes. There was
much done to make the old farmhouse
look as II new family had moved IL,
and she did IT. People drove slowly
Cast that they might see the improve
ments, and the mother said to the IA
ther:
IT comes Of education, pa Weeds
and burdocks looked AL right to us.
but see what change Jessie has
madef"
But what about her getting mar
ried7" he grumbled.
A u in answer, three or four young
mon from the village drove out on
fictitious errands that they might get
sight OF and few words with this