Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-08-01
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VIZ l
Every Man Must Be
Told by Some Woman
What He Wants!'-

when are you going to the hospi-
tai, Miss Margaret?
Annie was standing by my bed,
me shyly from behind her skirts.
Il think day after tomorrow, An
ME-"
Annie's hand found mine as she
seated herself beside my bed.
"I'll be glad when it is all over,
DEAR" l said. II do not dread an
operation, only that awful shadow of
tuberculosis of the spine keeps dark
ening my waking hours. Annie, dear,
don't believe 4 can stand linger-
ing death in life."
eyes, you can, dear. If that is your
fate you will face it. just as you have
everything else! 1t could be worse,
Miss Margaret"
81 don't see how" said.
"You might have all this without
the money to make yourself com.
Portable" answered Annie with con-
victiOn.
Every day T tell Tim that we must
live more economically and save
money-but he, with his Irish irres.
possibility. will not look at it that
way. He won't turn hand toward
being made police commissioner. He
would much rather stay at home with
me of an evening, than be stepping
around to the house of the boss. He
says, 4 can remember, Annie, dear
when you found fault with me for
| staying away from home. He doesn't
seem to see the difference between
| calling on the boss of the ward now
and hanging around his place when
| it was a saloon around the corner.
II tell you, Miss Margaret, there is
a time for love-making and barney.
May is the time. I've heard your dear
mother say often. Everything pass.
eth! The time for romance and phil.
andering is when you are broths of
boys and slips of girls. What you
must do when you get to be Tins
and my age, with colleens of your
own, is to settle down to the business
of life!"
| "How did you learn all this, Annie?"
"Why. any woman with sense learns
it, my dear Miss Margaret And the
quicker she learns it the happier she
is. We women are the keepers of
men,"
what do you mean by that, An.
nie?"
! "1s it possible, Miss Margaret, with
all your education, you have not found
out that every woman must tell some
man what he wants to do? ..,,... !.
1T is not always mans wife that
does this, but If she is smart she does
, not let any other woman do it. She
tells him exactly what he wants.
ut was myself that told Tim that
he wanted to be a policeman and
that he did not want to be hanger.
on at the corner saloon, and it was
myself that still further made him
realize that he wanted to be some.
thing more than a traffic policeman,
and now it is up to me to make him
understand that he wants to be po.
lice commissioner, and that he has
not the slightest idea of letting his
daughter have to answer, when asked
what business her father is in, He is
policeman
| Tim and Annie were normal people.
working out their destiny as it should
be worked out. Both, from being in
terested in themselves, were now in
terested in their life work and their
children.
Little book, envied Annie, and not
for the first time, either. She was
probably happier in struggling for her
family than the children would be
with the results of that self.sacriflc-
ing struggle.
II you desire to have a pleasant
stay when in Minneapolis on your
wedding trip, stop at the Hotel Dyck,