The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-10-27

through to the quick, that Smith could |
For days and days Brown could be |
est little tune that had both kick and
swing to it, and was the most ire
sistbly cheerful thing one ever heard.
and look up toward the dead mans
place and smile and smile for hours
at the time. 1t was simply just too
cute to see that strong man Brown
enjoy the death of his neighbor.
Two housewives lived right close
together in beautiful farming region,
but one of them could always buy her
daughter better Qouder) buds than
the other could. Of course the girl
with the flashy buds would very nat
urally have more sweethearts in year
than the other one would have in
three years, and at the time this scene
is laid, they were both little more
than twenty-one years of age. The
fond mothers We'd with each other on
the beauty of the girls. They both
| looked up all the latest fashions with
their padding features and curve de-
| lineatlons and their rounding out pro-
clivities, and both got pretty wise to
all such points in the game, but the
beaus took mostly to the girl with
loud buds. She wasn't really the
prettiest girl, but she was made to
look the prettiest The mothers kept
down any open break between the
families, only each had a lot to say
about the other. but never were the
girl matters supposed to be at the
bottom of things. Well, one night
the horse that was hitched to the
loud girls buggy ran away with the
young couple and broke the girls arm
and rendered her unconscious for
several hours. The modest girl
thought the loud girl had got just
what was coming to her and was
really enjoying her misfortune greatly.
Her mother, too, would nod her head
knowingly as much as to say more
than words could express. The young
man who allowed the runaway got
up against the wounded girls big
brother and had falling out The
very next Sunday he came over and
got the modest girl to go out riding
with him. In her heart of her hearts
her mother was d-e-e-lighted to have
her take the crippled girls beau away
from her. Well, again within very
few evenings, the young man came
back and took the modest girl out
riding again. Within six weeks he
was a regular thing there at that
house The first girl got we'll in due
time and just about the same time
that same horse ran away with the
modest girl and the sweetheart she
had purloined, and for wonder thi:
time this girls arm was broken in the
same way and she was unconsciou:
just exactly the same number o.
hours. Soon thereafter the young mar
went back and commenced going will
his old girl, and the mother of the
modest girl said, as said the maker o
that new drink: There is a reason.
No woman ever lived the double
) life more perfectly than Mrs. Elihl
Lowanlammer. She was not carnall,
, bad, you understand, but she wa
) one thing to the people and quite an
) other in her family. She could max
, most elegant prayers in public an
! could tell just how to raise childre
to a gnat's perfection, but she coul
also rawhide her husband to mole
2 perfection. She was superlatively re
' ligious away from home and just a
4 much on the other side of the line a
, home. She made folks believe tina
!. she loved her husband with an TN
: firing and never dying love, and tina
E on top of that, that she herself was s.
:. perfectly blessed in religion that sh
t did not really know whether she coul
: shed a tear if she should die. Late
s when her husband did die, she sd
4 through the funeral with calm com
e placency that was admirable to- a
1 those who supposed it was religion
S basis upon which she sat there. bu
n to those who understood the dog
: life she had led her beloved, it wa
: general cussedness that made her S
calm minded. You have seen man
e persons pass through the funeral {
r one of their family with sort {
e gentleness and care-free mein, haven
O you? Well that was the way wit
d Mrs. Lowanlammer. Poor man, h
e never complained. Meals or no meal
|. he never said word. Many wome
l. at the funeral wished they could haV
a that peace that would make thel
is calm at the hour of their husband
n funeral. They said it would be simpl
it fine to be able to go through so
h row like that and not have it touc
: you. In some ways Mrs. Lowanlan
it mer was sorry when her husband die
d He left her all the property, howeve
n and this ave her simething to do
e occupy her mind. By and by it b
q gan to leak out that the widow hs
h. not done right by her husband durir
N his life and that all her pretense abo,
m being so good and religious was mo-