Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-02-19
AT THE FOOD SHOW
BY JANE OSBORN.

pretty head and said she Just couldn't
stand wind and. my, how It did blow
last Sunday And speaking of Sunday
brought the conversation around to
the new minister and the new minister
suggested the minister's wife and her
fireless cooker, and fireless cookers
suggested the food show, and, having
brought things around to the food
show. Tom Wilbur felt inwardly much
rejoiced because he had come to call
on Madge Tucker that evening. for he
was particularly anxious to ask her to
go to the food show with him.
The fates had been kind, for some
times just because the conversation
didn't bend around as he wanted It to.
he left unsaid the very things for
which he had made his call He had
tried for three whole evenings to get
the conversation around to circuses
the week that the three-ring show
came to town, but in vain. So the
tickets he had bought for himself and
Madge just went unused. And how
many times he had tried to no purpose
to bend the conversation in the direc-
ton of the subject that was always up
permost in his mind when he called on
Madge! He sometimes got it as far
as the jewelry store when he had
planned to lead up to engagement
rings, and there it would stick or else
glance of from jewelry stores to the
tea store next door and so off again at
a tangent. Then sometimes when he
thought OF leading 10 II by way of men
tioning the fact that he had enough
laid aside to build nice little farm
house it would get as far as the bank
where his savings were kept, and again
1t would digress.
But on this particular evening when
Tom Wilbur, robust young farmer of
Timlow's Corners, was calling on
Madge Tucker, the pretty district
school teacher, who boarded with
Toms nearest neighbor, matters pro-
crossed as Tom had hoped.
81 guess they have got quite few of
those fireless cookers over at the food
show in Mapleton," he said. 'D'you
ever go to a food show? Kind o. inter
esting to go, don't you think so?" Here
he was desperately afraid the fates
would spoil it all and Madge would
change the subject before he could
stammer out his invitation. Il see by
the paper how they are letting the
girls with red hair in for nothing. Sort
( of boost the show, suppose. And the
red-haired girls and their escorts have
: free samples of everything at the
show. II you'd care to go some after
noon this week after school l guess l
can make the trip in my little car in
about half an hour. Would you care to
! go, Miss Madge?" Yes, he had actu-
ally asked her. He paused. breathless,
! for her answer.
"You asked me, l suppose said
Madge, because I'm the only girl you
know that has red hair" And then she
laughed in way that at the same time
tantalized and delighted her rustic ad-
mirer.
"Well, now, l don't know as I'd say
that you had real red hair" he parted,
and again Madge laughed delightfully."-.
you needn't hesitate about saying
So" Madge assured him, for nova
days red hair is very fashionable and
no girl objects in the least to having
1t. In fact, in the big cities the girls
actually color it red on purpose"
yes, but let's talk about that food
show" Tom insisted. Say we go to-
morrow afternoon. Oh, well. If you
can't go tomorrow we might go the
next day-Saturday That is to be the
grand finale and everyone will be
there. guess we can start out little
earlier since you'll have no school that
day"
81 haven't read the papers lately"
Tom was saying as they sped in his
small roadster over the country high
ways in the direction of Mapleton,
but guess they are still on the look
out for girls with red hair all right
expect we'll see a good many of the
boys and girls l used to know. It's
only at times like this that see the
old crowd went to school with"
II should think"-Madge had a note
OF coaxing in her voice that Tom did
not dream was INTENTIONAL should
think that you would go and see the
girls you used to know oftener, al
though | suppose most of the boys
and girls you went to school with are
married now"
For one fieeting second Tom thought
he saw the way to bend the CONVERSE
ton abruptly to the engagement ring
or the bank account OF the little new
farmhouse he was planning, but the
vision OF such an achievement was dis
PEELED as soon as 1t had come. Instead
he only gripped the wheel of his car
more lntently and stared ahead of him
In confusion.
AS Tom had foreseen, there we're
many OF his old acquaintance at the
convention hall, where the food show
was In progress and several curious