The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1916-03-04
Pines PROPOSAL
BY JANE OSBORN.

closing hours OF the store 10 speak 10
Miss Drew on what he referred 10 in
his note beforehand as pressing
matter OF business"
You sure did give me a surprise
Why. I'd 10 more idea that you had
taken a fancy 10 ne than that-than
that we'd sell ont OF retrigera1ors in
February. II the Morning Bugle was
20 send over here with the statement
that We could double our Sunday ad-
vertising space for the same rate as
We pay now l wouldn't have been more
surprised. Give ne time. Dave. When?
On. let ne see. Suppose you wait till
after Sunday. I'll take next Sunday to
dope II out No, I cant possibly tell
you any sooner. I have thought so
little about getting married. I'll have
/ 70 drop around % see my friends that
have gone and done It and see what
they have to say about IL Drop in
next Monday at about this time. II
you're still interested. And. whatever
decide. you and I'll always be good
/ friends, won't WEI"
Say, that was kind O. clever copy,
/ II do say il, and that idea OF yours 10
/ leave the chairs and tables on that spe-
! cial sale out in the rain for two nights
! beforehand just did the business II
/ they had come over in the Mayfower
they couldn't have loked more like the
/ real thing. Oh. that's so, it's Monday
/ No, hadn't forgotten-had it down Oh
my desk pad. but guess I'd have re
membered any way.
Tell you my answer? Well, don't be
impatient Take it slowly, Dave. and
I then you'll see why I've decided as l
have. You'll understand better You
/ know I wanted TO handle the PROPOSE
| ton sQuarely. AS I told you it wasn't
just an ordinary VIII you marry me?'
Drew to be junior partner. You know
l appreciate the compliment
So. started OF Sunday morning to
see the girls | went to school with
Aggie Dayton, Pearl Hite. Julie Saun-
ders and Moll Braun They've all
married and | thought they'd give me
the dope l was after. And / guess
got It.
We'll, Agg.e-I went to her house
| first. Knew she'd be at home. When
| woman has six children and a good
| for-nothing husband she doesn't stand
much chance of being out on Sunday
morning. / was out Of breath by the
time / got there. four fights up and
such racket, Youngest was cutting
its teeth and Oldest was yelling be-
cause he'd just had to have his baby
teeth pulled out She was mighty glad
10 see me, though She hadn't seen
any Of the girls for years. You know
how it is when a girl needs friend
she usually cant find any | didn't
have TO ask her how her marriage had
PANIED out l tried TO cheer her up,
though. She had been a good house
, keeper once and l asked her why she
didn't try this new game of economic
independence. if her husband didn I
earn enough TO get out and earn it her
self. But how could a girl like Aggie
get out with six children hanging at
her apron strings?
Well, then | went to see Pearl Hite,
and do you know l was almost scared
to go in. Those buffers in plum-col-
ored uniforms always did make me
feel shy Pearl sent down by her
French maid for me to come up. She
was having her coffee in her boudoir
and, do you know, | hadn't been there
ten minutes before she burst out cry
ing and told me all about it. She s
miserable. Husbands gone of with a
vaudeville tango queen and it's all they
can do 70 keep the scandal out Of the
papers.
Next place l went was jules, and
do you know it wasn't till l had
reached her apartment that 1 knew
she'd left her husband, though she said
it had been in all the papers. 1t WASH I
that he had done anything. She
Just couldn't get along with him; says
that for woman of independence and
an 'emancipated intellect marriage is
state OF bondage. She said it was
sitting her soul. So now she is study
ing law and says she's going TO devote
herself TO making divorce easier in the
state. Eventually she said, marriage
will be like any other contract. binding
only so long as both parties agree.
What about Moll? Oh, didn't / tel
you? Poor thing. She seems to have
been happy, but you know she married
a German-Otto Braun was his name
I and when the first reservists were
; called out he joined his colors in the
fatherland, and it was only last montl
] after all these weeks of anxiety tina
p she learned that he had been killed il
4 the trenches So she's gone over t
r Berlin to join the Red Cross to try Il
g forget her own misery. Poor Noll
And she used to be so light-hearted
: You are not going, Dave? Why
I you look kind o disgruntled. Yol
e don't think you'll wait for my answer
Well, if that is the way you feel abou
it, l thought maybe when you hear
you would want to go home with u
9 and have the little dinner that Aun
:. Mandy has been making-real old Vii