The herald., 1916-05-18
Pines PROPOSAL
BY JANE OSBORN.

nle time, the rcd-haired advert sir
: manager OF the furniture firm of pins
, rines q Noteworthy was saving +,
/, DaVe Pines, who had fingered afte
Cioslng hours OF the store to sneak +,
MISS Drew on what he referred tn n
MS note beforehand as "pressin.
matter OF business"
You sure did give me srrnr;so
why Ia no more idea that Won had
taken fancy to me than that-tbar
mat we'd sell out of refrigerators IN
reOruaFy II the Morning Rugla wac
10 send over here with the staraman,
that we could double our Sunday "a.
EertiS'hg space for the same rate as
we pay now wouldn't have been mora
surprised. Give me time, Dave When .
Oh' let me see. Suppose Won wait ,iu
AFTER sunday. III take next SUNDAY IN
oope II out. No. can't possibly tell
you any sooner. | have thought 40
n''Ie ABOUT getting married I'll have
10 drop around to see my friends tina,
nave gone and done il and see wha,
'hey nave TO say about IT, Drop in
next Monday at about this time. ~
you re still interested And. whatever
l decide you and I'll always be good
friends, won't WEI"
Say. that was kind o. clever conv
II 10 say it, and that idea OF yours to
ieaVe the chairs and tables on that spe.
cIaI sale out in the rain for two nights
beforehand just did the business II
they had come over in the Mavfower
they couldn't have loked more like the
real thing. Oh, that's so. it's Monday
NO. hadn't fOrgotten-had il down ON
my desk pad, but guess I'd have re-
membered any way.
zen you my answer? Well. don't be
impatient. Take it slowly. Dave and
Ihen you'll see why I've decided as 7
nave. You'll understand better Yop
know wanted to handle the PROPOSE |
tion squ2reIy. AS told YOU il wasn't .
Just an ordinary Will you marry me?'
wheh David Pine asked red-head Peg
Drew TO be junior partner. You know
L appreciate the compliment.
SO, | started off Sunday morning n
see the girls ! went to school with
Aggle Dayton, Pearl Hite, Julie Sam.
ders and Moll Braun. They've all
married and | thought they'd give me
the dope was after. And guess I
got it.
We'll, Aggie-I went to her bopse
nrst. Knew she'd be at home. When
woman has six children and a good
lor-nothing husband she doesn't stand
much chance of being out on Sunday
hOrhing. | was out Of breath by the
lime got there. four flights I'D and
such racket! Youngest was cutting
rs teeth and Oldest was yelling be,
'ause he'd just had to have his baby
eeth pulled out. She was mighty glad
D see me, though. She hadn't seen ,
my or the girls for years. You know
low II is when a girl needs a friend ,
he usually can't find any. 7 didn't !
ave to ask her how her marriage had :
AIMED out | tried to cheer her up. q
nough. She had been a good house !
eeper once and | asked her WHY she T
lCn try this new game of economic Y
dependence, if her husband didn't n
arm enough to get out and earn II her.
et. But how could a girl like Aggie n
ct out with six children hanging at Y
er apron strings? e
wen, then | went to see Pearl Hite a
nd do you know | was almost scared d.
go in. Those buffers in plum-col- u
nnlfnFn1C 1u-oy N
el shy. Pearl sent down by her HI
rench maid for me to come up. She il
as having her coffee in her boudoir sc
ID, do you know, hadn't been there al
II minutes before she burst out cry IN
6 and told me all about it. She's bt
lserable. Husbands gone off with CO
tango queen and it's all they w
n do to keep the scandal out of the tS
pers.
Next place / went was jules, and Oh
you know it wasn't till | had 70
ached her apartment that | knew III
ed left her husband, though she said pa
had been in all the papers. 1t wasn't WI
1t he had done anything. She ~"
It couldn't get along with him; says
It for a woman of independence and 20
'emancipated intellect marriage is "
state OF bondage. She said il was ~
Hing her soul. So now she is study. We
law and says she's going to devote ""
self to making divorce easier in the -
tie. Eventually she said, marriage 'ue
be like any other contract, binding Wv
so long as both parties agree ~,
What about Moll? Oh, didn't tell 81 90,
|? Poor thing! She seems to have D.,
n happy, but you know she married -
erman-OttO Braun was his name -
nd when the first reservists were ~,
ed out he Joined his colors in the -
ierland, and it was only last month bod
r all these weeks of anxiety that nnd
learned that he had been killed in 80
trenches. So she's gone over to 10,
lin to join the Red Cross to try to o. i,
let her own misery. Poor MolI! n,
she used to be so light-hearted. CON,
You are not going, Dave? Why, etoo
look kind o. disguntled You stoT
t think you'll wait for my answer? forr
!, if that is the way you feel about c,ot,
| thought maybe when you heard n :