Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-23
CH0RDS A No
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BILLY'S LETTERS.

twister, III bet / met EvaIyn on the
street the other day. She has now got
a regular job in a candy store and she
says she is making good money and she
doesn't have to stick around the house
to scare away burglars until the folks
who she has been working for gets
back from the pitcher shows.
She blew the kayem place just as
soon as she got notice from the boss Of
the place where she is now working
that the other girl had been blue en-
veloped for having too many admirers
hanging over the counters and eating
up the profits. Eve-we've already
grOwed so chummy that she allows me
to call her by that choppy name. It's
kind of quick and smart like, you know.
The first night that I met her she stared
at me like an East Indian princess
when I attempted to drop a part Of
her monker and reminded me, with
GOODNESS that sent a chill down the back
/ of my beeveedees, that she was Eva
/ Ign. But when a right kind of a girl
comes along and she knows you're the
right kind of fellow she removes the
icicles and you find out that she is no
different than the rest Of humanity.
! Lots of these young women try to
I
riding in a chariot with flowers and
| things hanging all over them and that
| if you want to get near you have first
/ got to bow low and look a if you're
running into quick consumption. They
won't even stand for a laugh. That's
undignified, one of them told me once,
when l reached for her right, which
she was holding above her head. /
thought she was paralyzed. and said so,
and then I laughed so hard when she
frOwned upon me that I slipped on the
animal in the middle of the floor and
lit on it's head, knocking out two of its
phOney teeth. You know it was one of
them dead lions, or whatever you might
call it, that our best families keeps in
the center of the library to scare off
bill collectors.
[ don't know how much Eve is draw
ing per week as yet, but of course as
we get better acquainted she'll kick in
with the desired information, and then /
we will see if we are able to begin /.
buying a home. Yes, indeed, Chas, !
things has progressed to that point /
where we are getting serious. Pretty /
fast work, Ell? Oh, l don't know, some /
of our happiest marriages have been
those where the bride and groom only
knowed each other couple of weeks.
From what | have seen the less you
know Of each other the better you are
off. Ii YOU find out too much the we'd
ding might never take place After
you are married if you find that your
table manners don't harmonic you
can fight it out between yourselves.
You've got too much pride to have the Il
neighbors say that they knew you were II
not meant for each other That's the
thing that keeps so many of our mar ]
ried couples together
Eve is one of the most sensible girls
/ ever did know, and l have been ,
around some, Ell, Chas? / asked how
she happened to be working as a house
maid and she said all labor was honor
able, and that she decided as a child
that she would never be no idler She
had her application in at a number of
stores in town, but the jobs were all +
filled and she took the first thing that
offered. Now, you can't help admiring 5
a girl like that. She said she would +
sooner do that than hang around home [
and have her mother heave dish pans f
at her and have her father come into y
he sitting room in his stocking feet
ana smoking pipe when she had com
)any at home. Eve, I guess, had A &
very happy home life. but she is back 2
here again, and I guess things is all :
lunkey dory~now that she is kicking 7
n piece out of her Saturday paw en- Z
'elope. She is that human that YOU 7
AN tell after YOU have talked with her h
while that she is one of them girls q
# fine feelings and ambitions to do G
light. Her folks simply belong TO the
rmy Of tiEhtwads that thinks no mem
'er OF their family is any good unless O
lie or she Is stirring the gravy once a n
week. Eve has had a good education "
ccause she has corrected my gram 81
1ar several times while we have been 81
ogether. And. you know. Chas. I'm h
o rough neck when It comes to sling A
lg the kings English She's got the II
nish, and that applies to everything 81
ne does. sac wants to get somewhere. ST
nd I'm playing her tn win She's been n
J. the candy store only a week and al O.
sady she knows how to play the cash II
agister. NJ
There is another thing about having 81
girl like Evc-she's not EXPENSIVE. &C
hen you take her out To get a bite III
le doesn't sec how bad she can make
five dollar bill look She says she
'esnt believe in eating much at night Is
e agree perfectly on this The last 10
inch we had together It cost me lust er
cents. Not long ago I was host to a ST
gh brow Jane that lives in a house w
18th big yard and calls her dad old IT
All II ioOh almost an nOur Tor the 80
after 10 have her order made up. In u
e meantime she consumed four con pc
'cttons containing everything in the ci'
II except the mixers rubber heels ca
ou know, Chas, that's the system they 90
avs these days You invite them I'm 10
eat and they ask fer something that
axes the cook mad because il takes
much trouble TO turn II out. He I Tn
lays the order as long as he can so '"
u won't ask for IL again Of course ne
i've got to do something to kill time va
ld the easiest way to prepare your d
II for the final shock Is to insulate CL
ur pipes. Well, this girl that called an
r rather old man asked to see the 'i'
eek when IT was laid down in front OF
.iters do fbis bo1ja,-a - NJ ant
n make a ssfa oo+o,,.,,, Ia - lney grl
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