The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1916-03-11
Pines PROPOSAL
BY JANE OSBORN.

manager of the furniture firm Of Pins, /
Pines & Noteworthy was saying to
Dave Pines. who had fingered after
closing hours of the store to speak to
Miss Drew on what he referred to in
matter of business"
"You sure did give me surprise.
Why, I'd no more idea that you had
taken a fancy to me than that-than
that we'd sell out of refrigerators in
February. If the Morning Bugle was
| 90 send over here with the statement
that we could double our Sunday adj
vertising space for the same rate as
we pay now wouldn't have been more
surprised. Give me time, Dave. When?
/ Oh, let me see. Suppose you wait till
/ after Sunday. I'll take next Sunday to
dope it out. No, l can't possibly tell
you any sooner. | have thought so
little about getting married. I'll have
to drop around to see my friends that
have gone and done it and see what
they have to say about it. Drop in
next Monday at about this time, if
| you're still interested And. whatever
l decide, you and III always be good
| friends, won't we?"
Say, that was kind O. clever copy,
il do say it, and that idea of yours to
| 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 Mayfiower
they couldn't have loked more like the
real thing. Oh, that's so, it's Monday.
No, hadn't forgotten-had it down on
my desk pad, but l guess I'd have re-
membered any way.
Tell you my answer? Well, don't be
impatient. Take it slowly, Dave, and
then you'll see why I've decided as l
have. You'll understand better. You
know wanted to handle the PROPOSE
ton sQuarely AS l told you it WASH t
just an ordinary Will you marry me?'
when David Pine asked red-head Peg
Drew to be junior partner. You know
: l appreciate the compliment.
SO, started off Sunday morning to
see the girls l went to school with
) Aggie Dayton, Pearl Hite, Julie Saun-
) ders and Moll Braun. They've all
married and l thought they'd give me
the dope was after. And l guess
: got it.
well, Aggie-I went to her house
first. Knew she'd be at home. When
l a woman has six children and good
+ for-nothing husband she doesn't stand
e much chance of being out on Sunday
e morning. l was out Of breath by the
time l got there, four flights up and
q such racket, Youngest was cutting
Y its teeth and oldest was yelling be
: cause he'd just had to have his baby
4 teeth pulled out She was mighty glaC
a to see me, though. She hadn't seer
any of the girls for years. You know
a how it is when girl needs friend
she usually can't find any. | didn'
o have to ask her how her marriage hat
Y PANIED out l tried to cheer her up
9 though. She had been a good house
= keeper once and 1 asked her why she
a didn't try this new game of economi,
!. independence, if her husband didn'
q earn enough to get out and earn it her
9 self. But how could girl like Aggi'
+. get out with six children hanging a
a her apron strings?
q We'll, then l went to see Pearl Hite
r and do you know l was almost scaret
: to go in Those buffers in plum-col
ored uniforms always did make M
feel shy. Pearl sent down by he
:. French maid for me to come up. Sh
! was having her coffee in her boudoi
= and, do you know, hadn't been Their
: ten minutes before she burst out CRY
ing and told me all about it. She
miserable. Husbands gone off with
: vaudeville tango queen and it's all the
can do to keep the scandal out Of tn
papers.
- Next place I went was jules, an
- - do you know it wasn't till l ha
:. reached her apartment that I kne
=. - she'd left her husband, though she sal
- it had been in all the papers. 1t WASH
that he had done anything. Sh
40 just couldn't get along with him; say
that for woman of independence an
&c an 'emancipated intellect marriage
81 a state Of bondage. She said it We
do sitting her soul. So now she is stud
g ing law and says she's going to devo
N herself to making divorce easier in tt
state. Eventually she said, 'marrias
IS, will be like any other contract, bindir
III only so long as both parties agree
IT'S What about Moll? Oh. didn't te
US you? Poor thing, She seems to ha,
been happy, but you know she marie
ce German-Otto Braun was his nan
Ss' and when the first reservists we
II called out he Joined his colors in Il
SO fatherland, and it was only last mon
gu after all these weeks of anxiety tn
III she learned that he had been killed
'at the trenches. So she's gone over
III Berlin to join the Red Cross to try
10y forget her own misery. Poor Mol
fe And she used to be so light-hearted.
You are not going, Dave? WI
you look kind O. disgruntled Y
r0 don't think you'll wait for my answe