The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-03-02

| ton to stay away from the parade,
for now can apologize for my rude
ness in asking you to take luncheon
with me and in pressing you for the
permission to call. You will accept
my apologies, won't your
"Apologies-why apologize? What
did the parade have to do with that?'
And then she stopped and looked in
amazement at him. DO you think !
am married? Is that it?'
II don't know what else to think.
Why else, in the name OF common
sense, would you be trundling baby
carriage along the street for three
| miles with the banner floating over
your head, We, the Mothers, Demand
| the Vote, and a lot of other similar
notices? 1t was a very pretty sight
and as impressive a plea for suffrage
as have ever witnessed, but you can
see how was a trif1e surprised. Why
don't you ask Professor Alfonso to
call you sonora instead of senorita?'
"Tm not married, though" she in
sisted. "Oh, want to explain to you,
but it liz a long story. Perhaps you
will come with me now to make that
CALI"
Better go to luncheon with me, IL
you are quite sure that no jealous
husband will interfere. Still there is
a deep mystery to solve
Ten minutes later, Tom and Bar
bara Brown-for that was the girls
name-were seated tete-a-tete at a
table in Barbara's favorite lunching
place.
"Now, / shall proceed to explain
she began, talking across the softly
lighted table. you know / asked you
not to come. | was afraid that some
thing would happen so that Il
wouldn't want you to be there. I hur-
ried down to headquarters where the
line OF march started just as soon as
I left you. Well, I had planned to
march in the young unmarried wom-
ems section-dressed IN flowing white
robes, carrying all sorts of pretty BAN
ners. One of the sections that had
been counted on most was to be the
mothers section, with lot Of young
mothers pushing their precious babies
in baby carriages. Well, about an
hour and half before starting time
the chairman of the committee In
charge of the parade learned that
while there were to be some four or
five hundred girls in the unmarried
womens brigade there were only just
about ten in the mothers section.
81 heard Of the trouble and, being
on the committee, / figured that
something had to be done and that
was the one to do it. We had got to
have some babies and some baby car
riages and some mothers. Well, |
went to the brigade of young unmar-
ried women, who were already begin
ming to assemble, and picked out some
of the best sports in the crowd and
told them what l was going to do.
Then / went to the department store
on the opposite corner / happened
to know one of the members of the
company-friend Of dads. / found him
in and told him that we wanted to
borrow fifty baby carriages Of as
sorted designs and we'd got to have
them delivered within an hour. He
staggered little, but l told him we
wouldn't hurt them for future sales
and if we did dad would stand the
damage. So he agreed.
'Then the question was where to
find the babies. / got the fifty girls
that were willing to go in for it, and we
all went uptown to the founding asy-
1um. The matron is a suffragist,
thank fortune. l told her to let us
have fifty of her sturdiest young
orphans right away, thank you. She
was a little nervous about it-said she
might get into trouble with the au-
thorities if they heard about it, but
assured her that If she lost her job
there dad-he is Congressman Brown,
you know-would get her something
better to do.
We did look pretty impressive, didn't
we? I am sure we got more cheers
than any other section, and the pa
pers all gave us a big write-up, and
said a lot about the pluck Of the lit
tie suffrage mothers who went
through the long march. Well, that's
how it happened" Barbara concluded.
Tom gave mighty sight OF relief.
ut certainly is mighty comforting to
know that you are senorita after ALL
he said.
Copyright, 1916, by the Mcclure Newspa
per Syndicate.)
Ridiculous Superstitions.