The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1917-04-26


mach we liked really il would have been bad for
her And she found it out one day and You couldn't
walk on the same side Of the street She took up so
much room with her head Well. Miss Robertson
must have been about six feet high with the most
beautiful white hands and rings on them | do ike
nise hands for grown people though OF course, il
She had ever been wood-carving digging bait OF
reall, working hard they couldn't have been like that
She assd much elegance IN talking, too. And her
dress MAS trailing all around on the floor out Of the
teAusr-chair She sitting and she had on shiny
brown slippers with puffy things on them like little bits
oi eabbages but they pretty liked them.
hen She was telling all about Europe and Egypt.
And Il there's anything | do want, il is a wife that
can travel Il believe I'd rather do that than any
thing in the world And then veil explore Central
Africa and quiet the .ayages with barrels Of beads
and things Anyhow she had seen everything Ma
polton. tomb IN Paris and Punch and Judy and
hoy diving ior pennies. and dogs running with milk
crts And il was me She was telling il 10, not him
ali She hardl, looked at him He didn't seem TO
IRE about any Of those things But She does and
~ And She loves 10 travel and So do / Il mean
,haA when do)
Just then the answer to the note came downstairs,
aud thought might have to begin and go But Just
exactly as if she had heard what was thinking OF.
she turned around 10 the girl and says, Maggie bring
The tea out here" And She says to me. You walked
al the way didn't YOU And its very warm Wouldn't
you ike some lemonade, maybe and muffin perhaps
NOW, wasn't She Just my born Wife mean
thought she was tOf course If he had been more
interesting her attention mghtni have been attracted
to me. But he wasn't honestly. And SO, as say.
She talked al the time to me And She had the lemon
ade made for They both OF them drank tea when
il came ins,ead-oi all the stuff And ! give you my
word he looked as he'd never even heard OF Europe
he was SO stiff and thinking all the time OF other
things
Well, when | went, my mind was made up; and
called her my wife all the way home And it was
about all could do to keep TO myself | came Just
as near shouting out at dnnertime How about foot
ball now, I've got wife! Hal hal Whatd tell
you' Who said ! wouldn't" and all that But
didn't and now I'm glad ! didn't)
MAS awiully pleased abou, Ter long time
began to go to church before SUNDAY school so could
SIT there and chucke to myself when She went trailing
up the aisle 10 their pew Md YOU could all that
stack Of pretty hair piled up under hat as big a.,
viii try % tell ahaut her hat Ii was clrily
Mg and made Of opea-Nork straw Exc trelis and
i had vines on it with that purple flower that grows
in iasses kind Of And altogether It made you think
Of summer-hause only Was smaller OF course.
And there used to su looking at al that aud think
ing 10 myself low smart I'd feel ii only they al knew
that il going to De Nlg Wife va, really getting
awful, proud ST her
Aud sitter church al the sunda,-,eh Olive and
Noae and no bin-m, didn't they look chunk,
and snubby and pu.gs don't care how much the,
were dressed up
Al i'i, sounds Il aas gong 30 have happy
ending But grown peaple are aNass telling fwhen
they think we aren't listening hoW things never end
hppi, ia Real Lie And believe thEss something
m It,
Well as s4>. took to going to church and
udsy- school began yo give me headaches regularly
O't The other way from bsforel And vent Oh
lnas more and more perfe,, million, OF errands
d4i look me down past their house or else to The
village And ia stop 10 70 know if they wanted any
thing As long Was going Mother used TO say
hoN willing J wa and when ! went on errands for
hey she used 10 give zoe back more OF the change
ana nore. So Me Mere al very nte about it And
e,e0shins IN he world might have gone on being
Mise forever Onl, Lad 10 spoil It
ID al came from n, thinking thai ld better speak
80 Ny Wife about i Ms, Robertson mean Of
eourseA stuff alUay, ha,e Go 90 and tel tang,
sooner or later II ia oae held n, tongue e,ti-
tAas would hate STAYED jus. the amt ana Sic would
h-,e seQi Ieins ", Vie Anyway could have
kept on calling hsl jhal -ai owning both sides Of
de stree, Rai ! hal Be 70 and ask her
lhs h1a Il WAS 0as evening arous', the mail
ug 60 atg house ior ~em aai sd, iaan 90 tie Steps
mea.s And ihe. opsaed the paper, and her
uaif s-i ~Gr4, u." b something lke ihal -Do
n.ea b thi, Heres So-and.s's marriage md
never kHrw We must seni her something Helen
4ls her n4ne ih'aA Z; Is hsaa,iiul1 And
them she saws ~0i course And She went on "a "a,
li Mas 70 he very quiet Weddag-ony announce
msr.. laisr THa, IS WIS SIC didn; hear Bus vel
So aaa choose .eme'' tx together What shall ], be-"
lf- ealc es open MY ewes pretty wide ! had
i1Tgoaen III he :a.ngs ihat could happen Aad If
Weidiaes ran he quiet and sudden a, al hat i
tmi r. ms la somebody ought 10 say something
leai cm.a as- eaeil, aha, Vas thinking Bw
t made me tel in hurry Psrhap, thought she
Nigh, marry 'omebod, else before grew up Any
way her mother went into the house after something
and b'sor % tell Aer about II and 'as' aunea once