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

W. with other things ! ATE ihe strawberries
but don't eat with my ears like Aiopsh
and | listened as muSh a. ever And somebody said
on top Of the story that vas a great safeguard 70
marry young il man had sense enough 10 choose the
right wife nhsn he saw her That What SET think
ins
The story wasn't very funny .,ens to me ! think
!, was ever 50 good of him pra, for her when =
didn't know her and TO add hsl IN 20 the whole list
OF things he wanted (Onts ias. before Christmas ',
went to sleep saving my PRAYERS re as 90 lons.
Ard Z mother hadn't found me Fl save had Lungs.
What with the drsught ,he SAWS Re- hadn'; thought
akSu; my wife them And mother reedni have sup
posed I'd pay for ms wife just secanss heard about
boy "a; aid IA at oui ehsi she was ike first
snyw4y and decide i Nanled her don't see Why
is safeguard r'hef 5u: didn't 'ay wcrd about
Il, Cnls | began To look around At eserybod, and
make up my rind
rs true Il sets yos lhia>'ag There were ever SO
many girls ! liked NeTs we'll bur Just as sooh
adopted any Of he-. u my head and called Il my
wife she began TO lss different There. Olive She'd
be nice eroagh she Nasai forever losing things out
OF her pockets and of her arsss all over creation; and
as org Is Se'fe n school We boys ha,e to pick them
upsfor her lc, out OF school-caich me- When | do
iAesp en- I've go' SIX hair-rihhons lad eleven Jack
stones and h'er postage stamps and button, and
half whole suing Of little shin, green heads She
siTinginF aad list Of Exports ond periec, mil
lions Of hanlkcrthiei> which SAVES ms taking mine
Aad ks all very well 20 ke,p these things ior fun but
you'd Set fearful, 'ired picking them up
AID then it-rs Va Neitie; ! never thought half
50 much Of ter Ne ns-d to pull her hair when NJ
wen; hs. and "a lo aNrakhanr dts that
ca7s black fur w, ..hc, has acket made OF il
bu, soon a, beean to dsco' pbom my wife
.hcreh she'd berer have crr', hair She could look
Ike Neiie and ,un ike Olive she'd he an right
Then there's Dot Tyler size isn't SO pretty and sAe's
ssood deal too smart and sAs knows it But she has
anies mother and I've been there 10 Tea They know
txsc,s wha, You Ike 10 ca. ani how mush And they
have The bs,; shoueake you ever heard oi So hnk
a would be nice II Dots mother c4ns and lived Ni.h
as mean, If made up ny hud to MARI, not
! mean. | thought Because I've changed nay mind
about lots oi things
Il isr', 50 easy as you might suppose though ookBs
for ,our vie psop, keep driving X out 81 YOUR mind
sll day and II YOU ge thinking in .caoaltme youre
sure 70 be kept after for uausnton And if you de-
cios ard IN set sent on an errand 20 her house t.
Zee her xsan. her people don't know Nha you're there
;ot and the, don't always send her down And then
hssss for YOU unii they ask sou to stay te Tea AID
then there's all the other things TO think Aho-r.
non rs marble. But what started NE oa 81.
earnest football ] mean, MAS teasing aef 4,
let us play and Of course she wouldn't for wears and
yssn-perissi ages And said right out II You
osat III jasi-gei married And ,hs laughed aad
lsnshed and laughed aud said ~0h You've been ratk
fns that story OF Uncle Hsrg's knew yoa
once more We'll My can't begin 10 play football
nov But she Noald give in And SO dd'i sAs
ore word more about my Wife Bu, Just went eat
hunting don't rsmeinbs- the DAY il sr,, came iuio
my head ha one afternoon ,h3uga Of lhe greatest
Idea hey sent ne with a no'e over 20 Nrs Rotcr-
sons ana there her daugh,s nho had been Abroad
Tor wears and years. uu home She grew up over
there and she knows everything sou carA Wei there
she Was, sitting lie piazza Aiil maa ara Ties
iAlkrd 70 me while waited ior hs arsoe- ,o ,io te-
tote. ! suppose my Wiie Ne, en- wy naal ba, .as-
low the minute saw him. knew he wa. huntng ia-
lis Wife too He Kept looking much ), h.r aHd
linking over And ! could see he VS. staying zad
ltsyins and hoping they'd ask him @ Tea And b.
BOXED So hard at hsr that !, gaae an idea
A grown-up wife Oh my wouldrt she have heea
simply great, And grown-up too lFor IS long ),
you have TO wait til you're grown up before ,ou get
married. its much sensible after aa % choose
your wife when She grown up. TOO You're no, haf
30 sure wha; sheli le hke when sor be- runai.s
hound in short clothes This enc Was smn,- Ne1
hasn't she pretty though You'd nave wanted to see
Ter with her hair down, ike Nt;iies ami Oiiee, and
bots 1t was that shiny kind gold and reddish tat
,e used 70 call Carrots Carrots for SO sbe wouldn't
how how niich We liked it CIV, pretended ,ha +.
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