The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-22
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La, it's kind o. funny the sort of
stories that gets by the editors OF some
of the good magazines 1 ben readin'
about a girl, in a late magazine, that's
twenty-five, rich and smart and pref
ty, and not shut up in no Jail, nor
nothin', an not takin' the veil, and
she amt never had man to ask her
to marry her, nor to try to hold her
hand, nor by any of the signs, show
her that he's a mind to propose. l
pretty near laughed right out loud
when 1 read it. 1 couldn't help won
derin' If the writer thought he had
anybody fooled into belieyin' that.
Then this yere girl, who admitted
that she was pretty and smart and
attractive, and knew there was no get
ting around the fact that she was rich,
took the matter up with her father,
chanel, and her wantin' to get mar
ried, and scared to death for fear
she'd be an old maid. She finally up
| and told him that the young attorney
for his company, which was one OF
them heartless corporations, had cast
sleeps eyes at her, but wouldn't new
er get no higher, bein' as she was rich,
and he just poor, struggling young
| lawyer. Il staggered right out at that
Il just couldn't help it,.
| When her father heard who it was,
he threw a fit, and stormed around
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any bans yet because the young Teller
hisself didn't know nothin' about it.
And then it all come out. This yere
Teller, every day of 25 years old, was
only gettin' 500 a WEEK-and the
old man couldn't see his girl what
had been raised in luxury, starving to
death on 500 week-or leastwayS
her share of it, which would likely be
the lioness's share
1 laid the story down at that point.
There wasn't no use in me readin' any
| farther If that there author was
goin' to drag in the scum of the earth
| that away-fellers of %, that was
| such paupers, I didn't take no more
interest than nothin'
But all foolin' aside-the story gave
me pain. I recollected how me and
| Pa Jimkins had started out life with
| only as much a month as this yere
pauper was gettin' a week. OF course
| things cost more now, and tastes has
gone up, too. The simple pleasure OF
| yesterday amt anything you'd wipe
your feet on now.
I'm not sayin' that me and Pa has
had it easy. But I'm sayin' that we
| didn't starve, nor let our children
! starve, neither. And we've brought
'em up to look beyond a dollar Some
/ folks might think that was a good
joke, since eff they hadn't had nothin'
else to look to, they'd ben stone blind
| from starin' at nothin'.
| But they's lots of advantages in not
havin' wealth. One of the greatest is
that your children amt out joy ridin'
all hours of the day or night Another
is, that they'll like to set around home
some considerable of evenings, if
you've got something to talk about
| And If you don't know nothin' but
| money, then you can't talk nothin'
else, and they get so bored they've got
to go out and spend it, stead O. talkin'
about it.
But anyway, this yere author I was
a tellin' about-he can't never hope
to endear hisself to the great common
| people by writin' such stuff, and /
bet if he ever runs for office, the
folks that read his stories will all vote
again him. MA JIMKINS