Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1921-06-24
Window Shopping
as an Occupation
BY r. RAY BAKER

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"Some walk" growled John Gregory
as they turned corner which tool
them of Main street into a Residential
thoroughfare. We've been at it NOR,
than an hour and half, but how fai
have we gone, | ask you? BY the
time we get to your home it will be
exactly six blocks-one to get down
town, four to cover both sides of the
street in the retail section and one to
return. And it wasn't really a walk ;
1t was just a poke, with you dragging
me to every window to stare in at the
finery displayed"
Ruth's mouth became firm and her
dimples disappeared, and fire flashed
from her eyes.
That's too bad" she said sarcas-
tically. Strange you wouldn't want
me to enjoy myself little. l can't
have all those handsome gowns and
things, but you shouldn't want to de-
prive me the pleasure of looking at
them. Just because I'm going to be
your wife-maybe-is no reason you
can start in right now trying to take
all the joy out of my life. I've en-
Joyed myself this afternoon, only now
you had to go and spoil everything. |
J. dearly love TO look in the windows, !
especially when the spring styles. are
on display. The trouble with you is
you don't appreciate art, and those dis
plays are art, and the men that trim
the windows are artists. You're too
prosaic, with your dirty old job in a
musty printing shop, and you haven't
the finer sensibilities to be affected
by the more refined efforts of men
VINO dress well and keep their hands
and face free from printers ink"
window shopping is a great occu- {
patton" John returned just as sarcas- '
lcally. I'm shut up all day in a
print shop, and when / suggest a lit
lie fresh air and some exercise on a l
sunday Afternoon you drag me down t
o the stores and make me cape into h
ne windows like a country Rube.
ven, you got fooled at one place a
Observation-Disclosures they had the a
'indow covered with a curtain" b
Just the same I'd get a look into S
nat window if l could" Ruth de- S
AIRED, somewhat savagely, land you "
40 all the printers in town couldn't 81
op me. If you're so fond of exer-
Sc and fresh air, you can keep on "
alking right past my home, and you a.
sedn't ever walk back this way"
To-
res splitting fire, ''if that's the way
u feel about it, I'll do just that" al
FROM which it might seem that Ruth
llge and her fance were mated he
out as well as two positive poles of
magnet. On the contrary. this was 81
cir first quarrel during the year to
" mad been acquainted. They were ag
IN possessed of stubborn DISPOSE re
ms, with fiery .empers, but they it
re genuinely in love with each other WIS
l mad co-operated to prevent clash tai
1t just happened, however, that wi
IN was peevish this Sunday after hal
m, and his peevishness happened to wi,
Ike Ruth when she was in an excen- fee
lally irritable mood. yb
liter each had expressed himself 4
herself, they walked in silence the
lainder of the distance to her home
the entrance to the house they T
sed.
surely you aren't coming in when inc;
e Is so much fresh air outdoors INNS
SAID cuttingly, unable to resist the or
ptation for a final fling. ond
)f course not" he responded, and mea
ID his hat, as he moved off down "das
street. "Good-by," he called. and bovf
not once look back. .,soI,
lth stood looking after her ie- Mac
ed fiance for a moment, then walk roam
: -s' mo 'he mouse. Instead Of Chen
ing corn or making fudge she the
ICED to her room and held q pri- lick
seSston WIN hersef, In which q the
ops no"eu- land
looked like an .rreparable break STATE
eieii opstihate dispositions was
er Ruth nor John would take the the
" ehect reconciliation. their
:, was such that she quite
. nei heart 10 be wrung ter.
" misery before she would weld
ot' and Johns temperament was
ructed Of the same kind Of ma
oo,,dn,. ooeh wrong, but branc
Couldn't help II. What was posot
q was a clever mediator who nec-s
bring them together apparently 70 th,
ance. However. there was little cow
hood of this, because Ruth kent estrr
wn counsel and John was tactI- -.
ibout his affairs. AS an examine 49, 49,
,out +r,o ,,,s,.e,- "s on huth West
IN ,nLl,,n 'eioie she even serves
a. q lt,,r MS "eahs OF made
b John out of her life, Ruth took ,ant :
tn Susie Atterson, who worked tha ~ ,
stenosraphic department wi:h r,as TO- g.
From San Francisco to sois.
francisco.-What is believed bv
ado officials to be a record IN Masl
s telephony vas made betwaor pi'shlhi
N. l.