Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-07-02

| woman's rights, and II a man wants to
! dispute 1t he's in line to get one of them
against his jaw. They're chummy and
honest and free and tender and sassy,
and they look life straight in the eye.
| They've met man face to face, and dis
covered that he's a poor creature They We
dropped to 1t that the reports in the
Seaside library about his being a fairy
prince lack confirmation.
| Name was that sort. She was fun of
life and fun, and breezy she passed the
repartee with the bOarders quick es a
wink you'd have smothered laughing.
am disinclined to make excavations into
I the insides Of personal affection I am
| glued to the theory that the diversions
and discrepancies of the indispostton
/ known as love should be as private a sen
/ timent as a toothbrush IT'S my opinion
| that the biographies Of the heart should
! be confined with the historical romances
1 Of the liver to the advertising pages Of
/ the magazines. SO, youu ezcuss the lack
/ Of an itemized bill Of my feelings toward
Name.
Pretty soon got a regular habit Of
dropping into the tent to eat at irregu-
lar times when there wasn't so many
around. Name would sail in with a
smile, in black dress and white apron
and say: Hello, Je1-why don't you
come at mealtime? Want to see how
much trouble you can be- of course
! + iedchickenbeefsteakp orkchopshamand-
eggspotpie'-and so on. She called me
Jen, but there was no Specifications at
/ tached. Designations was all she meant
Inc front names Of any OF us she used
as they came TO hand. I'd eat about
two meals before l left, and string EN-
out ike society spread where they
changed plates and wives, and Josh one
another festively between bites Name
stood for IL, pleasant for It wasn't up to
her TO take any canvas off the ten. by
declining dollars just because they were
clipped in after meal times.
III WASH long until there was another
fellow named I'D Collier got the between
meals affIiction, and him and me put
in bridges be tween breakfast and din
ner. and dinner and supper that made
three hinged circus Of that tent, and
Names turn as walter continuous per
formanace. That Collier man was satu-
rated with designs aud coutrivlngs He
was in we'll boring or insurance or claim
jumping or something-Tve forgotten
which. He was a man well lubriacted
with gentility and his words were such
as recommended you to his point Of view
/ 80 Collier and Il infested the grub tent
with care and activity Name WAS level
full of impartiality. Twas like casino
hand the way she dealt out her fayours
one to Collier and one TO me and one
10 the board and not Il card VI her
sleeve.
NE and Collier naturally got acquaint-
ed, and grsvitated together some on the
?
seemed 10 be a pleasant chap full Of
an amiahle sort Of hostility.
notice you have an affinity for
grabbing In the banquet hail after the
guests have fed, SAYS / 70 him one day,
70 draw his conclusions
Wen, yes says Collier rejecting
the tumult OF a crowded board seems
10 harass my sensitive nerves
IL eNasPeTates mine some, too. says
/. Nice little girl. don't you thiuke'
eAr 20 trnr
now that you mention Il. l have noticed
that She doesut seem 70 d,splease the
optic nerve
shes a Joy to mine says I. and
I'm going after her. Notice is hereby
" IN be rs cnndid as You admits COL
Her. and II the drug stores don't run
out Of pepsin III give you q run for
your money thatu leave you a dyspep-
tic 81 the wind-up'
so Collier and me begins the race
the grub department lays in new sun
plies Name waits on us. Jolly aud kind
ana agreed BILE. and It looks like an even
break. with Cupid and the cook work
ing overtime in Dugau' restaurant
Twas one night iu September when
] got Name 10 take walk after supper
when the things were all cleared away.
We strolled out q distance and sat on
Z Pile Of lumber at the edge Of town.
Such opportunities was seldom so /
spoke my piece, explaining how the Bra
lillian diamonds and the fire kinder we're
laying up sufficient treasure 20 gusrau-
Tee the happiness Of Two, and TINT both
OF EN- together couldn't equal the I.hf
from somebody's eyes. and that the name
or Dugau should be changed to Peters
or reasons why not would be i'm order.
lame didut say anything right away.
Directly she gave q kind Of shudder. and
/ began 70 learn something
jeff she says. I'm sorry you spoke
/ like you as well as any OF them. but
there isn't the man r. the world ia ever
, marry, and there never will be. Do
you know what man IS Ia my eye
Hes a tomb. He's a s8rcopbag gus for
the interment Of Beessteak porkchOue
liver and bacon, ham and eggs He's
that and nothing more For two years
w watched men eat. eat, eat until they
represent nothing on earth to me but
ruminant blped9. They're absolutely
nothing but something that goes in front
q knife and folk and plate at the table
| They re fixed that way in my mind and
memory. I've tried to overcome II INIT
] can't, I've heard girls rave about
their sweet hearts. but ] never could
understand it, man and sausage
grinder and a pantry awake Ia me exact
~ the same sentiments 7 went 10 a
matinee once 20 see an actor the girls
were crazy about / got Interested
enough 20 voOder whether he liked his
steak rare, medium. or well done. and
his eggs over or straight up. That was
all ~. dcll IL marry no man ana
see lin sit st the breakfast table and
ea5 and come back to dinner and eat. and
happen in again at supper to eat, eat,
eat
but. Name says I, ftI wear off
You've had too much o. It. You'll
marry some time, of course. Men don't
eat always
AS far as my observation goes they
do Name turns, sudden, to animation
eud bright eyes. There's a girl named
Susie Foster in Terre Haute a chum Of
mine. she waits In the railroad eating
house there. I worked two years in
restaurant in that town. Susie has it
worse than I do because the men who
eat at railroad stations Robble. They
try to flirt and gobble at the same time
Whew Susie and I have 1t all planned
out. We're saving our money, and when
we get enough we're going to buy
little cottage and five acres We know of.
and live together, and grow violets for
the Eastern market. A man better not
bring his appetite within mile Of that
ranch
Don't girls ever I commenced, but
Name heads me off, sharp.
mo. they don't. They nibble a little
bit sometimes; that's all
- thought the confect-'
For goodness sake change the
subject says Name.
."As | said before, that experience put
me wise that the feminine arrangement
ever struggles after receptions and illu-