Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1922-12-01
So They Were
Married
By CLARA DEIAE1r1n
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''0'''''''' isu ne that's Emily RIM
10y IIe LOOKING young won,onI
AeS' 'HeS were married last year
iS eoou caIch-l mean match 70,
LlAIlS'
ou see' jim boW6er had bean
i'"iie'hs AROUND Emily for nesrir /
seven years When they began CONF
. rs JIM worked IN NesSers feed
S' ,' LOT 80 week, and Emily was
i1' ming III I"e department store
i''0i" ; department store; youu soo
i u" 'Le next corner. jim and Emil,
See 'I, struck by each other bnt
''oi''''i vas amy sort OF catch--I mean
match fl'lI| is rather plain, isnt
,i'e' 'uoush marriage has improved
''''' "i'"' oH' he hanging around
a' ,i'. ''''e9
" en- slI' jim wasn't exactly what
aou "'iEHl can Il saver, and Emily
sue """'eu /" get married, like any
''"'' Houhs woman. 1t wasn't In any
49,, d i"'e "'''''A, you understand
men IoIhS nave been counting Tor
SIN years. Il 'l'ey aren't married. they
~ Ct ought TO be. But they'd sort
ol got uSea TO each other and they
'oi'eS"! meant TO get married some
u"!.
i-n'liS was ready on the drop of
'i'e nat but Jim mad never saved
d cent anu 'here got to be some talk
ABOUT jim running around with the
Youngest Eden girl People used to
l"l' Emily ABOUT IT, and naturally she
uiuli me It. Also they were be-
ginning TO wonder how soon she and
jim "ouId get married, and whether
1t was coming or at all. On Febru.
airy IA somebody sent Emily comic
Naieh'ihe-ihe old-nald kind. That
s'ung' Emily grew rather desperate
wen, Ola Mr.. pathway had been
friend OF the family for years. Wild.
over Tor ~ years, no family most Of
tHe money mat exists in our town,
ETC splendid catch. But all the
women had long ago stopped setting
their caps for him. Couldn't catch
MIN. lie was a willy old bird. Jolly
as a sandboy and full Of interest In
life, ana, as | was saying, he'd known
Emily since she was baby.
And that's where the catch-I
mean the match-came in. You see,
he was suspicious as sin of all the
old maids in town, but Emily-why,
she was a baby Emily was almost
like his own child, the way he looked
on her. lie sure thought he was safe
with Emily. Besides, wasn't there
Jim BoWker?
Emily went to him, I'm told, cry
Ing, and said Jim was runr1ng round
with the Eden girl, and what was
she to do. Old Mr.. PATHWAY fell for
her like child.
Dor he shouted. Make the darned
young cnss Jealous, of course. As
ling as he thinks he can have you
whenever he wants you, why natu'
rally he doesn't care to trouble. Make
him think you're running round with
somebody else.
"'Oh, Mr.. Railway it's all very
well to say that answered Emily
but you know l couldn't play with
mans heart in that way. NOW Il II
was you-Oh, Mr.. Railway, wontyou
let jim think it's you?
Now maybe she didn't use exactly
those words, because there was no
third party present to hear. But Ola
Mr.. pathway fell for it-he sure ula
And he took Emily to the next church
sociable.
mo end of stir that made anu
the old gentleman began enjoying 'ne
fun, and perhaps, too, he enjoyed nav
ing a pretty girl to go about with
fairly pretty, anyway-eyen at MS
time of life. Anyway, Emily leu mn
on and led him on, and the nexl
thing was that Joe Bludsoe Caught 'D
Kissing uhuer lhe ,,,.zo lilo
"My 1t run through the Vi'ias' n
vildfre. And the next tnlng ,o "@'
Emily's going to Lawyer 'eNA''
broken. 49, Lawn ar Mr.
My LIES ruined a'oin INV ont his
Halfway who won't carry ho sold or