Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1922-09-14
So They We're
Married
BY CLARA OELAFIELD
q. 1872. western Newspaper Unlon.I

@That's Mf. PATHWAY, cashier of
our bank. Well preserved old gen.
tleman, isn't he? That's Emily Rath-
way. Fine looking young woman
Yes, they were married last year. A
very good catch--I mean match, for
Emily.
"You see. Jim Bowker had been
hanging around Emily for nearly
seven years. When they began court
ing, Jim worked in Vessels feed
store for SIS week, and Emily was
clerking in the department store
Blum's department store; you'll see
1t ca the next corner. Jim and Emily
seemed struck by each other, but
neither was any sort Of catcn--I mean
match. Emily is rather plain, isn't
she, though marriage has improved
her. Jim? Oh, he's hanging around
somewheres?
well, sir, Jim wasn't exactly what
you might call a saver, and Emily,
she wanted to get married, like any
other young woman. 1t wasn't in any
sense a love match, you understand.
When folks have been counting for
six years, if they aren't married, they
never ought to be. But they'd sort
of got used to each other, and they
honestly meant to get married some
day.
Emily was ready on the drop of
the hat. But Jim had never saved
cent, and there got to be some talk
about Jim's running around with the
youngest Eden girl. People used to
twit Emily about 1t, and naturally she
didn't like it. Also they were be-
ginning TO wonder how soon she and
Jim would get married, and whether
it was coming off at all. on Febru-
airy IA somebody sent Emily a comic
valentine-the old-maid kind. That
stung. Emily grew rather desperate.
"Well, old Mr. PATHWAY had been
friend of the family for years. Wild
over for 20 years, no family, most OF
the money that exists in our town,
etc. A splendid catch. But all the
women had long ago stopped setting
their caps for him. Couldn't catch
him. He was willy old bird jolly
as sandboy, and full of interest in
life, and, as was saying, he'd known
Emily since she was a 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 EmiIy--why,
she was a baby. Emily was almost
like his 6wn child, the way he looked
on her. He 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 running round
With the Eden girl, and what was
she to do. Old Mr.. Railway fell for
her ike a child.
"'Dop he shouted. Make the darned
young cuss jealols, of course. AS
long as he thinks he can have you
wherever he wants you, why natu-
raiiy ne 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 couldn't play with a
mans heart In that way. Now if 1t
was you-Oh, Mr.. Railway, won't you
let Jim think it's your
Nov maybe she didn't use exactly
those words, because there was no
third party present to hear. But old
Mr.. Railway fell for 1.-THE sure did.
And he took Emily to the next church
sociable.
mo end of a stir that made, and
the old gentleman began enjoying the
fun, and perhaps, too, he enjoyed hav-
ing pretty girl to go about with
fairly pretty, anyWay-eyen at his
time of life. Anyway, Emily led him
on and led him on, and the next
thing was that Joe Bludsoe caught 'em
kissing under the elms.
MY, 1t run through the village like
wildfire. And the next thing was
Emjiy's going to Lawyer jerks, heart
broken.
My LIES ruined from love for Mr..
Railway, who won't carry out his
promise to marry me-, she said, or
words to that effect
OF course Lawyer jerks was no
fool; he knew as much as any one
of us, and little more, but the
mex. thing was a breach-of-promise
suit fo- $4,000.
"Well, old Mr.. Railway wasn't
fool, either. He loved his money.
and he knew any jury in Travis
coanty would soak him to the
limit. the old bloodsucker. And then
well, you see, as l was saying, Emf J
had led him ON and led him on. so
that in the end he came to the con-
clusion that maybe he'd rather have
a pretty young wife than lose S25, 900.
and be the laughing stock Of the
town.
sSo--they We're married last year.
Rules him pretty stern, too, they say
she does, but she looks after him, and
/ guess the old gentiemans never re-