Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1929-04-19
A BACHELOR
CHANGES HIS
MIND
10 by d, J. Walsh.)

1UGH MUNSON was bachelor.
- He was most emphatic In his
i i statements that he would re-
main bachelor to the last.
And that he had reached the age
of forty-three without marrying and
would travel through the rest of his
days unmarried. lie wanted to be
free. to explore hitherto
unexplored lands to come and
go as his fancy wllled. Who would
want II better home than II hotel?
Who would want more comforts than
the service obtained In such places?
He scorned the tidy little houses OF
his friends glngerly patted
the heads of their offsprings and then
put definite distance between him
self and their sticky hands. He didn't
want u house to be responsible for
electric light bills
furnace cleaners faulty plumb
cough insurance policies =.
decorators.
and that's final" he had
declared declslvely from the depths of
a big chair In his sisters living room
On the first evening Of his return from
a two years trip to Africa. "I-shall
-never-marry. The next six months
l will spend here writing up my last
trip for my publishers and then I'm
Off again free as the wind
:" He turned to his nephew, Rob
ert Beverldge, who occupied another
big chair near by. "YOu will be my
heir, Bobbie, my boy that is,
II you will get this notion out OF your
head about going in business instead
Of taking up law as your mother
wants you to do"
His nephew smiled as he crushed a
cigarette butt against the ash tray.
You're fine one to talk, INK.
Grandfather wanted you to be min.
ister-mother told me so--and besides,
he was In favor of marriage and look
Mt you-just vagabOnd of the wind
Ing road, except that you have enough
money to buy railroad and steamer
tickets. | don't want to be u lawyer,
but I'll compromise with you, you old
fossil I'll make wager with you
that before six months are up---y0u
will be asking some girl to marry
you to share your name and
fortune. A new roadster against my
pledge that will go to college this
fall and study law that within the next
six months you'll fall In love and fall
hardl You have been out of touch
with civilization so long you don't
know what white women look like, but
just yOu-walt. That's fair, isn't It,
mother?"
Hugh Munson's sister smiled indul-
gently, and nodded. The traveller
laughed. "AlI right, shake on 1t! A
new rOadster-any cOlor-any make,
against your promise to be lawyer
but I've won before we start. Love
marrIage-bah Responsibilities Not
for mel"
maid came to the door, followed
by short, smiling faced little wom-
I'M whose open coat displayed white
linen uniform.
Hello, folks. I'm on a case down
in the next block-typhoid, and was
out for breath Of air 80 thought I'd
run In. Oh why, Hugh Munson, you
old trampl haven't seen you since
. let me see, when we three were
In high school together how
many years ago :"
"And IL 1t isn't Cara SmedIey
or what Is the name, now, Cara2
recall Marion telling me long time
ng0 Of your marriage :"
listen, Hugh. Wesley died last
year, you know. And Pm working
again -
"And supporting the lOvellest fam
lily Of four children you ever saw.
How IL Billie, and JUNE, and baby
and Albert. Cara2 My goodness, but
Albert Is getting 50 tall and manly"
"All fine" answered the famly's
smiling mother. "Blllie fell off the
porch yesterday and bumped his nose
and JUNE looks like chicken pox and
UHDg NiltS lOl hOui tNtIJ
time leave her and Albert spends all
his nlckels at the candy store, but
outside OF that, they are just beauti
full, every one Of theml"
Robert Beverldge looked across the
table at his mother one morning and
his eyes were troubled.
swell, mother, guess the odds are
against me. You'll have lawyer son
after all, ! guess. That old Beau
Brummel brother Of yoursl lie Is u
knockout In evening clothes and all
the girls are crazy about him. Kay
says she has tried all her wlles on
hlm-notlhng doing. Marjorie tells me
he calls her child and patronlzes
heri Kay says he Is the hardest man
In New York TO filr with although he
dances with her all the time and tells
her she Is pretty and would like to
kldnap her and all that bosh that mid
dle-aged men hand out TO pretty girls.
Kay Is getting tired Of the conspiracy,
/ guess. We didn't think he would
be 30 hard to win over. We are going
to have Estelle Taton out to Mar.
jorle's house party next week and
Estelle will bowl him over. She's
Il sumner. and Jul begged for an In.
PRODUCTION the other night at the club.
Says INK is her Idea of handsome, dis.
tInguIshcd and all that stuffw
Eslclle's charms proved all In vain.
Hugh MunsOn played golf with her,