The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-04-05
MARTHA SNOOP
DEVELOPS OPINIONS
John Arthur Stahlberg

JONI Arthur OIdllOS1S
"You remember, Sarah,' said Mar
tina Snoop to Sarah Eavesdrop, CtaC
fall l had the airy-sipples, how SICK
| was"
Sarah remembered, mutterlng SYM
pathetically that any-sipples was pur-
ty tough, all right. Sarah nai never
! had erysipelas, BIZ, being a crony OF
Martha's she had heard great zeal
about it. Martha never was one TO
let her associates forget her afflc-
tions.
eyes," said Martha pensiYely. "I'll
never get over now awful ! felt THAT
fall. Here l laid sick, and you know
just as well as me that a sick person
ought to be protected from all KINDS
of worry and cafug. and here | laid,
and the way / felt l was purity near
ready to croak any minute, and the
: doctor said l nal to be kept quiet ana
not be worried, and believe me Doctor
Aluminium is ran thut knows his
business He amt like that good
S for-nothing Doctor Borrow that lets
i people die-like Hans Naber, now, for
o instance-because he won't get them
= the care they should have when they
: could just as well afford it, and any
{ fool would know that in a case like
e with Hans he should've had a special
nurse right from: the start, because g
special nurse don't cDst so awful much
tnat a person C. didn't afford it wheT
s it's a case of life and DEATH Tht
= old fake! it makes me SO mad wher
i / think of it l could JUST kick him II
NJ = Al.o Wnn hnFn
81 laid, sick as l was, and worried til
a it just male me feel awful about m.
81 boy Adolpn and that girl that wa
. so crazy about him although sn
Il wasn't a bit worthy of good cleal
boy like Adolph, ard l knew perfect
" we'll that they could never &c
along together SO as to make Adolp
happy, because he was used to a gdo
home, and a flighty girl like he
wasn't fit to make home for a DO
like Adolph, that all the girls was S
ha crazy about And l used to alway
Nv say that a young man should ougf
~ 20 to look for a soulmate and not jus
~ marry the first girl he happened o
10 to, and especially boy like Adolpl
that could have his pick Of the best
=. Out in the yard lovesick cat We
-. endeavoring to be nightingale, an
"a AZ failing monstrously. Somehow i
oO yowling seemed an utterly appropr
1c ate accompaniment to Martha.
Ny eyes," said Sarah, 81 always CLAIM
li ~: ed that Adolph was just like my bC
en Bill, although of course Bill was q
VI ways more steady like, and"
$50 here | laid" said Martha.
liz oil
ms about the comp'ny he kept, and"
ing and worried and worried
on, said Martha.
lty. e. always told me he didn't Iii
in them up-to-date girls, and wanted
OF marry a girl like his old ma" smirk
site Sarah.
no Like l always said to Adolph, v
but can't depend on these girls that do1
rk- think about anything except runnil
nth after the boys and having a go
ose time, and / used to always advise HI
OPP to pick out a girl like his ma tn
could take little responsibility on
in while, and not just be looking @
- how to have a good time with
,ySr-l boys, and never think about the G
lL3s ties of future wife and mother, q
III specially the duty of being a go
q: GIRL And I think a girl ought
81 always try to be good, because
E5 takes a good girl to make a good "
- mar" said Martha primly.
ESI Martha, be it known, has been
J!sc, good woman for sevreal years, n
H. in fact, ever since she became I
has CID for effective shining. Beng
d. a lcnger able TO partake of the imme
iced ate ioys of pleasurable vice, she Wa
the glib ever the deferred happiness win
sian is advertised as the ultimate rev,
ocu- O. virtue. Having spent the CO
le- she yearns fOndly in the direction
the the credit. Then, too, Martha To-
the virtue, not because she desires to
the virtuous, but because virtue is sor
ang.