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tF that's you, Elvira," said the
I widow McClane, "don't stand
-- there with the screen door wide
open. Come on In. Do you s'pose I
want to be shooln' flies out of the house
all the rest of the summer?"
Elvira hurriedly shut the screen
door, but she was too late. A fly had
flown In.
The widow laid down her sewing
and, advancing cautiously, flapped her
blue-checked apron. The fly, retreat
ing, lighted on the screen, where he
buzzed defiantly. With her left hand
the widow opened the door an Inch or
so, nnd with her right she made covert
passes at the fly. Her outstretched fin
gers traveled stealthily across the
screen and up and down, while her
large mouth sympathetically worked
Itself open and shut. From the street
Ehe appeared to be affected with a sort
of mild Insanity; but when a fly was
In question the widow McClane cared
little enough for the opinion of the peo
ple on the street
After further effort she succeeded In
corralling the fly, flung wide the screen
door, spread out her Angers and let him
go. Dazed by his sudden release from
imprisonment, he remained suspended
In midair for a drunken moment, then
winged his way straight into the sun
light.
The widow fastened the hook with a
vicious clamp.
"There!" she exclaimed, returning to
her chair by the window and taking up
her sewing, "If there Is one thing In the
world I hate above another, It's flies."
"I'm sorry I made so much trouble,""
said Elvira, wistfully, twisting the cor
ner of her apron.
" 'Twasn't no trouble," responded
the widow. "Leastwise not much. Set
down. You make mo nervous enough
to fly to the moon, stuudin' there fidget-
in'."
Thus admonished, Elvira timidly en
sconced herself In the nearest rocker,
from which vantage ground she fur
tively watched the widow, whose grim,
weather-beaten face now bent over her
work. Her needle moved unevenly
back and forth until the thread short
ened Itself to a finger's length. Taking
two or three decisive stitches one above
the other, she drew out the needle and
bit off the remaining thread.
Then she spoke.
"Well, what Is It, Elvira?" she in
quired.
A faint flush rose to Elvira's eyes,
creeping thence to the roots of her hair,
"It's about Joe," she answered.
"So he's asked you to marry him.
has he?"
"Yes," assented Elvira, the flush
growing more vivid under the sharp
scrutiny of the old woman's eyes.
"If you've come to ask my advice,"
said the widow McClane, "I say, marry
him."
"He ain't much acount, accordin' to
what people tell me," veutured Elvira
apologetically.
"He's as much account as the ones
that's tnlklu about him, I reckon," re
torted the widow. "They ain't any of
'em worth shucks as far as I can see;
but that ain't here nor there. lie's a
man, nu' any sort or man Is a protec
tion to a woman, If he ain't any better
than just a scarecrow, hung up to keep
away the hawk. The world's full of
hawks on the lookout for wldder wom
en, waltln' to peck 'em to death the
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Mi?
"WHAT IS IT, EI.VIUA?" HB INQUIBKD.
first chance they get. I've been a wld
dor nigh on to twenty years, an'
know."
"My old man was tike Joe." she said.
returnlug to the subject in hand. "He
wa'u't much accouat, kinder projec'in'
around at first one thing an then an
other an not dolu' much of anything
hiut an, uut no Kept on the hawks.
Tore feller, he had asthma. You could
near mm most a mile off a-wheezlu an
...1 -I.., C A, ...
n- lu'i-nu . oomeumes i thought It
would et mo plumb crazy the noise he
inane, out mauy'8 the day since I'd bin
giau eiiotign to near him whet'iln' agin
That there asthma kept him from dolu'
ireuy mucn everything he oughter
M'CLANE.
done. He couldn't chop wood for it or
bring In the klndlln' or make the fires.
had to do all that. lie got so after
a while ho couldn't do notnin' out set
In the chimney corner an' nod; but
s'long as you've got to work anyway
It's kinder good to know you've got
somebody settln' In the chimney corner
a-noddln, to sort of keep you company
while you're at It."
She did not allow her reminiscences
to Interfere with her work. The move
ment of her needle kept time with the
movement of her lips.
'I've bin watchin' you, Elvira," she
went on, looking over her glasses at
the younger woman, "ever since you've
bin a wldder, an It seemed to me you
were goin' over the same old road I
went over. It's a mighty hard road.
There ain't no soft places in it. I've
seen you tryln' to get along, Uvin' with
your sister. I know what that is. I've
bin all through it. An' theres one
thing I can tell you from experience."
She paused for an impressive moment
and stabbed the air with her needle by
way of emphasis. The needle pointed
straight at Elvira.
"What is It?" she asked, dodging In
voluntarily. "If you want to find hard hearts in
the time of trouble," answered the
widow McClane, "you don't never need
to go outside of your own family; spe
cially if you're pore."
Her mouth, snapping shut with the
last word, settled Itself Into hard, firm
SHE WAS ALL IX f-'LU'i
lines. Elvira, catching a glimpse of her
own red mouth In the narrow mirror
over the mantel, fell to wondering If It
would look like that twenty years later.
"If you've got a little money," the
widow continued, "If you're Independ
ent of 'em, you're all right; but the good
Lord help a wldder woman that's pore.
There ain't a forlorner creature on top
of the earth. Yes, I've lived with my
relations. I've worked like a nigger
day In and day out, scourin', cleanln'
an' scrubbln', an' then had theiost of
my keep thrown In my teeth from
mornln' till night. If I had It to do over
agln I'd go an' hire out to strangers be
fore I'd work for my klnfolks A ser
vant Is welcome to what she can eat
an' drink an wages besides every
where In the world except with her
own kin.
"I've watched you slavln' over there
at Sarah Ann's, Elvira, cookln' an'
washlu' nn' lrouln', an' when you was
through, Instead ot testln', like any
other servant would er done, tendlu' to
the baby. I'd ruther break rock on a
turnpike any day in the year than tend
toa baby while Sarah Ann run around
to the neighbors a-telllu' 'em how she
was belu' Imposed on liavln' to take
care of her pore relations."
Elvira gave a little sigh. She opened
her mouth to speak, but the widow
was before her.
"I was mighty glad when I see Joe
a-shyln round after you," she said.
"Mighty glad. Take him. That's my
advice. It don't make any difference
how trlfllu he is; take him. A woman
has a hard time alone In the world. It
takes a good strong woman to fight her
way through. As I said before, the
minute her husband dies she's common
pk'kln for everybody. Did you ever
hear of a bank that failed but what it
had some wldder woman's savlu's in
It? Did a storm ever blow over this
f town that it didn't tear down the wld
! .'Amiiii't fornH nn' leave all the
UV71 r v w
rest a-standln' high au' dry7 An' law
yers! They're alius layln' for the wld
der woman's niouey, alius!
"This thing of not belongin' to no
body," she went on, "that's the worst
of It. To think you haven't got even a
good-for-uothlng man to set down by
you of an cveulu' an' talk to you. When
things go wrong, and they mostly go
wrong, if you've got somebody to com
plain to it takes away half the trouble
of it. Suppose you fall down an' hurt
yourself. Where's your shoulder to
cry on suppos n you cut juu "
ger. Who's to wrap it up for you an'
tie the ends of the two threads, sayln'
he's sorry for you, even If he ain't?
Suppos'n the world gets blacker'n
usual, so black you can't see a sign of
day breakin nowhere, an' you fall to
sobbin' about It. SVho's to put his arm
around you, an' say, 'There, there?' No
body. Nobody In the world! I tell you,
it's a mighty lonesome life; a mighty
lonesome life!"
As Elvira sat silently listening a sud
den fear sprang into her eyes. WThnt
If, since she had started out over the
same road the widow McClane had
traveled, she should be forced to travel
It to the end? What if there awaited
her, too, twenty years of that lonesome
life. A sickening thrill of apprehen
sion shook her. She looked away from
the woman before her, who, old and
wrinkled and careworn,
sitting there
blllCtllUg, bUlClliufj lui tut! ot.t, iu..---
of keeping body and soul together,
seemed the incarnation of desolate wid
owhood, to the window. The fear in
her eyes gave place to a smile.
"There's Joe!" she cried. "I do be
lieve he Is comln here. He must er
seen me an' followed me. Yes, there he
Is, waitin' for me. Good-by, I must be
goin' right away."
And she was all in a flutter of happi
ness as she rose and went out to him.
The widow McClane followed her,
She carefully closed the screen door,
again fastened the hook and looked out
at the two as they nodded gayly over
their shoulders at her and walked arm
In arm around the corner,
"He ain't half good enough for her,"
she said aloud. "He's knock-kneed an'
pigeon-toed, an cross-eyed in one eye,
As SHE WENT OUT TO HIM.
but he's better'n nothln'. He'll kinder
do for a prop. He'll stand up for her
agin the world that's sue ha hard place
for a pore wldder woman."
Swiss Courtship Tactics.
Swiss maidens have wide and deep
courtship license; but In many of the
cantons they are allowed but a nar
row choice of bridegrooms, It being a
rigorously enforced, If unwritten, law
that they must marry a youth of their
own neighborhood. In many villages
every marriageable youth belongs to a
society whose sole object Is to prevent
any and every youth from outside from
coming a-courtlng the maidens of the
society's village.
The society has a password, fre
quently changed almost never di
vulged. A lover of the village, if chal
lenged, gives the password, and It ia
an "open sesame" through the on-guard
ranks of the protective society.
He may climb and woo uninterrupt
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and most successful stealth.
Japanese Dentists.
The Japanese dentists perform all
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the thumb and forefinger of one hand.
The skill necessary to do this is ac
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Is able to extract half a dozen teeth
In about thirty seconds without once
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An Inevitable Smash.
V'Well, Kitty, where is all your par
lor bric-a-brac ?"
"Oh, Bobby got a football Christmas
and It was too cold for him to plaj
outdoors."
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You know, he played with the St. Louis
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