Show c thanks CT edve L V e bl wilbur D no s bai T WAS no spasmodic love affair this of hiram tuttle and lucy finch that it was no highly romantic affair you may infer from the names of the principals if I 1 were drawing upon my imagination and writing a real love story one that would make the justly celebrated affair of parla paris and helen acorn like ilka a business transaction in comparison then their names would be hector montmorency de deauville and imogene or something to that effect dut but this Is simply a little story caught in real life just such an affair as Is going on right under your nose and in your own town at this moment so if you prefer tho the rhetorical wooing of hector montmorency de I 1 cadville cauville ca uville and the no less counter wooing of lin imogene ogene dear reader read no further thero there were wera hiram tuttle lucy finch a turkey and a suffrage question three of these were tangible in the beginning although hector and lucy were a great deal older than the turkey at tho the start the suffrage question I 1 know Is as old as the hills bills and bids fair to become as everlasting in duo due unto time the womans comans suffrage propaganda reached Mil iville several prominent suffragists descended upon the town in an automobile and made speeches from that vehicle right in the middle of the public square of a saturday afternoon ten years ago all the women in Mil iville would have said that those speakers wore were mannish now they said they were exactly right ten years ago all the men in ville bulwarked bulwark ed behind their chews qt of plug tobacco would have denounced those invaders as unwomanly and have haro classed mary walker and delva belva lockwood now the men just chuckled to themselves and said eald tho the women ought to have the ballot it if they could get it while these theme women were speaking hiram tuttle having came down town to lay in MR hla sunday supply of bacon eggs coffee flour and other bachelor provender found himself listening to them and right beside him stood lucy finch now do not gather the notion that hiram was a crabbed old bachelor nor that lucy was a wizened old majd lucy was more than 30 but nowadays a woman who has ani iu t hens hen WS arnin crabb al alt all he was pleasant enough but the way he be dressed himself was enough to make any woman wish she had bad a chance to take hold bold of him and soruco him up it is all nonsense nona enaa to say any that woman to la impressed and influenced by W ja 4 Hump humpal hl sniffed lucy and what was paul anyway A crusty old bachelor that had to be struck by lightning before he ha would go to Chur cht a mans appearance what attracts her nine times out of ten la Is the possibility lity of improving his appearance so it happened that hiram and lucy falkell away from the speaking together and hiram found himself for the first time in five years talking with a woman I 1 mean carrying on a conversation he had spoken with plenty of them but theres a difference and all the way up the hill bill toward lucys bucys home the argument on an suffrage grew warmer and warmer until by the time they parted they were dear enemies on the subject hiram was absolutely against womans comans suffrage and as a crushing argument he ha cited some words worda ol of the apostle paul about womans comans place in fu the scheme of things humph 1 sniffed lucy and what vas gas paul anyway A crusty old bachelor that had bad to be struck by lightning before hr would go to eurchl hurc hl well he knew a thing athing or two about women hiram argued stoutly he know anything about heill hem I 1 lucy replied briskly it he be bad known anything about them he be bould havo have known that it would be bomea women who kept the churches going and did alt all the work and an S that they were ivere a great deal better than ihan the men ever dared to be and bebide j even the men vote then it what authority la is be on suffrage naturally this dispute could not be ended then aud and there hiram tuttle found it ft necessary to stop at lucy fincha gate several mornings and bring up somo some new argument that had bad occurred to hint him only to be effectually squelched by lucys bucys wit and wisdom and from that it became necessary for him hill to drop in of 0 evenings once or twice a week to continue the discussion and propinquity and acquaintance each having their effect it was not long until he be with a mans foresight saw that this debate could not be ended for years so BO he proposed to lucy now when a man proposes pro posea to a woman be has his bis ears set for just one word and that to la yes therefore imagine hiram tuttles Tutt lea VOID I 1 el 1 Z thor store imagine hiram huttl Tu tuttles sur ariso and astonishment when lucy told him no surprise and astonishment when lucy told him no and naturally he bo asked her why she ne marry him men always alway do that As if a y woman oman could have a reason dy the time a man learns that a woman comans B no Is merely a preliminary of her yes ho he la Is too old to be interested in the matter also when a man gets the proposal habit he cannot shake it or break it so hiram grew to going around to X ri V mid m agui y i every wednesday I 1 and sunday evening lucy enjoyed this ive got a 14 pound turkey for my thanksgiving dinner hiram told lucy on the sunday evening before the day set apart by the governor to to be thankful it if you could think of any thing to justify such a state of mind fourteen pounds 1 lucy exclaim ed why whatever in the world will wil you do with all that turkey 1 I thought id idary fry it and eat it hiram answered fry itt it pry fry a turkey well of all ail thing st yes yea I 1 laid out to try fry it t and have bare it with some fried potatoes and a pumpkin pie and some baked cranberries for my thanksgiving dinner baked cranberries 1 it if that just like a man 1 who cooked your thanksgiving dinner last year 1 I 1 did I 1 had pork chops and boiled turnips you poor maril man artful hiram lie ile knew what pity Is akin to having failed of all other avenues to her heart he was taking the pity route tho the 11 pound turkey was a fiction so eo were tho the pork chops had lucy exercised her memory she would have recalled that hiram always alwa wa yo went to visit his aunt sarah over thanksgiving out she eho could think of only the one thing so she said hiram hit am ill come up to your house thursday morning and bake that turkey for you i lucy have done a thing like that where you and I 1 live that would have been scandalous out but in mill ville villa they are not so fashionable na as to confound neighborliness with suspicious conduct so on thanksgiving borning m morning lucy proceeded to concoct for i hiram one of 0 those thanksgiving dinners you rend read po poems ms about and when the turkey was waa done brown and bozin oozing 9 and filling the air with a glorio usper tume ume sho she called to the kitchen and asked him it if it look good it does docs that ho be answered urn m m well she eho said firmly shutting the oven door and planting herself before it in tour four minutes that turkey will be burned to a crisp unless you agree right now that women should have the vote I 1 leave leao the turkey there and ruin it hiram pondered for just so 30 tec onda ill agree that woman shall have the right to vote he be offered ott ered ill it a gree agree to marry me wel 1 1 1 she sighed ot of course it la is for or the great cause but it was the heat of 0 the tha oven that made her face ace so BO red it must havo have boon bon ten minutes later that III hl ram released her from rom his arms and anxiously sala said that the turkey would bo be burned after all ail the alro was out before I 1 called you in she confessed it wont burn well laughed 1 I dont have to make nil all the tha rest of 0 the men agree that women shall vote do I 1 IT |