Show cenoz 11 T 1 ik ond and love L ive buwi I 1 bur D no rosbil s bi i I 1 WAB WAS no op Bpi love 1 affair thie this of hiram tut tie tle and lucy finch I 1 hat it as no highly romantic affair you may infer from rom the names of 0 the pale pals if it I 1 were drawing upon my imagination and writing a real love tory one that ifould make mak the justly celebrated affair of paris and helen seem like a business busl neca transact ilion in compa ilson then their names would be hector montmorency Munt morency de do deauville and imogene or something to that effect but this la to dimply simply a little story caught in to real life juet just uch such nn fin affair as Is going on tight under our nose and in lour own ovin town a thie this tromp t so it if you prefer tho the oolong of hector Mont dc de ile 0 lle le and the no lees less comiter chui coui wooing nt f imogene dear reader rend read no further there were hiram futile ruttie I 1 acy cy finch a turkey and ft a suffrage q aien ies tion three of there ere tangible so in the beginning although hictor and lucy were a great deal older than the turkey at the start the suffrage I 1 know la Is as g old as the hills and d bide bids fair to become as ever everl last nel ing iu III duo time the cornin a sul frage propaganda reacted Aill iville several prominent desce descends des cende ndel 1 upon the town ton in an automobile and made peeches speeches from that wit vehicle right la in the ho middle of the public square of a saturday afternoon ten year a ago all the women la in would have said aid that those speakers were man now they laid said hey they were exactly right tin ton yean years ago all the men in Ifill ville bulwarked behind their chew chews of plug tobacco would have denounced those invaders av adera an unworn anay and hav have classed them with ir dr alary walker and uelva belva lockwood now the men juit just chuckled to them beaves and laid said the women ought to have the ballot if they could gt got it while theme women ere peaking speaking allram having came down town 00 0 0 lay to in bli his sunday supply of bacon eggs coffee flour dour tend nd other bachelor provender found himself listing Ili to them and right bagdo him tood stood lucy finch now do not gather the cotlon that hiram win was a crabbed old bachelor nor that lucy wa was a vis wis ned ened old maid mald lucy wae was more than SO 30 but nowadays a R woman who hai has paced 30 la Is just beginning to be good looking ratie gasn wasn faint t crabbed at ht all an be he wai was pleasant enough but the way be he dressed himself wae wan enough to make any woman wish the had a it chance to take hold of him and spruce up it t is all nonsense none onee to aay say hat that woman oman Is to impressed Impre red and influenced by alm I 1 hemphi Hum phi sniffed lucy and whet was a paul anyway A crusty old bachelor Ba chelop that had to de go struck by lightning before he would go to churchill Chur chi a man mans a appearance what attracts her nino nine times out of ten I 1 Is the you po albi albilio lit of improving his appearance so it happened that hiram and lucy mackta aaa from the op speaking caking to gether ether and hiram found himself for i aitio first time in tit five ears talking with a woman I 1 mean currying carrying on a ft conversation ho ile had spoken with mith plenty of them but there a a differ ence ce and all the way up the hill toward lucys home the argument on suffrage Auf frage glow warmer and warmer until by tho the time they parted they were ere dear enemies on the subject HI III ram wis ia absolutely against womans suffrage roge and as a crushing argument he h cite some words of the A paul about woman a place in the of think things sniffed lucy and what jas sas paul anway anwat A crusty old bachelor that had to be truck struck by lightning before he would go to burchf hurc hl N ell he know knew a thing or t to 0 about a omen hiram argued stoutly I 1 HP lie didn t know anything about diml lucy replied briskly if he iad known anything about them be he could rould luve have known that it would mould be women who ladt the churchea churches going and nd did all the work and that they ivere were a great deal bettor tetter than the nen tuen ever daro dare I 1 to be and bead besides vm V n the imn mn t vote voto tb brn n u b what hat author ltv is in he on an suffrage euf frage naturally into ani dispute could no not be ended hen then and there hiram I 1 tuttle found it necessary to stop at lucy finch gate several mornings and bring up some ne new argument that had occurred to 0 o him only to be effectually squelched by I 1 uc a wit it and u wisdom and from thit h it it became necessary necee aary for him to drop in of evening evenings once or twice a week to continue the discus 1 ton and propinquity and acquaint ance each having their effect it was not long until be he with a mans man a fore eight raw saw that this debate could not tin be ended for year years no 10 he proposed to lucy now when hen a inan man proposes pro poe to a woman oman le he bai has bli his ears let set for juit just one word ord and that la Is ye yes therefore imagine allram tuttle i a r r t therefore imagine hiram tuttle tuttles our pric pries and astonishment when lucy told him no surp five and astonishment when lucy told him no and naturally he asked tier bar why abe she marry him mea men always do that thal As A if it a woman could hare bays a reason dy BY the time a man learns that a woman omans no I 1 la to merely a pro pre of her ye yes he ti Is too old to bg b interested in the mat matter tr alao also a man geta gets the proposal habit he cannot ahlke it or break it so hiram is few isow ow to going around to lucy a and asking aikan her bar to marry him every wednesday and sunday even oven in ing lucy enjoyed this 1 I to got a 14 pound turkey for my thanksgiving dinner hiram told lucy on the sunday evening evenings before the day set et apart by the governor to be thankful it if yc could think of any tiny thing to justat brjch a mutate of mind fourteen Pound st lucy lex clairn ed why whatever in the world will you do with all that turkey tur keyT 1 I thought I 1 d try it and eat 14 it III ram answered 1 I try ry lit fry a turkey I 1 well ot of all th ingol yea yes I 1 lad out to try fry it and have it with some tried potatoes pot atoe and a pumpkin pie and baked crabber ries for my thanksgiving dinner acied cranberries I 1 if it that isn lent t juat just lifts a maul who cooked your thank thanks giving dincer dinner baat year 1 I did I 1 had pork hope and boiled turnip turnips Y u poor hanl artful hiram he ile knew what pity la Is akin to having tailed failed of all other avenue avenues to her heart bo he waa was taking tho the pity route the ile 1 H 4 pound turkey wr win a fiction zo 10 were the pork chop had lucy exercised her memory ahe she boull have recalled that allram al at way went to visit his aunt sarah over but ebo she could think of only tha one un thing so ahe she baij alj 1111 hiram ram III I 1 II 11 lome come up to your houie house thursday and bake that tur key tor for aou ou lucy couldn coulden t have done a thing like that v lire here you and I 1 live ahat would mould have been scandalous but ic in mill IIII ville the are not so 0 o fa an to confound neighborliness with clou clout conduct so on thanksgiving luy to concoct tor for hiram one of thoe those thanksgiving din ners you read amo about and u when hen the be turkey waa dono brown bron and oozing anil and filling air with alth a 11 glorious gl orloue per fume she called hiram to the kitch IL in n and him it it t look good it doe does that he answered urn in mm nit well ell she he bald said firmly shutting th utting the oven door and PI herself be fore ore it in four our minute minutes that turkey will III be burned ton to crisp unless you agree right now that women should have tho the vote I 1 leave the turkey there ano ruin it pondered for lust just 30 sec e L onis III agree thai that woman moman ahall shall have the light ight a to vote note he offered it you 11 a agree tree to marry me NN el I 1 11 I 1 she be bighel of course it 1 Is tor for the great cause hut but it nas a tho the heat beat of the oven that made her face so reu red it must have been ten minutes later that HI III ram related relt aed her from his hi arm arms and andio air ly said that the turkey would be burned after all the fire are was out before I 1 called you in eho she confessed it wont out burn well hiram laughed 1 I 1 don dont t have to make nil all he the rest of the men agree that women omen shill vote do IT I 1 |