The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 8, 1920, Page 8

for You at Seattle's Headquarters menconlilans EMERSON 1919 COPYRIGHT BY CDING CHAPT ANS) on unprepos. | SYNOPAIB OF FRR Bim Gage, sagebr vwe’ that tl 20} without & woman around alone makes & wan less Wit's cabin itself was in gon Appearance no better, if no wo than the avernge in the Two Forks) Valley. There was a bed on a rude p frame—littic more than a heap of blankets as they had been thrown | aside that morning. The table still held the dishes which had beon used, but at least these had been washed, and there was thrown across them | what had served as @ dish-towel, a washed and dried, fairly clean flour sack which had been ripped out and turned into a towel There was a/ box nailed up behind the stove which wrved as @ sort af © room for the scant supplies, and this had a Map at the top, so that it wae partly; curtained off Another box nailed against the wall behind the table served as book case and paper rack, holding, among « scant array of an cient standard volumes, a few dog jpared paperbacked books of cheap and dreadful sort, some fijustrated journals showing pictures of ac | tresses and film colebrition——precine ly the sort of lterature which may be found in mast wilderness bachelor homes. At one end of the upturned bax which served as a sort of reading table lay a pile of similar magazines, net of abundant folios, but appar jently valued, for they showed more| are than any of the owner's treas:| BEST MUSIC for ymmer Vacation GENUINE Victrola, Mustrated above. all the rece and play them ali the “pep” that will just make it impromptu dancing party @ real suc eit out on the veranda, put it the machine or the boat—and bave real jc wherever you ga VICTROLA IV. with ten selections faced Sic records), $29,255 ‘We will make the terms to Wenience—you can pay as litt ft A WEEK—if you wish another popular port rays tnatrament—a itl @3B OO Jet os play over y on either of these por surprised at both the tone 4 volume. es. It was, curiously enough, to! pen ew um... thin ittle heap of literature that) In the Newost Models. | Wid Gardaer presently turned. . cy turned page after page| crunting as he did so, until at last! Visit our New Pt | Department. Th th me of | crc RERING, Kimball, Mehiin and other fine Pianoa | Chickering Amptes, | Apollo, Artemus jhe tonsed the magazine upon the top of the box and so went about| his evening cheres, Thus the title of the publication was left showing to any observer. ‘The headline was done | in large binck letters, advising all who might have read that thin was a copy of the magazine known os | Hearts Aflame. Curtously enough, on the front page the headline of a certain ad vertisement shewed plainly. It read, | “Wanted: A Wife.” From this it may be divjined that jhere was one of those periodicals | | printed ne ene knows where, circu | lated no one knows how, which none| the leas after some fashion of their own do find theif way out in all the! | wornanieas regions of the world —~ | Alaska, South Africa, the dry plains lof Canada and our Western states. | mining camps far out in the outly- tng districts beyond the edge of the homekeeptng lands—It ts tn regions such as these that periodicals such as the foregoing may be found. Thele circulation is among thone who seam, “acquaintance with a view to matrimony.” Wid Ganiner finished his brief work about the corral, jin, washed his hands, and began to | cook for himectf his stmple supper cTM BALL tee Reproducing and Player Pianos Seattle's Musical Headquarters __ All the Records—For All Instruments—All the Time own came | flourish so well, Mr. } “That man! | world that ain't perfectly all | to selh-—not untessan ' maf” \ this valley. Wid Gardper pulled a! the edge of his broken hat as he stepped down the narrow road to meet her. “'Morning, he Mix’ Davidson,” sald yo4 morning, Mr, Garr-rdner,” | boomed out the «reat voloo of Mra | Davidson, “It is apparently promis ing us fair weather Mrs. Davidson 9 a cor tain singular rotund exactness, and he was held much in awe in all tt arts You, ma'am,” sald Wid, “it looks Ike it would rain, but it won't” “Your hay in that case would not Garrrdner?’ mid sho. “Without rain, not worth a damn, ma'am, so to speak. But I'll get by if any one can. Thin is one of the best loeations in the valley, Me and Sim, he says—" The lady snorted of the very name Altogether impossible?" “He shore is. He certainty is,” as sented Wid Gardner, “He seomn to be getting impassible-er almost every year, now, don't he? . “Mr. Garrrdoer,” said the lady positively, “I doubt if he has made a@ bed or washed a dish in 20 yeara His place is worwe than an Indian camp, I have tanght school among the savages myneif, in government service, and thbrefore I may speak with? authority.” “Well, now, ma’am, I reckon that’s all true But you see, if more wom- en come out in here, now, thingn'd be different. I been thinking of Sim Gage, I wanted ypu to do something fer mea, or him, ma’ “Indeed? demanded she. what may that be? “I don't’ mean ma‘am. am.” “And nothing tn the right,” began Wid howitatingly. “I only wanted you to write something fer me. I'm this kind of @ man, that when he wants anything to be fixed up, he wants it to be fixed up right 1 kind of got out of practice writing. I want you to write a ad fer ma." “A what?’ she demanded. “Oh, I see—you have something to sell?" “No, I ain't got nothing well, I'D tell you. I want to advertise fer a worm. an-—fer a wife—that ts to may, reaily fer him, Sim Gage—a feller’s got to have something to sort of eccupy his mind, hain't he? Mra. Dmyidson was too much as toninhed t@ speak, and he biundered on. “Folks bas done naid he. “You offer me a somewhat diffi cult problem,” rejoined the other, “since 1 do not in the least under stand what you desire te do.” “Well, it's this away, ma'am. There's papers that prints these ads sometimes big dailies doen, they tell me—where folks advertises for Acquaintances just fer to get ac Quainted, you know — ‘neqnainted with @ view to matrimony’ is the way they usually my it-—and that| may be a tip fer you—I mean about | this here ad 1 want you to write Why, folks has got married that ma'am, such things,” |Then he washed his dishes, threw | the towel above them as befers, and | went to bed, since he had litte else | to do. | Early the next morning Wid had) | finished his breakfast, and was at ithe edge of the main vaficy road, which passed neay to his own front gate. He lighted a pipe and sat don to smoke, now and éxercise without Soreness approaching figure. 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Boren again | giancing down the road at a slowly | ant | way, plenty of ‘em—I'll bet there ain't more'n half the homesxteaders nm this nore, leastwayn in the sageb > that didn’t got married just that way the} | ontlest way | they can get married | ma'am, half the time. ‘Once, up in Helleny, years ago. right after the old Alder Guich plac er mining days, there was 11m jonaires, each of ‘em married te a Injun woman, and not one of them | women could set on a chair wit | failing off. t no Papers then like this one here, or {them millionaires might of done better.” | She gasped, unable to speak, ber otund and pursed, and he went | nh with more ansertivencar, “They turn out Just as good as any marriages there 1a," said he. | I've knowed plenty of ‘em. There's| three in this valley—altho they don't | ¥y much about it now. I know how they got acqu ited, all right.” “Apd you desire me to ald you In your endeavor to entr-rrap some foolish woman?” ‘ “They don't have to answer. 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