Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1920 — TIRED OF WAITING FOR "JIM" [ARTICLE]

TIRED OF WAITING FOR "JIM"

Smail Wonder Woman in the Caso Considered the Times to Bo Out of Joint -Weil, Mario, how’s JlmF This beginning was promising and the* woman listened in shamelessly. -He’s an right, I guesa, MargareO I don’t know what to- think of him. When you’ve shown a man for three years that you return his interest it seems sort of queer, doesn’t IL that things get no further, forwardF “R’m,” said her friend, “you know ai well as I do why Jißi doesn’t propose. He has bls mother to support, and you know Jim’s mother. * Hao to have the best of everything, and never thinks for an instant that •ka might do something to help heroelf." “But Jim ought to realise that money needn’t enter In this ease. Pre a good position, and I eould keep it after we were married, if he’d only see tt that way.” “Toe, dear, but Jim would never hear to his wife working, not If be had to wait seven times seven years for his luck to turn.” The woman looked up at Marie, who was interested in Jlnv and appraised her quickly. Twenty-seven, possibly twenty-eight! What would three or four years more of waiting do to her? Inwardly the woman seethed against the economic system, against selfish mothers and against conventions which won’t let a girt M the proposing, disposing and planning in a case like this one.—New Tort Evening Sun,