WASN'T THE REAL THING.

Dunstan Times, Issue 2154, 28 October 1902, Page 7

WASN'T THE REAL THING.

Ho «t* Ml«99uh>« Girl Did 1fo« RM«n Bm Admirer’* Kiu Over «*• Wtra. With a blush the young girl at the telephone branch took the round black clasps of rubber from her ears, says the Chicago Daily Nows, and, turning on the girl beside her amused, shocked eyes, she said: “Maggie, he did it again!" "The rascal!” said Maggie. "And, Maggie, do you know what? He’s told some of his frioride about it, and now, in ealiing him up, they do it, too, if I happen to make the connection.” “Gee!” said Maggie. “Now, Maggie, I won't stand for it much longer. I’ll give him a call. It’s so silly—l don’t see what fun he gets out of it. He does it every morning. 'Good morning, Miss Blanche,’ he says, laughing a little, aa soon as I answer his ring, and then he makes that sound like a kiss, and laughs and waits. It’s a kiss; it’s a kiss all right; a kiss sounds very plain and real over the wire, and I suppose he expects me to kiss him back. I don’t, though. I’m not so foolish. If it wa* the real thing, now, why, then—” “That’s what,” said Maggie. Women and Farm WerSs. It Is said that fully 500,000 women are employed in the western states as harvest laborers and general farm hands. This is accounted for by the numerous improvements in agricultural machinery, which enable a woman to do the work as easily as a man, and also by the large number of women who own farms and .manage them themselves. This is especially true in lowa, Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska and Minnesota, whore there are farms of 1,000 acres belonging to women. Persons who are acquainted with life in these states assert that in many cases the women make more money out of the farms than did the husbands or fathers from whom thsy inherited them. i Virginia's BdiMtcl Bsgroei, Virginia has more educated negroes than any other state in the south in which disfranchisement for race reason* has been adopted or proposed*