Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-10-05

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bluc hand. . gateway coat. = pair u
hight, side passalesas. Q shise vest. Q
bustonhole b0uqses. asA fifteen csssa
The evening 80 very warm. aad -
they walked thsss yesas people h he'd
shout the BASEBALL match, the ve.sher.
and sanstsskss- By and By oae % the
young h8es gave . aelic.ae LITTLE
shrlek-
10 %, What Q funsv sign
''Wh.res Where. wkich one Fl
frida asked ths other yoang LAZY eng
erly.
"HA-y--.- ~Aii Mr.. Hes.isrSon. in
troubled toses. looking gently hat
rcsoiztely At the vroas side Of the
street
"Therr-- exclaimed Elfrs.la. artles.lv
pointing - she spoke How funny IL
Is spelled; s~e. Rih~lr'
Way said Ethel. its spelled cor
rectly. i.at 1t. Mr.. Heaaerson,-
'-Hzu-~hy-a~-.hy-yes. yes 10
be sare, said Mr.. Henderson, very
huskily. staring ss hard 40 he could a
q wiGaow full II house plants.
Why. Mr.. Henderson, said Elfrida.
in tones of amazenen'. how can Won
say 80: Just see. ice, ice. e-r double
EN-, Green, that's not the way to spe"
cream.
"Oh. Elfrida," cried her companion.
, ''you must be nearsighted. That ism I
an e. IL is an a. Isu't il, Mr.. Hender-
SOM"
And DIR. Henderson who was praying
harder than lie ever prayed before that
An earthquake might come along and
swallow up either himself or all tie lee
cream saloons in the United States, he
didn't much care which, looked up at
the chimney of the house and said:
That? Oh, yes, yes; of course,
why certainly. How very much cooler
it has grown within the past few min
utes," the young man suddenly added,
with kind of inspiration, surely that
cool wave the Signal Service dispatches
announced as having entered the coun.
try from Manitoba must be nearing us
at once"
And he took out handkerchief and
swsbbed face that looked as though it
had never heard of cold wave, nor
even looked into the face of man who
had heard of one. He knew, when he
talked of its being cooler, that his face
would scorch an iceberg brown in ten
minutes.
BY this time they turned corner,
and the appalling sign was out of sight.
Mr.. Henderson breathed like free
man.
Il always like stroll along jefferson
street in the evening, said Ethel. Its
SO lively. My, just look ut that crowd
Of people going in that door. What is
going on there Mr.. Henderson,"
Mr.. Henderson looked across to the
other side of the street, as usual, and
said:
ooh, yes that was clothing house. ="
'Why,n no, Mr.. Henderson, exclaimed
Elfrida, "that's an ice.cream saloon"
Ethel laughed merrily. "Do you
know" she said, II wondered what so
many young ladies could want in gem
tleman's clothing house?"
Mr.. Henderson said, "Ha, Ia, to be
sure" And oh, the feeble, CHASTITY
tincture of mirth there was in his ner-
vous ''ha, ha." j. sounded as though
boy with the sar-ache should essay to
laugh.
''Is it true, Mr.. Henderson," asked
Ethel. THAT soda fountains sometimes
cXploIe?'
Mr.. Henderson, gasping for breath,
eagerly assured her that they did, very
frequently, an that in every instance
they scattered death and destruction
around. In many of the Eastern cities,
he said, they had been abolished by the
law, and the same thing should be done
here. In New York, the young man
went on, all the soda fountains have
been removed far outside the city linz
its, and were located fur in the lonely
meadows, side by side with powder
houses.
81 am not afraid of thcm," said the
daring Ethel. Il don't believe they
are bit dangerous"
"Nor l." echoed Elfrida. 81 would
not be afraid to walk up to one and
stand by it all cay. Why are you so
afraid of them, Mr.. Henderson,"
Mr.. Henderson CRASHED his teeth and
secretly pulled out great sheaf of hair
from his head IN nervous agony. Then
he said he once had fair young sister
blown to pieces by one of those terrible
engines of destruction while she was
drinking at it, and he had never since
been able to look at soda fountain
without growing faint.
"How sad" said both young ladies,
and then Ethel asked:
How do they make soda water, Mr..
Henderson,"
And while the yonng man was getting
ready to recite u recipe composed mainly
of dirt and poison, Elfrida read aloud
four ice cream signs, and Ethel read on
a transparency, Lemon ices, cooling.
refreshing, and healthful. z" and Elfrida
read ladies and gentlemens ice cream
parlors. twice. and E,hel locked at the
door and said: '.Oh, don't they LOOK
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