The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-05-08
HrifssN Js~ TAe ArkaH~aW TWtSssy,
 FROM MY NOTE BOOK.
By Marxats, c. MsAyeal,

.hcs.id4 I've been reSting and heing as lazy as pleased for three long happy days, listening to the robins and blue birds and watching for the first buds on the elm trrr nrar Siy window. all the while thrilling in unison with the gray old world at Aprils kisses that come in the slow winds and tho sunshine In a house near hy ivc two children, boys of seven and nine years such fun aS they do have from morn till night Across the street there k sand pile and last evening dozen of the neiShhors children were playing there and as sat in my window l overheard their couvcr. sation. unc ot my boys they call "Capie and tho other oue shorty In tho midst of their castle building some one asks
 Say Capic, what doNou have at sour house, dinner or supper
 Have dinner and supper both, ot eoar>ei Hope you don't thunk NJ live on two meals day
 Woll l mean at night about hNr o'clock po Nou call It dinner or supper what Nou eat ,hen2'
 Gall il supper of courSc' What would you call t anything else forY
 oh. l just wondered We cali Il dinner at my house. That's tho way they do in the cast My ma says she believes in hein m st>lc
 Gapie gave littlr grunt ana after a short ~llcnce flung back the rrtntt
 Don car" my sisters mora stylish than your'n All the fellows in town are after her and yeurn never hn~ a beau. l'd ruthcr have n sN fish sister than to have Wish name Tor supper
 Cario has Il lovely sister tute She has t,te like that al fhca aud wears d grey gown in which she Is ae graceful and doVcl like us onc of Cerrcggio $ Mtdounas This sister cultiYato- art nnd lets her mother do tue kitchen work happened to be down in th" back yard the other morning and saw the dear girl com" out of the door (" empty some water Her slippers fell oil at th" heel every step she took Her old Mother Hubbard wrapper that was once blue. was faded and ragged. not {" say greasy The lovely rc,i pold hair was done up in white papers. and th" powder ot the night hetor" Was washed of around her uo,, nnd mouth. giving her an odd appearance
 AS she gave the water pitch il shrill voice called out
 Why Henrietta You alovcnly girl why didn't yon empty that in the sowor1 What do you suppose the sewers for
 /" Oh ma, shut up' What doy"u think care for the blamed old -ewerl"
 Ta6sf1g Mamma sent m" lovely new dress last week and I've just been to Mi-s W Wilson's to have it fitted an
 was thnuphtlesn enough to eat onions for dinner, nnd in apologixinR to the little drcssmnkor, she said
 Oh never mlnh iii ,=ed Ia il Half my customers eat onions
 Oh dear How do you endure itt' asked
 That isn't half So bad ae some other things Only so they are not cranky, and pay their bills. 1 don't ear" what they eat
 Don't they all pay th"lr hiIl.2'
 Dear me. not Why some of th" wraIthicst ladies keep mo waiting the longest and one woman womans rightr woman. too. hnr owed me twenty dollars for year Sh" lodges m" on the street when meet her
 Do you have many cranksY
 Ycs. they rc nearly all cranky Most of them don't know how they wnnt their dresses made. and when they do decide. are apt to change their minds dozen times And they are sD ntingy They meyer want to pay anything for extra work and always try to get mc tD do things cheaper
 By tIIi. tim. the satiuy waist fitted me like glove and we fell 10 talking nbou, my back drapery