Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-01-02

car Jen Don't ever ask me to do
benevolent thing again, for | won't
III wouldn't have done IL this time II
You and brother Tom and G. V. hadn't
dragged me into it whether liked 1t
|or not: then | wouldn't be worried as
NJ am this minute. by a specter in the
distance OF red headed sister-in-law
who is regular Nobody from No
where. l didn't care TO make her ac-
quafntance in the first place. when you
wanted me To take her up.
My wretched mistake came about that
day ! met you and you suggested that
invite her to go with us on our camp
Ing out excursion. because she was
having bad time OF ii at home. with
her stepfather.
q. V, dropped in that evening and
took tea with us, and ! foolishly men
TONED what you had said. and he and
Tom were just daffy enough to fall
right In with the plan. They said IL
she never had any good times it would
be a nice thing to help her have one
Tor once. | said didn't see how we
could take girl like her; we were all
paired off comfortably, two and two.
\ she never had an admirer OF her own.
mas Tar as l knew; she would just have
~ tag around after Uncle John and
r Unit Alice. who were to chaperone our
= -hrty. G. " said why hadn't she any
admirers. l said she was so awfully
plain. and her folks weren't anybody;
her stepfather was a cranky old ex-
n IN oh ha
business. either and her very name
was freak-Penelope Dusenberry.
Tom said. "Oh. well. ask her any
way, and I'll keep a friendly eye on
her now and then" And G. V. said.
Yes. ask her. and I'll relieve Tom
occasionally If he finds the job too
much for him.
So couldn't get out OF it, and there
we are. But she wouldn't have gone
half an inch of the way II I had had
as much sense as red ant I'll tell
you why in my next letter.
Disgustedly yours,
Floretta.
Glen Alder, August 9Th.
Dear Jen-That Dusenberry girl OF
yours Is repaying my kindness by get
ting around poor Tom as fast as she
knows how-sly red-headed thing and
always so overwhelmingly amiable TO
me, and so grateful 10 me for giving
her this little bit OF fresh air and
, streak OF sunshine-gush! Tom says
she Is not so bad looking. now that she
is Having a good time, laundering
OH Nmoth he IS; she'll have him in a
wink. I'm disappointed in everybody
II rs. everybody. The country air or
something else has turned the whole
1 set into driveling idiots. Here were
Tom and Zellie Waters as good as en-
Gagged before they came here, and
asked Zellie just on purpose for Toms
pbenefit, so they would settle It defin-
itely. and now here's Tom laundering
into that red-headed minx's web, and
as for Zellie. l used to consider her
amiable and artless, If she didn't have
much OF brain In her silly head, but
! believe now, she's as deep and willy
as an old sea serpent. and has had her
eye on G. v. all the time, although she
knew I had settled it long ago that
he and l were kindred spirits She's
Just been fooling Tom and watching
for chance to snap G. V. up, and
Tom, like the exasperating old mole he
is, is letting her spin her webs while
he goes around trying to make that
Dusenberry fright have a good tine.
wish there weren't any men.
Flo.
Glen Alder, August 14th.
Old Chum:-How goes the camping,
say your Slap-up. I've heard that
dutHperformed made rainbow in the
sq and reckon 1t does but the per-
Torrance OF 1t, or rather the over-per-
Torrance OF II like to have got me
into an elegant mess for little while.
Flo has repented of her good deed
forty times a minute. but then Flos
good deed wasn't performed very
cheerfully in the first place.
I'm afraid l might have effaced my
rainbow at one time, by mauling G. v,
II hadn't reflected that that wasn't
the most approved manner OF settling
a rival in these days, and besides
might get licked. myself But | didn't
even have to call him out, as il hap
! pened The original scheme was that
G.. v. and were to take turns helping
Penelope Dusenberry have good