The Newtown bee., 1904-12-30

"oAoCu uIlI l SOU VO CAS Ae~- l and then I got off and looked lround for the likeliest hotel l could ind. There was man with mega phone bowling for his hotel, but did n't pay any attention but made of through the crowd, rather hoping l would lose Seth and I did. Last l saw of him, a man had him in tow and had his extension case, and was going off in another direction fast as he could with Seth behind looking anx- ious.
 got good-looking hotel, where l thought there would be some comfort and engaged room. Maria, l know now, how people in Vermont can build a summer hotel and make money. I've taken pattern of a worlds fair ho- tel, and know how to do it.
 You just get some timber and build a frame. Put it up on stilts if you like. Cover 1t with sheet iron, paint ed to look like bricks; build it around a hollow square and build another frame building right in the middle for the dining-room and kitchen. Divide the other part into rooms on each side of the hall, and paper over the boards with cheap paper, and cover the ceiling with green burlap and put some choc- olate oil cloth on the floor. Hang an electric light down in the middle If each room, and put bed and Iwash- stand and chair and ct cetera in each room and put up some nails to hang your clothes on and there you are, all ready for business. Tbere was an of- lice, and a kind of a parlor, too. \ I had just got settled in my room, ,ad everything ready for the night, a Id was going out to get some supper, when, what do you think?
 Why, the man with the megaphone that had secured control of Seth Green and his extension case, belong ed to this very identical hotel, and he'd put Seth Green right into the room next me, and there he was lock ing up that extension case with sat isfied expression of countenance and starting out to get his supper, too. l did feel so come up with that l wouldn't speak to him but just went along and was so mad I didn't know l was eating.
 I stalted off at last and left Seth Green eating cold corn cake and reno- vated butter and looking mournful. At least I started and left him there, but hadn't hardly got through the office before saw him tagging along behind. was so putchety then that just stopped and said, "Seth Green, you can just stop tagging me along all over the fair. I didn't come here to have you sneak along behind and I won't. You just clear out now and do this show by yourself. Do you think I want this thing going back to White plains that you and I went all over the fair together? We'll, I guess not. I won't have it.
 And then 1 turned and went off and he came along behind looking sorter uncomfortab ble and murmuring, sI didn't mean any harm, Selina, any harm at all."
 But forgot, Maria, I meant to have told you before. The night that we got to St Louis and l had got already to go to bed, heard Seth pounding on the wall, and saying softly, "Selina! Selina." I was mad but said back as soft as could, "Well, Seth, what is it?"
 Says he, ''Say, Selina, how do you turn out these pesky lamps? I've blowed and blowed and the thing won't go out?" ''Turn the button," says I :. ''Turn the button, Seth," and then I did have to stop and laugh and just heard him say, "Oh! Did you ever see the like?" When We were through breakfast the next morning, we start ed off, by the street and Seth around kitty-cornering so that he wouldn't seem to be tagging me. Made me laugh, but I didn't care much if he did look silly.
 We came to some little houses where e we had to change our money into 5O- cent pieces and then we went through turnstiles which man turned with one hand and dropped our 5O-cent piece into a can with the other I wonder how they liked grinding and grinding and grinding all day long like that. Tben we had cur first view of the fair. can't describe it. I'm not going to try.
 But this letter is getting terribly long. I've spent most of Sunday writ- ing it, and can't write any more now. shall have to wait and tell you more later. Ever yours, SELMA.
 P. S.: When I came home from the fair last night, there was Seth Green trying to turn the stile the wrong way and looking very much perplexed. I think he'd better go home and tend to his COWS. Come to think, Maria, you needn't send this letter to the other folks. I'll write to them separate.
 SETH GREEN TO MOSES BLAIR.
 St Louis, Mo-, September 25, 1904.
 Dear Friend Moses: I wish if you see Charles Brown you would tell him that I am depending on him to help me about my ice pond before it gets freezing weather. I will be back in a couple of weeks. Yours respectfully,
 Seth Green.
 P. S. l saw seal the other day swimming around in a tank with some turtles and other things. It was in tho fisheries ujI6inp So1ina White