Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-11-14
ELJZABETH'S UNLUCKY DAY.

Just got six pies made in cunning littla
tins, and had set them in a row on
the box to bake in the sun. She gave
Q SIGH of relief and viewed her work
with the satisfaction of thrifty
housewife when she heard mamma
calling her to come in the house and
set cleaned up for luncheon. Eliza
Leth walked toward the house so very,
very slowly that mamma had called
her three times before she appeared
a, the kitchen door. Elizabeth loved
mornings, but she hated afternoons.
H. the morning she wore one of her
hlie ginGham play dresses and lived
cut in the big back yard.
This same back yard was Eliza
beths paradise. In one corner was a
bic shady tree. under which she kept
house. She did wonderful things with
from the corner grocery. One box
was a parlor, carpeted With piece
Of gay outing flannel tho walls were
hung with wrapping paper and deco
rated with tiny pictures clipped from
the newspapers and magazines. The
top of the box was dining room
table. on which fresh table cloth
made from last nights paper was
spread for each meal. AS the whole
side of the parlor was open it was
necessary for Elizabeth to place hcr
feet in it each time she sat at the
table. The unconventional proceeding
.night have been objected to by some
people, but as Mariana and Guini-
we're, the occupants of the parlOr
se emed perfectly satisfied with the ar
rangement there was really no reason
for anyone else to complain An
ether box served as china closet
and pantry. and the top of it was
cook stove and kitchen table combin-
ed. on which Elizabeth washed her
treasured bits of china and glassware
aid baked her pies.
The mornings were one long dream
OF delight, but after luncheon She had
to have her bath and take nap and
then have her hair curled and wear
one of her pretty afternoon dres es
in which she could never have COOL
time for fear of getting it so;le2.
So Elizabeth walked slowls. SLOWLY
towards the house, thinking what
cruel world it was where little girls
could not play in the back yard all
DAY instead Of just i'll the mornings,
which were so unreasonably short and
feeting
After her nap mamma put dress
OF her which she disliked more than
any of her other dresses because it
had more than the usual supply of lace
and ruffles and ribbons and she had to
be correspondingly careful when she
wore it.
'Now, Elizabeth, said mamma, 81
am going away for few minutes and
| want you to be very quiet and good.
You may sit out here on the front
porch and look at your picture books.
Elizabeth readily promised to be
good and she really thought she was
ecing 20 be. But after awhile sitting
still and looking at picture books
became very mOnotonous and her
thoughts turned yearningly toward her
beloved back yard. The first thing
she knew she found herself out here.
Tut she only intended to walk up anG
Gown. Then she spied the little white
tent which papa brought home the
+ eht before and she remembered
how she had planned to make sum-
mer resort for Mariana and Gulnl-
we're She supposed the poor things
would have to wait another day now
ecause she had had her baking to do
that morning, but it did seem a
shame for them to have to stay in that
stuffy soap box, even if one side OF II
were open.
If she were very, very careful she
believed she could do it without soil
ing her dress and mamma would PROB
ably be pleased when she came home
% see what she had done
So she set mp the little white tent
under the shade Of tho ,ree and went
III the house and brought mamma
pretty silver pie knife to dig niue
lake with. Then she began to experl-
ence difficulty because the water
would not stay in the lake. SO sh'
trotted into the house and broush'
aut a hand-painted china berry dlsh'
which answered the purpose beautl1ll-
ly after she had fitted 1t into the
=, found and filled it with water. Sh7
took the package of bird gravel winch
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