The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-09-10
SUMNER GIRL AND WIDOW.
Former Has a Grudge Against the
Latter Which She Pays OF in
Good Style.

1t took me a solid week to think It
| out, but did it. said the summer girl,
relates Washington Post, Il paid the
| widow up for all she had done GU ex-
| pected to do. I'm staying-when I'm
not called home this way to entertain
country cousins, who will insist on COM
| ing to Washington in hot weather-at
Q place up on the sound. OF course,
there aren't many men there, and when
reaches out and grabs hioa. I'm not daft
aver men, but a summer landscape isn't
complete without a few, and no com
D1exioned doetored widow has d
right to monopolize them when the sup
ply Is SO much less than the demand.
I'm opposed to monopolies, and / set
cut TO turn the widow from the evil o.
her ways as soon as arrived.
Il marked G1t one dancing man as ny
share of the loot and began to prepare
Cor war. The widow danGad with that
aaan, and walked with him, and talked
egSth him, and held hands in the corner
OF the gallery, and. Try as hard IS
might, 7 couldn't get a chance to fire
Q hostile shot Bathing up there is 8
sort OF a side line. We just sneak off
and take to the water when the tides
In. There's no parade about it. The
widow said that she couldn't bear this
way people have Of sitting around on
the benches in bathing Suits and as soon
a. | heard Der / knew what made her
feel that way.
81 took to her trail, however, and one
day-a very bot day-Wien the man
gas busy writing letters / asked her if
she didn't Uant to take my brand-aew
bathing suit and go il for dip. She
said she'd enjoy it, though, as she
didn't as 8 rule care for sea bathing,
she hadn't brought g suit Now, a wom-
an without a bathing suit in her lug
gage-we3S, I knew then / had the wild
ow's range and could rout her horse,
foot and dragons. She went off to the
shattered cove, where the Fgathhouse is,
the water hunted up the man and asked
Il ne didn't vast to so and see the widow
swim. Of course he did, and he said
he'd wondered all along why she didn't
go IL bathing.
ssEe went down and sat right smack
IN front of the bathhouse. The widow
vas Ont in the water padding around,
and when she saw me the look she gave
me made ice crystals form all over:tf1e
eel grass. She tried to get Us to go
back to the hotel and get her comb that
she'G forgotten. but told her she could
use the one had in my bathhouse. She
tried-well. she tried every way she
could think of to get us to go away, but
was bound to sit there till that widow
came out Of the water knew she
couldn't stay in the water forever, be-
cause the tide goes out there and you'd
have TO be a clam to hide when that |
happens. She stuck 1t out till you
could hear her teeth chattering half a
block off, and then she came in.
We made way for her to enter the |
bathhouse, and as soon as the man got |
one good look at henry bathing suit |
was a little short for her-I knew the /
widow was a has-been Stunning look
ing she was in full dress, but in a
bathing suit she was simply paralyzipg.
L q mosquito ha lit on one of her
knees he'd have to rsse the Iong-distance
phone to let his wife on the other knee
know what had become of him. She was
he bow-leggedest widow in nine
states. .