Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-10-27
EllZA5ETH'S UNlUCKY DAY.

pies out in the back yard. She had
Just got six pies made in cunning little
tins, and had set them in a row on
the box to bake in the sun. She gave
a 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
get cleaned up for luncheon. Eliza
beth walked toward the house so very,
very slowly that mamma had called
her three times before she appeared
AT the kitchen door. Elizabeth loved
mornings, but she hated afternoons.
In the morning she wore one of her
blue gingham play dresses and lived
out in the big back yard.
This same back yard was Eliza
beth's paradise. In one corner was a
big shady tree, under which she kept
reuse. She did wonderful things with
empty soap boxes which she procured
from the corner grocery. One box
was a parlor, carpeted with a piece
OF gay outing flannel, the walls were
hung with wrapping paper and deco
rated with tiny pictures clipped from
the newspapers and magazines. The
top of the box was a dining room
table, on which fresh table cloth
made from last nights paper was
sDread for each meal AS the whole
side of the parlor was open it was
necessary for Elizabeth to place her
feet in it each time she sat at the
table. The unconventional proceeding
might have been objected to by some
people, but as Mariana and Guinl'
we're, the occupants of the parlor,
SO emed perfectly satisfied with the ar
rangement there was really no reason
for anyone else to complain. An
ether box served as a china closet
and pantry. and the top of 1t was
cook stove and kitchen table combln-
ed on which Elizabeth washed her
treasured DICS vi china anu SiNSS'N'
ard baked her pies.
The mornings were one long dream
Of delight. but after luncheon she had
10 have her bath and take nap and
then have her hair curled and wear
one of her pretty afternoon dresses.
il which she could never have gooa
r,Tr
So Elizabeth walked slowly. 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 unreasonaby short and
feeting.
After her nap mamma put ules9
on her which she disliked more thah
any of her other dresses because IL
had more than the usual supply OF lace
end ruffles and ribbons and she had 10
be correspondingly careful when she
wore it.
"Noy. Elizabeth" said mamma, l
am going away for few minutes and
want you to be very quiet and good'
Won may sit out here on the front
porch and look at your picture poohs'
Elizabeth readily promised to pe
good and she really thought she was
going TO be. But after avn i@ si''ihS
stil, and looking at picture DOCKS
hecame very monotonous and her
thoughts turned yearningly toward her
beloved back yard. The first thlng
ste knew she found herself out mere
hut she only intended to walk up an"
Gown. Then she spied the little "hl'e
tent which papa brought home the
r;obt before and she remembered
how she had planned to make sum-
,.e, resort for Mariana and Gulnl-
we're She supposed the poor things
would have to wait another day no"
tacauso she had had her baking TO 90
that morning, but it did seem
sbame for them to have to stay IN that
stuffv soap box, even if one side OF 1t
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
to see what she had done.
So she set up the little white tent
urder the shade of the tree and went
IN tho house and brought mammals
pretty silver pie knife to dig little
loEo with. Then she began to expert
erce a difficulty because the water
would not stay in the lake. so she
+,otted into the house and brought
ont a hand.painted china berry dish,
which answered the purpose beautiful
" after she had fitted 1t into the
ground and filled it with water. She
look the package of bird gravel which