Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-11-24
ELiZABETH's UNLUCKY DAY.

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! just GOT six pies made in cunning littla
( tins and had ser them in row on
The box to bake in the sun. She gav4
q $ :gh Of relief and yfaWad her work
with the satisfaction OF thrifty
heusowifa when she heard mamma
calling her 10 come in the housa and
eet cleaned up for luncheon. Eliza.
10th walked toward the house so VERY
vary slowly that mamma had called
her three times Frfor" she appeared
a. fhc Kitchen door Etizab th loved
mornings. but She ha,ed afternoons.
IT, the morning She wore oHe=of he"
hi11c aingham play Dresses aad lived
cut in the big back yard
This same back yard was Eliza-
bcth's paradise. In one corner Was a
hlg shaevtreo. under which she kop
ousa. She did wonderful things with
Iemptv soap boxes hich#she procured
from The csrnee grocery. ore box
yas a earior, caFnated z1t:h piece
of cay oatfng flannel. the walls were
hung with wrapping paper and deco
rated With tiny pictures clipped from
the newspapers aud magazines. The
Top of the hoX was a DINING room
table. on which a fresh table cloth
made from last night paper wa :
spread for each meal. As the whole
side Of the par1or WAS open ii was
necessary for Elizabeth to place her
feet in il each time she sat at the
table. The unconventional proceeding
might have been objected to BY some
ue ople. but as Marianna and GuinI-
we're the occupants of the parlor,
seemed perfectly satisfied with the ar
arrangement there was really no reason
| for anyone else to complain. An
ether box served as a china closet
and pantry. and the top of it was a
| cook stove and kitchen table comhln-
ed on which Elizabeth washed her
treasured bits of china and glassware
and baked her pies.
The mornings We're one long dream
of delight. but after luncheon she m
to have her bath and take a nap 9~fi
then have her hair curled an wear
one of her pretty afternoon dresses
IL which she could never haEa goo1
time for fear of getting ii soiied.
So Elizabeth walked slowly, SLOWLY
towards the house. thinking what a
crnel world ii was where little girls
could not play in the back yard all
GAY instead of Just il the mornings
which were so unreasonably short and
feeting. !.
After her nap mamma put a dress
o. her which she distilled more than
any of her other dresses cause Il
had more than the usual supply Of lace
land ruffIes and ribbons and she had t9
be corresp0ndingly careful Nhen She
wore il.
eNow. Elizabeth said mamma. i
am goine away for few minutes and
want you 10 be very quiet ana sooa.
You may sit ont here on tn from
perch and look at yo'lr p.etHse books
Elizabeth readily promised to be
good and she really thought she was
aeine 10 be. But after awhila SITTING
>stfll and looking at picture books
became very monotoneas ard hef
THOUGHTS turned Yearninsly toWa'4! n :
beloved back yard Th" frs thlAS
sEe knew she found herself on thera,
lnf she only intended to walk up ana
Gown. Then she spied the little "h!'e
tenf which papa brought home the
rfaht before and she remembered
how she had planned to make sum
Ter resort for Mariana and CUNT
were She supposed the poor thllS7
would have to wait another day no"
I teaus4 she had had her bahin2 to ia
sbat morning. hut il did seem q
shame for them to have TO stay IN 'na'
sfuffv soap box, even if one side on II
We're open.
# she vcr, very. very carafal sh :
believed sha could do it without Soil-
irg her dress and mamma would PROB
ahlv be pleased when she came nome
10 soc What she had done.
So she set MP the l3ttlo white re-
under the shade Of thc rec AID V'o'
IN tha house aud brought mamma $
Iretty silver pie knife 70 DIG II''le
+hla with. Then She hesan to eNo'H'
erco diMcultT hecaas" he Wat
would not say in tn Iake#so 81
t4otted into the house and bronsh
sut a hand-pantad china berry dlsn'
which answered the purpose heanflfo1
Il af cr She had fitted 1t into 'he
ground and filled it With water. oh
,ol.ono of bird gravel when