Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-11-29
ELizABETH'S UNLUCkY DAY.

Just got six pies made in cunning little
he box to bake in the sun. She gave
Ssh 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
beth 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.
IL the morning she Wore one of her
hiGe gingham play dresses and lived
cut in the big back yard.
This same back yard was Eliza
beth's paradise. In one corner WAS
big shady tree. under which she kept
icuse. She did wonderful things with
empty soap boxes which she procured
from the corner grocery. One box
vas a parior, carpeted Hith 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 a 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 her
feet in it each time she sat at the
table. The unconventional proceeding
,aieht have been objected to by some
reople, but as Mariana and Guinl,
we're, the occupants of the parlor,
s. emed perfectly sa stied with the az
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 it was
cook stove and Kitchen table combin-
Cd, on which Elizabeth washed her
treasured bits Of china and glassware
aid baked her pies.
OF delight. but after luncheon She had
10 have her bath and take a uap and
then have her hair cur!ed and wear
one of her pretty afternoon dresses
il which she could never have goo3
tine for fear OF getting ii soilea.
So Elizabeth walked slowly. SLOWLY
l. hot q
ctuel world it was where little girls
couIl NOT play in the back yard al
Gay instead of Just in the mornings.
which were so unreasonahly short and
Ecetns.
After her nap man.a a put a dfes
on her which she disljIzod more than
anv Of her ether dresses because il
had more than tho usual supply Of lace
and rutiIes and rihbonS and she had 10
b. earrespandja4lg careful VII Il :
W01e il.
~<ov. Elizabeth, @2id mamma, u
a3a. goin2 aWa@ fol few n,nltoa ami
| want you o ~ vcny Gs'1et anl cool
Yen ma. sit 5m hero oa 1na froa'
porch az l8aH u Hone picture books
Elizabeth r.afi'y promised 70 b.
gaaq a4.a yha rally thou@ht She was
4,ing 20 be. Rut after awhile sittia%
still and looking at picture books
hccane very r5o4otonous ard heT
thouahts turned Eoarnne!y toward hi
beloved back yard. TIL" first thl22
he knew she found herself out 5heNe
Eut she only intended to walk up am
down. Then she spied the litlle white
tent which papa brought home the
1;eht before and she remembered
how she had planned to make sum
mer resort for Mariana and CUM
we're. She supposed the poor things
would have to wait another day now
ecauso she had had her Making to do
that morning, but it did seem
shame for them 10 have to stay IN that
stuffy soap box, even il one SIDE OF II
we're open.
If she were ve:y, very careful she
believed she could do it without soil
inc her dress and mamma would prob
ably be pleased when she came home
10 see what she had done.
So she set up the ljttt" white tent
uLder the shade OF tbc ,ree and wort
in tho house and brought mamma
Pretty silver pie knife 10 dig a little
lake with. Then she began to expert
erce difficulty because the water
would not say in the lake, 50 sh
t1otted into the house and brouGls
ut a hand-paintod china berry dish.
which answered the purpose beautiful
| ly after she had fitted 1t into the
ground and filled it with water. Sh2
took the package of bird gravel which
mamma had bought that morning and
rate a walk from the tent 20 the lax
| II c0mD1ptp the piciureSQueneSS OF