Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-11-01
ELIzABETH'S UNLUCKY DAY.

pies out in the back yard She had
just got six pies made in cunning littl.
tins, and had set them in row on
the box to bake in the sun. She gave
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
a, the kitchen door. Elizabeth loved
mornings, but she hated afternoons.
IL 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
big shady tree, under which she kept
hCuse. She did wonderful things with
empty soap boxes which she procured
from the corner grocery. One box
was a parlor, carpeted with 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
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
,night have been objected to by some
PEOPLE, but as Mariana and Guinl-
we're, the occupants of the parlor,
s. emed perfectly satisfied 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 a
cook stove and kitchen table combln-
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 dresses.
il which she could never have a good
time for fear of getting it soiled.
cln
towards the house. thinking what a
cruel world it was where little girls
could net play in the back yard all
cav instead Of Just III the mornings.
which were so unreasonably short and
Eeetine
After hey nap mamma put a dres
o. her which she disliked more than
anv of her other dresses because II
had more than the usual supply OF lace
end rufTles and ribbons and she had to
be rrespondinsly careful whom she
wore it.
.Now, Elizabeth said mamma, :!
ana eGing away for a few minutes and
| want YOU % be Very quiet and gooi.
You may sit out here on the froat
porch and look at your picture books.
Elizabeth readily promised to be
good and she really thought she was
geing TO 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
size knew she found herself out there.
hut she only intended to walk up an@
Gown. Then she spied the little white
tent which papa brought home the
light before and she remembered
how she had planned to make sum-
rer resort for Mariana and Gulnl-
we're. She supposed the poor things
would have to wait another day now
lecause she had had her baking to do
that morning, but it did seem
shame for them to have to stay in that
stuffy soap box, even if one side Of it
! were open.
If she were very, very careful she
believed she could do it without soil
irg her dress and mamma would prob
ably be pleased when she came home
10 see what she had done.
So she set up the little white tent
under the shade of the tree and went
in the house and brought mammas S
pretty silver pie knife to dig little
lake with. Then she began to expert
erce a difficulty because the water
would not stay in the lake, SO she
trotted into the house and brought
cut a hand painted china berry dish,
which answered the purpose beautiful
ly after she had fitted 1T into the
ground and filled it with water. She
took the package of bird gravel which