The Cairo bulletin., 1906-07-10
Her Secluded Life

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person in sallow green. The woman
In purple is speaking
THE only objection to living in an
! apartment house is that there are GER
tain to be some disagrecable people
there and Of course You can't always
avoid them, | told my husband when
we moved in that | should make it q
| point to keep TO myself and not let
anybody get chance to pry into my
affairs. Some women are so curious,
| suppose the poor things have nothing
to do but attend to other peoples bust
ness and | shouldn't judge them
halshly.
"'As for myself, | simply dctest any
thing like gossip and talebearing, OF
course, | believe in taking a human
interest in ones fellow creatures and
lending a helping hand and all that,
but ! go no farther.
Now, If was like that Mrs.
Adams on the next floor I'd just go
nrazy considering myself, That woman
actually had the nerve to send down
and say that my little boy should no.
be allowed to play his graphophone SO
early in the morningi She said 1t kept
them from sleeping. I'd like to know
what she supposes the poor child i9
going to do TO amuse himself when he
wakes up at $50 We have TO get up
early, so we don't mind it ourselves
and anyhow, | think it is a lovely way
to begin the day-sort of inspiring, yoh
know, to hear good music | Just sent
back word that the graphophone had
cost a lot of money and she ought &c
consider herself lucky to have the
chance to hear it!
THAT woman below ms sail. when
told her about it, that the music didn't
bother her mt all and that Johnnie was
n dear little fellow But. do you know,
l can't help being suspicious of a wom-
an who so openly tries TO please you
aud get friendly with you There is
such a thing us going too far. Ana
this Mrs Johnson is always so dread
fully smiling and sweet Yet in all the
months I've been here I've never seen
her husband II looks oGd to me. She
wears the loyeiest clothes.
q wouldn't say anything against her
for the world but when a person Is
secretive about herself you cant hello
wondering And she never even oh
jected when ! waterei the back win
dow-box and 1t dripped water All over
her hammock and pillows below. 1t
looks to me as though she was afraid
TO call attention to herself.
"oh, look, quick! There goes that
girl | was mentioning. You'd know to
look at her that she doesn't do a thing
but primp and dress. call il scandal
GUS to waste all ones time trying To
look pretty I'm sure | never was
guilty of it and ! think I've got along
as well as the next one. Did you ever
see such waved hair in your life?
She lives upstairs with her married
brother and walks through the halls
rs though she owned the building
spoke to her pleasantly one morning
and thought Id let her see that took
q friendly interest IN her. Besides,
wanted to know the name of the dark
roung man who takes her ont so often.
but that saucy creature just looked me
over in the coolest way and barely
nodded You'd have thought she didn't
care to know me.
I'm sure in my day any girl who
had such a number of admirers as she
has would have been thought uniady-
Ike az the least These giddy girls
viii always bear Wa tching and you can
5euer believe that I'm keeping my eve
IN her. think st no more than NV
duty, for her brother and his wife don't
Feem to mind her goings-on in the
least
Here comes Mrs. Grant and her
baby II she ever raises that child !.
will be a wonder, for she has the most
ridiculous notions. I've told her time
and time again that the Only food -
bring up a baby on was Riskem's anj
he goes right on feeding that suffer-
ne child Wiskem's because she says
le likes II and Is getting fat on H.. A.
hough a months-old baby knew
What was best for II, And as toll
lfia idl II Nilll'fNN at Nt'N % AllIAHfAtAhN
3ut she didn't seem worried. don't
believe she really cares much for the
hid, for she is one Of these indie
pendent. assertive creatures.
"She never gets nervous for fear the
,aby may die sometimes as used -
10 when had my FIRST baby And I'm
ure no one could he d better mother
han I've been. She just gets out
thermometer and takes lis tempera-
ure and then says nothing is the mat
er with it and lets il cry. / call such
onduct scandalous, No. the babr
ooks red and healthy. but you can't
ell
There goes that man on the fourth
DOR to work He never leaves the
ouse till neon and I don't see what
usinees he can be in that is respect
Bile. He must be a gambler or some
hing like that. I'm sure of il. because
is wife has 50 many diamonds. [
hink il vulgar to wear so many rings
Must you go2 I'm sorry. for in
alf an hour it's more than likely that
andsome man viii he here. He come
early every day at this hour and 7
ant fud.out who it Is he calls on. I'm