The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-11
George Departs for Business.
The Tale Of a Suburbanite.
Bv CHARLES BA7TEL LOOMS, Author Cheerful Ameri-
cans" "A1inervas A1aneuyers,' Etc.
The Tale Of a Suburbanite.

2 T-lt-7 s-T -
Copyright 1905, by Joseph %. Bowles)
| Cranfleld Is q pretty little park-like
hamlet about 30 miles out OF New York
on the New Jersey & Suburban road.
| Not very far from the station on one
of the side streets is Il smallish but
comfortable white house. and in that
white house with its shoneysuckle com
pletely covering the walls lives George
Harlis, his wife Ellen Harris, and their
two children. Harry and Eleanor, whose
ages are somewhere between and II.
George is in business in New YORK,
and he is good average American
| Ellen, his wife, is slight and pleasing
looking, and mentally she Is more than
u match for her well-meanng but irasei-
| BILE, husband.
| II. is Georges custom to take the s:g
i.tran for New YORK, and it is that habit
| that is one of the causes OF the three
gray hairs in the head OF Ellen, his
/ wife.
| Behold the bedroom in which George
and his wife are sleeping. outside the
sky is dark and lowering, and 1t BIDS
fair to pe ii rainy day,
a little silver travelling clock Is tick
| ing on the bureau. 1t evidently has no
alarm attachment. for It Is - minute s
past seven by 1t, and George and ms
| wife are stil peacefully sleeping, luiied
| thereto by the darkness, and the heavi-
ness or the autumn air.
The clock strikes the half hour. and
George! George! she cries. Hurry
and get up 1t is haif-past seven.
/, You'll miss your train
| a snore isFtne only response. George
was up iate. the night before a, the
| house OF their neXt-ooor neiShbors. the
Chiyvness, and he is comprising eight
hours sleep INTO six ~.
= u
Mrs. Harlis nudges George. and he
rises wildly up to II sitting posture.
"Whats' happened? 49,. ~ 49,,
talk, but get dressed. unless you want
to be sensible and take the $50"
and have hay the old man , sarcastic At my
bed ana emptying half the contents OF
the pitcher on the waShStund and the
rest on the floor.
'You, might think You were office boy,
instead of junior partner,
If you're talking TO me- | don't hear
says Georse yigorogsiy spnhshins
| Right in front OF you, as usual.
| George his eyes full OF wate. snatch
es at the towel and pulls down the
| splasher.
| shop when you're late. says Ellen.
"Why in the world didn't you call me
at seven. anyhow III have to get an
l
! u clerk
Like you used to is good, AS you
used TO is better
| We'll. look here. II you think l have
| time for one of your grammar lessons
vi haven't. Where's my toothbrush? Con-
! foandiciti all there's never anything in
/ pace when i want it,!
Take 1t out OF the cur, Ike a good
little boy, and don't get blind because
| you're late"
Whose fault is it I'm late?"
\ Fault of the weather, dear. Really,
bridge isn't good for your temper"
"Oh. | know I'm cross. but haven't
| time. to be anything different. Good tens
per takes times Where's my collar hut
Now, George. do be original. Even
| II you are u suburbanite. don't go hunt
ing for Il collar button. Here 1t is,
where You put II. | have to be head and
hands and feet for you when you're
\ late"
well, It's lucky you have the head and
bands and feet I'm not kicking at ycu.
but 1 wish 1 could get up at n seasonable
hour for once In my life, and not have
4 to gothle my breakfast and rush for the
train like a man in a comic paper. It's
/ undignifled.v
"Thnt's what always say, dear But
II you'd talk Less you could hurry more
llt's twenty minutes to eight now, and
the breakfast bell has rung
| We'll. that's u wonder. 1t would b.
1 just like Ann to have breakfast late, aud
make me miss my train In spite of my
hurry, Makes me sick the way she has
OF delaying a breakfast. -,
ing. There, now. here am ready, and
4 you're not. As It's Saturday, I'm going
10 let the children sleep. IT'S u pity I'm
not taking the train instead OF you, III
4 "Thut's all I have time for this morn
Ing. First thing you know III be down
yinat, ayspeps'a. II only We had 9" alarm
i've been asking you to get one ever
| one to-day"
~ wal run q, along, and don't delay me.
aiant ' shaHe ! yesteray and I'VE SGT
to shave to-day. look like the devil !
NO, dear, yo,ur eyebrows are too
\ Hugh! Where's my razor?' .
"In the usual place, my dear put II
"oh, you're wonder, ARE aren't ,tt y y,r
4 That's what It is to be we'll drought up,
4 rubbing 1t in, and while his wife goes
!, down to expedite matters he begins to
~ "Ellen. Ellen! Never mind thai
train. I've cot myself.
Ellen from down stairs says;
E 10 90 and tell them they needn't stop at
! ccraSnaeid this morningg Therell be 9th
ers to tnke It, yon know" ...,, ,a.
BX ipps ten mlnI looSs p n e hlsc,r n
/ WI sass1t,h the absorbent cottony Ellos,
Where's that confounded absorbent cot
ton? What are you doing downstairs
A'' It's in the bathroom Hurry dear,
\ i've broken your eggs In n cup md peel
cd YOUR orange, and your coffeea getting
NhSaorga nrances into the bnt hroOfl and