The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-07-23


mas very dim. There's been trouo'
at the table, we must sometimes shou
a halt. or the grandmas tea'd be Dfih.
with a heaping spoon OF SAT- ~
Gently the dear old lady sugared mn
plate OF trout. How the trio glssleu
twisted. when the fishes were cast OUT
She declined more fish, ana statell
stared, but not a word she'd utter
Then she spread her bread with mus
tard, thinking she had got the butter
Fiercest frowns won't quell the laugh
ter OF the giggleistic three. fou
make errors, too" quoth grandma
"when you are as old ~ me-
Now, when things so wrong WIN
grandma, she retreats across the way
to the home Of Cousin Ella, where
she wears the mood away The clouds
are always cleared by evening, Smiles
headlight her homeward way radiant
as the rosy sunshine, she's as Jolly as
a jay.
Jennie, June and Jessie soDered
April-like, from sun to rain, wueh
grandma grimly grabbed her bonnet
| Oh, their PANEL Oh, their pam.
Dearest grandma, were so sorry
Wen not laugh at you again. Girls,
growled grandma, age has feelings,
and this goes against the grain"
In her sputter, poor old grandma
turned to give the girls this crack, got
the old black beaded bonnet with the
front toward the back. oh, these
bounding springs of laughter How
they strained to hold it in But It
| bursted shrilI when grandma tied The
| bow beneath the chin.
Grandma, don't 20 looking that
way shrilled the three, while all dId
press close about her, pulling, clinging
at her arms, and hands and dress
Seldom grandma sees the mirror
says it's Satan's fad of fashion so she
ably laid about her and departed in a
passion. In about a half a minute
| from Cousin Elias open door, uluIat-
| Tag Ger the highway, came a mirthful.
| Shrek and roar. In another half a
minute, the eager trio did behold
! grandma. with her bonnet backward
In a swift black storm Of scold.
Come back here" thus Cousin Ella
"IIl not lsten," grandma cried
Grimly down the staring highway
grandma stalked with strident stride
Forth flew Jennie, June and Jessie;
dishabilled Coz. Ella few, chasing that
reversed black bonnet while its sable
ribbons blew. The quartette surround.
ed grandma, BY main strength their
quarry captured. while the roaring
| street roared louder and the Arabs
were enraptured
! All day long sequestered grandma
nursed her predetermined pout; tied
her head up in a towel, camphored
o1ors blew about.
Tear stained Jennie. in the silence
of her little white-walled room poured
! the silver she had gathered from its
| little slotted tomb "She shall have
brand new bonnet" wept the con
| trite little miss "That old black thing
| IL just hateful. I'll buy something
gay with this" Jessie, In her sanctu-
| airy, took her tiny savings bank, and
/ by dnt Of so keytwists, got ii open
with a yank. "She shall have it. new
with flowers, ruddy cherries. neat as
wax, red and radiant, gay and pretty,
and her Jessie pays the tax" June
with many feints and lodges. got away
all by herself, got her savings from
| her closet, on the dimmest, farthest
Shelf well, what If am but seven :"
said June. I've gotas much as they. Jen-
nie's -, Jess IL; here's ten dollars,
anyway That old crows nest OF a
bonnet grandma d on hindside before!
Granny'll have hat as pretty as my
mamma ever wore"
Surreptitiousness developed in the
household after that. Girls went prowl-
ing through the Railways, furtlye as a
falt'ring cat. Ambush, lurking. masque-
rading. ambuscading. hide-and-seek
Missing maiden at all hours. the re-
mainler of the week Thrice | saw
my mystic maideus in clandestinc
moods down town, each alone, and
bearing bundles tied in paper whitley
brown.
"Grandmas birthday is tomorrow"
at breakfast cried a little maid. There
is trout upon the table, and there's
custard. I'm afraid And I thought
the face grew frightened at the antics
strange of June. that Id give Grand.
ma her present and not wait till after
noon" June was wriggling, like
wise Jessie Jennie. from beneath her
chair brought a whitley brownish bun
die. which she wavered in the air
Heres another present. grandma
/ cried The other girls in chorus. Ana
| IN less than 30 seconds three gorgeous
/ aids reposed before us.
What's all this2" demanded grand
ma. HAS a milliner had fire." Puz
zled girls. convulsing parents. put a
poker 10 her ire.
4 some snide milliner's gone bank
/ r1ipt," Grandma knocked the hats
about. Then. excited and "ferhoodled. p
( sprinSled sugar on her trout. Don't
do hiatt" I cried. while grandma
/ poured the cream into the mustard
and With muttered maledictions, spread