The Cairo bulletin., 1906-10-12
THEIR GUESTS


as she regarded the sandwich jus
placed before her.
II had a feeling that something
would so wrong" she said to the cir
in the gray silk. Il can always tel
when disaster hovers over the fam
lily, and | warned my family. II turn
cd out that the sacred rites of hospi
tally caused the difficulty.
'Of course, knew that the archi
tects who plan fiat buildings proceed
on the theory that it is crime for
( the people who inhabit those buildings
to entertain guests. TO have com
, Fany for few days signifies that one
enjoys the ordinary conyenences Of
life and family neatly packed in a
flat like layer Of sardines in box
enjoys nothing of the sort
When | asked Dorothy to visit me
| thought | had everything planned
out beautifully. | fixed my room for
her, moved my toilet articles to the
first shelf in the library closet an |
arranged to sleep on the library couch
myself. Mother said nervously that
she hoped Aunt Harriet and her hus.
band, who have been threatening to
visit us for the last year, wouldn't
pick up and come while Dorothy was
here and cOmplicate matters. But
there seemed to be just as much
chance of that happening as there is
OF their remembering me in their will,
So | scoffed at mother.
Il truly believe there was more tri
umph than dismay in her eountenance
when she came waving a letter at me
the second day of Dorothys visit and
remarked that she had told me so.
Aunt and uncle We're to arrive that
night
when people come all the way
from Oregon it is al! the more nccos-
sary that you should be glad to see
them. Mother said she knew the
Fishers across the han would be clad
to let us use their extra room for a
few days, so she went over 20 ask.
They are goodnatureG people, and so
they agreed to the plan heartily and |
we breathed again
Half an hour later. Mrs. Fisher came ,
}yer the picture of horror. with a tel /
gram in her hand, saying that hor
sister and her sisters baby were com
ng that afternoon.
Things began to look serious for
is. Dorothy is used to a bedroom,
Ire5sing-room and private bath at her
.ome, but when she learned of our
ifficulty she rose to the occasion
obly and vowed that the library
ouch was an ideal sleeping place"
"Pooh" said the girl in gray silk
She's so in love with your brother
fho is in New York that it's no won
er she was so sweet about it,"
Il hadn't heard Of anyone Directing
. that yet said the girl with the
red expression, pointcdly. Well we
ut Dorothy on tho couch and an OK
"a mattress we had in the storeroom
as brought up and put ON the sew
lg-room floor for me. Dorothy and
used large pasteboard box for 4 ! :
'ay for our brushes, combs and pins
nd the fun began. Our clothes were
ung in three closets and it always :
lppcncd that uncle and aunt were
my original room when it was nee
isary for either one of us to get a
-ess out of that closet. nearly
nothored in the scwing-rcom be /
use the family dignity demanded
at uncle and aunt should not know
at their niece was rcposing on the :
'or of nights and 50 / hal to keep y
e door shut They arc people who
mot understand how situations Gre II
G necessities and sleeping on The
or even for their benefit they would h
We considered a disgrace Fl
Il tried to pretend that | was a |
isoner of state and things like that b
{ it didn't help the crick in my back fl
y After three nights decided that fC
vas permanently crippled Then the
I'D left. and there began the merry c
* Of tearing around downtown all II
Y with our guests. rushing home to s'
dinner and then away to the thea m
or some other place of torture. "
Gle and aunt said il would brighten
up 10 keep on the jump. We toiled NJ
e galley slaves having a good time 81
II the cheerful intermission of get
z three meals a day. also had -
Of spaams Of giving limitations of
ng to sleep on my lowly mattress.
Dorothy rolled off the couch three
les and got a black eye when she
the library table: ! made a rash
We one night and Knocked a box
of sewing machine attachments -
over me ] had the hammer in one -
and the quilting foot in the other ~
De the tucker and gatherer and a -
OF other wierd things hit me az odd
les and paper OF needles
nkled themselves. point down. all w
r me Ny shrieks on that occasion ''
rly disclosed the family secret to
le and aunt because ] reused the '"t
Sc. Every time they asked how -
IS bedrooms we had. some OF US Al
I'D change the subject with a
Chilly remark.
tell you the strain ] underwent va
NJ those two weeks nearly made Gee
gray-headcd At first ] thought aio
invent a fat that YOU could attach vi
Of these corrugated iron folding eih