Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-06-20

CANT eulOg1eS or Wnat 1t proclaimed to
be, an earthly paradise, with the rates
by the day or week given on the cover
page to show on what terms this para.
disc might be enjoyed.
Dorothy's bower was green and COO
and crystal, the ~ruggedness of the
rocks softened by the wealth of foliage
A very limpid spring, high up and out
Of sight among the leaves, sent its
waters tinkling down the face of tho
cliff, EVER filling a crystal clear lakelet
at the foot, which yet was never full.
Velvety and beautiful as was the moss
surrounding this pond it was neverthe.
less too damp to form an acceptable
couch for a human being unless that
human being were brave enough to risk
the rheumatic Inconvenience which fol.
lowed Rip Van Wrinkles long sleep III
these very regions, so Dorothy always
carried with her from the hotel Il
featherweight spiders web hammock,
which she deftly slung between two
sapkings, their light suppleness giving
an almost pneumatic effect to this
fairy net spread in a fairy glen, and
here the young woman swayed luxu-
riously in the relaxing delights of an
Incidence still too new to have become
| commonplace or wearisome.
She always expected to read a great
deal in the hammock, but often the
book slipped unnoticed to the moss
and she lay looking upward at the lit
tie disks of blue sky visible through
the checkering maze Of green leaves.
One afternoon, deserted by the latest
piece of fictional literature, marked in
plain figures on the paper cover that
protected the cloth binding one dollar
and a half. but sold at the department
store for $1.08, Dorothy lay half hyp-
Noticed by the twinkling Of the green
leaves above her, when she heard a
sweet voice singing a rollicking sons
Of the civil var and so knew that
katherine was thus heraiding her ap-
proach.
"When Johnny comes marching home
Hurrah! Hurrah!
Well give him a hearty welcome then,
Hurrah! Hurrah!
The men will cheer, the boys will shout,
The ladies they will all turn out,
And We'll all feel gay
When Johnny comes marching home"
Dorothy went still further back into
the history of her country and gave q
faint imitation of an Indian war
whoop to let the oncomer know she
was welcome, and presently katherine
burst impetuously through the dense
underground.
$50 here you are, Miss Laziness,'
she cried.
"Here I am, Miss Energy, or shall ]
call YOU Miss-applied Energy? Kath.
crime, you have walked so fast that
you are quite red in the face"
ut isn't exertion; it's vexation.
Dorothy, I've had a perfectly terrible
time. 1t is the anxiety regarding the
proper discipline Of parents that is
spelling the nervous system of Amer.
lean children. Train them up in the
way they should go, and when they
are old they do depart from it. There
Is nothing more awful than to own
parents who think they possess a sense
of humor. Thank goodness, mother has
noner!'
"Then it is your father who has been
misbehaving"
"Of course it is. He treats the mos,
Important problem of a woman's life
as if it were the latest thing in Life"
Dorothy sat up in the hammock.
'"The most important problem? Tha!
means a proposal. Goodness gracious
Kate, is thzlt Insurance man back here
again?"
What insurance man"
"Oh, heartless and heartbreakine
Katherine, is there another? Sit here
in the hammock beside me, and tel,
me all about it,"
"No, thank you,'' refused Katherine
II weigh more than you, and 1 cannot
risk my neck through the collapse OF
that bit of gossamer. l must take care
Of myself for his sake"
"Then it is the life insurance mar
whose interests you are consulting
Have you taken out a policy witt
HING
"Dear me, you are nearly as bad as
father, but not quite SO funny. Yor
are referring to Mr.. Henderson, 1 pre-
sumo. A most delightful companion
for a dance; but, my dear Dorothy, life
is not all glided out to the measures Of
a Strauss waltz"
True. Quite indisputable, Kate, ant
those sentiments do you credit. VIII,
is the man?'
"The human SOUL" continued Kath
crime seriously, "aspires to higher
things than the society columns of the
New York Sunday papers and the
frivolous chatter of an overheated ball
room.''
"Again you score, Kate, and are ris
ing higher and higher in my estima
ton. I see it all now. Those solemn