Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-05-09

lowed Rip Van Wrinkles long sleep ID
these very regions, so Dorothy always
carried with her from the hotel a
featherweight, spiders web hammock,
which she deftly slung between two
saplings, their light suppleness giving
an almost pneumatic effect to this
fairy net spread in 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 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 half, but sold at the department
store for $108, Dorothy lay half hyp
Noticed by the twinkling Of the green
leaves above her, when she heard a
sweet voice singing a rollicking song
Of the civil war and so knew that
katherine was thus heralding her ap
proach.
when Johnny comes marching home
Hurrah! Hurrahl
Wen give him a hearty welcome then.
Hurrahi Hurrah!
The men will cheer the boys will shout.
The ladies they will all turn out
And Wen all feel gay
When Johnny comes marching home.
Dorothy went still further back into
the history of her country and gave a
faint imitation of an Indian war
whoop to let the oncomer know she
was welcome, and presently Katherine
burst impetuously through the dense
underground.
so here you are, Miss Laziness."
she cried.
"Here am, Miss Energy, or shall |
call you Miss-applied Energy7 Kath-
crime, you have walked SO fast that
you are quite red in the face"
1T isn't exertion; it's vexation.
Dorothy. I'VE had 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
misbehaying?"
'sOf course it is. He treats the most
important problem of a woman's life
as if it were the latest thing in Life.
Dorothy sat up in the hammock.
'sThe most important problem? That
means proposal. Goodness gracious,
Kate, is that insurance man back here
again."
What insurance manY
"Oh, heartless and heartbreaking
Katherine, is there another? Sit here
in the hammock beside me, and tell
me all about it,
mo, thank you," refused Katherine.
81 weigh more than you, and / cannot
risk my neck through the collapse of
that bit Of gossaner. l must take care
of myself for his sake"
"Then it is the life insurance man
whose interests you are consulting?
| Have you taken out a policy with
him?''
'Dear me, you are nearly as bad as
father, but not quite so funny. You
are referring to Mr.. Henderson, pre-
sumo. A most delightful companion
for dance; but, my dear Dorothy, life
is not all glided out to the measures of
a Strauss waltz"
'sTrue. Quite indisputable, Kate, and
those sentiments do you credit. Who
is the MANI?
'sThe 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. see it all now. Those solemn