Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-02-09

see "some of the fun of the fair" By
mingling with the crowd of townsfolk,
clad in their Sunday best and filling the
sunshiny meadow land. Bebe, though
she had felt thrilled to the finger tips by
the grandeur of the enclosure, was not
unwilling to agree to the move; for out
there-among the gay masses of laugh
ing, chattering, over-dressed and appall-
ingly loquacious tradespeople and coun-
try folk, family groups of fathers, moth
ers and grandmothers, down to the
youthful pensionnaires home for the
holidays. and the bebe carried aloft by
its nurse in stiffly starch Golf and snowy
apron, pretty country girls in picturesque
Norman caps, old women selling sweet
cakes and sirops, well-to-do farmers,
blue bloused peasants, betting men, note
book in hand and pencil between lips
these We're faces more familiar to Bebe
than those of the more select and
sparsely patronized elmer circle"
After all where was the advantage of
being so very select when you were
among your own people, and when the
sky above you was so blue, and the sun
shine so bright, and the very grass under
your feet smelt like a June hay field in
that August heat? Privately Bebe won
dered why her cavalier responded with
such cold brief greeting to the cordial,
If jocular saiutations addressed to him
by fellow sportsmen in the crowd, who
glanced in open astonishment at their
woman hating confrere and the pretty
blueeyed girl leaning on his arm. Pres
emily, however, she uttered her own COM
plant
Il do hate people who stare at you
and do not come forward to salute you
or speak to you!" she remarked, as they
were turning from the rails after one of
the minor races. Eat brother of NJ. lie
pasteur-but perhaps you know himf
Perhaps he also vas at school viz your"
mo. / did not remember that he had
a brother. | suppose it was he whom
saw with your pastor yesterday. What
of him?" GARNER spoke sharply
He is an army tutor, and lives in
England; but every summer he comes
here to stay viz his brozzer, and bring
several young men to instruct gem in
French. I, too, have met him viz NJ. lie
pasteur, who named me to him. Yet
when l pass him once, twice on re field
Just now he does not uncover or say,
Bonjour, mademoiselle,' but stand and
stare first at you and zen at me. and
frown-comme ca" Bebe drew her eve
brows together i'll a delightfully."- infan-
tine scowl. "Why does man do so?"
Because the mans an ill-bred cur"
said GARNER promptly. "Mademoiselle,
we have been two hours on the race
grounds; the Thermometer is certainly
over ninety; and those little feet of
yours must be quite tired What do you
say to a rest under the striped awning
of one of those pretty little cafes on the
boulevards yonder, with ices and lemon
AIDE to cool us before the next item-let
me see, the circus is it not-on our pro-
gramme?"
re cirque?" repeated Bebe. with a lit
tie cry of delight, which turned at least
half dozen pair of eyes upon her "Do
you mean you are really going zere--
going to take me zere, too?"
why, certainly. l am simply here
today as your guardian, and everything
that he would have taken you to see or
do l am bound to take you to see and
do in his place. The circus, as l saw Ivy
the posters as we came along, does not
begin till 5; and afterwards / think YOU
said comes an illumination fete ON the
river"
"Oh, but not till it is dark, monsieur;
not till after dinner, and perhaps when
20 home to dinner Mere Margot may not
permit Eat l shall go out again!"
And why go home between whites at
all? Noy, mademoiselle, now / remem.
Der you told me that one of the things
you most enjoyed during your guardians
visit was that he always took you to
dine at good hotel and gave you
table d'hote dinner, with lots of courses.
That dinner, then, is most sacred part
of the programme. Are you afraid that
| shall not order you as good a one?"
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