The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-24
''PURE NONSENSE"
~ 2. Harris Deans.

sentimental.
"Why?" asked Gladys. glancing over
her shoulder.
ITO be picked up by YOU" an.
swered.
"Pooh!" said Gladys, 81 put It down
again almost Immediately"
Almost Is such an expansive
word" | remarked to my cigarette
which turned red, perhaps because
pulled at It.
Gladys seemed about II think. but
changed her mind and spo 'Se instead.
Were almost alone, do you mean?"
she suggested brightly.
I'VE are, quite" ! corrected. Aunt
was out, speaking to the coo.,-some-
thing urgent, anyhow
"You." / began allegorically, ARE
something in shop-window."
Something nice" insisted Gladys
Not necessarily" said, but some
thing want"
"Oh!" murmured Gladys. Sire APP
peared to be In some doubt hrw to
take that.
But I've no money" continued.
mot really money" said Gladys,
who disliked deflniteness.
Really money" said firmly. "Your
mother is the shopkeeper."
rs that quite nice?" asked Gladys.
doubtfully.
80 | can't get you" concluded,
without expressing an opinion
Il don't see--the--the-wh do you
call it," declared Gladys.
'How's that?" / inquired, Ticking
the ash off my cigarette.
Gladys-well. no, she didn't really
blush.
There's no window to this shop"
she explained. Then she did blush.
Perhaps she doubted my honesty.
Your mother is doubling shopkeep-
err and window" said T. as heard my
aunt's footstep approaching.
She looked at us suspiciously as she
came In.
WHAT are you two talking about!'
she inquired.
Shops said promptly. Wonder
ing whether therell ever be bargain
sale"
There's generally one" said my
aunt informatively, every autumn"
She eyed Gladys depressed express
sion In surprise. You see, she didn't
know she'd been continuing an ale
CORY.
Il ioathe bargains!" Gladys burst
out.
Sometimes you can't help getting
them" said, TO soothe the little girls
feelings.
I don't think she quite graspef IT;
but, then, girls often get the meaning
from the tone rather than the words.
"Oh, in that case" she admitted.
'In what case?" asked my aunt, q
trife bewildered.
'Tn case ever got bargain, Gladys
wouldn't object" ! explained.
Gladys got up in hurry and con-
tinued her busting Well, honestly She
implied that.
why should she object?" demanded
my aunt
i shrugged my shoulders.
81 don't think It's at all nice OF you
10 suggest that Gladys would object"
continued my aunt somewhat an
noyed
Il didn't" I protested. Il said she
object"
My aunt looked at me with some de-
gree of evaporation.
you seem to me-" she said severe
" ito be getting more difficult OF COM
,rehension every day. You talk utter
'Not utter" pleaded.
utter rubbish" insisted my aunt.
I never can understand you, and l
lon't think Gladys does. although she
,retends to-"
"Gladys." cried Indignantly.
Not always" she answered.
"There," said my aunt triumphantIy.
THAT is corrected Gladys hurried
Y, II always understand what you say,
ut not why you say 1t"
Il speak that may not think" ex-
lained.
Now what does he mean by that?"
sked my aunt helplessly.
my meaning" / admitted. rs not
cry obvious-not TO a woman, any
ow."
There's difference" explained my
unit kindly, between foolishness and
leverness."
That" acknowledged frankly. 'fs
D. The difficulty is to discover what
the difference"
I paused politely as my aunt ap-
cared to be about to speak.
"Yes?' said encouragingly.
Nothing" said she. Go on
Il haven't solved the problem N.Y.
III" informed her. "The difference
etween sense and nonsense" | went
a, depends as much on the listener
on the speaker"
My aunt rose to her feet
Absurd" said she. Sense Is al
avs sense. You are talking absolute
You, then" said admiringly, have
lived the nrOblpm"