Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-29
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says because anyone elderly party included had seen
him say number of things, nothing about my work.
why he doesn't even know who am only mean
it's so delightful just sailing and sailing"-by which
she meant steaming and steaming-that I'd just like
to keep doing it and never see the inside OF
theater again. she says
"You amt" says the elderly party "going to fall
in love with that man, are you? My dear, how many
times have warned you against marrying outside the
profession if you have to marry at all, which hurts
your art awful she says.
"Lovei good gracious! I'm not going to fall in
love with anybody" says Suzanne, and by the way
she laughed believed her, and guess the elderly
party did, too, cause she settled back in her chair
with a satisfied kind of gr1nt. Then they talked
lower and didn't hear anything but word here and
there
"But that name Suzanne set thinking. knew
I'd seen it before.
Then all of sudden I remembered and l went
below and hunted up the magazine I'd been reading
when began the trip. ~
/ found it all right 1t told about her successful
season in New York and how she was going to Lon
don to give show.
So she was here Iywas going to tell. the parson
right off, and then thought it bit and de-
cided wouldn't.
al guess I'll lay low and let him get wise himself
thought.
But the parson stuck his notion about nosing
into other peoples affairs. For all that, / didn't
have to look hard to that thoughts of the young
lady occupied good many of the minutes he was
awake.
"When get back home" says the young lady, lean
ing back in her chair and laughing soft and lazy-ke
"Im going to let my eightday clock down"
what for?" says the parson.
"I never realized before she answers what de-
1ightful feeling eightday clock must have the
ninth day, when you have forgotten to wind it. Don't
you feel that way?"
The parson laughed a little
"Of course" she goes on, "you wouldn't want to
stay run down and be Just old junk There wouldn't
be any fun if you didn't know you'd have to be wound
up again."
"Just as" says the parson, "you enjoy the FIVE min
utes after know you ought to get in the morn
ing remember when was boy used to plan to
take extra nap Saturday morning
"And always woke up an hour earlier" the young
lady finishes for him. "And don't you have the same
experience Sundays now?" she goes
"Well" says the parson sort of slow, II don't think
do have that experience Sunday"
"No?" she says. "Then you should cultivate the
feeling just to keep in touch with your boyhood you
know You don't grow old fast and it helps in-in
various ways"
when was a boy at school used to funk my
algebra pretty regularly says the parson, and
once and often now, dream that have neglected
it all the year and wake up in cold perspiration for
fear shall not pass MY examination. Won't that do
for often keeping In pretty close touch?"
"You have that dream when you realize that you've
been neglectng unpleasant details of your pres
ent job" she laughs.
Doubtless you're right" he says, SOLDERING down
some. "There many unpleasant details and it is
easy to devote ones time to the congenial duties to
the exclusion of those that are distasteful"
Them was his words, and they sounded as if he was
saying them from the pulpit.
"You mustn't think I'm trying to lecture you," she
comes back at him. "At least your duties are on the
shelf for the next few days. There's no wireless
equipment aboard and you can let your business go
smash with the comfortable feeling that you can't do
anything to prevent it. With it's different. I
ought to be working hard at the present moment"
and she glances in the direction of the elderly
party, who reading as steady cyclometer.
The parson looked at the young lady thoughtful
like and could see he'd taken off the Settlement
Worker" tag he'd put on her and hadn't found an
other tag handy.
'Yes,' he says at last "Im taking the voyage just
for rest and in order that distance may lend en-
chantment to number of people to whom it is some
times difficult to be cordial they expecas they
have right to expect
tits hard to make hit with crowd like that
she says "You feel they're disagreeable and cold and
that shrivels you and then might we'll quit"
But says the parson, although, when human be-
ings the material of ones trade, the worker
must have degree of tact and patience not required
by the who adds column of fgures-the pleas
Of the work makes up for the grated nerves."
"Oh, yes" she says, "and most of them are nice.
The trouble is glum face stands out prominent
and if you set out to change that face-as
ally do--and it gets GUNNER and GUNNER, somehow
you feel that every else thinks he isn't getting
square DEAL" she said, and off she went.
1t the fourth night of the trip that had
the shipwreck. We'd got through doing the usual
stunt of walk the deck and of had been abed
hour so. I'd dropped dead asleep I'd
crawed in. The last remembered getting in
and the next knew l out again. and feeling for