The Cairo bulletin., 1907-12-31
EdHh's
Heroes
Nv Carroll Watson Rankin

7 AAtu, lor9GuI-Dlu IAUiln, Win AuH
brown curl over one shoulder, and Til
\ collar Of her gown turned in, wa
Janice. For two weeks after the initia
performance hy the members Of th
Shakespearian club, Edith in III,
spare-room Counterpart and the Grim
son piano cover, was juliet. The fam
lily sbrewdIy suspected that, durins
this period the iceman was uncon
| sciously doing duty as Romeo; for o.
more than one occasion Edith was
! seen " gaze tcnderly down upon him
from tho safe vantage Of the hower
box ID the attic window that being
i the nearest approach to balcony that
| the house Afforded.
The family bore Up under all this,
with commendable fortitude
Before September was over, Edith
was Queen Elizabeth, in the spare
room pillow shams. Marie Auloinette,
Ia cornstarch and impossible heels,
i and even Charlotte Curday behind the
grimy bars of Inc family g1liron She
was Joan of Arc AT noon aud her rela
tipes would say good night 20 Iady
Jane Grey at bedtime only 70 be cou-
fronled by Lucrezia Borgia at the
breakfast table
Had this been all, the Bannerings
might have borne up under II; but
there was worse ID come. Edith.
wearing of solitary heroines BEGAN
to look about for heroes What
was Josephine without Napoleon .sa-
bella without Ferdinand or Mary
Queen 81 Scots, without Eizzjo?
The iceman having vanished witli
the summer was unavailable for ro-
mantle purposes; but the blackeyed
peanut yander, whom Edith passed
every morning on her way to school
made an admirable Napoleon; the
tall Young man Ia the fiofis n shop
did very nicely as Ferdinand, and
Ediths imagination was sufficiently
elastic to elothe the grocers assist
ant in the picturesque garb OF Ri2zo.
One day Dayton. Eaith's Older broth
ar, who was about as sentimental as a
lobster happened to walk home from I
school with his idealstie sister. He |
saw the peanut vendeY exchange /
slances, not with the Empress Jose I
ahine, hut with his Dayton pre-
'ious sister Edith He saw the flor
SITS assistant touch his hat boldly. |
not to Isabella Of Spain. bat TO Edith,
# America He beard the grpcer's
'oung man say, not By your leave,
four majesty but How do YOU do.
Hiss Ediih?' and DAYTON was NOT
LEASED
You seem" said Dayton. with tho
unqualified severity of al outraged
.ider brother 10 have a circle 81 ac,
Iuaintances. Are you in the habit Of
exchanging bows with all the boot
lacks and street fakirs you meet on
our WAY to school2
Il know those young men quite
veil, replied Edith, loftlly and they
ne not beotblacks often bug things
rom them They are very pleasant
Dung men Don't You think that
Dung Italian looks wonderfully like
'aPoleon2'
NO, ! don't returned pfosaic pay
on. He looks more as if he needed
bath
: few days later Dayton discovered
,dah with a bag OF peanuts in one
aud Il bunch Of carnations In lbo !
Their standing upon the grocer door /
'ep conyersing with The grocer8
oung man Mhcn Dayton reached 4
ome he told his mother about IL.
shes snch a dear friendly little 1
lul said Airs Bmuering. thal
ate to tell her thai She mustn't make e
bosom friend of every person she
appens to meet even if that person d
pcs chauce To- resemble royalty"
Bul when Ed,hs schuomatos be- i
ln 70 tease her about her cnnquosts. +
hen lhe neiehbors began To hiut fo d
rs Banncring that the girl was net r
20 particular IN her choice Of ass8 u
ates and when the peanut yender q
e florists assistant or the gfocors \
lung man was continually a. baud 10 ID
.cor Edith 20 or from school Mrs. d
annering realized that Che time had
me for Interference.
IF she were my daughter" said
ayton, shaking a threatening fist al a. i.
inch Of violets presented by TIE I
'ung florist, I'D lock her np in her -
ON and keep her there. I1l thrash I,
ose three chaps lf yon say SO. !,
iar ~"
Certainly not" said Mrs. Banner !"
e. quietly II want you TO invite y
em here 90 dinner"
What" gaspcd DAYTON -
I've decided" said Mrs. nsnnernr I,
, let Edith invite them 90 here ~ -
iner. tomorrow night told her =.
ehod 10 mee her friends
rs ii trap2 -,
We'll yees. admitted Hra Banner ii
The following day. Edith. radiant "
ID anticipation, made elaborate nr
.parauons for the coming event h.
AZ six O'Clock fbc door bell rang H.,
q Empress Josephine went joyfnlly
sn the stairs to greet Napoleon. ar
iut what allied hims There was Ger an
My something auiss. IL his coarse al
mel shirt careiessiy fastened at y,