The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-07-24
DESPERATE
Rem EDIES


Of the girl sitting opposite in the car.
"She is mentally doing her 'seyens. "
Il thought she had st. Vitus' dance,
said her friend.
Well, there is a great family re-
semblance," admitted Miss Heron,
but Just notice the intent look in her
ewes. know the symptoms; I've
done those 'sevens' in bed and in Gle
waited cars and on street corners"
"You belong to gymnastic dancing
class" exclaimed her friend in tones
of surprise
Yes. and so will you before long,
so don't look so Mortified"
81 can't imagine myself doing any
/ thing $3.50
"Undignihed, said Miss Heron.
Neither could ! when Ida preached
the subject to me- ] thought She bad
taken leave of her senses. pointed
! ont that dancing-eyen plain ordinary
| dancng-Was not for me, who had
! plenty of gray hairs and more than
/ enough ayordupois, and the gymnas
| tic dancing was entirely out of the
/ question The name, somehow makes
one think OF ground and lofty tum-
/ bling and all sorts of queer things like
| that, doesn't IT,
1T does, indeed" said her friend.
81 steadfastIy refused to even think
! of it," Miss Heron went on, but after
Ida had pointed out, politely but en-
phatcaIv. that embonpoint Of the
worst kind-the hippy kind-had laid
its deadly hand upon me, and after
she had skillfuIly aimed a few more
shots at my growing inhrmities. |
gave in to the extent of promising to
go and look on.
well. she who looks is lost | i'm
mcdlately got a suit. pretty one and
now you should hear the compliments
| get on my figure To keep myself
from becoming coaccio3 nave every
once in a while 10 remember that
when appeared iH ,he striped red
and yellow horror they hand out to
the dcfen nss tourist who " Ies bath
ing at the soashore / had no bouquets
thrown at me-quite the contrary. so
give the euit its due.
TING Grs+ lesson was thn buck and
and VIM Doesn't that sound like a
ya,,doyirlo ru,uaorq If nut on the
stage as performed at the first Iessoa
! il would surely make the biggest kind
/ cf hit
or rove~ lnov what exercise was
! uatil tried TO make my brains and
owes and feet r,rYo al tic same time
u,ye M my arms In despair. All 1
know about them is that they are sure
In be the other way. whatever the
right wav is It is little like the
time we used 70 have when we were
children and rubbed one hand up and
the other down.
90 est lesson We had the flower fig
ure We call If the floor figure. be-
cause we are on the floor a good deal
Of the time Even the very dienifed
girl next to me toppled over. But she
didn't care not bit: she hadn't
time She scrambled TO her knee and
began making circles with her arms
and uivoting around her waist. trying
desporatelv to catch Nd.
"As for me when we were supposed
IN toucb the floor with our forcheads
co,,ld only elongate nv neck like a
turtle BIT I'm quite flexible now. |
can got within ward OF the goal
Stiu that flower figure nearly did
me ND. / certainly thought | never
could go upstairs or downstairs
AGAIN "
"Weu don't exactly see where the
1,r,bsrine nroccss comes in" said her
friend
"Ncither did / for a while But YOU
sbopld SEQ me now. I'm a perfect
fairy I'm Going 10 do the buck and
wing ot rnriq's marty
No won't invite YOU to our class
for g, while I'd he mohbad Helen
had twc visitors and the way they