The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-12-01
MR.. PILKINS, MARTYR
AZ Is INDUCED" TO STUDY THE
ECLIPSE.
iDut Mrs, Pitkins' Uncomfortable Ex.
element Prevented the Observa-
ton from Being What Might
Be Called a Success.

Be Called a success.
Pitkins was all excitement as he
Jumped from his chat and shouted TO
Mrs. Pitkins who was in the next
room:
"Say, my dear, look here a minute.
What are you doing, anyway! Read
ing? Well, Of all the COMPOUNDED in
ertia and insensibility to ones oppor-
tunities, this certainly gets the high
est possible c~omlnendation! Reading
what? The Woman's Weekly Wish
bone, of course. o, my aunt!
Woman, don't you know there's an
eclipse of the sun happening this very
minute? Where? Ye gods, will you
listen to that? Why, right here. And
you indifferent to the greatest and
most impressive phenomenon in ma
ture!
Why didn't l tell you? l am tell
ing you, am | not? AT least | have a
general impression that l am dong
something of the sort. | couldn't tell
you before, could l? / forgot myself
until a minute ago that this is the
morning for the sun to do its little
disal pearing act.
"Ot course I'm not angry. No, I'm
not scolding you. Is it too late? Let's
tee. No, not If we hurry.
Hustle around and get a piece OF
smoked glass for me. I'm going to see
this show if l never see another. The
paper says it's the last chance TO view
this kind of an eclipse for a hundred
years, and | don't care to wait as long
as that.
mo. | don't want the opera glasses.
want a piece of window glass. Just
common, ordinary window glass. Do
you know what window glass is? o
stare as if you didn't. Don't you know
where 10 get any? Well, why don't
you provide for the eclipse? You ought
to have known at least three days ago
that it was going to come along this
morning.
Listen! What was that?
"Say, we're all right now. Jimmy
has Just thrown an old shoe through
the kitchen window.
" IA OA tAASiSs S0S
your fingers and then blame me for it.
Let me do that. I'm the only u in
the house that can
ouch! Get me 9 rag. will you. I'm
bleeding to death. Can't you see l am?
] might have known I'd cut myself ii
I tried to get glass for your blamed old
eclipse.
There. now. If the eclipse would last
all day maybe we should have a chance
to get a glimpse of the last of it.
"Here, light the student lamp and
smoke this piece Of glass. Look out.
there; don't let the baby stick her
head through that broken pane.
'Why, cover the hole. Well, then,
tie up the baby. Do something.
"Now. I've got SCOT enough OF this
glass to polish the kitchen range. I
might as we'll try to look through .
side of sole leather. Get me another
piece.
"All right, now. Ill go out and take
. look at this wonderful eclipse you
talk so much about.
"Oh, of course Q cloud has gone over
the sun! Look what you're doing!
You've knocked my arm and got this
SCOT all we my nose. l look like q
black-faced sheep.
"Ah! There's the sun.
"Well, great Jupiter Ammon! Is that
all the eclipse amounts to? l could get
the same effect any time taking q
bite Of a cooky. If the sun can't put
up a better entertainment than that
before it goes out of the show business
for such a long time 1t might as we'll
stay behind the clouds.
You made all that fuss for
nothing, Mrs. Pilkins. I hope you're
satisfied at last. The next time l cut
my fingers and then place myself be-
fore the rudely staring public as q
black-faced comedian I'll have some
pretty good evidence that I'm going to
get my moneys worth. The next time
you wan to break your neck and half
kill me for the sake OF q silly little
hole in the sun you a do the labor
yourself.
Great Scott! You've left that lamp
turned up and it's literally showing
ooot all over the house!
well, I've certainly paid a big
price for q mighty small show. I guess
] a worry along now for a hundred
years without the suns putting itself
out to entertain me.
I'm take a walk while the house is
being set to rights. II you hadn't got
excited and made all this fuss you
would have shown q good deal better
judgment than you did"
i've MILL W.. H.