Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1908-12-09
MR.. PMMf,', MARTY.
HE is 1NcUcsoo TO sTuoY The
ECLIPSE.
But Mrs. Pi.kius' Urcoatr-H &c r.
element Prevented the -sr.5.
ton from Beng "ha. ..."t
Be Called e S,cce-c.

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Pitkins was aH excitement as he
jumped from has cnaif ana saJueu 10
Mrs PitKns VINO wa- in the 4aHt
room:
Say my dear. l-ek here O @i.l.e.
What are you doing. anyway? Read.
ing? Well, oi an the cuni5Waed IN.
ertia and insensibiljy to one opIot-
tuntcs, this certainly gets the hisl.
es, possible luu-.yuC-luu. B-a4.ug
what? The Ng.ans 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! Sc gods. VIII you
listen TO that? Why right here. And
you Indifferent To- the greatest and
most impressive phenomenon in ma
ture!
Why didn't 1 tell you? | am tell
ing You, am ! not? At least have a
s'uc,pl impression that / am doing
something OF the sort. | couldn't tell
you before, could /? | forgot myself
until minute ago that this is the
moiHins for the sun to do its little
disnp caring act
70. course I'm not angry. No. I'm
no, scolding you. Is it too late? Let's
see. No, not If we hurry.
Hustle around and get a piece of
smoked glass tor me. I'm going to see
this show If | 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
NO, | don want the opera glasses
| want a piece of window glass Just
common, ordinary window glass. Do
you know what window glass is? You
stare as if you didn't. Don't you know
where to 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
Hold ON! Hold on there! You'll cut
your fingers and then blame me for it.
Let me do that. I'm the only one in
the house that can
ouch! Get me a rag, will you. I'm
bleeding to death. Can't you see / am?
/ might have known I'd cut myself If
/ tried to get glass for your blamed old
eclipse.
There, now. If the eclipse would last
all day maybe we should have n 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 on this
glass to polish the kitchen range
might as well try to look through
side of sole leather Get me another
piece.
AN right, now I'll go out and take
look at this wonderful eclipse you
talk so much about
"Oh, of course a cloud has gone over
the sum- Look what you're doing.
You've knocked my arm and got this
SCOT all over my nose. l look like a
blackfaced sheep.
All, There's the sun.
Gwen, great Jupiter Ammon! Is that
all the eclipse amounts to? | could get
the same effect any time taxing a
bite of a cooky. If the sun can't put
up better entertainment than that
before it goes out of the show business
for such long time 1t might us weil
stay behind the clouds.
You made all that fuss for
nothing, Mrs. Pilkins. | hope you're
satisfied at last. The next time | cut
my fingers and then place myself be-
fore the rudely staring public as
black-faced comedian I'll have some
pretty good evidence that I'm going to
get my moneys worth. The next time
you want to break your neck and halt
kill me for the sake of a silly little
hole in the sun you can do the labor
yourself.
Great Scott! You've left that lamp
turned up and it's literally showing
SCOT all over the house,
We'll I've certainly paid a big
price for mighty small show. / guess
| can worry along now for hundred
years without the suns putting itself
out to entertain me-
I'm take walk while the house is
being set to rights. If you hadn't got
excited and made all this fuss you
would have shown a good deal better
judgment than you did"