Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-07-10

Ehsy Are Always En3oyabIo for the
Person surpriseas


rhsy Are Always Enioyablo for the
Person surpriseas
Surprises are mostly selfish" pro
nounced Aunt Phebe, bluntly.
why, Aunt Phebe Turneri"
They are; the one that plans them
has the fun, and the other one has to
pretend to like 1t or be a curmudgeon.
You told me yourself that clifford
came home with a headache on his
birthday last year, and that he was
lying on the couch with his collar OF
and needing shave when those twenty
people you had invited to surprise him
walked in. Do you suppose he enjoyed
| thatT
He'd better, after the pains I'd
takenl" Cllfford's wife retorted. II
had perfectly lovely refreshments, and
a cake with twenty seven candles, and
all done without his suspecting thing.
But this year he's on guard, and just
trying his best to forestall my surpris-
ing him. He wants me to come down.
town to dinner on his birthday, but /
sha'n't let him spoil my plans by hu
moring him In that"
There 1t Is; you know he doesn't
want to bo surprised, and yet you're
bound to do Ito please yourself.
Now isn't that selhshf
Mrs Clifford Ashley looked ar
grieved. Il suppose you'd say It was
selfish In me to come home on the
three o'clock train instead Of the six.
last week, and lug the. baby and my
suit case from the station all alone,
just to surprise Cliff by having dinner
ready when he got homer
MIN, did Cliff expect you on the six
o'clock tramp
"Yes, Of course. Went to meet It,
right from the Office, and 1t was dread
fully late, and he waited and waited,
and then, when 1t did come, we weren't
on 1t. OF all the deJected-loOking fell
lows, he was the worst when he walked
Into this nat. And astonishedI was
paid for all my trouble by the express
sion on his face when he found NJ
here"
Il wonder If Cliff was paid for his,
too? There, child, don't take that
wrong. You see, got through sur
prising about forty years ago, one win
Ter when l was In school, and q lot
OF US came down on old Professor Bell
ing with a surprise party, and found
MIN sitting In front Of the base burner.
wrapped In a quilt, having a terrific
attack Of asthma. The sheets from his
cold bedroom were draped on chairs
round the Stove-but do you suppose
we young savages had sense enough or
neart enough to go awayH No, indeed!
we trooped In, and that poor, RaspinR
man was hustled Off into his cold bed
room, and between the times of wait
Ing on him, his tired little wife male
coffee and helped us serve the refresh
ments we had brought, and there we
stayed until eleven o'clock at night
And 1t wasn't until Just before we left
that l realized what we were doing.
l heard him groan out to his wife
VIII they never GOT I've got to sit mn
to breathe, and can't in this cold
room."
Aunt Phsbei" Mrs. Ashley was
laughing In spite Of her pique.
Gospel truth was cured Of sur
prises right then. Now, why don't Won
let Cllf enjoy his birthday in his own
way1 Go downtown to dinner with
him, If he wants that"
But no, lndeedi" cried. Clirord's
wife, with a sudden CLINT in her black
eyes. Cliffs not asthmatic, and he's
got to be surprised when l think best
It's such fun I"-Youth's Companion.