The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-07-07
WHY | MUST
MOVE

Women are queer. Here my sister
and | have just got nicely settled In
fiat, and now she wants to give IL
up. | took the fiat to please my sis
ter, as she expects to get married
next year, so she wanted to rub up
her knowledge of housekeeping.
Only the man who has boarded for
ten years can appreciate what hav-
Ing his own home means. And now,
Just as | have begun to enjoy sitting
under my own vine and fig tree and
have ordered flower boxes for the
front windows, | have got to get out
the same as | got in, just to please my
sister. And it is all because little
thing happened a week after W. got
settled in our apartment, as my ster
did call it, Now she calls it an nsy
tenement.
The man my sister Is engaged to 10
very absentminded and so near-sigit
ed he cannot see anything unless 10
puts his nose right on II. The FIRST
time he came to our apartment IL
was a week after we got settled
stairs without stopping to look a
see what floor we lived on. Instca
of going back to find out, he started
In to nose around each door he came
to. looking for our name.
An old Tabby came cut of one of
the fats and seeing him STOPPING over
the opposite door she thought he was
a sneak thief trying to pick lock. In
stead of speaking to him and asking
him what he wanted she began to fol
low him up the stairs, watching TO see
what he would do.
Our fat was the right-band top one
When Tabby looked through the ban
listers OF the top flight of stairs and
saw him disappear in our fiat she be-
came greatly alarmed and ran down
stairs and sent the ianitor for a po-
Iiceman. while she stood guard In the
lower hall
When the policeman came, he, the
ianitor and Tabby came up to our fiat
and rang the bell My sisters fianee,
Cecil, was out on the fire escape un
packing a box of china so the excel
sior would blow over in the next yard,
and he did not hear the bell ring |
don't know where my sister was. but
she did not hear the bell either. AS
Tor me. | was not home. ! had gone
out on an errand.
The policeman knocked on the door
with his CLUB, and as he got no answer
he made the ianitor get bunch of
keys and try them until he found one
that fitted, and then they all three
walked in. My sister heard stealthy
footsteps and whispering voices In the
hall, SO she screamed aud locked her
self up in her bedroom. Cecil heard
nothing and, absentmindedly. kept on
dropping the excelsior over the fire es-
cape and watching II float away, while
he waited for my sister to came back
and tell him what to do next. so YOU
can imagine his surprise when the
cop grabbed him by the coat collar
and yanked him N on the kitchen
floor and stood over him, club In hand.
is this the feller?" said the cop to
Tabby.
Yes, IL is, sdln ldDDy.
Come on" said the cop, and hauled
Cecil upon his feet and began to hustle
him out of the fat.
Cecil thought it was time for him TO
begin to scream, and he yelled, LIZ
zie. come out and save me-" Lizzie Is
my sisters name.
The policeman asked Lizzie through
her locked door If she knew the man?
She swore she didn't, and said he
must be a burglar and please to take
him away.
Just then | got back. ! had hard
work forcing my way up the stairs
and through the crowd into our hall
What's the matter?" ] asked the
policeman.
This lady" he said, pointing to
Tabby, says this man Is sneak
thief"
"Oh, rot" | exclaimed. why,
have known him since he wore long
dresses" Then made Lizzie come
out and when she saw that It was
Cecil who had been arrested she fell
In his arms, and | don't know what
she did say. but everybody began to
laugh, and. fred everybody out but
the cop the janitor and Tabby.
gave Tabby a piece of my mind
and put her out in tears. Next ! gave
the cop FIVE spot and told him not TO
tell anybody told the janitor he was
a fool and he went off mad because |
gave him nothing.
In the meantime Cecil and Lizzie
had disappeared. ! did not look for
them. but stuck my had out the par
lor window to cool of and think what
the consequences would be. And that
is the reason my sister wants TO give
up the fat Foolish, isn't II?
l. h