The sun., 1908-04-26

me her hands.
sThe only ring she hadon was her we'd
ding ring. In hook again up 10 my eye
bFoWs, she ratified on, but l don't care
Il don't care-I don't care-I had the
wearing Of my rings for four whole days
this last time and that ought TO be long
enough for anybody. hadn't itr
sOh. by the way, my dear, do tell me
about that bungalow you're going TO take
for the summer down on Long Island. lt'S
quite an idea. isn't itl You are really
going to camp out7 Well. it lS camping
out, isn't II, living In one Of those little
all ready furnished Long Island buhEs-
lows2
soh, the cottage you are taking is quite
q large one. with nine rooms and bath
and ell that9 Why, thought a bungalow
was Just a little wickerish or bambooey
sort Of place, not much more than tent,
really, where folks Just went back 70 INST
principles and did their own work and sort
| Of sat around like cave dwellers. that's
the way the NlIstyles' bungalow seemed
TO me. anyhow.
yes, they called theirs bungalow too
Bungalow always sounds 80 cute and In
diany, and ell that, suppose that's the
reason 90 many folks use the word. On,
| yes, remember now that they told us that
the bungalow they had engaged had nine
rooms and bath and all that, and TO hoar
them tell about 1t you'd have thought "
was perfect palace.
sWell, along toward the end Of the summer
my husband and happened 70 be viating
some people near them, and made James
take me to the NiKstyles' bungalow. You
see, my dear. had my suspicious all along
about that Dragged about bungalow oil
theirs. We found their bungalow, and you
never saw two such sheeplsh looking folks
in your lives as the NiTStyles we're when We
came upon them.
Really, hate TO say It, but they were liV-
ing for all the world like pigs, Their bunga-
low, that they had been 90 braggy about
yes, am perfectly sure now that they'd
said before We saw II that II had nine rooms
and bath-why, II was nothing but an old
shack, my dear. a perfect shanty, open TO
all the winds Of heaven; q regular Squatters
shanty right on the edge Of the water.
THE Ni1styles were as dark az Indians,
and they put brave face on II attef bit
and tried to make us believe they were haV-
ing grand time in their bungalow and pre-
tended to want US to stay to dinner and all
that, but, my dear, couldn't have eaten
in suoh a dreadful place 10 save my life,
although Of course l didn't tell the poor
creatures that. So that's my only expert
enoe with a bungalow-the only one that l
ever actually came upon. that IL.
So my dear, when heard the other
day that you we're going to take a bunga-
low for the summer i couldn't help but
think-oh, Of course. know very well that
your place is going to be really pretty and
nice, but then you know how one gathers
ideas from what one has seen. and
"Oh. by the way. my dear, Ia II true that
your husband has bought motor bOatH
Somebody was telling me that too. Did
J l understand sright-he got IL at auction,
or second hand, or something, didn't hel
Nol New9
"Oh, / was thinking about the Fonerses
buying their library furniture second hand
and then pretending that 1t was brand
new-thats how | got that foolish idea.
l declare, am getting things irightfully
| MIXED lately.
And so you'll have q motor boat 70 step
into from your bungalow Really. aren't
you afraid Of the things, deari You know
they,bloE up II you just look at th0m. We
knew come people down at Staten Island.
| q really nice couple, who we're burned posi-
lively TO a crisp when their motor boat ex-
ploded Oh. yes, suppose they are max
| ing improvements In motor boats and
| things all the time and lessening the danger,
but deed think people take awful chances
in order to get little amusement. really,
now do.
Excuse me, my DEAR but one Of your
rats is showing through your front hair.
| There, now. I've sort Of covered II up. Err
| isn't your hair coming out rather rapidly,
darlingp No2 Maybe It's only imagination
on my part.
1T seems rather less plentiful 10 me than
II used to be. And sort Of dry, too. Don't
you use anything on II for that dryness'
You know one finds as one becomes older
that the hair is bound to become dry and
brittle. But understand there are some
things that can be put on TO take that hard,
dry look out OF the hair. Kerosene oil,
they say. is as good as anything, but /
think
SMust you 60, my dear1 was hoping
you would make me little visit this time.
The next time you really must have lunch
con with me. do 30 feel for you, my dear,
on account Of those vegetarian ideas Of
your husbaDd-really. don't see how you
manage to get'enough to eat. for suppose
he insists upon your following his vege-
tartan ideas. MOI
well, good-by, precious. Now don't
neglect to get something for your hair
before II all comes out. Good-by.'
(After visitors departure):
"Well. suppose maybe that made up
cat won't be calling me Ms. Stnnngton
from now on, and Tn glad Of itl BunEa-
| lows, motor boats and all that plfie, and
coming here TO strut around in her new
things just to make me jealous-ha, ha, hal
I'll bet she's just raging at mo now, and
I'm gladly. GLADLY .lgladdyl'
Mr.. PENGUINS TROUBLES.
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