The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-07-18
A Midsummer
Day Dream

II 20. girls, hello--I good
m morning - I'm talking about, lie
me got my things off There, that,
II better Now, guess what I've done'
e And the Typewriter Lady beamet
q about her
# Got married"
Got "A raise"
h Got bargain hat"
e No, You silly children Something
Il much better I've been offered a house
I IN the country for the summer" And
9 the T. |. seated herself triumphantly
3 and played Il barcarole on her ma.
> chine, with variations.
There's "a lady at our boarding
house who owns this lovely old plac,
In the country, The people she rents
it 10 are going abroad for the sum.
mer and my sister and are to have
it free for the whole season. Just for
taking care OF it
We're just waiting for salary day.
SO We can buy the few things we'll
naed for it, You see it isn't quite
completely furnished that is. wen
need few porch chairs and some
extra table linen, and some bath fix
lures. The bath fixtures are my idea.
| always did have perfect craze fer
bath fixtures.
You can all come and spend weak
ends. Why l can hardly wait for the
/ hrst Of the month To buy my com.
mutation ticket. And. say. unaer
stand there's summer school cut
there for young men, Aha. | thought
| thatd bring out a few sparkles In.
dIcatmg interest. / think it's sort Of a
preparatory school where they get
hem ready for college-and you know
boys that are being prepared for CO..
ege usually have fathers who aren't
exactly what you'd call poor Oh. | |
have perfectly glorious summer
planned"
Il say, Hortense." chimed in the One !
Practical Girl have you been out to |
see the place."
Not yet We're going Saturday /
afternoon, SO as to he there when they
deliver the porch chairs and the lilen
and the bathroom accessories"
The One Practical Girl smiled in
scrutably. Once upon a time" said
she, 4 bought a suit through seeing
1t illustrated In the back of a maya.
zine. 1t was perfectly grand sut-in
the picture. My wash-lady is wearing
IT, Every time | see ii on her have
panss OF conscience to think how
made fellow creature a victim to
something | wouldn't tolerate myself
She has never reproached, me in
words. She just persistently wears
the suit the moral of this tale being
that rou never can tel until you see
things" And the one Practical Girl
went on sharpening her lead pencil.
On Monday morning the Typewriter ,
I.ady's desk remained closed. The
girls had been breathlessly awaiting
hcr account of the country paradise.
OF how the porch looked garnished Il
with its new chairs. of the splendor
of the nickel soap dish the towe
racks, the dollar twenty-ni reduced
Irom-one tiftys shower bath, and all the
rest that was to bring summer refresh.
nent to the city-worn Office ladies'.
At noon came Hortense, wearing the
blank expression Of a magician Nsiose
rick has gone awry-who has failed
o make the rabbits come out of the
iat and who breads the jeers of the
audience. One could see with half an
we that the tears were being held
iick with a mighty effort. The One
Tactical Girl slipped her arm swiftly
round her shoulder.
Don't YOU care, Hortense. I bet I
now just exactly what's happened -
Didn't I buy that suit out of the
Magazine? But, | say. don't you care 4
'ou can make up what you're out Of
ocket by having ten-cont lunches Fl
anne as did fer a couple of months pc
nd you'll feel all the better for II. :
So" In
1T isn't the money" walled the vi'
)Vncast one. half 50 much as IL IS
le meanness OF that woman mis- M,
presenting things to me like that I Pa
member her distinctly mentioning III
he tub. The tub It makes me rage -
hen think Of it, Imagine the pic m
re OF my nickel plated soap rack at.
ehed TO the side of a disintegrating ~
OGDEN washtub. and my perfectly n
and patent nozzle shower bath u
'oked on to the branch of a tree
mewhere. rugged up over the
b"
"Horteaseii" r
In tent, in a tent. Of course,
iere wasn't any bathroom, And the
rch chairs Oh. girls. IL makes me
Pep to think OF my beautiful porch
airs sitting out i'm the middle OF IA
e dusty road. being run over every
mute By automobiles They'd have l.
sit there, you see. for there wasn't IL
Y porchi And the front door opened IL
ht On 10 the road And as for table n
en- What would be the use of E
de linen If YOU had 20 eat canned k
ID all the time7 You could just "A
Ike picnic OF II and have il out
the woods. or anywhere, for all
y had was a coal stove TO cook on.
Id rather so without eating than G0I
have to make fires and things every 90,
hi when | get home. And the pre- Ill
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