The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-09-11

~ But what" asked Mrs Lathrop, in whose
y kitchen Susan had set the basket down and in
whose kitchen chair Susan setting her
Let It squawk" Susan repeated; az guess it's made
trouble enough for others that may all conscience
feel to little while without troubn' myself look
upon it that very kind to take it anyhow, not hav
ing no idea how it'll agree with the chickens when it
comes to eatin or with me when comes to eatin' it,
for you know as never cared for 'em, Mrs Lathrop
tonight the least her friends could do for Granma
Mullins to stay with her an for me to take the duck
weather neighbor but she said she could not take
duck her mind too an spoiled duck at that, for
need to be in the room with that duck to see as ths
Prodgal Son fully an freely whipped in comparison
to the way as he's been dealt with:
Il really protested Mrs. Lathrop.
Well, d'n know, but it will be savn' o breath in
the end said Miss oegg and h sreuRon arose laid hold
and coming out shut the connecting door firmly behind
Where under tho began Mrs. Lathrop
It's really quite long story, returned her friend;
"but ! come in just to tell you, anyhow. It's Mrs
terdsy mornin an its story o trials, an will say
this for Mrs Macy, trials right along after
in her carpet slippers with eapsieum plaster to her
back, an Gran'ma Mullins maxim her tea every minute
she amt maxim her toast, enough to make anyone
whether it's spoiled or not An so took itr
"Wel, II exclaimed Mrs. Lathrop
"You think not now" said Susan " but you will
when tell for. as said before come over just
to tell you, an Tn g9in to begin right off It's long
an you know always make time to tell you every
thin, so you rely gettin the whole hide an hair
I'm just fresh from Mrs Macy an Mrs Mays so fresh
from her trials that they still hodin the plaster
to her when left
But expostuated the listener
"Well, now, this is how it was" said Miss Clegg;
an I'll begin way back in the beginnn you'll have
so as to understand just why she is so nigh to half mad
For Mrs Macy isn't as gets mad easy, an SO it's
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her up
"S Seems, Mrs Lathrop, yesterday mornin' Mrs
Seems ~ she was goin' to take lunch with Busby
Bells cousin, Luther Stotts wife, she met at the
y o Of
an Mrs Stott told Mrs Lupey time she or her
to aVe got o r e m
and her husbands sister too So ~ dds never
made up her mind to go there to lunch an she wrote
the address side O the paper an her shoes the
other for she they're kind Of shoes as is
raned not pinch you in the back of every newspaper
AN you know what Mrs. Macy is on ben' pinched-
why she says she give up belts an took slippers
Just for the very she could not stand bein
pinched nowhere
Seems the shoes was Kulosis shoes an Mrs Macy
says how anyone could remember EN-, off of paper she
Eleventh Ave. S. W.. an that important too, for
e Eleventh s the ns ea s
city is laid that way to make it simple to them
as knows where they live anyhow.
happy as anyone looks to be aore they know they're
gon to be the first to have invention tried EN-
she's lived under as: ghtn rod for nigh on to forty
years an anywhere nigh to be struck once
yet but she says she has now learned to her sorrow
as ben' fooled by lghtnn' rod man forty years ago
says she'll lose guess this foon don't last full
long as the lightnn rod and make her wear her felt
slippers all the forty years, too.
"Well, she says it was the minister-an' she says
after that donation party to fix him out with shirts
o1od 10 he ared
for while She the idea as the congregation is
expected shirt the minister is surely to her,
make him the six when she expected to be
her duty Christian bvt she says she surely hoped
the last o him for good breathn' spell.
But no, Mrs, Lathrop, seems it wasn't to be- an so
she learned to her keen an pinchin sorrow yesterday
mornn' for she wasn't more'n fairly on her way to
result just in time to be the first for him to try
an me with tears in her eyes an her felt slippers SOL
EMMY crossed top o each other she not see
things for she says-an certainly felt to agree Mrs
Lathropas if there's ANYTHING the wide earth as you
for shoes IS ! someh as NOBODY wants to remember
shoes is things as is happiest forgot.
well, Mrs Lathrop, seems this memory sys-
School magazine for workin' out puzzle Seems you
guess big cities till their capital letters spell Memory,
an pacin an then they send you the memory system
complete in one book for nohin at all Or put
i s IS hs e he
hadn't ought to waste two cents! Seems as they
had most awful time afore they found Ypslanti for
the X an for while they most afraid they'd have
to be reckless with two cents but they got i in the end
m sent EN- all off, an the book come back with in
junction forbidden it to be lent stamped every page
Seems it back day before yesterday an the min
lister sat up o the night commonwealth the theory
an then Mrs Macy he jus. got it into him in time
for Fate to LET him go an be flung at her right the
bridge She she wasn't no more ,nstrustin trouble
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