Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-01-12

same IN America, ii sally nauh
warned me. I suppose it's quite easy
to remember just 400 faces, as you're
sure there will never be any more,
even If they have children. because
they're being cut down instead of go
ing up in number.
When we had been for about an
hour and half in the big shop, we'd
finished all we had to do there and
must motor to another farther up. be-
fore meeting Mr.. Parker, who was to
give us lunch at place called Sher-
rvs, at 1 O'clock. On the way, Sally
suddenly exclaimed, "Oh, Cousin kath-
crime, we must initiate this dear child
into the mysteries Of ice cream soda
water, and I'm just yearning for some
myself, anyhow"
Mrs. Ess Kay gave the direction to
her mechanician. very young man
with eyes that looked positively III
with intelligence and way of snap
ping out "all right" when she spoke to
him that would make Stan sit up with
surprise II his chauffeur did 1t.
Sally said that the incest oasis In tile
desert Of London was an American
place where you can get Ice cream
soda water, but had never had any,
and In the burning heat Of the New
York morning. which flung itself into
the shop like a great wave In spite of
fierce electric fans, | could have purred
in pure delight over the piled up Ice
cold froth In that tall glass. 1t tasted
like frozen velvet favored with straw
berries, and should have loved to be
an ostrich or an anaconda, so that the
sensation might have lasted longer.
There were no men in the shop. only
women, and SO pretty that you wonder
ed If there were notice posted III
over the door forbidding plain ladies
to enter. Two or three had yellow
hair, yellower than mine, and Mrs. Ess
Kay said they were actresses, who al
ways came back to New York in sum
mer to wait for things to turn up. just
as chickens come home to roost, and
that they were supposed to be resting
had always thought that banana
made you feel more as If you had eat
EN- a large. elaborate dinner than an!
other one thing possibly could, but
found that an ice cream soda Is ever
more so, and It was lucky for us thai
we had another hours shopping to dc
(Nfrs. Ess Kay made it an hour and q
half because Potter is only her broth
err before luncheon.
The next shop was even more won
derful than the first and would hav'
been a great deal more solemn and dig
nified and even conventional II tbt
same kind of wooden balls hadn't gone
tearing round like mad squirrels II
wire cages over the counters with peo
pies money shut up inside them. There
were very young youths sitting In tai
pulpit things. who caught the balls OF
the fly In a sporting way and did some
thing to them, but never could SCI
what. and afterward sent them bacl
with the greenback bills inside turned
miraculously into silver and pretty min
iature pennies.
When we got to Sherry's, Potter wa
| waiting for rs and looking cross.
think persons with turned up nose
show crossness more easily than tn
other kind. and Potter had the expires
sion in his eyes that Vic has when he
shoes are tight and mother Is In
trying mood ut the same time.
shouldn't be surprised II he has hor
rid temper, although he thinks of s.
many funny things. And though he
so nice to me, he can't help sayin
things sometimes which show that h
has a prejudice against England. Tha
seems extraordinary, and shows on
how concelted we English really are
for one is quite accustomed to the ide
that there may be people who don
care for Americans, but It Is odd tina
AMERICANS may not like US. suppos
It's on par with the sentiments
our national anthem, which when on
comes to analyze them don't exactl
suggest q sense OF give and take-ol
for that matter. a sense Of humor.
"Confound their politics, frustrat
their knavish tricks" but NATURAL