Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-10

called a beginning to her dreams. She
omits no minute detail. She wants YOU
TO hear her dream indebted. complete,
as a whole, in all of its wild, weird. phan-
tasnai meaning nothing-at-a llness-
You try to squirm out of listening But
nix. She ignores your squirms. She
doesn't care button for your squlrms.
She lets YOU squirm all YOU blamed please
but you've got to listen 10 her dreams.
hurry no hurry or size II know the
reason why.
II goes about this way:
You wake up, catch peek at the man
lei clock and observe that you're way
behind your Getting-up time So You hop
up In a panic bent upon just scrambling
into your clothes. Gulping a cup or conee,
and beating il down TO Your office SOS
not TO give the old man n chance 10 scowl
al you for being late.
Just as you're putting Your SHOES.
why, your spouse wakes up She sits up
in bed. looks around Sleepily. gives couple
OF dabs- at her looSe-hanSlnS back hair,
and begins:
..Lawsy me, il don't have the craziest
dreams.
You Srunt. You're willing 10 admit that
she has crazy dreams. You re willing to
admit any old thing so long as she doesn
try 10 pull her crazy dreams on YOU But.
as you feverisllly lace Your shoes, OH,
you're afraid, afraid.
The silIiest Dreams" she goes on, caZ-
ing rcleCtively out of the window where
the sparrows are chipper-chapperins. Il
have such perfectly silly dreams, can
your"
You're not in an ina ginning mood. and
you wouldn't have time TO do much mag
lining even IL YOU were in that mood. and
30 YOU just stand up and stamp your feet
into shoes and look around for your collar
and tie and say nothing.
''W hat in the wide world, | wonder.
she goes on. still sitting up in bed and
looking dreamy as she muses. upon her
dreams. made me dream about Cousin
Flora Flicksy?
You dunno. You don't care boot.
either. because You smell the aroma of
the coffee stealing up the stairs, and that
reminds you that you've got TO get out
side of d cup of coffee preparatory to
scuttling for the first car at the corner
that you can nail.
why" she goes on. quite oblivous of
the hustling noises that you are careful
10 make with the vague idea of tagging
her, i haven't even thought OF Cousin
Flora Flicksy for more than a year
haven't even thought OF her. | wonder if
anything can have happened to her. /
shouldn't he s'prised. She never was
strong. and maybe my dream-well. she's
one OF the incest girl cousins l have. and
I should hate to think that anything had
happened to her. really.
You rattle the collars around in the
drawer. trying TO get hold of the one you
think you want but the rafting doesn't
bother her two cents worth.
And X was SO crazy, too. my dream
about Cousin Flora, she goes on. rub
bling at iier cheeks with a sort OF mas
sage movement that she's read about on
the Womans Page. Just crazy as 1t
could he. Dearie, can YOU imagine what
il is that causes me to have such per-
fectly lunatical dreams?'
It's because you eat too much lunatical
stuff before turning in o nights" you
chant back, hoping that that II make her
behave. Look a-here. are YOU thinking
any about getting up? It's half-past
eight now, and I'm in a laundering
rush.
Wouldn't Cousin Flora laugh though,
IL she knew what ] dreamt about her."