Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-12

~ I don't care she said let it squawk
II But what" asked Mrs Lathrop, in whose
1 i kitchen Susan had set the basket down and in
self down M ''' ~ ~ -
trouble enough for others that may in all conscience
feel set little while without troubln myself look
upon it that very kind to take it anyhow, not hav
ing idea how it'll agree with the chickens when 1t
comes to eatin with me when it comes to eatin IT.
for you know as never cared for EN-, Mrs Lathrop
but still friend is friend, and in Mrs Macys state
tonight the least her friends could do was for Granma
Mullins to stay with her an for to take the duck
Granma Mullins willin to sit up with under-the-
weather neighbor but she said she could not take
duck her mind too an spoiled duck at that Tor
will in confidence remark Mrs Lathrop, you only
need to be in the with that duck to see as the
Prodgal Son fully an freely whipped in comparison
to the way as he's been dealt with.
" | really" protested Mrs. Lathrop.
Well, d'n know, but it will be savin o breath in
the end" said Miss Clegg and thereupon laid hold
of the squawkng basket bore it into the next room
and coming out shut the connecting door hrmy behind
"Where under the" began Mrs Lathrop;
It's really quite long story returned her friend;
but l come in just to tell you, anyhow It's Mrs
Macvs story an it begun when she went in town yes
terday mornin an it's story O trials, an will say
this for Mrs Macy, trials right along after
another never hear Of an to see her slttn there now
in her carpet slippers with capsicum plaster to her
she amt maxim her toast, is enough to make anyone
is soft an tender-heared as am take any duck
whether its spoiled not An so took it.
Well, l." exclaimed Mrs. Lathrop
You think not now" said Susan, but you soon viii
when tell YOU, for as said before, come just
tell you, an I'm goin TO begin right Off It's long
story an as take time to tell, but you know me,
an you know always make time to tell you every
thin SO you can rely ely on & gen te the Whole % sn de d a nar fr
I'm Just fresh from Mrs Macy an Mrs Macys so fresh
from her trials that they still hodin the plaster
to her when / LETT
But" expostulated the listener.
"Wel1 now this is how it was" said Miss Clegg;
an III begin way back in the beginnn so you'll have
it all straight for its very neediu to have It straight
itfctu ubxyc ic MO mad
For Mrs. Macy isn't as gets mad easy an so its
well for us as has got live in the town with her
to well and clearly learn just how much 1t takes to use
her up.
Seems, Mrs. Lathrop, as yesterday mornin Mrs
Macy set out to go to town to buy her some shoes
Seems as she was goin to take lunch with Busby
Bells cousin Luther Stotts wife, as she met at the
Lupeys' in Meadvle cause they only live three-quar-
ter Of hour from town two changes of the electric
an Mrs Stott told Mrs. Lupey any time she her
relations got tired shoppn she'd be nothln but happy
to have em drop in her to rest cause she kept girl
and her husbands sister too company wasn't never
no work Well Mrs Macy looked up the address an
made up her mind to go there to unch an she wrote
the address side o the paper an her shoes on the
other for she says they're kind of shoes is
raned not pinch you in the back of every newspaper
an you know what Mrs. Macy is on bein' pinched-
why she says she give belts an took to carpet slippers
;st for the very reason as she could stand bein
pnched Ho1Uhere.
Seems as the shoes was Kuloss Shoes an Mrs Macy
saws how anyone could remember EN- off of paper she
can't see anyhow, an Luther Stotts wife lives 2Io4
Eleventh Ave S. W., an that was important too, Tor
there's seven other Eleventh Avenues in the city besides
eight Eleventh Streets; seems as the new part o the
cy is laid out that way to make simple to them
as knows where they live anyhow
"Well Mrs Macy says she put on her bonnet as
happy as anyone looks to be afore they know they're
gon be the first to have invention tried on en-
She says she great on new inventions, tor
she's lived under ghnin rod Tor nigh on to forty @
years an never anywhere nigh to be struck once
vet but she says she has learned to her sorrow
as ben' fooled by ighnin rod man forty years ago
amt nothn to ben fooled forty years ahead for she
saws she'll lose her guess if this foon don't last full as
long as the lghtnn' rod and make her wear her felt
slippers all the forty years, too.
"Wel she says it was the mnister-an she says
after that donation party to fix him out with new shirts
last week she looked to be spared further nHcton
expected shirt the minister is surely most new to her
but she says she the fore an one to help
make him the when she as it was expected to be
her duty Christian but she says she surely nopeo
when she hemmed the tail o the last as she'd seen
the last o him for good breathn spell
But no, Mrs Lathrop, it wasn't to be, an SC
she learned her keen an pinchn sorrow yesterday
mornin for she wasn't moren fairly on her way tc
town when she square up to him on the bridge an
result was just in time to be the hrs Tor MN TO i
his new memory system on an she told ran ma Mullins
an me with in her eyes an her felt slippers sol
enny crossed on top O each other she can not SEE
why it had be her of all people, an her shoes OF al
things for she says-an certainly felt to agree Mrs
Lathrop-as if there's anything on the wide earth as yol
don't want to apply memory system to it's your shoes
for shoes is somethin nobody wants to remember
shoes is things is happiest forgot
'cWel Mrs Lathrop, seems as this memory sys
o the minister's is thng as ne got out OF oulua
School magazine for workn' out puzzle eSeems yo
guess big cities till their capital letters spell Memory
an then you send the answers an dollar tor postag
an packin an, then they send you the memory system
complete in one book for nothin at all Or you can p
in two-cent stamp an not guess nothn, but the MIN
ster guessed cause he felt as in his circumstances h
hadn't ought to waste two cents Seems as the
had most awful time afore they found Ypsilant 10
the Y an for while they most afraid they'd hav
70 be reckless with two cents but they got it in the en
an sent EN- all off, an the book come back with in
junction forbhdn' it to be lent stamped on every page
Seems it come back day before yesterday, an the min
ster sat up most O. the night commemorative the theory
an then Mrs Macy says he just got it into him IN tim
for Fate to let him go an be hung al her rign! on n
Than anyone does when they meet loose minister. al
she saws she can't well see how any woman meetin
man across bridge can be blamed for not KNOWN a