The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-10-14
on 4 RAINY NIGHT
A Most Difficult Job In Log
bIInker's Estlma tlon.

This dash for the pole business
may be pretty hard work. said Mr..
Logblinker mo doubt it does call
for quite some patience, skill and en-.
durance. But if you want to under
take something that is really difficult
just try to hold an umbrella as it
ought to be held over the head of
lady in rainstorm. | tried that last
night with Mrs Logblinker, and |
thought before We got where we were
going that I'd rather have been in the
far north with Peary.
Rain? 1t was just sluicing, with
the rain coming down like a food
falling through a coarse meshed sieve.
and Mrs. Logblinker had on all her
finery. including her tall, wide pic
ture hat, with the high, dropping
feathers.
When we opened the front door l
opened the umbrella and held it over
her while she gathered up some Of
her warments under her waterproof,
and while she glanced around herself
to see that she had got everything
secure, and then we started and
when we had gone about IA steps in
that pouring rain and | looked around
at Mrs. Logblinker to make sure that
| was protecting her all right | was
surprised to see that her towering
hat that had surmounted her head so
jauntily when we started, was now
creeping slowly down over her fore
head
Cant you see. Lucius,' said Mrs.
Logblnker, that you are holding the
umbrella right against my hat?'
And | could see it then, though
certainly had not seen it before, and
so ! raised the umbrella to clear the
back of the hat. | had been holding
it low down, of course, you under
stand, the better to protect her SO
now | raised it, but | must have
raised II too high for in n minute
heard a voice plaintively saying:
Lucius, the rain is just pouring
on the side of my hat
80 now l brought the umbrella
down little and then presently | felt
something Juggling at the umbrella on
the off side and Mrs. Logblinker says.
with touch of Impotence now:
My! You've got the umbrella
caught in my hat,
And so | had. But | disengaged
II quickly, and then tried to hold it
and keep it balanced so that it would
just clear the big hat all around and
yet come low enough down to afford
the best protection.
Il can honestly say that | paid no
attention whatever to my own clothes
| honestly didn't care about the! :. all
| wanted was to do the best | could
for the lady by my side; and though
1t did strain every muscle in my
hand and arm and body ! thought
was now making 4 pretty good job Of
It, but in a minute.
MY hat will be ruined | heard
the voice saying; and then I looked
at the lady again, and raised the
umbrella and lowered it and tilted 1t
this way and that in a desperate ef.
fort to make it serve its purpose, an
impossible thing to do, am now per
suaded, for nothing less than an UNI
brella II feet wide at least would
really shelter a lady in a picture hat
in a heavy rain like this.
But ! tried hard, | did the best
could only to hear about ten sec
onds later:
Don't you know how to hold an
umbrella?' in tones actually peeyish
Mrs. LOgblinker peevish actually
peevish, and to me! Then she actual
ly drew away from me, out from I'M
der the umbrella, into the pouring
rain,
"Humbly, but quickly, | FASTENED to
her side again, to protect her, and
the other two blocks we had to go to
get the car we moved in silence, with
me doing the best | could; and when
we got inside the car and got settled
down a little, where 1t was dry, she
did smile on me again.
But | can tell you one thing
don't shy at difficult jobs, and we are
pretty poor; but the next time Mrs.
Logblinker and | go abroad on u
rainy night we takes barouchS II
II huStg IN