The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-30

you oh ldren might tend to it when you
see how busy l am"
The lovers found the two women still
puzzling over the papers when they
came in an hour later.
ITS about time" chided Mrs. Sey-
mour laughingly, that some people we
know got down to business. These lists
simply must be finished today. Jack,
did you remember to get your Cincin-
natl cousins full names?"
"Oh, mumsie, dear" cOaxed her
daughter, do forget it a minute. 1t is
so warm. Meg lost a shoe and we had
TO leave her at the stable and come
| home on a Bryant car. And, on, mum
| sic" she laughed, eve stopped at that
corner drug store for some soda. and
we almost chOked from laughter. They
have a new drink there called 'peachy
H. s. Labels pasted all over the win
dows We tried it and almost died. It's
a regular table d'hote meal The pro-
prietor thinks it's simply grand and
told US the richest tale about how that
curly-haired clerk of his invented If and
named it after his best girl"
Careful, your father is sleeping "
cautioned grandmother.
Il am not" announced that gentle
man sternly from his library. will
some one kindly tell me whose book
this is?'
"That?" asked Lucetta with a last
giggle, that's Helena's French gram
mar. Oh, dear" she sighed, "I forgot
to help her last night and her exams is
tomorrow"
Seems to me most everybody fOrgets
Helena nowadays" said her father
sternly, and disappeared.
Seated on a s4ar,1 ddav Il, -
mantled library he puzzled over some
bits of paper that had slipped from the
lesson book. At the top of each slip
was inscribed in neat print:
'HANAN'S PRESCRIPTION PHAR-
MACY"
r
Dear Miss Seymour" he read. q
missed your not coming around Thurs
last. I will be in the park Sunday, YOU
know where. If it is too hot for your
Sunday school we might take a short
row on the lake. Yours surely, T. H"
The second sheet bore this heading:
ITO PEACHY H. S.
When you don't come around to our
store
It seems to me an awful bore,
] II ltoh5 dS uliiEg III BEAOit
You used to come, Miss Seymour.
THE rows of bottles look quite duh
Whether they are empty or are full,
| They surely miss that dainty miss
For whom they make peachy II. s. %"
In a SPRAYING postscript was added
this about somebody I think about
often"
Mr.. Seymour read this doggereI with
/ growing rage. Suddenly he gave way
to silent mirth.
NO" he called in response to the
frenzied cries from the sitting room, Il
do not know the Hutchinson's address
but would like to know Heiena's"
She's gone to Sunday school, cried
/ Lucetta's coaxing voice; do be a nice
sweet old daddy and come help US finish
| these dreadful lists"
why, Sunday school was over hours
| ago" said Mrs Seymour. looking w
with startled eyes at her husband.
where do you suppose that child Isl
/ Fred said something about her not go
| ing Just as 1 was telephoning Mar
garet." She hurried TO the stairway
| "NellY' she called sharply.
/ I'm here, mamma" painted the girl
running up the front steps.
well, where have you been?" de-
manded her mother. You frightened
me sOY'
"Oh, all of you hurry in here" cried
Lucetta; here's the funniest sight ever
That funny little MARCHED clerk thai
/ invented 'peachy H s. is just goine
around the corner in his best clothes
/ I'll bet he's going to call on the girl who
/ inspired the drink
Helena crimsOned and darted up the
| stairs.
''Neila," called her father softly, dad
I dy wants you in the library a minute
Wait a minute, dear" said her
mother; you didn't tell mother where
you went
She came into the sitting room slow
/ ~. They were all looking at her. 4
I went in the park" she stammered.