Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-06-11
HOW THE TWINS CELEBRATED
By Lillian c. PASCHAL.

The twins sat themselves down on. the hot sand
and lanented All around them in other yards little
and their merry shouts only added to the twins misery
Out in all the lawns along the street futterng flags
proclaimed the day to be gala occasion It did seem
hard be very miserable when every known law
s sdd be dad Bo oBsa .3s es
and refused to be comforted till Bobbaty had of
her bright ideas; she believed In enduring only what
Let's Diet de dwums, an poun' 'em wiz de pals an
datl make noises she proposed suddenly. Jumping ping
While she was gone, Bobba sat still and ruminated.
His slow little brain was at work very laboriousy At
last it evolved its brilliant cmax-a Force-a-July
that would surpass Bobbaty's drum celebration. and
be even better than the longed-for forbidden FIRE
crackers For had he not with ms yery own ears
about the gasoene to the meat-boy only the day be-
7 was just ready to fill the tank" she had related
with the gusto of who has had narrow es
cape, an set the can down to uncork it, when bst!
went the match I'd stepped an few right onto the
the uncovered hole, Land It makes me trenlble
think o the explosion that would have happened
if that that match had gone into that hole"
meat-bOy exclaimed as he wrote down the order and
Fourth Of July fireworks exactly what he and
in the world Papa had never forbidden them to
1f had eegeS to be M hond
have known better, of course but but this was his
It Would be hard TO get at for Rosy had an neon
yenlent way OF putting things out OF reach but if they
pushed the old stool the OF the StOrerOOm
close up to the shelf together they might be able to
But the match? Rosy had seemed to think that
necessary to make gasoene into freworks-Rosy was
a scary thing, he thought: to be frightened Of big
noises-she put her fingers into her every
time the doomed.
But matches he knew were strictly outside the pale
If permissible commoditiesfathers could be very dis
agreeable if they dsobcyed-besides he couldn't
Iossiby get to the matchbox the kitchen wall any
way What was it the boys next door lighted their
Fl s-crackers with?
Il III inns clf1T1 her and cr1A
of<riumph her cherubc countenance which decided
MIN carry out his plan at all hazards. Ones Force
s-July couldn't be run altogether by girlone must
be the leader at all costs So to her profer of his
drum he returned only scornful glance that promptly
had the desired effect of squelching her pride She
dropped her drum and tin pail in the sand and fol-
lowed him into the storeroou, detached small build
ing in the of the house, Rosy busy with her
be rid of the racket. she said queer reason, the
twins thought-and mammals callers had come,
interfered with their proceedings they tugged
shelf By dint of much eertion they got
down, and worked and twisted at the cork till they
got it out It only halff1led-a fact which made
Make big noises" said Bobba eagerly, his eyes
ashne with excitement, "Bessern dwums-or fire.
But whereTl we Diet match" questioned the prac-
teal Bobbaty, ~Papa1 whipl"
in an extensively superior manner, Bobba ran into
the yard:
great glee long stick of punk with end shoulder
aWhers'd you Diet it," asked his little. sister.
"Ho! Ats easy the lordly reply, II buyed it
o Johnny Smf fru. de back yard fence. He
Watd You nuyed it be VIM she h
his hand as who would say-"The price is object
to me-"
wrathfully above him he squatted by the gasoene
can. "You amt neOer divved away my dwum at