The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-12-16
A BUSY pay.

Marie belonged to the real Consumers
league And she consumed prettily and
virtuously 1t wasn't bad air that suf-
focated her soul. Ii was 10 air
She thought she was breathing how
ever, and breathing fast. Why, it was
haf-past eleven before she got back
down-tow from her tailor, and she
bought a wedding present till one, and
she was Just famished and ran 70 a tea
room, but she had hardly touched a
mouthful when she remembered there
was a girl from out Of town who had
come in TO spend month doing nothing
and had to be helped, but though she
rushed to the phone she couldn't get her
friend before il was time to catch her
suburban train home; in order to do
which she jumped into the station bus.
only to remember she had forgotten to
buy a ribbon for her Sismese costume
for the benefit ball; but it was too late
now and she spent her time going out
on the train trying to think Of some
way of getting along without it, and
her head began TO ache; but luckily she
met some of the girls on her way from
the station to her high school sorority
almnm reunion and they began 10 tell
her how to do it ( but she had TO hurry
away because she had promised to 90
to the house OF one of the girls and do
stencil patterns, which started to be
beautiful, but before she could get any
Of them really done she recollected that
Chunk Brown had sent over a bunch of
new songs and was coming to call TO.
Iarhf ha ha IN
practice "June time is moon time and
tune time and spoon time" as well as
aThe grass is blue DER little Sue" till
there was Just one hour left before din
ner and she was perfectly crazy over
the new do which one of the girls
had showed her and she rushed upstairs
and went at that do and by dinner time
she had got il almost right, so that
father told her always to do her hair
like that and brother wished he had it
down at the factory to replace a broken
dynamo brush, while as for Chunk he
was nicer than ever till be learned he
had to take her to rehearsal of the
Siamese group for the benefit ball; 90
that, what with having to coax him TO
60 and what with changing her costume.
7AAe Att " the AtAitti sal 81 ltltA NAt
couldn't stand up to 90 through the fig.
ures till she caught sight of the eele-
brated esthete. the Swami Ram Chandra
Gunga Din. who was there to hand out
the right slants about oriental efFer,s
and who had persuaded Marie there was
great consolation to be found in realiz.
ing that life is a spiral and that there.
fore YOU can't make progress straight
mp, but must 60 round and round
through rhythmic alterations of JOY
and sorrow, which caused Chunk 60 re-
lapse again from his attentiveness. but
which pleased Marie greatly because she
was always unhappy in between two
periods of happiness and therefore felt
she was getting along the spiral and into
culture pretty we'll till it was eleven
o'clock and she walked Chunk up out of
a chair in the hall and made him take
her home; and he said the Swami was
a very clever man and she said American
men had no culture and didn't under
stand women, and Chunk didn't even say
good night to her and she went TO sleep
crying and remembering she hadn't. aft.
er all, learned from the girls how TO get
along without that ribbon in her COS.
tune and she must get up early and
buy it, which made her utter one final
little plaintive sniflle of vexations-Ev-
erybody's for December