Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-10-13
NEWS FROM
ETHEL

ETHEL must be going craEy!" ex'
claimed Mrs. Roxwell.' who stood by
tho window Of the breakfast room
staring at o night telegram from her
daughter.
why do you make such q strange
remark, Elizabeth" asked Ethers
Aunt Mary. ETHEL hasn't run away
from school on its closing week, has
she?"
"of course not. She says she will
be home today on the four o'clock
train"
Nothing crazy about that" re-
marked Ethel's Aunt Mary, slipping
into her place at the table and wish
ing that her brother-in.law would
make his appearance no that breakfast
might be served.
"She has changed her mind" said
Mrs. Roxwell. I'VE expected her to-
morrow, you know, and she has con-
cluded to come today instead"
THE mind" observed Ethel's Aunt
Mary diateticaIly, ''is not like q gar
ment. We can change It without be-
ing out Of It for a single moment. II
woman should be considered crazy
merely because she changed her mind
good many Of us would be handed
over to the alienists. must say,
Elizabeth, you are very foolish thus
to agitate yourself over q trine.
Ethel was coming home on Wednes-
day, she decides to come on Tuesday
instead, and you are out Of temper be-
cause you will see her "a hours soon
er than you expected. ] am surprised
ct you, her own mother!"
II am mott" snapped Mrs. Roxwell,
irritably.
you are not her mother?" Inquired
Ethel's Aunt Mary. with lifted eye
brows.
Mary, there are times when you
would vex q saint" cried Mrs. Rox'
well.
"Of course" she explained, more
calmly, II am glad that my daughter
will be with me sooner than / had ex-
pected her to come, but-well, read
her telegram for yourself"
Ethel's Aunt Mary adjusted her
eyeglasses and read:
II wish to say will be at home on
Tuesday at four. On the train. The
usual route. changed my mind and
will be at home on Tuesday instead
Of Wednesday. l will be there II the
train Is on time. otherwise will take
the consequences. IS. The teachers
are well. ETHEL"
Mrs. Roxwell waited with q somber
brow while her sister read the tele-
gram.
1T seems Enthusiastically" com.
mented Ethels Aunt Mary.
Lengthy! should say So" agreed
Mrs. Roxwell, with considerable indig-
nation. "She could have told all that
vas necessary in the usual ten words.
And the loose construction Of 1t!
Why, that girl finishes school in an
other year,"
"She has a good deal to learn about
the handling of the English language
in that time" criticised Ethel's Aunt
Mary. Schools are not so particular
as they were in our day, Elizabeth. /
can't make out what she means by
those hgures-45."
"She probably thought the train
gets In at 4:45 insead of four, and
put the figures at the end instead Of
where they belong. See how she be-
gins, I wish to say Naturally she
wished to say something or she need
not have telegraphed."
1T Is doubtless the style now to
take nothing for granted" suggested
Ethels Aunt Mary.
1T evidently u.s. assented Mrs. Rox-
well. "She says she is coming on the
train. There Is no other way that
she could come. unless she should
walk"
she may have supposed that you
would expect her to come on an aero
plane" suggested Ethel's Aunt Mary,
with some sarcasm. "She remarks
that II the train is not on time she
will have to take the consequences.
What consequences? Did you ever
scold her because her train was late?"
Certainly not. She simply means
that she will suffer the usual annoy
Rnce caused by the delay"
II see. Ethel's idea Of q telegram
seems to be that one should leave
nothing to the imagination. She says
the teachers are well. Have they been
M"
Not that / am aware Of. That
sentence seems to have been thrown in
as q piece Of general information. I
could have waited until she arrives
this afternoon to be appraised Of the
state Of the faculty's health. But here
10 Charles. Let us see what he thinks
Of his daughters telegraphic effort"
ROxwell. laughed when he read Eth
els conf nication.
The little puss was determined to
get the worth Of her money he ex.
planned. 1T is one Of those tele-
graph letters IN which 80 words can
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