The Tupelo journal., 1910-11-11

What startled me just now" ex-
planned the summer-resort girl, was
Tommy-the one in the white pique
and red belt and socks! Yes. his
mother is sitting on that bench right
there and she was gazing with dreamy,
placid eyes at him as he tried to walk
the extreme edge of the pier between
those two posts. The water is twelve
feet deep along there.
Mrs. Eckers arrived yesterday with
Joseph and Philip and that is positive
ly the last straw! All last summer
! wore myself to a rerfect ffazI}a So
ing Joserh and Ph'iia O. Hit snicid
a dozen times a day, att
Goesn't succeed in q CIV 3 them tni
year | should think she ou.d be
little discouraged. because he certain
ly tried hard enoegh lsst seazcp. and
now she's beginning al over Sc lin.
Joseph was 4 last year and Philip
was not quite 2 and he Tovnd as agile
ly as a lightning bug Fl lad q pleas,
IL lftttC l AZ vi Ts1F -
ceuser of the pier Gtraigat 1t the Wa
ter. The nurse always CO cat him
! Just as he was geire cvsi' he edge.
but between his start and his finish
nearly died from terror B. caase. you
see, sooner or later the nurse is GER
tain to be a half second behind time in
the little game. In imagination | can
just hear Philip splash and gurgle as
he surges under the pier, where no
human being a get him!
Mrs. Eckers Is the woman over
there with the face of an appealing
angel and the lingerie dress that cost
5000 If 1t cost a cent. Just a few min
utes ago everybody was having fits
because Joseph vas standing with one
foot on the pier and the other on the
ferry boat. pushing it out and trying
to fall in between the boat and the
pier. She was the only human being
in sight who wasn't frenzied.
when that nice old gentleman took
Joseph by the collar and yanked him
inland and he yelled she merely muir
INJURED, Dear me! What is Joseph do
ing now? Something, | suppose! Those
children know they have me at their
mercy! Their father wrote yesterday
that If they would not mind l vas to
shut them in their room and a v my
~nerves!'
Now, when a real grown-up woman
pretends that she can't manage two
small, fragile infants like those 1t Ia
simply infuriating! She ought to be
ashamed of herself!
"The Jofords, evidently after much
thought, have decided that the best
way of disposing of their Arthur. aged
~, is to put a sail on a canoe and turn
him out on the raging lake in it. There
he goes now, and # he doesn't tip
| over before the week is out I'll eat
my hat!"
"You don't wear hats up here" said
the young man, who was literal.
"Tll eat it anyhow" declared the
summer-resort girl, grimly. There's
no limit to my achievements when
get nervous!
1T does seem to me-" she went on
that the only people up here who
have the slightest bit of caution OF
sense about managing children are the
people who haven't any children. You
can laugh, but If you had to jump into
the water in all the glory of that white
suit of yours to fish out some young
| ster you'd feel different"
That wouldn't be necessary" said
| the young man. "There are such a lot
| of children around that | don't think
one or two would be missed at all
| Especially the one who played tag
in the corridor in front Of my room
early this morning-hello!"
In another instant the young man II
white flannel was clambering agileIy