Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1910-02-12
N RINKA RINKIS ~
~ EMMA KENYON PARRISH
EMMA KENYON PARRISH


Perhaps you have heard of the
aerce onslaughts Of cruel famine
upon the vitals of the busy brain |
worker ?
She nodded her head and rub
bed her shoes together ecstatical-
". He clattered around and
prepared to wash some dishes.
I fought you was goin' cook
SoIam. But Unjust first find
something to cook in; | must
wash my dishes first, fair girl
Nv mamma washes de dishes
after We eat
Indeed I reverse the process.
Amt you goin' wash your
hands first?
1t had not occurred to me to
do SO. If I remember rightly !
washed my hands with the lark,
or more specifically, just previ.
GUS to the advent of the eight.
seventeen train.
My mamma makes me washed
my hands before / touched de
dishes.
All, worthy practice | might
emulate it, but that l don't recall
| where | left the basin. My de-
parture was, to say the least,
abrupt; and the subsequent In
tense intellectual strain has quite
obliterated all details of the oc-
currence.
During this edifying monolo.
que he had been diligently scrub
bling at a frying.pan with what
looked like an old rubber shoe,
but which presently expended
waxily and sluggishly into the
semblance of cloth. The little
girls eye opened wider
whether with admiration or hor'
ror he could not determine.
I see de basin she shouted
Now I can washed my hans an
helped you. Dis is de tow.yul, ]
s'pose.
i It has borne that honorable
title in days past. | cherish its
noble record.
My mamma doesn' washed dc
spider first, she said, confronting
him. Her chin was level with
the table.
Another instance Of the rever
SIGN of terms. Sweet damsel,
need the spider to cook my sup
per 10, hence it takes precedence
of the other-dishes. Again ht
seemed panied; when he paused
for a word he generally picked
upa bowlder. Areyou versed il
the culinary art?
She made soft fist and knock
ed the flying hair away from he
eyes.
/ dom know no verses, but In
ready dry de dishes.
) Bright star of my destiny, ant
! supper-hope, do you happen Il
see the dishtowel anywhere?
Z Nope; / didn' saw it.
r Nyther do l. Let me reflect
. day before yesterday ] dined on
: I-yesterday also. The dish towe
has two days the advantage of me
!, Perhaps I laid it in the sink. Loo
: fair one, in the sink; it may b
lurking there!
II Tain't in de sink.
+. Nor on the floor !? with touch
. ing msekness.
! Nope. Oh, here's it! Here
T somepin' been a tow.yul, on d
! coal-scuttle.
Il The very weapon ! There
} now we may each have half. Ho1
81 did I ever hitherto exist withou
}, you, my newly risen star, an
e lynx eyed treasure! If / wei
old, / believe your bright eye
70 could find my lost youth for me-
You WASH old, was your
Not aged; only well along ]
years And you
I'm FIVE las Yuly; an prett
p. soon I'll be thix.
And in a day or so turtle
=. you'll be Uneven. Yet the yea
it drag. If you were seventies
now, l would marry you; but fiv
} alack too young, too young!
Oh, I'll wait for you she sal
he reassuringly.
He laughed and laughed. N
X frst accepted offerP Pardon n
lg tears, dearest, famine seems
n have rendered me msudlin.
eel Watts in dis paper! Shoshag
re Cause ! can fry shoshsge.
Nay, it is but beefsteak, a
ID own. Do your culinary attai
ments include the preparation
re that comestible /?
She winked both eyes q n
n ment Shall / make de spid
"a | haf