The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1910-04-22
THE RETURN
VISIT

Il understand that you have some
VISITORS from the country at your
house" said Mrs. Wilson, cheerily
when she met Mrs. Warburton wait
ing Tor the car on the corner. THAT
makes a pleasant change"
Mrs. Warburton coughed-one o;
those noncommittal coughs that ma,
mean almost anything.
Yes she said, they are relatives
OF my husband from down in the com
try where we stayed part of last sum
mer, They came up to do some fall |
shopping and, of course, camped down |
on us"
"Of course" chirruped Mrs. Wilson
ITS case of turn about Now you
have a chance to repay them for your
delightful stay on the farm. | think |
it's so nice to have big house and"
You just try having a big house
some time and see how you like it"
suggested Mrs. Warburton, grimly
Not that these aren't the incest
people i'll the world" she said, hastily
recalling Mrs. Wilson's predilectiou
1
unexpected, if the truth must be told
When | invited them last summer in
general sort of way | certainly nev.
er expected five of them to come piling
In on NE after telephoning from down
town"
"Five?" said Mrs. Wilson, elevating
here eyebrows.
"My husbands brother and his wife
| and the three girls. What do you
think Of that? And me just breaking
in an immigrant maid that never saw
gas range until last week!
you can talk all you like" went on
Mrs. Warburton, "about paying up for
visiting on the farm by entertaining
your country relatives in town but
let me tell you they get the best of it,"
why, l don't see" began Mrs
Wilson.
"Of course you don't" retorted Mrs.
Warburton, decisively, because you've
never been through it. When James
and l were in the country in June
with little Bobbie these people never
had to do a hands turn for us. At
least they didn't seem to feel called
upon to do anything to entertain us
and we were satisfied to be let alone
to wander around in the woods or sit
in the shade while they went on with
their work as though we weren't on
earth. The only time they put them
selves out was when they got up a
picnic and 1t would have been lot
better H they had never thought of it,
We went trailing off to some creek
in a wagon without springs and sat
down to a cold lunch in the damp
woods, eating stuff overrun with ants
and fighting mosquitoes, and little
Bobbie fell into the creek and was
dried out behind blackberry bush"
THE ideal" said Mrs. Wilson, peer
ing anxiously up the street for the
missing trolley car.
eyes, but when they come up here
and pile in on top of us we have to
turn everything upside down to enter
tain them" went on Mrs. Warburton,
bitterly. ooh, yes, bless you! Like
most women from the country, the
! girls want to go trailing about gaping
in at the windows Of the big stores
So have to pilot them around. You
know l detest shopping don't go
downtown once a month. Honestly
= I've been in some of those stores SO
2 often in the last few days that | be
! lieVe the house detectives are keeping
an eye on me, expecting to see me
] pick up waist or a pair of shoes"
"Why, you poor thing!" said Mrs
: Wilson, alphabetically.
0 But that isn't the worst" contin'
l. ued the indignant hostess. "Oh, dear
!, no! James has to come in for his
! share of it. After dragging me all
over town every day until I'm tired
! out, they have to haul us both out tC
n a theater nearly every night. Why
b l need rest cure"
you can hardly blame them
d though" argued Mrs. Wilson, They
don't have big stores or theaters al
/, home. you know"
That's cot my fault" snapped Mrs
e Wa burton. "Why should | be made
g to suffer for the shortcomings of the
4 rural districts? Country people think
n that city people live In n whirl of eX
element md have nothing on theil
8 minds except racing downtown t
shop In the daytime, tearing home OF
II crowded elevated trains to eat I
picked,up dinner and dashing bacl
q downtown again to the theater. | de
u clare. as James says. I'm all In"
# "Why. you poor dear!" exclaimed
IA Mrs. Wilson. You must be reall!
tagged Quit"
. We'll, am" admitted Mrs. War
u burton, but don't mention word t
II anybody. because they're James rela
Q tlves and really they're the nices
II people In the world"
d when they are at home" suggest
I ed Mrs. Wilson, motioning to the inc
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