The Mena weekly star., 1910-04-07

There were cUemlCdlS UT sOhhCthlhS in that earth, you know, and when they would come in to luncheon the wonan's husband would take hand ful of lettuce seed from his pocket and carelessly scatter 1t over the earth and the brother would pick up the water bottle and sprinkle 1t and then they would sit down to their soup and chops and things, and by the time the salad course was due that lettuce would be just right to pick
 Now, Evangelinei" interrupted Shackleton, stop right therel I ex. pect this was the point where Miss Balm burst into maniacal laughter and attacked you wth the shears, wasn't it?"
 "She did noti" said his wife. She went right on taking in the seams in my pink waist And another time when the natural gas supply in the range failed and there was company coming to dinner the scientist hus band just said: "Oh, never mind a little thing like that!" And he went out and packed lot of snow and ice hard and they did their baking and boiling on that. Miss Balm said he explained that intense heat and in. tense cold had just the same effect, so--"
 Why" demanded Shackleton, stern ly, do you encourage her to relate these atrocious impossibilities?
 Why. I don't" declared Mrs. Shackleton. Tt wouldn't be polite to interrupt, so 1 just let her go on. Be sides. am always wondering what she will say next She had an uncle once. who was wonderful man. He was fond of animals and he had trained the chickens so that If he played The Palms on his cornet in ordinary time they would march by in single file to the place where he fed them corn-and if he played it in rag time they would fall over themselves getting to the cornmeal hush bag The cows"
 See here." expostulated Shackle- ton. "that woman ought to be broken Ot tIlt udUlt Of 4OilRhRAhSs
 Well. you do it." suggested Mrs. Shackleton, sarcastically. I'd like to see you"
 That was why Shackleton made a point of coming home to luncheon the next day He was curious about the remarkable Miss Balm and anxious to meet her Miss Balm proved to be an entirely inoffensive, mild-looking person and it was some time before Shackleton got chance to begin the cure
 Yes he said at last, q certainly believe it is better for children to have something regular to do. When was kid each of us had our tasks. remember how my brother Tom hated his. His work every morning was to take a bushel basket and go around the housa collecting the family | diamonds, which he carried to the woodshed There was a big pile of sawdust there and after dumping them into a washtub of soapy water | he would dry and clean them in the sawdust. He particularly hated moth. eis diamond rope because 1t was 25 yards long and it took him so long to brush out the sawdust from the set tings Please pass the rolls, Evan geline."
 l Miss Balm was staring at him.
 This weather" went on Shackle- | ton, reminiscently, reminds me of the time Tom and I walked 125 miles one afternoon on a wager. The snow. banks were so deep that when we broke through you couldn't see the ! tops of our heads and it was cold--3S degrees below zero. We got along rapidly, though, because we wore our track suits something like bathing suits. you know-and so we weren't weighted down. They gave us ban qret that night and then we danced till morning. Oh, those were great daysl