Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-03-07
CULTURED
CLARICE

Dotty WIKI bad gone visiting 10 Chi
cago and when she returned home
with bunch Of puffs on the back of
her head which she hadn't taken away
with her and a ghost book and a pig
book excitement spread through the
village.
Dotty had attended a party willis
she was In the city and the hostess
had made everybody do a page In her
ghost book. II was bound volume OF
blank pages folded through the mid.
die and the process was to open Q
page. splatter a lot OF ink blots on II,
fold II back and press II down hard.
Then you signed your name and some
body else cried ."Oh. now let me try
III"
In the pig book you drew pig with
your eyes shut and you couldn't take
the pepcil from the paper. after you
had started.
Everybody went crazy over these
fads and Peterson. the druggist, who
also sold stationery and magazines,
had to order a second consignment OF
the popular volumes.
Nearly all the girls owned either
one book or the other. But when
somebody asked Clarice Emerson how
many pages In hers she had filed the
questioner ran up against q stone
wall. Clafice elevated her delicate
eyebrows trifle and said family that
she was interested neither In ghosts
nor in pigs. Il have sentiment
book. however, which will show you,"
she said.
Thereupon she laid In the hands OF
the abashed young person who had In.
troduced the subject book which |
Clarice herself had made of pale |
blue linen paper and water-color pa |
per covers. laced together with blue
ribbon to match. Clarice had painted |!
spray Of wild roses on the cover. 1t |
was, indeed. chaste volu; >.
What's 1t for2" stammered the puz,
Eled holder of the sentiment book.
Clarice looked gently panied. 81
am going to have my friends write
beautiful quotations of noble senu- |
ments Of their own in it," she said.
softly.
Everybody said that It was exactly |
like Clarice Emerson and that she |
was a ridiculous stuck-up thing, and
who cared. anyhow? Clarice always |
sat with her eyes looking upward, like |
st. Cecilia at the organ. and her |
were always limp and draped. |
She held things with the tips of her |
fingers and she talked about your soul |
So she was not exactly popular but |
her father was prominent and she |
could not be snubbed.
When she started out sharing peo-
pie with her sentiment book people |
broke into cold Precipitation and twis.
ted their feet anguishedly around |
chair legs and bit their tongues and |
gripped the pen hard trying to remem.
Der something noble. They turned the
pages to see who had written what
and they murmured. How lovelyl"
or How truel"
After stock sentiments, like "Art is
long and time Is feeting." BE good
and you will be happy" and Count
that day lost whose low descending
gun views from thy hand no worthy
action DONE" had all been used up in
Clarice's book late corners had terri
Bile times. Secretly they thought the
pig books lots more fun. In fact,
whenever Clarice appeared in the dis
lance, with a limp volume adorned
with wild roses in her hand, there
was a stampede.
Artie Kline made a great hit at
party which Clarice did not attend by
going around asking every one in a
iying-swan tone, won't you write a
noble sentiment in my little book?
Oh. do write. a gem of thought In my
,ookl"
When Professor Cities. the new
.eacher of English In the high school.
reached town and II was seen that he
was barely thirty and handsome In an
lustere way. the feminine population
became deeply interested. He was In
Tited everywhere and pig and ghost
books were thrown at him by girls
If every sort. II seemed very daring
% ask a professor to draw a pig with
lis eyes shut. so It became a popular
Jane.
While he was filling pages In seven