The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-03-08
BY DONALD ALLEN.
tcopsrigtft. 1911. by Associated
Literary Press

4A0ESTkkdt, IN -Nt<0NsoftN
Literary Press-l
AIR. Rivers. the broker. had over
slept thai n,oraing. and had gone of
or hss train 70 the city without break
tast. He had said he'd he hanged
An2 be 1 be sstnEe5, and he'd be dong
ed. and the nervous Mrs Rivers. wnc
sssaisinss help his dreams 81 shorr
iasths and erersleepinG was taken
wfsh headache ana couldn't get W
10 hreSkfsSt.
II she mad gos up matters would
hare 5e<n worse. There Was high
~int h3owlng aud the kitchen range
Smoked. and the Geek threatened 40
she iay before. bar not hung cat the
clothes Scnf q SGUh-nosea boy 10 say
that she haa rheumatism IN her shoGl
der and couldn't come that DAY
Miss Minnie Rivers daughter al,
the house, might have swallowed her
fork as she ate her smokSN break AS
and rasdc things worse--hut she
didn't SIZE made chem worse by in-
retrieving the cook and suggesting
that she should get the clothes out
on the lire to dry and look for her
reward II thai land popugarly sup
posed 10 - beyond the sky and not
s&t GBSfs tHN3EFE4 ~ 20 = az AAAbF-
Theu the gale outside and inside
the house senSihly Increased In In
tensity. In fact. the cook blew out
with her bundle. and then blew into
distance. IL was the last straw .or
which she had been waiting. other
cooks had gone on the stage and
made fame as actresses. and e.hy not
she
Miss Minnie sat down and wepi
and wished she was married and
away from home, and that her
fathers train would run Off the track
! and her mother get cramps in her
toes. and the cook meet goblin. and
fhe house eaten FIRE and burn 10 the
ground. Then she laughed "A little
hummed little. and then put on hen
old fishing skirt and started in &c
settle things Although the daughter
OF the house. she had come to he In
way the head OF il. If things went
3wry. h was for Miss Minnie tt
straighten them "a.
That's part Of the course at col.
lege--to straighten out things They
pretend that the family cook ha:
quit her jon to become a Sarah Bern.
hardt. and then have the girl stu
dents do things. They even have then
tinker al smoking kitchen ranges ant
they even have a papa rushing out o.
the house and saying ding dong
Another nice thing college does il
10 teach the girls how To hang ou
the Monday wash to produce the mos
artistic and picturesque effect ON tn,
landscape for ii mile around Their.
are landscape artists and sculptor
and poets who don't know that il Il
against art and sentiment 70 pin ,
towel and sheet side by side on /
clothes line.
The kitchen was cleaned at last
and then for the ciothes' Colleg,
reaches the gentle art Of passins
washed clothes through wringel
without making puddle on the foo
or bringing too great strain on tn
foundations Of the house Miss Min
ME smiled and wrung and humme,
and wrung, and behold, 1T was a
easy as playing The Old Blue Bon
net on the piano,
Then came the artistic part--th
hanging out. And that's where Nj
Arthur Gregg came In and got tn
surprise of his life He was waIlyin
across the country from Ci0verdal
to reach his mothers house. an
thinking Of nothing particular,
when three table napkins came fyin
at him from somewhere. They wer
34Attt1Rtu bS a StSii No"fi anu II Iliip'
slip and he looked about him to dis
cover other things taking wing.
Mr.. Gregg was a young man Jus
entering upon the law. and after
moments thought his legal min
made him conclude that there WAS
fountainhead near by whence a
these things came He quicl1l
traced IL to the rear or the River!
house. He appeared there with hi
arms full He found wild-eye