The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-15

as a quarter after nine.
We'll, if you won't play bridge I've
got to go n find some one else ant
it's sc much trouble. It's kind o.
selfish of you. I think. There comes
Mrs. Binksi Let me out the back
way!"
(Stout, elderly woman with a work
bag in her HAND comes putting up the
Walk
Good morning, my dear! Isn't this
a lovely day? | said to myself after
breakfast that I'd just run down and
keep you company for a while. 1t
seems so lonely for you here by your
self. Besides. the children at the no
tel are so noisy that they make my
head ache. | brought my crocheting
and I wish you'd let me see that
spread in your room.
ooh, your room isn't done up yet?
Tut, TUT My dear. I'm afraid nova
days young women are slack house
keepers. When I was young we did
things systematically. Why certainly.
/ don't object to your bringing your
coffee out here on the porch, though
l must say it's queer time of day for
coffee, and you'll ruin your complex
ion"
Interval in which you attend to the
man with the ice and the grocery boy.
who comes for orders, and hunt up
some green sewing silk for the neigh
Dor across the way who calls to ask
for it, Mrs. Binks keeping up a run
ming fire to which she expects an
swers. Then a stuffy young woman
comes along with a small boy. She
sees you and strolls in,)
Stuffy Young Woman-My, it's COM
Portable here! What do you do with
yourself all day. though? Don't you
get awfully lonesome? Tommy, leave
those plants alone! What a cunning
typewriter Do you ever use it?
When you get a chance you say. |
suppose that's a joke, because every
body says you're so witty. Tommy
won't hurt it. will he? He loves ma
chinery. n it's so little. My good
nessl You never paid 800 for that.
did you2 I'm sure it can't be worth
so much money. Dc you care If I Dor
row some of these magazines? |
haven't any of the late ones. Tommy
loves to cut out the pictures. oh. of
course, If you haven't had time to
read them yet yourself | won't let him
cut them, but l don't see what differ
ence it makes, because most of the
stories read just as well If o skip
a little"
Man cleaning over the fence)-"Hel-
loi Isn't this the deadest place? |
cant find a thing to do. Will you
come for a walk? oh. I didn't see
tina you had company! Say, your
flower bed needs watering, do you
know it? And there are c%aterpillars
on your h~oneysuckle vine by the gate.
You want to get after them. (Strolls
on.j
Girl in Blue Creturning)-"Say. real
", won't you come and fill up that
bridge table? Haven't you got you
old work lone yet? oh. how-do, Mrs.
Binks, Isn't it dreadful the way she
buries herself down here with nothing
to do should think she's get so
lonesome, Won't you play in her
place, Mrs. Binks?"
(They go away together and you
get to work in earnest Somebody
at the back door and then
shakes it. You go to see what is
wanted.)
Small Boy (breathless)
missed the vegetable man an did you
get any parsley, cause our aunt is
on today's BOAT an we're 60
Ing to have parsley on things! Got
cookies?"
Rural Postwar (calls from the
ront)-"Registered letter for you to
Two Woman Cottagers (%stopping at
he gate)@"Oh, we've been for the
walk In the woodsl Why on
,arth don't you ever go. instead of
llways sticking at home? oh, you're
Llways talking about work to do! oh.
# course. we have maids, but with
ust yourself there. can't be much of
nything to do here. Oh, you're writ
ng letters! Well, letters don't take
.ng If you make EN- short Let's
% in and sit awhile"
(They stay till one o'clock and you
astfly grab some food from the ice
OK and prepare to do some work.
ust then the afternoon procession be-
ins.}
Voices (from down the walk)-"Hel
u Are you in? Thought we'd come
own to keep you from getting lone
And it's cooler here than =
1e boteli" ]