Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-07-20
FESTIVITIES IN
PROSPECT


town. Dramatis personae: Bobby. on
one side Of the street, Nellie and Ro-
sale ON the other. The conversation
10 carried on ut concert pitch.)
Bobby (who 10 twisting the rope OF
swing around and around. with his
own body thrust through the loop at
the end)-Hi. sassies!
Nellie (who Is seated primly on her
own front steps, with q doll on her
lap and Resale, who 10 several years
younger, by her side)-There, BOBBY
Burton, Just for that won't invite
you to my party.
Resale knowing q little closer to
Nellie)-Are you going to invite me-
Nellie?
Nellie (puckering up her mouth
thoughtfully)-I guess 30. That 10.
I'll ask my mother II can.
Bobby-Aw, g'wan! I bet you amt
goin' to have no party.
Nellie (very INDIGNANTLY am, too.
Bobby-Who said you could have
party?
Nellie-Its none of your business.
Ny mother did. (She lowers her voice
q very little and turns her head toward
Rosalie, but is careful to speak so that
Bobby can hear distinctly, TITS going
to be the grandest party you ever saw.
There's going to be Ice cream and
cake and candy, a thousand million
kinds of candy and peanutS!" (She
takes her doll in her arms and rocks
back and forth scstatically). "And
watermelon and ice-cream-"
BODY (cynically)-You said that
before, and anyway It wouldn't be no
party II you didn't. Ice cream Is what
makes It q party.
Nellie (pointed addressing Rosalie)
And Ice cream, Resale. and candy,
and peanuts and water
Bobby-Aw, Rosalie. IT'S all q fake.
I bet her mother amt goin' to let her
have no party.
Rosalie overwhelmed with the
Splendor Of the prospective entertain
ment and ignoring Bobby)-And you'll
invite me, won't you?
Nellie (condescendingly)-Tll ask
my mother If can. But anyway, Ill
save you some candy. We're going
to have two barrels full-pink and
white and red and every kind Of color.
and sticks Of candy and we'll stick
them in lemons and oranges and suck
the Juice through.
Bobby (contemptuously)- THAT amt
no kind Of a party. Once I was to a
party and they had 1--WE kinds Of ice
cream all stuck together, every old
color you could think Of, and I had
three helpings.
(Rosalie signs rapturously. but Mel
lies nose tilts upward, while the cor
ners Of her mouth go down In token
Of scorn.)
Nellie-There amt going TO be any
such pigs at my party. My mother
says II a person can't act like little
ladies and gentlemen they oughtn't to
be invited to parties.
Bobby-Aw, bet you amt goin' to
have no party. and If you do. I bet
they won't be Ice cream enough to 90
round.
Nellie Ito Rosalie)-There's going
TO be gallons and gallons Of Ice cream,
Rosalle. and candy and macarois-
Rosalie-What's macaronis, Nellie?
Nellie-Oh, it's the loVellest little
cakes! Kind of hard outside and
squashy in the middle, and there's 60
ing to be about a bushel of them at
my party, SOS everybody can have all
they want to eat and take lots Of them
home"
Rosalie-Oh, Nellie, please say
you'll invite me. I'll give you my lit
tie brown caterpillar that found this
morning II you will.
Nellie (magnanimously) - oh, !
wouldn't take your caterpillar, Resale.
We've got oceans Of them in our back
yard. But I'll ask my mother II can
ask you. You see, my mother thinks
such little ones as you might be more
In the way than the big ones like me.
But I'll try to get her to let me invite
you.