Pocahontas star herald., 1911-06-16

Those folks livin' next doo, aren't
in the habit Of sittin' outside nights
But d'you see them tonight? Porch
just packed full's can be!
Guess well miss Marjorie, all right
At first Wen just think she's away Wis.
-itin' somewhere, but soon wen get it
straight into our heads that she's
gone. Then wen miss her good. Wen
miss her from the table. She always
cut the pie so big.
DO you know what mothers gc.n'
to do with all that linen on the stairs
tonight? She's going to cut it up into
dish towels. Wen have lot, won't
we? We won't have to wash EN-
out after every meal any more! Gee!
Don't you hate to wash dish towels?
They always smell so smelly.
81 guess mothers good and tired to.
night. ! wonder if those caterer men
will go and leave everything all
mussed up hope they don't Gee!
If they do mother'r be Strengthening
things early in the morning and wake
us kids up to help her.
Don't you wish flowers didn't with.
er so quick? They cost such an awful
lot! Beauts, though, weren't they?
Daddy says he don't see how he's ever
goin' to pay for everything | don't
see why folks don't use hat flowers,
anyway-you know the kind of stuff
| mean.
That was a swell sermon the min
lister preached over Jim and Marjorie,
wasn't 1t? Nearly as good as to
funeral. never was at funeral, but
you know how they are.
Mother said-before all the people
came-that It had got to be a happy,
smiling Wedding or none! She said
if anybody cried they'd be put straight
out. Narior;e said she just knew
somebody's be sure to cry' Goel I
wanted to cry when the Minister be-
/ gan-andI guess l would, only saw
mothers eye on me!
Mari never expected to see Miss
Hughes tonight She eIoped-'nd then
she got back here in time for Mar
jorie's wedding | guess it's better
to elope. Then nobody's got to get
ready so much,
Mari and Jim had a fierce time try
in to get out of the house tonight.
4 They kind. suspected that the fellows
wotNBe up to some tricks with their
griBand things, so they made me
takeare of them out in the barn.
Jim ave me a dollar for it-a silver
dolla Most as much, guess, as he
givehe preacher
hasn't so dead crazy about stay
ing ot in the barn by myself an look
in ater those grips The other kids
was l In the kitchen lickin the ice
cream off the saucers and hoggin all
the cke that was left, never thinkin'
of me
1T iidn't do Jim much good givin'
me that dollar, though, cause a bunch
of biz gfellows that go with Jim came
into the barn and bust open the grips
-Marbries and Jim's-and mixed
everything all together. Spilled the
talcum powder and the tooth powder
over aerything and smeared the
fronts Of Jims hardboiled shirts with
sistersnail polish, the sticky red kind
you know.
Jim had a pair of swell pajamas--
all like silk. Well, the fellows Silt
those pjamas up into slithers!
bet they cost Jim more'n a dollar. i
was shame!
81 felt awful sorry for Jim. knew
he'd got to sleep in something. so
sneaked up to dads room and got hi!
old blue hannelette nightshirt and pu
that in for jim! | guess dad won
care L was kinda old and torn ant
worn ont, an it had to 80 into tho
wash tomorrow, anyway. bet JIM
| he SURPRISED Wnen ne opens MS ~ II
-dontyou? But Jim did me a mightl
good turn once, so | wanted to hell
him out
"Tbe kids kept callin' to me out O
tie gitchen window that the ice cream
was most all gone Guess I'd Sc
none ata. but for Dor'thy Shed hi'
me half oil hers ! can always cocn
nm Dorthy to look out for me. w
was most bust up with eatin' so mucI
stnlf but we just had to get througI
with It before they washed up tn
dishes
THAT taxicab? Why, twas the on
ordered by the crowd who were goini
n follow Jim's and Marjorie's carriage
and get on the Pullman, If they coul
manage to get past the gates. Bu
linn and Marjorie just whizzed off i
II when they found out that som
sr,orties in the crowd had telephone
tbo,r carriage not to come. Wante
| 10 them miss their train,