Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-11-12
Her Restful
Summer
.Tbis soing away for the summer,

70 away 10 some sWdmpy ldh0 hA0
contract typhoid from the water sup
ply and quarrel with all the other WON
en- there and have nerves over John
MES tendency TO explore the bottom
Of the lake and Mamie's admiration
for the ribbon clerk on his two weeks
good spit to rest in right here? The
street ID wide and shady; the yard Is
large, the house is roomy and the
porch is{screened in. The motor car
out in the garage probably wont blow
up yet for awhile and there are
coolies of hot water. Why not be orig
inal and stay where you can enjoy
life? Then when fall comes you will
be rested and in fine condition for
the rush OF winter"
So the Watchers STAYED at home.
1t WAS early In June that the What
cheers cousins from Six Corners. Ia,
wrote that they would be in Chicago In
q day or two and that they would
dearly love to see their relatives II
the latter were In town. There was
nothing for Watchers to do but con
fess by letter that they were indeed
in town.
When the cousins came they
brought the baby and little Susan and
Amanda and rabid desire to see as
much OF the city as they could by
working "a hours a day. They said
IT was splendid that Cousin Whatever
owned such nice touring car, be-
cause 1t was SO easy to get about in
It. So they burned up as many gallons
Of gasoline in a day as the Watchers
had used in two weeks.
After they got the hang OF things.
the cousins used to let Mrs. What
cher stay at home and take care Of the
three children while they roamed the
city. All day long while Mrs. What
cher sat smotbered sin sticky children
she thought of the cool lake breezes
playing on the cousins brows and how
she had planned daily drive through
the parks and how she wasn't get
ting it.
When the cousins arrived home in
time for dinner they would ask moth
er's darlings If they had been happy
Then as they dressed hastily for the
theater they would give Mrs What
cher directions on how to put the three
angels to bed. Sometimes they let Mrs
Watcher 60 along if they wanted te
be shown something, but she had te
hold the two children to pay for hel
treat. When the cousins left Mrs
Whatever burst into relieved tears and
Whatever, who was privileged to gaze
upon his motor car for the first time
in two weeks, swore in sympathy.
When Aunt Martha wrote that she
had heard they we're In town and
would seize the opportunity to pay
them visit and do her autumn shop.
ping at the July bargain sales the
Whatchers ran around in circles, but
Aunt Martha arrived before they had
found cover.
Aunt Martha was vigorous per-
son, who did not mind that the hottest
wave Of the season made it's appear
ance In her train. Hot weather al
ways reduced Mrs. Whatever to pulp
but Aunt Martha, who was going to
leave them some money some day II
she ever died, insisted on having her
dear niece's valuable judgment ON her
purchases. From eight o'clock in the
morning until five o'clock at night she
dragged her dear niece through fur
nacelike Easements. bouncing upor
eight-cent Bingham marked down from
fifteen cents and cake tins that wer.
ten cents less than they were at home
When the supply of Easements RAJ
out Aunt Martha took to stuffy cor
ners, where she unearthed year before
lasts silks, in price reduced one half
After she had accumulated two trunk
fuls Of this sort of plumber, she trip
ped on cobblestone and spraine,
her ankle. Then Mrs. Whatever wait
ed on Aunt Martha for two weeks. be
cause Aunt Martha had a prejudic,
against trained nurses. After this Wis
itor's departure Watcher was able I,
catch an occasional glimpse OF th,
wife of his bosom, but he asked q
first who the strange lady was, TO
she was such a wreck that he didn,
know her.
Just as Mrs. Watcher was begin
ming to get rested Watchers siste
and her family dropped of the trail
to visit the dear relatives and Incl
dentally to shop. As Whatever and hi
sister always got along together jus
a. beautifully as do gunpowder an,
blazing matches, the visit reduced th'
Watchers to still deeper misery.
Then the people next door got
monograph and the young man across
the street took to playing the corner
In the midst Of these Affections tws
more cousins from Iowa came, be
cause. as they said. the other low.
cousins had had such perfectly grand
time that they didn't want to miss
the chance, since the Watchers were
in town for the summer. They said
they thought the Watchers were very
wise not to attempt to go away, Stree
Mrs. Whatever looked SO sickly. The
place for her, they said, was at home
where she could have absolute oniet