The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1911-02-23

CLARICE

Dotty WIKI had gone visiting in Chi.
cago and when she returned home
with q bunch Of pufs on~the back of
her head which she hadn't taken away
with her and a ghost book and a pig
DOCK excitement spread through the
village.
Dotty had attended a party while
b was in the city and the hostess
mad made everybody do a page in her
-ehost book. It was q bound volume of
blank pages folded through the mid
die and the process was to open a
page. splatter a lot of ink blots on it,
fold 1t back and press it down hard.
Then you signed your name and some
body else cried ,"Oh, now let me try
I'll"
In the pig book you drew a pig with
Jour eyes shut and you couldn't take
the pencil from the paper after you
had started.
Everybody went crazy over these
lads and Peterson. the druggist, who
also sold stationery and magazines,
mad to order a second consignment Of
the popular volumes.
Nearly all the girls owned either
one book OF the other. But when
somebody asked Clarice Emerson how
many pages in hers she had filed the
Questioner ran up against a stone
wall. Clarice elevated her delicate
eyebrows a trtfe and said family that
b was interested neither in ghosts
nor in pigs. Il have a sentiment
book, however, which I will show you"
she said.
Thereupon she laid in the hands of
the abashed young person who had in.
troduced the subject q book which
Clartce herself had made of pale
blue linen paper and water-color pa
per 7overs, laced together with blue
ribbon to match. Clartce had painted
q spray Of wild roses on the cover. 1t
was, indeed, a chaste volu: >.
whats 1t fort" stammered the puz-
Eled holder Of the sentiment book.
Clarice looked gently panied. II
am going to have my friends write
beautiful quotations Of noble senti-
ments of their own in it." she said.
softly.
Everybody said that it wac exactly
like Clarice Emerson and that she
was a ridiculous stuck-up thing, and
who cared. anyhow? Clarice always
sat with her eyes looking upward, like
st. Cecilia at the organ. and her
clothes were always limp and draped.
She held things with the tips of her
fingers and she talked about your soul.
So she was not exactly popular but
her father was prominent and she
could not be snubbed.
When she started out sharing PEG.
pie with her sentiment book people
broke into cold Precipitation and twis.
ted their feet a%nguishedly around
chair legs and bit their tongues and
grtpped the pen hard trying to remem.
Der something noble. They turned the
pages to see who had written what
and they murmured. How lovely!'
or How true!"
After stock sentiments, like art is
long and time is aeeting," BE good
end you will be happy" and Count
that day lost whose low descending
sun views from thy hand no worthy
action done," had all been used up in
Clartce's book late corners had terri
BILE times. Sc :retly they thought the
pig books lots more fun. In fact
whenever Clarice appeared in the dis
lance, with q limp volume adorned
with wild roses in her hand, there
was a stampede.
Artie Kline made q great hit at 6
party which Clarice did not attend BY
going around asking every one in 6
dyingswan tone. won't you write 6
noble sentiment in my little book
Oh, do write a gem of thought in my
bookl"
When Professor Cities, the new
teacher of English in the high school
reached town ond a. woa aoon fho< h<