Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-02-28
Nothing to
Think About


the family hotel. I'VE shut up our
house and moved here so I could get
little rest and quiet Daughter said
I'd never recover my nervous tone al
long as had house on my hands TO
fuss over take such an interest In
things when DO take an interest--and
you know what house Isl Something
all the time to upset you and keep you
thinking and planningl The doctor
said needed a complete mental restsv
with no responsibility and nothing 70
distract me. and that's why we went to
boarding.
Il like II here--don't you? OF course
I don't know that I like all the people.
For instance. the folks In the room
next to mine must be dubious. They
come home at all hours of the night,
my dear. all hours! They walk per-
fectly straight down the corridor. be-
cause can tell by their steps. but you
needn't tell me that two o'clock In the
morning Is respectable hour for
man and his wife TO get home three
or four nights every week
i've never laid eyes on them-not
that rye tried to. OF course. but you'd
think I'd run upon them in the hall
going In or out Every time I hear
door close and think it's theirs l
ind when I get out into the hall It's
somebody else going out It's very
suspicious.
You don't happen to know their
name. do you, Not that care-i just
wondered.
That's a pretty girl who just went
blythe one In the lynx furs. Oh, you
must have noticed her She's the one
that sits at the table under the cleo
| trio fan nearest the north window and
a young man with straight-up blond
hair comes to see her every Tuesday
evening. There's another one calls.
too, but he's not 30 regular. She's SO
dark that they'd make a fine couple.
wouldn't they?
III people only use common sense
there's not a bit Of chance for mar
riages to turn out unhappily. Just look
at the Cariintons here-anybody can
see they're unhappy. because he just
buries himself In his newspaper at
meals and snaps II she asks him to
pass, anything. didn't set . bit OF
salad the other night because my walt
er took It away while I was watching
70 see II Cariinton wouldn't speak to
his wife before he finished his coffee.
/ II don't SEQ how she stands tits
80 apparent to outstders. feel so
sorry for hsr that Just hate to cT.ch
her eye vhsn rm looking at them She
has q way OF looking up suddenly
when you don't expect It. I should
think she'd have known by the shape
| of his chin that she'd no business TO
marry him. Some women never pay
any attention to those things.
Didn't that automobile wake you
up the other night? Why, the big
green one that stopped out IN front
of the hotel about half past three and
chugged away for such long time.
think whoever came home in 1t hadnfd
any money TO pay the bill and the
chauffeur had to go inside to collect 1t.
THAT Grosebeck man wasn't down
to breakfast at all the next morning
know, because went early to mine
and then read my paper in the lobby.
and I could see every one who came
out of the dining room, and he never
appeared. I'd hate to say for certain
that he was the one who came home
In that automobile, but | have my
suspicious. He always looks as though
he came out of bandbox, too, and a
man like that'll bear watching.
Shouldn't you think that woman
with the pinkish hair would get tired
running downtown so much? | kept
track one week and she went out six
mornings straight. She wears her
best sable furs to shop In, too, and
that's what drives a lot OF husbands
to drink, such extravaganza. Sable Is
SO delicate. should think she could
find enough useful things to do at
home instead Of gaddlng about so
much. I'll warrant she doesn't keep
her husbands socks darned. It's the
most curious color for hair. I'd hate
TO say she dyed II, but what's a per
son to think, I'd like to know? Six
times In one week.
"You say maybe she was going TO
the dentistH oh. we'll. perhaps so, but
don't believe 1t. This time OF year
everybody is too busy to bother with
the dentist. She was just hunting up
more doodads TO spend her husbands
money for, that's what she was up TO-
think It's a shame-and he looks 30
gray. Well, perhaps he Is old enough
TO be gray. anyhow. but II she'd be the
right sort of wife. instead Of extrava'
CANT. he wouldn't be half worried Into
his grave.
do you suppose those clerks read
the postal cards before they distribute
them In our boxesf They seem 70
take such long time over the mall
Mrs. Bings. the grass widow. goa one
from Europe yesterday. L was standing
right there when the postman laid the