The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1911-03-09
Nothing to
Think About

all the time to upset you and keep you
thinking and planning! The doctor
said I needed a complete mental rest,
with no responsibility and nothing to
distract me. and that's why we went to
boarding.
Il like It here-don't you? OF course
! don't know that I like all the people.
For instance. the folks in the room
next to mine must DO dubious. They
come home at all hours Of the night,
nv dear. all hoursi They walk per
feotly straight down the corridor, be-
cause I can tell by their steps, but you
needn't toll mo that two o'clock in the
morning 10 . respectable hour for a
man and his wife to get home three
or four nights every week.
I've never laid eyes on them-not
that I've tried to. Of course. but you'd
think I'd run upon them in the hall
going in or out. Every time I hear
a door close and think it's theirs l
find 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 I care-I Just
wondered.
"That's q pretty girl who Just went
by-the n In tho lynx furs. oh. you
must have noticed her. She's the one
that sits at the table under tho cleo
trio tan nearest the north window and
. 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 fne couple,
wouldn't they?
IF people only use common sense
there's not a bit Of chance for mar
riases to turn out unhappily. Just look
1t the Carlintons hers-anybody can
. they're unhappy, because he just
burtes himself in his newspaper at
meals and snaps If she asks him to
pass anything. I didn't get q bit Of
salad the other night because my wait
or took It away while I was watching
to see II Carlinton wouldn't speak to
his wife before he finished his coffee.
II don't sec how she stands tits
so apparent to outsiders. I feel 10
sorry for her that I Just hate to catch
her eye when I'm looking at them. She
has q way Of looking up suddenly
when you don't expect 1t. I should
think she'd have known by the shape
of his ohm 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 a long time. l
think whoever came home In it hadn't
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
I know, because I 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 I have my
suspicious. He always looks as though
he came out Of a bandbox, too, and q
man like that'll bear watching.
Shouldn't you think that woman
with the pinhdsh hair would get tired
running downtown so much? I kept
track one week and she went out si1
mornings straight. She years hel
best sable furs to shop in, too, and
that's what drives q lot Of husbands
to drink, such extravaganoe. Sable ID
20 delicate. should think she could
ind enough useful things to do al
homo instead Of gadding 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 it. but what's . per
son TO think. I'd like to know? sis
times In one week-
you say maybe she wa going to
tho dentist! Oh. we'll. perhaps 50, bu,
I don't believe it. This time Of yeal
everybody 10 too busy to bother with
the dentist. She was Just hunting w
more doodads to spend her husbands
money for. that's what she Wal up to
think it's o shame-and no looks 90
gray. Well. perhaps he 10 old enough
to be gray, anyhow. but II she'd be the
right sort Of wife, instead Of extrava,
CANT, he wouldn't bs half worried into
his grave.
do you suppose those clerks read
the postal cards before they distribute
them in our boxssf They seem to
take such . long time ovec the mail
Mrs. Bings. the grass widow, got one
from Europe yesterday. Twas standing
right there whom tho post1nan laid the
bundle down and It was on top. Che
seems quiet. but I'll warrant she's
hssp. Corresponding with some man
abroad b . bad sign.
Eyes," the nice little old woman
concluded. TN getting a good rest
here. because there's absolutely moth
Ing to distract me and occupy my
mindl Sometimes I wish there was
something for me to take an inter.
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