The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-09-09
By ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.
"Of all the insane forms of spending
the time" said SaIsreaching for the
camphor bottle, commend me to
| camping"
list possible thou hast been guilty
of the chautauqua?" inquired the cynic
ruffing at a large, lucious cigar.
, well whatever may have been my
SINS" replied SAL "at least you
couldn't have bought that cigar there
on Sunday"
| why don't you answer my question
instead of hammering me over the
| head with an assertion that has no
possible significance in connection
with your original remark" asked the
cynic in an aggrieved tone.
"Oh pshaw," said SAL whats the
use pretending you are ruffled when
you're not intend to talk as l please
now and at any other time. And it's my
opinion" she whispered, that you'd
just as lief I'd hammer you over the
head as not"
| who can deceive my Sal?" cried
! the Cyn1C. ECHO answers WIZ. ANOuS'
theless, my dear girl"
your what?" interrupted Sal
| "'Girl!'" grinned the cynic. 81 new.
er hoped to live to see the day upon
which you'd admit camping at the
chautauqua"
well I haven't admitted it," said
Sal, but it's the fact that l did. Urged
by those who hankered for the simple
life for ten days next to Natures
heart, l consented to try it for once.
Its best not to say you will never
Go a thing.
For every time you go and do it. Al
ways touch wood when making an af
6rmatory VOW to that effect. For as
sure as fate you'll find yourself doing
the very thing you swore before higf
heaven and all the fields in the pit yol
never would"
Did you ever swear you'd never ge
married." casually inquired the cynic
"Brute!" cried Sal. "Brute-utte
and perfect"
Il see no occasion for such vic
,ence," expostulated the cynic.
well, it's true" said Sal passing on
that you can't buy a cigar at the chau
tauqua on Sunday. And yet they'll sci
you coco-cola and the deadly ice-crean
cone"
"The code of blue laws that governs
the operation of these religious and in
tellectual vaudevilles," said the cynic
has always interested me for it's ex
treme singularity.
81 remember to have gone up to Wi
mona a few years ago when they lock
ed you in on Sunday. You couldn't ge
a cigar, a Sunday paper or ride in
boat. But you could sit round and lis
ten to some Of the worst sermons Oh
rec ord.
And I give you my word" said tn
cynic confidentially, that on trying t
get outside the grounds to town | wa
held up and refused egress.
Il pulled My ticket on 'em and the
refused to punch it.
And it is the fact that had to RI
turn to the hotel and there remain tn
entire day without solace."
Not even feminine?' malicousl
asked Sal
said the cynic Many excellent maiC
ems observed patrolling the leafy bu
densely populated bypaths. Some e:
, corted by sanctified and respectable
youths whom I indexed as either 81
Journing missionaries or students i
the biological summer school. Other
attended by we'll fed Presbyterian fir
airs.
Still others alone.
But these looked upon me with
} cold and lack lustre eye"
Probably no eye at ALL" smiled Sa
. Trust you to say the charmin
: thing" reproached the cynic, but t
tell the truth they most Of 'em locke
like Y. w. c. A. secretaries on vact
ton and l feared-feared-"
{ Feared"
) "Well--merely feared. Anyway
sweat the day away in populous sol
> tude. Winona Lake is like a Turks
: bath. I've always thought the Presb,
/ tsrians selected it as a sort of wa
station to the predestination camp"
"Shamet" cried Sal THE Presb,
terians don't believe in prenatal dan
} nation any more-they're just lfk
/ ANYBODY else. All the churches now;
! days are nothing but club-houses. E.
, erybody believes the same thing. c
rather, nothing at all"
These remarks. betokening as the
do a materialistic and profane spiri
are exceedingly painful to me-" int
; rupted the cynic. Il would prefer |
, hear you enlarge on your origin;
theme