Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-24
Daysey Mayme
and Her Folks
By FRANCES L. GARsIDE.

TN the last two weeks Daysey Mayme
Appleton has purchased three hats.
four party dresses, FIVE street
/ dresses, six lace collars and two new
wraps
Special scenery has been added to
the parlor in the shape of a lamp shade
of a romantic red. and so many pillow
cushions have been put on the lounge
that when her Best Beloved called re-
Gently and lay down to rest, she piled so
many pillow cushions under his head in
her solicitude that she finally had hin
standing on his feet
| Best Beloved has the right of way ia
the parlor. Had Lysander John put his
head on one of the pale blue pillows on
which Best Beloved puts his feet. it
would have become a wrong to grow in
dignant about at women's clubs for the
next six months
Lysander John is so neglected he al
ways looks like a comb with half the
teeth gone, and this forlorn condition
was impressed on his mind recently
when he strayed into the paror, whers
! Daysey Mayme was entertaining her
Best Beloved by squealing at his Jokes.
Best Beloved had risen to go when he
discovered a tiny rent in his pale gray
kid gloves.
Daysey Mayme was all solicitude and
ran out to the sewing room, returning
with a thimble, a needle and some pale
gray thread
Lysander John Thinks It Over.
She insisted upon mending his glove,
inquiring tenderly while doing 1t if the
other needed mending. Then she dis
covered that the buttons needed sewing
on tighter and Lysander John watched
her with strange look in his eyes.
When she had repaired the gloves and
looked at the Best Beloveds coat as if
hoping to find a button off there, Ly-
sander John went 20 his room ard sat
down Then he took an inventory Of
himself.
Three buttons off his vest. two but
tons off his coat and snag in his
trousers.
Perhaps" he said hopefully, "Daysey
Mayme hasn't seen that I need her
services"
So he waited till after Best Beloved
had gone, and then reappeared with one
sleeve torn entirely out of his coat. But
Daysey Mayme didn't see it,
1t was one of the little tragedies
known in every home when daughter
falls in love, and few days later the
Appleton home witnessed another.
Daysey Mayme had adopted the fash
ion of wearing her dress very low in the
neck last winter. and. though she went.
around with goosefesh large enough to
CRATE nutmeg on, she insisted that
she was not cold. Oh, no, she was
warm, very warm, indeed.
Her father scolded, her brother said
she had neck like a goose and it
wasn't pretty enough to be seen. and
even her mother expostuated
She Defed Their Warnings.
All warned Daysey Mayme that she
would suffer for it, but in vain Her
only attention to their warnings was
to wear her dress little lower in the
neck, and little shorter in the sleeves.
one cool day recently she was start
ing for a walk with Best Beloved
Aren't you afraid you will catch
cold with your throat bare like that"
he asked. very indifferently
/ But it was enough. for Best Beloved
had spoken The next day Daysey
Mayme appeared with her dress neck as
high as her chin, and wearing a muffler
around her throat of the weight worn
in a North Dakota blizzard.
There is nothing in this world so
great" said Lysander John to his sis
ter. after Daysey Mavme had departed,
staggering under the weight of her
winter wraps, "as the influence of a
Best Beloved"
And nothing so short lived," replied
his sister