Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-03

did as they said they would. They
regarded the desire for lettuce
merely as one of the silly vagaries
OF the summer residents and she
knew If the lettuce farmer took II
into his head to go on a picnic or
drive to town that day he'd do II,
and then what should she do with
forty women coming?
We We're all so worried over Mrs
F1nks lettuce that we distractedly
walked the porch the morning of the
party, and when we saw the lettuce
farmer really drive up We just cheered
out loud in our relief! He didn't
bring the nice. crimpy, curly kind
that she had ordered.
ut was about 40 degrees in the
shade that afternoon, and If you
walked by any house In the place you
could hear mutterings and grumblings
from the unhappy women within who
were trying to curl their hair and get
into their party clothes All of them
were wondering what Mrs. Fink want
ed to give a party for, anyway, and
wasn't 1t horrid having to go? The
perspiration rolled off Mrs. Finks.
face as she told her guests how glad
she was to see them and then eyery.
body sat and crocheted and mopped
her face and ate three times more
than was digestible and said what a
beautiful time she had had and then
tn TIT 1t
to feel thankful that 1t was over.
Then Sally Casey arrived one dav
and asked me to an afternoon bridge
party. The. weather was perfectly
ideal, the kind that makes you want
to run hareheaded through the woods
and shout because you're alive. But
we sat all that glorious afternoon in.
doors quarreling over cards and I
was sick two days from the stuff !
ate, and a woman who didn't get the
prize said that the woman who did
cheated
BY that time every woman in the
mace caught the entertaining fever
There were invitations out for nearly |
every afternoon and evening. because
every one was afraid that If she didn't |
give a party she wouldn't be asked |
to the others, and of course. no mat. |
ter how much you hate to 90 YOU
nearly die If you don't get the chance
to go. Nobody had any time to do
anything but whitewash her shoes
and press out her dress-up dresses
and Shampoo her hair.
There were sewing parties and !
card parties and luncheon parties and
corn roasts and watermelon parties
and teas and people got thin and bag
gard and dyspeptic and cross and
quarrelsome, and above It all rose the
wall at each party; Why did she
take 1t into her head to give a party
md make me climb out of the ham.
mock and get into tight clothes and
SO crifice myself! Yet we were all
scared to death for fear there would
be party that we would not be
asked to.
But great and bitter rebellion
was seething within me and one day t
found soul who could understand
'atherine Smith and | fairly went s
as we both talked at once and con.
fessed how we hated summer parties
WREN we wanted to rest from the ef.
fects of the winter parties. t
AS we were discussing possibl. t
methods of escape Catherine grab bed /
me with shrek ! have it, she a
cr'eu' | Know now we can escape all 7
the rest Of the parties Just say; q,
NO thank YOU" instead of Yes,
thank you" when we are asked,' t
II really was simple. wasn't II, |
SO that was what we did and we no.
came known as the social outcasts Of :
~umagen Woods, because If you don't ,
20 to their parties the women all get
-ad at you. After they we're all mad
t IA Catherine and had delightful
;ms. I