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 Wayne
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 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 mis- head in
her solicitude that she finally had hin
standing on his feet.
Best Beloved has the right of way u
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 i'll
dignant about at womens 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 parlor, where
Daysey Mayme was entertaining her
Best Beloved by squealing at his jokes
Best Beloved had risen to go when he
discovered tiny rent in his pale gray
kid gloves
Daysey Mayme was all solicitude and
ran out to the sewing room, returning
with d thimble. a needle and some pale
gray thread.
Lysander John Thinks 1t Over
She insisted upon mending his glove,
inquiring tenderly while doing it if the
other needed mending. Then she dis
covered that the bnttons needed sewing
on tighter and Lysander John watched
her with a strange look in his eyes
When she had repaired the gloves and
looked at the Best Beloved's coat as II
hoping to find a button off there Ly-
sander John went to his room and 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
Wayne hasn't seen that l 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 q 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 a nutmeg on, she insisted tina
she was not cold. Oh. no. she was
warm. very warm. indeed.
Her father scolded her brother said
she had a neck like g goose and Il
wasn't pretty enough to be seen and
leyen her mother expostuated
She Defied Their Warnings.
All warned Daysey Wayne that she
would suffer for it, but in vain Her
only attention to their warnings was
to wear her dress a little lower in the
meek, and a little shorter in the sleeves.
One cool day recently she was start
ing for walk with Best Beloved
Aren't you afraid YOU viii eaten
cold with your throat bare like that.
he asked. very indifferentlv.
/ But it was enough for Best Beloved
had spoken! The next day Dayscr
| Mayme appeared with her dress neck a.
high as her chin. and wearing muffie
J around her throat of the weight worn
in q 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 he
winter wraps, "as the influence Of Il
Best Beloved"
And nothing 50 short-lived replied
his sister