Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-02-04
Visiting
Katherine

noon. you look like the last run of
shad. Have you been sick?"
mo, I've been up in the country"
said Wadley you know Katherine
Morgan's people have a cottage at
Sunset lake. Well, Katherine invited
me to pass the weekend there. She
said it was a quiet, restful place, so
decided to break away from the bust
ness grind for two or three days, if
l lost my job for it."
"You did right" declared Blocker.
Everybody needs change once in a
while"
well, I had a change, all right"
said Wadley, dismally.
Didn't it agree with you? Was 1t
dull"
Dull! I'll just tell you what Kath-
crime, the adorable, the untiring, alb
solutely indestructible Katherine, ar
ranged for my pleasure.
ut was $50 Friday evening when
my train arrived. katherine was at
the station with a carryall full of
young people, who welcomed me most
warmly We drove to the cottage,
where supper was awaiting me. After
I dispatched that and was looking
longingly a. one of the porch ham
mocks katherine announced that we
were all to 80 down the shore half
mile to a I,c~shmallow roast.
IF there's anything sicky sweet in
h. ~ - rfin To- IU
detest it's marshmallows. but, OF
course I expressed. my delight at the
roast and away we went. After about
ten pounds of marshmallows had been
consumed and the beach fire was get
ting low Katherine suggested that we
have a few lively games to warm our
selves. Although I was really too
tired to move, l joined in the romp-
| ings and tore back and forth across
| the beach like a schoolboy for half
hour or so.
"At $50 the next morning rap at
my door woke me from sound sleep.
"'Aren't you going for Dip called
Katherine, gayly, 81 take swim ev-
cry morning before breakfast
'In about five minutes l joined
Katherine on the pier. She dived into
the water and l followed my teeth
chattering She struck out across the
bay. It was only by superhuman eff
forts that I managed to keep up with
| her had not been in swimming
before this year, and I never was
strong swimmer. I proposed that we
run home on the beach and Katherine
bet me box of candy that she could
beat me. She won.
"After breakfast che challenged me
| to tennis. We played six sets before
lunch. l was too tired to eat and l
| lcnged to stretch myself in a ham,
| mock, but Katherine said she was as
! hungry as a hired man, and she knew
| must be starving, so / sat down at
the table and was making fairly
| good meal when Katherine told me to
hurry, for she had arranged a four
some at golf with two friends of hers.
at was o'clock when we finished
playing golf and Katherine said we
should just have time for swim
| L
after the swim Katherine knocked at
my door and told me to put on my
dancing pumps, as we were going to
a hop in tile evening.
1--WE went to the hop. Katherine
was as blooming as a rose She in
troduced me to every girl there and l
danced every dance on the program
and six extras. I don't know how I
managed to walk the mile back to the
cottage without falling by the side of
Katherine, who appeared to be doing
Marathon, so briskly did she walk. .
81 hope you got a rest Sunday, y
said Becker, sympathetically.
"a rest! katherine had planned a
walk around the. lake. vas just
seven miles, and We time
for a / o'clock DIM was deter
mined that l should sleep all the aft
ernoon in hammock. But it was
not to be- Katherine asked me to row
her to the far end of the lake to pick
water lilies. We got into weeds
where | could hardly move the boat
an inch without breaking my back.
"In the evening Katherine had a
crowd in for a Welsh rarebit and
was allowed to cut up four pounds OF
cheese. 1t was hard work. One of
the girls came unescorted and Kath.
crime and l rowed her home across
/. the lake at midnight and walked a
half-mile to her house and back.
at didn't seem more than ten min
utes after l got into bed when Kath
refine knocked on my door to see if
was ready for my morning swim
answered brightly that l had already
been in Then 1 began throwing my
things into my suitcase. At breakfast
l inquired about the first train tc
town.
"'But George Katherine protested
4 thought you were going to stay ovel
today. There's a lot Of things | want
you to do We were going to play in
door baseball and
"T'm terribly sorry interrupted
but it's imperative that return t.
my office this morning
at was imperative. knew that Il
1 didn't regain the rest and quiet o.
n my desk telephone Immediately
4 should be a total wreck. !. l fed and
Il Katherine's last words to me were ar
3 invitation to return for my vacation
a g., Capfaphar