The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1913-04-24
Continued From L..t Week

screw up your face tight until you
look like Christmas mask - ge:
your neck muscles taut and then
vobbie your head around like a new
born baby until 1t swims. l did tina.
one twenty extra times and all the
others In proportion to make up for
those two hours In bed. Hereafter
I'll get up at the time directed on
page three. or maybe earlier. 1t
frightens me to think that Nv, got
only a few weeks more to turn from
. cabbage-rose into a lily. l won'i
let myself even think luscious peach"
and "string-bean. II I do, get warm
and happy all over and let up on my
self. try when I get hungry to
think Of myself In the blue muslin dress
haven't been really willing before
TO write won In this torture volume
that I took that garment to the city
with me and what Madam Rene did 20
n-made 1t over into the iovelicst
thing ever saw, only / wouldn't let
her alter the size one single inch. I'm
honorable as all women are at pecu-
liar times. 1 think she understood.
but she seemed not to. and worked
q miracle on 1t with ribbon and lace.
I've put It away on the top shelf OF
= closet. for It Is torment to look at It.
You can just take any old recipe
for q party and mix up a debut for a
girl, but 1t takes more time to concoct
one for a widow. especially II 1t is for
yourself. spen all the rest OF the
day doing almost nothing and think
ing until felt light-headed. Finally
I had Just about given up any idea
Of q blaze and had decided to leak out
In general society as quietly as my
clothes would let me. when real
eonnagration was lighted inside me.
II Tom Paliord wasn't my own FIRST
cousin would have loved him desper-
ately. even IL am a week older than
he. He was about the only oasis in
my marriage mirage. though / don't
think anybody would think OF calling
him at all green. He never stopped
coming to see me occasionally. and
MIR. Carter liked him. He was the
FIRST man 10 notice the white ruche ]
sewed in the neck of my old black
taffeta four or five months ago and he
let me see that he noticed 1t out OF
the corner OF his eyes even right
there in church. under Aunt Adeline'a =
very elbow. He makes love uncon-
sciously and he firts with his own
mother AS soon as I've made this
widowhood hurdle-welI. I'm going
To spend lot OF time buying tobacco
with him in his Hup runabout. which
sounds as II II were named for him
self.
And when that confagration was
lighted in me about my debut. Tom did
it was sitting peaceably on my
own front steps. dressed In the sum
mer-be-fore-last that Judy washes and
irons every day while I'm deciding
how TO hand out the first sip of my
trousseau TO the neighbors. when Tom
In a dangerous blue-striped shirt, with
tie that melted into 1t in tone, blew
ever my hedge and landed at my side
He kissed the lace ruffle on my sleeve
while I reproved him severely and
settled down to enjoy him. But
didn't have such an awfully good time
rs generally do with him. He was
too full of another woman. and even
n FIRST cousin can be an exasperation
70 that condition.
Now. Mrs. Molly. truly did you ever
see such peach as she is?'' he de-
manded after had expressed more
than dozen delighter opinions OF
Miss Chester. His use OF the word
''peach" riled me and before I stopped
to think. said: she reminds me
more of n string-bean."