The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-07-08
HAD PLENTY OF TIME
BY CHARLES PlEiNS.

! Cont waste any pity on us for be-
F, ing up here in the woods at this sea-
son of the year" wrote the girl to
her best friend in town, who had
been sympathizing with her by letter.
We are having a perfect time, and
I'm beginning to find out what leisure
Sat least should be finding oIt
! 1 | weren't busy every minute. That
sounds contradictory, | know, but the
truth is that ! am reveling in the
kind of leisure that gives me oceans
Of time to do all the things that I've
always been wanting TO do.
Just fancy the delight of having
four solid hours of reading every
night and then being in bed at 10: 80!
You see, we have an early dinner and
the evening begins promptly at 6
and mother and sit with our needle
work in hand while Brother Will
reads us chapter after chapter. Don't
you wish you had a chance to get &C.
quainted with Little Nell. Colonel
Newcome and Maggie Tulliver again?
while mother is working on her
silk quilt In the mornings take an
hour or two for magazines and mod.
ern novels and I've actually found
that have a taste for poetry
You mustn't think, however, that
reading furnishes our only amuse
ment We have great deal Of other
entertainment. Tie bird banquet
which we have set outside oJr dining
room window is constant source OF
interest. We have piece of salt pork
tied to cedar bough and every morn
ing as we eat our eggs and bacon a
black and white woodpecker with a
dash Of scarlet In his topknot comes
and pokes his beak into this brand
Of breakfast food which appears just
to suit him. He is usually followed
by two bluejays that, not being adept
at pecking. content themselves with
the crumbs which mother, keeps un
der the cedar tree for them
I'VE feed the squirrels also. TIL
fash tacE a-d forth IN frcn: OF our
windows all law ltng '"~'~i7g from
roof 20 hopeN ard eca~-r~'irg acrose
the snowy lawn with troir 'ails high
in tho afr. 10 graceful red rlum IS
|
| are rauroyiyi1g .heso little neigh.
bors 90 cN-s N-' '-'' '-~'-' -'la. or
dcn9,'or- - "cg ia.e:,o w!sh thc.r
self-reliaacC.
but the recreation hat Brother
Will and enjoy most is mothers
talk! Think of it, in all the years
that I've been her daughter | never
| a., hot n
briliis~| talkcr mother is. Until now
we have always been too busy with
| the s-y.Sa- r"ri's cf life to con
verse about anything more important
tl.n c'c.h-7 Nousekeepinp. entertain
ing, lists of guests and all the othel
never ending ce- ais ca existence. L
we haGr' s'av~1 ~ 'ho c~"~'ry thi.
autumn might ~e"n~ """a krowr
what a wealth ~ "..'r''' ro~ca ant
arecdoto '~ s.o-"i 80 In mother.
memory She 'smembers the stirring
DAYS of the CIvl war shn passed
through the rr-n. Ch'caGo Gre anc
she pioneered f. Nnslg h-'orc the
gold rash. Prc.rs" vi1 90 have
heard some thr.,llar rto.ice "aeo aft
e~-oor7 hen the SNOW p" ~ain ha.
kept UP close TO the wood FIRE.
you mustn't think ri US as ent'rel,
cut of from the outside world very
once in while 20 gee some enc ron
the village II waA only night before
last that n man went bv with Ian
tern! Brother VIII and | had heat
ed argument as 10 whether II was tn,
hired man from The nearest farrhouss
or the village clerk who is said 10 b,
waiting IN the farmers daughter.
This morning Brother VIII c"llet
me from ny beck TO look cut ~ he
W.T. f." scN h"V' ccnpoe'0d we ~.
rec delivery mans cart and wager
load q hogs. both In sight at once.
$50, you see life is far from dull.
Brother viii tas lest interrupted
my r'ritin" TO tel me that his morn
ing mail has decided him to move
into town ea-'v next week
, "Of course I've enjoyed every min
? ute of this Ions autumn here. but nov
that know ! shall he back In the
midst Of things 80 soon can hT-dly
wait Why. haven't even decided or
, n winter suit yet and as for a hat
or, dear J suppose the shops are
| crowded TO distraction with Christmas
| buyers, but shall not mind that in
, the least. shall enjoy mingling ant
mixing with my kind.
, The country is ali right, but
; we'll II seems a century since I've
been to the theater. Chicago Daily
: News.