The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-05
Rainy Day Island and Its Charms
Good Old March Sunshine and Clean Old Winds-Tem
peramenta April Showers Which Arrive at Any Hour
Suits Them-The Woman Who Dislikes All Three
'sshes AS Restful AS Rainy Day
BY DOLLY DALRyMpLE

showers the house you live in from the
rest OF the world and leaving you ma
rooned with ''an the comforts of home. .
TO muse over the distant nefgbbors across
the street. with the isolation and privacy
of Juan Fernandez in the far off Pa
cific.
ol course, to stage a rainy day prop
erly one must have all the properties ?
The first requisite in setting the seem
cry is a fire.
a rainy day without fire is like a let
ter without a stamp.
1lVen the fire, of course you recognize
the Imperative need of a kitten
"A kitten is always SO sociable, SO gay
SO conhding, so elusive and SO mysterious
Wh1ie holding in keeping all the fireside
qualities of her kind
Shes a warm little. soft little pillow OF
down, and she never gets bored; il she
does, she's too tactful to show it.
fes, the only companion for rainy day
is little fluffy kitten.
| don't know why it should be So bui
the only flowers for a rainy day seem t.
be red geraniums
Red geraniums go so well with fluffy
kitten and a blazing fire.
They reflect the flames and almost give
back sigh for sigh.
OF course, you are not limited abso-
iutely to these gay flowers, for there's the
beautiful golden jonquil and the smelly
rat blue double hyaclnths, and even the
DAINTY little single white ones--if yor
| happen to have them.
A rainy day is no time to follow
Health Hints or Gymnasium instruc-
tons, a to the value of straight chair
You want your very "sleepiest chair
tucked brim full of cushions.
You trail around the house and get ev-
cry big cushion and little cushion and
| middle sized cushion you can lay youI
hands on to tuck at your back and then
oh dear yes, foot stool.
You never could read six Best Sci
ler'' unless a foot stool were somewhere
near to hold your work basket, which is
only for effect, for of course you only
sew very little bit.
But you want the work basket conven-
lent, so that if a body should happen tc
drop in, you could suddenly become deeply
immersed in crochetng or featherstitch-
ing or even homely .'darning," which
must be done every now and then.
| The fire and the kitten and the red
| geraniums, your "sleepiest chair aud
your work basketball the scent ceffects
a rainy day is that it gives you the long
sought opportunity to read some of your
| best beloved books again: vanity Fair,
"A Tale of Two Cities" and 1.-THE Mill
| on the Floss" or '"rhe City of Beautiful
Nonsense" =" 1.-The House of Mirth," .The
Lady of the Decoration" and some poe
try; Theodosia Garrison, Kipling and Bliss
| Carmen.
Then you might write some of those
'steen or twenty letters you've been mean
! ing to write all along, and thereby rid
your conscience of a terrible burden
find that you haven't done one of these
thingsi
| Not onei
| Instead
You've sat before the fire and looked
down in broadsides and watch the coral
| tlements, then fall into soft gray ashes
lagain
| The kitten snuggles UP close to you
and before you know it you are wander
| ing in that pleasant land suspended like
Mahommet's tomb, midway between the
real world and the realm of unreality.
You know the cars are going by in a
| far off hazy sort of way, and occasionally
and you hear family somebody saying
something about the wrong number
but 1t doesn't bother you much, because
you are slipping off-deeper, farther away.
| irto the "Never, Never Land" and before
you know it. you are actually s-l-e-e-p-
| ing! ~