Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1913-07-11

a
ed voice What woman wouldn't be
comforted by being called a luscious
peachY ! looked out between my fin
gers to see what more he was going
to say, but he had turned to a shelf
and taken down two books
Now" he said i'll bis most business
Ike voice. as cool as a bucket Of wa
ter fresh from the spring. I'll is 30
trouble at all to take off your surplus
avoirdupOis at the rate Of two and -
half pounds week If you follow these
directions. As take il, you are about
twenty fye pounds over your normal
weight II will take over two months
TO reduce you, and we Will allow an
extra month for further identifying
so that when Mr. Bennett arrii es he
VIII find the lady Of his alteration in
( proper trim TO be adored Yes. just
/ be still until copy these directions in
this little red leather blank book for
you. and every day | want you to keep
an exact record Of the conditions of
which make note No don't talk
while | make out these diet lists.
wish you would go across the hail and
see if you don't think we ought to get
Billy a thinner set of night drawers
II seems TO me he must be too warm
in the ones he is wearing"
When he speaks to me in that tone
Of voice ! always do it. And I needed
Billy badly at that very moment
took him out Of his little cot by Or
III.
In my arms over by the window
through which the early moon came
streaming Billy is so little. little not
to have a mother to rock him all the
times he needs it. that I take every
opportunity to give it to him I find
when he's unconscious and can't help /
himself She died before she ever .
even saw him. and I've always tried to
do what could to make il up to him
Poor Mr.. Carter said when Billy cut
his teeth that a neigbbor's baby can be
worse than twins Of your own He
didn't like children, and the baby's
crying disturbed him. so many a night
walked Billy out in the garden until
daylight. while Mr. Carter and Dr
John both slept Always bis little
warm. witty body has comforted NE
for the emptiness Of not having a baby
Of my own And he's very congenial
too. for he's slim and fiowery. pink and
iimply, and as mannish as his father
n funny little flashes
Cit a stick TO punch it, Molly" be
vas murmurng in his sleep Then
leard the doctor call ME and / had 10
Hiss him. put him back in his bed and
70 across the ball.
Or. John was standing by the table {
With this hOrrid small book in his hand ,
nd his mouth was set In a straight {
me and his eyes were deep back IN v
er their brows bate him that way. b
90, and I would ike TO get up SO close O
o him that he couldn't hit me or have n
door locked between Us. It's strange q
ow the thought of taking a beating s.
rom man can make womaus heart 0
mp Mine jumped so it was hard TO "
,ok as meek as felt best under th4
but looked it out from a
nder my iashes cautiously. ir
There you are, Mrs Molly" be said ca
risky as he handed ME this book OF
Get weighed and measured and sized
? generally in the morning and follow b,
] the directions. also make every rec be
d I have noted so that I can have sy
e proper data to help you as you 20 m
ong-Or rather down. And if you will fr
faithful about il to me. or. rather m
], | think we can be sure of buttoning In
at blue muslin dress without even de
e aid of the buttonhook." His voice ha
d the If you can note in it that co
ways sets me of. mi
Had we better get the kiddle some 90
inner night rigging?' he FASTENED to ad
< as | was just about to explode m,
, knows the signs De
Thank you. Or Moore, hate the an
y ground y0d walk on, and I'll at de
ID to those night clothes myself to- sa,
rrow,' answered, and I sailed out Tn
that office and down the path to- see
I'd my own house beyond his hedge ma
| carried this book tight in my dre
I'd, and ! made up my mind that | It
uld do il all if it killed me ! would ba,
W him could be faithful-to whom hin
-Ould decide later on But hadn't an,
d far into this book when / com ha,
ted myself 10 myself Ike that! no,
don't know just how long sat on LEFT
front steps al by myself bathed in n
effect food of moonlight and Ioneli min
S. 1t was not a bit Of comfort to Ion
r Aunt Adeline snoring away in her An
n down The dark hall It takes the and
test congeniality to make a per bre,
; snoring pleasure to anybody. and dow
t Adellne and are not that way TT
hen poor Mr.. Carter died the next ssse
she said: Now. Mary, you are en- nra,
Y too young to live al your long eau,
s of widowhoOd alone. and as am and
le same condition, win rent my thin
lge and move right up the street is a
your house TO protect and console give
And she did the moving and An
ana
Henderson has been dead forty ouf
years lie only lived three months b,,rn
he married. Aunt Adeline and her is 90
! veil is over yard long yet. Men mos
he dust under her feet but she - q.