The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-01-11
ESTHER GREEN WHITE

| You see your friends departing.
| You hear of your acquaintance
making tracks for the sunny chimes
You sigh.
Wish you had lots of money.
Dream of balmy breezes floating
through orange scented atmospheres.
Fancy yourself walking down a
street with waving almonds overhead
You think of the story some one teld
YOU of having to dodge cocoanuts as
you ambled along the sidewalk.
OF pussy-footed servants bringing
tall ice-clinking glasses into rose-bow
cred courts where fountains play.
OF blue seas
OF white coast-lnes
OF dips in the ocean.
OF well set up men in white ducks
ordering minty drinks.
OF flirtations in the lucious moon
light
Ah-you sigh. What thing to be
rich, How nice to betake yourself
equatorward.
To escape the rigours of winter.
TO side-step the furnace.
And forget the baSeburner.
"Baseburner," exclaimed the man
at the next desk.
Sure, Why not" inquired the other
person. Don't you see EN- in the
store windows? There must be a de-
mand or there wouldn't be any supply.
Isn't it cute of me to be a political
economist"
You're never cute" sneered the
man at the next desk. You may or
may not be a number of things-but
they're none of EN- cute
oh, WELL" said the other person.
don't get into a state just because
l quoted Becky Sharpe."
Did Becky say that"
"Celta inly she did-out on the bal
cony the night before the battle of
Waterloo when she was flirting with
George Osborne while his wife cried
herself to sleep in her bedroom"
| Another knock for matrimony?"
We'll if it is-it isn't my knock
it's Thackerays," said the other per-
son. Anyway Becky Sharpe was
amusing and lot can be forgiven
amusing people. Becky Sharp had
green eyes and sandy hair but she had
all the men lined up seven deep while
pretty, soft-eyed. rose-tinted little
Amelia sat against the wall unnotic,
ed
Twas ever thus from childhood S
hour" quoted the man at the next
desk.
well, anyway" continued the other
person. some morning when you go
downstairs to breakfast sulking be
cause you are little sister to the
shovel and a first cousin to the Man
with the Hoe, you pick up the morning
paper and flip it over to see
Zero weather in California-Or-
ange Crop ruined
Deep SHOWS in Texas"
billiards in Louisiana"
oh, come" interrupted the man at
the next desk, Just to make your point
you needn't manufacture those bliz-
yards"
How do you know they don't have
'em in louisiana" inquired the other
person. Anyway" she went on airly,
lit really is of no moment. l merely
throw in these imaginative flights for
variety. know you like to hear me go
on although you pretend you don't
the truth is" said the other person
its my opinion you like me a lot bet
ter than you pretend to. You think it's
your duty to discourage"
Don't be too sure what think OF
you" grinned the man at the next
desk.
Nor care t. cried the other person.
"All the same you can't deny the
weather in California nor the ice in
Texas-and look at us-dandelions
blooming on Christmas Day and the
buds swelling on New Years"
There are always compensations, -
murmured the man at the next desk
When it's cold one place, it's hot an
otherIf you're pretty you aren't smart.
If you're plain your brilliant. If you re
regarded as half witted you can make
a fortune but If you're a genius you
can't make five cents a week-nature
l-society-whoever or whatever's res
ponsible generally strikes a balance.
so if you stay at home all the year
round for decade. say" remarked the