The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-07-22
INDIGNATION MEETING
BY JAMES HARDING.

well wouldn't that make yo'
tired" called Mrs. Brill as she CANE
out on her back porch and slammed
the door sharply behind her.
Her neighbor, Mrs. Graves, looked
up in surprise for Mrs. Brill was o
n most unrunled dcmeanor ordinarily
Sitting back on her heels in the
grass she abandoned her pursuit OIL
dandelions long enough to inquire
sympathetically, What would
Mrs. Brills prettily frilled dust car
fairly stood on end with Indignation
i've been trying to get Raymond
school by telephone for at least hall
an hour. You know my sister and her
little boy are coming up for the day
and, of course. Raymond wants to
stay ut home Well, he's in the en-
tertainment next week and wanted
to tell his teacher he'll be absent to
day and | wanted to find out about
his costume. But do you suppose
could get that school? No, indeed'
And tell you, Mrs. Graves, che phone
service we have here now is some
thing awful There is a phone at the
school. for saw it one day. There Is
no number in the book and all ]
could get out of those girls was we
have no record tell you our i'm.
provement ASSOCIATION ought to get
after the phone service instead OF
putting up any moro fancy street
lamps"
Now, Mrs. Brill" expostulated the
woman two doors away, who had sus'
pended operations on her clothesline
to listen and who stood dropping
gracefully over the fence and rafting
the clothespins In her apron pocket.
st isn't the fault Of the telephone at
all; It's the schools. or the school
board, or something Listen to what
happened to me the other day
81 wanted to go down town early
and get at the sales before the bar
gains we're all picked over" related
the woman two doors away Il hur'
ried so that forgot to take the pigs
feet off the stove that we're cooking
for my husbands supper. He likes
them once in while and they have to
be fixed Just so in order to suit him
These we're awfully nice ones and
wanted to cook them as long as posi-
BILE. On the car | remembered that
hadn't removed them, but the gas was
turned low. 80 they couldn't burn very
soon. Well, | hurried to the nearest
phone to call up Bobbie at his school
and tell him to run over at recess time
and turn out the gas.
But do you suppose | got any sat
isfaction? Well, didn't. oh, ! was
mad Here had planned on those
sales for a month, you know, to get
some furniture and hangings cheap
for the porch. | didn't half look at
what they had. just bought some
things In hurry and then rushed
home. was hardly in time either, TO
those pigs feet were scorched.
Then my husband got mad. Ioc
know. John Is awfully particular about
what he eats. And | had to send the
furniture back because it wasn't at al
what I wanted"
She paused moment for breatl
and to enjoy the sympathetic com
nents of her neighDor, Then, with
cOQuettish toss of her head, she con
tinued: We'll, just told John how 1
all was. You see, my husband knows
the superintendent Of this distric
real well They go down together OF
the 7:45 train real often. So he'll jus
Ak It up at headquarters. The idei
OF not being able to phone to one
own child in a city Of this size!"
Mrs. Brill nodded emphatlcally a
Mrs Graves, who had gone back Il
hunting dandelions. Though osten
sibly talking to the woman two door
away, she directed her next remark
straight to Mrs Graves. whom sh
considered more or less a party to tn
misdemeanors OF the city school, be
cause Mrs Graves had once taught Il
them.
That's Just IT," declared Mrs Bril-
Nov, in Splashville, who're my siste
teaches, you can phone to anyone 1
Any hCUObl az any UNIV hbphN hhl
thing. That's how It should be. SUI
pose somebody should die suddenly, q
break an arm or something. 70
couldn't get word to the child in an
way here"
Mrs. Graves answered the accusj
hon as she picked up the mutilate
dandeIlons preparatory TO going int
the house. surely, every kind Of me
sage should be given and to ever
one Of the thousands Of youngsters
the schools just because some OF
might die some time. 1t would tai
several clerks just for that and y
classes would be continually d
'urbed but what Of that"
Wrn," pouted Mrs Brill, whit
ge pay taxes for
That's right" insisted the neig
FOR two doors away. Anyway, Il
husbands going to see about it."-CI
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