Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1913-02-28
THE SUTTONS' HOUSE
~ t. MCDONALD.

was tOiAf the TALKING thdl wal
quite within my rights Ny husband
however Is firm In the conviction that
] fatally ruined my reputation for
good breeding I secretly think that be
believes me now beyond the palel lie
IS still at the point where he sputters
whenever allude to the subject
"Of course, would not go around
looking into peoples windows In
town When a person builds house
in town you know it's his castle and
you haven any right on the premises
without an invitation. but when he
builds one In the country 1t is a posi-
! tive bid for inspectioni
Why. a new red barn Is a subject
I for dinner table conversation for miles
around in the country and house is
a positive godsend, because every
body can explain al length why he
doesn't like it.
The Suttons began building their
house out near the golf links early in
the spring and as 1t was merely across
the road from the eighth hole 1t was
quite the thing from the start to take
a recess at that point and cut across
the road and survey the hole in the
ground that was going TO be the SUIT
tons cellar eventually All of us de-
clared every time we looked at 1t that
the hole was either too big, too small,
too shallow or too deep and nothing
could induce us to have a cellar like
II. When the workmen began putting
IN the foundations it was even more
exciting, because there are so many
kinds OF foundations. Nobody who
looked at the Suttons' foundations
approved Of them
we all gurgled with Joy when the
uprights marking off the partitions
were up and we could see where the |
rooms were to be According to va
rious golf players who dropped over
there in one morning the living room /
was a farce the dining room a crime. /
the hall a joke and the bedrooms a
fright. Most people said the house /
should have faced east instead of 7
west though there were a few in ia
vcr OF a southern view and some
voted for the north which gave one
a view of the railway line and let
one keep track of the trains that went
past
THE walls started in cobblestones
and that revived tagging interest II
some one wasn't telling about a cab
Dlestone house he knew of that fell
down at the first puff Of wind some
one else was explaining how banal
and inartistic cobblestones were now
hat they had grown so common That
he second story was half timbered
only famed the flame. Everybody
Who sat around on the terrace to cool
IF after a game got all heated up
Igain eXpostulatlng against the half
imbered style
THE Suttons' house in short, was .
lot a building; it was an institution
Without which the golf club would .
ave fallen fat II made it all the
more comfortable that the Suttons
we're in Europe and the house was
elpless
When the Fielding girls came out
o spend the day &C the club with me
hat was more natural than that |
hould take them over to see the Sut-
on's house2 thought they would =
njoy sloatiug over it's deficiencies
We tried the front door. but it was
astened and so was that at the
ack. Evidently the carpenters had
nished their work and left.
Anyhow told the Fielding girls,
want You TO get a glimpse Of the
Iside You never saw the Hkei
so we strolled around to the side
nd [ got a box and stood on tiptoe
nd fattened my face against the liv-
& room window
II found myself looking straight
to the interested eyes Of a perfectly
range man who seemed very much
home in a wicker chair beside q
& table heaped With magazines and
'oks and flowers and surrounded by
rnlturel II you have never peeked
70 a room In a house that did not
'long to YOU and foend the owner
garding you meditadvely YOU cannot
idersiand my sensations
MY face remained glued to the
me- because { was TOO limp 70 take
away THE strange man arose and
nee cut al ihe FROM door and around
whore We tramhiad and shrank
q regarded us politely In q Voice
angely not my own { slamMered
'hshly thai Nas shown my
ends the Sutton house The strange
20 chem announced that he was Mrs
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