The Green Forest tribune., 1914-12-25
NOTHING ELSE TO DO
By AMELIA COHEN.
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chief and ran her finger around the collar of her blouse in an irritated way.
 "Gee!" she breathed to the stenog- rapher from across the hall who had brought her lunch over to Miss Fat tershalls office, where there was a breeze This weather is fierce! This is the sort of thing that makes me hate to work for a living. l want to put dynamite bombs under all the hammocks wherein swing languid ladies in lace frocks reading the latest thriller and getting away with bon bons while father or husband does the toiling down town! Yes, l dol"
 Why 1 never heard you talk sol" cried the stenographer from across the hall You've always been per fectly contented!"
 "The best of us have our off days, said Miss Fattershall gloomily. When l it gets to be no in the shade general ly abandon my noble theories and be- come a lady anarchist! Just as soon as it gets cool you will find me back at the old stand preaching patience, con- tentment and contempt for the idle rich,
 Even now" went on Miss Fatter- i shall, with the perspiration trickling down my complexion in little ditches can still remember that the idle rich have their troubles. Why, it was just l because she had nothing else to do that my boss daughter, Genevieve i Pye, picked up her foreign count--and believe me, she has been busy ever since! Her daily program has been i something like this: Seven a. m, cable papa for funds. Eight a. m., see Giuseppe's creditors and stave them off. Nine a. m. cable to see if papa has got the first cable and urge haste. Ten a. m. explain to Giuseppe why cannot pay his new gambling debts. i Eleven a. m., cable to papa for addir tional funds Noon, see more Of 1 Giuseppe's creditors. After lunch ] pawn my diamond earrings and pay the grocery bill. Two p. m, cable papa l for more"
 "Goodness!" gasped the stenograph- CT from across the hall, If it's as bad as that I should think she would pack up and come home!"
 "Oh, dear mol" explained Miss Fat i tershall She likes too well to be l spoken of and to as countess She can stand eight months of horrors over there just to pass four months in Chicago each year and have all her cid l girl friends turn green with envy and rage at her note paper with Giuseppe's l gorgeous coat of arms on it andIst sss.sss ] way the buffers announce, The Count ess di Flippa Flazazzah whenever she enters a rooml
 Think how you'd feel after you'd gone to school with a girl and knew I she didn't know any more than you did and you had swiped all her beaus in those days without any effort at all think how it would make you feel if your name was Mary Smith and hers sounded like the whole alphabet set to ragtime.
 q don't say that it's brainy form Of amusement, but Genevieve appears l to find it worth while! At least she endures Giuseppe for the sake of it. l I saw him at the wedding and-well, wouldn't change places with Genev- ieve, not even with all this hot weather,
 And again." went on Miss Fatter- shall meditatively, there's Mrs. Pye herself, She's got the house on the i boulevard and the summer place at Lake Geneva and the hunting lodge up in the mountains and the yacht to l look after and, come to think of it, l that must take some timei Gee! 1 Wouldn't you like to feel that twice i every year you had to see that nine hundred and forty-eleYen rooms were i all cleaned and that there were enough sheets and pillowcases for a young hotel with the monograms just right and the refrigerator on the boat was 1 stocked for instant sailing to any spot and that buttons were all on Papa 1 Pye's 60 suits of pajamas and that you hadn't forgotten any of the hun dreds of birthdays and anniversaries on your list and that Christmas was looming up ahead with another list and all the winters program of swell dinner parties to makel Besides get ting your wardrobe of 50 dresses in between!
 Mercy goodnessl" Miss Fatter- shall gasped and surveyed the stenog- rapher from across the hall with round eyes. Doesn't it make you ache all over to think about it? And every blessed thing I have to do after working all day is to hustle home and get into fresh clothes and hang up my other dress and walk to the ice cream parlor with Jimmy in the cool of the evening! Sa-a-a-y! I guess we don't have it so bad after all!"
 Mo-" agreed the stenographer from across the hall quite cheerfully, "it looks as though we had soft snap"
 PLEASANT RIDGE
 School is progressing nicely.
 4 merry Christmas and ham,