The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-01-15
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
CASE OF HAY FEVER
ey CLARA iNEz DEACON.

~e>AN~0
country.
Miss Cressy declared that she'd oil
first. The doctor recommended quie
village on Long Island. Miss CressI
said she'd drown herself in the Sound
He knew of a nice old couple thai
would take her in and make pet OIL
her She would make 1t So not tol
that nice old couple that they wouio
wish they had never set eyes on ner!
However and nevertheless, Miss
Cressy duly arrived at the quiet VII
lage spoken of, and was also duly IN
stalled in the quaint but very comfort
able house occupied by the good Sa
maritans.
When 1t comes to a shortness OF
breath-when 1t comes to a red nose
when it comes to talking the English
language through that nose-when che
eyes water and there is need OF q
small boy to follow one around with
a bundle OF handkerchiefs,. why. even
a spoiled girl OF twenty must see the
sense of retiring to some quiet spot
where society is not and wait for q
change.
Miss Greasy went, but she went with
a determination to make somebody
everybody-pay for her sacrifice. she
would be Just as mean as she could De
and if people didn't like it they could
lump 1t.
A day or two after her arrival the
girl strolled through the village. Sew
eral people bowed to her.. as is the
courteous custom OF the village, and
each bower was coldly snubbed. she
saw a sign Of "Postoffice." and she en-
tered and queried:
Amy bail here for Bliss Greasy Fair
bangs?"
1t was the hay fever pronunciation
of course, and the postmistress ought
to have known it was, but she made
Miss Cressy try three different times
and then said there was nothing for
Miss Fairbangs. The cold glare she
got in reply gave her chills for week
AS Miss Cressy started homewaTds
she encountered young man. 1t may
be added that he also encountered her
He had heard that there was a good
looking girl from the city stopping al
the Petersons, and concluded that this
must be the one, On her part, she
had never heard of him and didn't
want to. She simply saw that the
young man about to pass her was moi
one of the villagers, and as he seemed
about to bow and lift his hat, she made
up face at him and passed on. She
had got even with the postmistress!
When the hay fever victim, later II
the day, carelessly mentioned meeting
the young man and asked who he was
Mrs. Peterson replied:
That must have been young Fell,
Blair. His home is in the city, but hi
spends three or four months OF ever!
year here in the village. We all thinl
him a nice young man"
Looks stupid to mel" said the sui
ky girl.
"Oh, dear me, but he's anything bu
| that He Is a naturalist, and said t.
| be the smartest one in the state. HI
knows everything about birds, fish, In
sects and animals"
Does he board with some old won
! an who holds the cats and dogs whil'
he stuffs them?"
"He has cottage Of his own dowI
| near the water. Pa and / know hin
| well. and I'll take you down ther'
some day, If you wish. His collection
Is well worth seeing"
Possibly so, but he struck me al
being very poky young man"
Dear Dear.'
| When Miss Cressy Fairbanks hat
| been in the house week. and her en-
unciation had so far improved that sh'
could make her name plain to others
| she took a stroll in a new direction
| Nothing further had been said abou
| Mr.. Blair, but she meant to walk pas
| his cottage. She meant to do 1t de
| family. She had tried hard to maxi
| herself believe that she detested him
| The only charge that she could brinl
| against him was that he looked as |
| he thought good deal OF himself
| That was his mental criticism Of her
and perhaps intuition told her so.
The cottage was passed. The de
fiant attitude was superb. Had Mr.
| Blair been standing in his door h,
must have been flattened out like
| pancake. and without knowing an,
reason why she should pick on him!
But he wasn't standing there II,
wasn't even at home, When this fac
| became plain to Miss Greasy she wa
| putchy about it. 1t was another rea
| son why she should detest the man
According to all social laws he shout,
have been at home and looking 70
her. and should have advanced hat II
hand and given her his name an,
begged to be forgiven for something
or other Consequently more putch!
However, II Mr. Blair was not hom
his boat was. II was drawn up on tn
beach, and the Idea came to the girl t,
make use OF 1t. 1t would be spitinl
and getting even with the owner.
The boat was showed of and the cir
entered It, She knew nothing OF row
ing She had never even entered
skin before. The tide was runnin
out. and running strong at that, en-
presently she found herself out in III
bay and being hurried toward an is
land a mile and half away. No on
happened to see her drifting, and sh
was too frightened 10 scream. TIL
boat might have mlssed the island ha