The daily sentinel., 1914-01-15
Iona NEWS
By Adelinc ii. Sperry. :.
Dear Mr.. Editor:

"Aitt oboAN ShlS Ntth- was
quite some affair at the Jonathon
Inn last week when Miss Ruby Smith
entertained at q kid party. and all
the boys came in short pants and the
girls in short skirts and played mar
bles, skipped the rope and reviewed
the kid days which lay such a short
ways behind them. But no one told
me about this party until a day or
so ago. Last Friday night the boys
and girls in the upper school grades
piled into two bob sleds and went
to the home of Miss Anne Berg. near
Fruita and spent the evening. They
played games. told tales and We're
refreshed with hot chocolate and cake
before starting home. Now, of
course, items like that are always
interesting, and people like to read
them, and | rather like to write
them. Miss Dora Baders is writing
invitations to a backward" party to
be given the last week in January.
If you have ever attended a back
much fun it is when everyone en-
ters into the spirit of the thing and
dresses backward and tries to do
everything backward all evening.
But, excuse me, MIR. Editor, perhaps
you are not a society man. The Cal
laway's newest baby, Robert Louis,
has had an awfully bad cold. this
week and is still quite seriously
i'll. The Fred Cool baby is doing
fine, but it is a girl and Fred
hasn't found a name to suit it.
Rather" would be a nice name, and
suit the time Of year besides. /
suppose you have heard about Him
self hurting his knee? He and Henry
Baders were out hunting rabbits,
about two weeks ago. and Himself
made a mis-step and fell, bruising
bone in his right knee. He went to
Doctor Porter, after the hurt was
about a week old, and had been both
ering him all the time. The doctor
turned the searching rays of his X
ray machine on the injured mem-
ber'' and took a snapshot of it, dis
covering an ugly bruise. Then the
doctor brought the poor man to his
happy home and came in a while
himself, for he is q sociable soul. He,
wore a very nifty evening top coat
of russian dog which was very be-
coming-it covered him from top to
toe. He ate some pumpkin pie and
told some funny stories, and | would
! like to tell them to you, but am
afraid he wants to use them on his
patients and who knows how soon
you may have the pleasure of being
one? Surely there is nothing much
more depressing than to have a doc
tor tell you stories you have heard
before and have to laugh at them
for fear he will give you nastier med
icine than usual if you don't. Mon
day afternoon Mark and Amy came
in and we four played 500 and then
| ,,f and hlftar and
raspberry jam, coffee and pumpkin
pie a small piece the doctor couldn't
eat). Friday. Amy, Blanche and
Meta are coming over for waffles
and coffee at 12, noon, and then we
are going to play cards all afternoon.
II is certainly dreadful way to frit-
ter away the time, but when you
have nothing on earth to do but the
washing and ironing, cooking three
meals a day, baking every other day
for lunch buckets. sweeping, dusting,
sewing, mending, darning, scrubbing
| and securing, cleaning lamps, ana
so on. one Just has to think up some
mischief to help kill time. We need
/ a missionary down here to tell us
how to use our idle moments. Be-
sides, we miss the amusements of
back home" We haven't been TO
theater for so long that l am sure
we would, sit entranced through
performance of Uncle Toms CABIN
Weep tears of joy for poor little Eva
and howl with delight over Topsey
and the two Marks. While a per-
formance of Ten Nights in Bar
room would seem to us the heights
of revelry. We do also miss the con-
yeniences of back home" 1t is so
hard for one to polish ones own
shoes, and put on ones own rubbers
when one was always used to loot
man back home" and it is certain
lly a disagreeable chore to nave 10
make one,s own butter when one
always had a butler to do 1t for one
when one was ''back home How
ever. If we are to he pioneers We
must learn to sacrifice. We must
he clad to advance bravely on with
the flaming torch, blazing traii
Ifor those who are to come aiter,
moor divils. When we begin to grow
weary of Loma's Christmas caro-
beauty and long with heartsick
yearning for the sight OF street car
or a moving van, then let us turn
nur sad faces toward the grand old
| Rook Cliff mountains, as evening
/ closes in and drink in their beauty
as they stand like lovely grey nuns
in opalescent wells of irridescent
chiffon. (That is the way We describe
them writing back honey We
must pull in huge lungfulls of rare
lfied air which is all free for nothing
and which was given as premium
when we bought the land. tlts a
a great thing for us, too, that such
| is the case or we would all have
smothered to death long ago. or
course we all try to be contented,
but then we are none of us angels.
AT least, / know | am not. Bennie
called me one in a letter one time,
only he spelled it "angle" (Spelling
was not his strong pointl, and as
was anything but an angle the term
of endearment fell rather flat. NO
one has tried it since then. must
tell you about our collie pup. we
had promised one to Mr.. Burnett at
the st. Regis, so Himself bundled