The Washington times., 1914-07-12

general head of fear lest all things
should not be done in time, which is
most wearing,
And on Friday all the things that
had been cooked in the kitchen were
piled into a basket-the descendant
of the basket that Eve made that
memorable evening in the garden
basket
Husband was of the type that re-
quires even SO small a thing as a
paper of pins to be delivered by
the person selling him them. He Is
of the type that will not even put
a postcard in his pocket for fear
of disturbing the shape of his neatly
pressed coat. And yet husband
crooked his arm through the handle
of this basket, walked with IL thus
five blocks to the car: rode six
miles on the car until 1t arrived at
a particularly hilly section of the
landscape, and then walked. with
to the other, to the very top OF the
highest hill that could be found
and that was reached after travers-
ing the upward and downward paths
of several minor hills.
Setting down the basket, husband
searched out a stream of water
warm water It was-and made lem
quantity of sugar had been brought
in the basket and there was no ice.
Enter the Chigger.
While the lemonade was in prepar-
alton. Polly was busy with the bas-
ket. Knives and forks had been
forgotten. The deviled eggs had
slilled into the dish of jam. The
cherry pie had been much depressed
in the journey and in the depression
we're the mangled remains of what
ground to fine bits by the cake
pan resting on it. And in the hole
always found in the center of the
pound cake, the half pint of olive
oil had sought sanctuary. when the
stopper of the bottle in which 1t
was packed had been jolted out. But
the sandwiches were good. And
the crullers retained all their heri-
tage from the sinker family.
When the pans and dishes and
buckets and cups and napkins had
been gathered up after the fray, and
put back in the basket, when the
sleep under the trees had been en-
Joyed and the homeward journey
completed, there was a rush for the
of various itchy bumps completed.
the discussion of the good time"
was on. interruption to this discus
sion put the finSle on the picnic
interruption by the unbidden guests
to the feast-the minute things that
had come in the hour of quiet and
rest following the meal-the chigger!
The chigger is a guest at every
picnic. 1t Is not necessary to in
vite him. He is there. He comes
quietly and 1t is not until after 1t
is all over that anyone knows he
has been there. But he has over
looked nothing. He has an investi-
eating frame Of mind. And he Is
the keenest of all investigators. He
sacrifices his life to his appetite for
knowledge. He takes his solid fact
maybe in some instances 1t can be
spelled without the ''c"-burrows
into 1t and then dies. Maybe it's
a happy death. But he dies hap
py or not. and every person infected
by picnicus multifarious becomes
sooner or later. a walking. jump
ing. writhing sarcophagus for the
toiling. painstaking-to say nothing
of ns-giving-chigger.
One Sole Remedy.
That 10 one form the disease takes
when the picnicus gets in its work
the lncst pronounced form. Some
times the basket is not carried to
the country by trolley. Sometimes it
makes the journey by boat. Then the
chig8er is replaced by the mighty
orb of day. Where the chigger SIM
ply bit, the sun scalds. But the ef-
fest Of the basket is the same. The
condition % the basket is the same.
The iced in the basket is the same.
And the newly made gowns. the
freshly cleaned flannel trousers
their RPS. and tears, and discolora-
ton ere the same. And sometimes
tn" automobile takes the place of the
tCat o. the trolley. But these arc
only differences in detail-not in re-
Suit. The result is similar.
1t takes week to prepare for
IiCnic. A week to recover from its
effects. But for the person whose
blood has become infected with the
rerm--lt is useless to try to effect
cure.
Tho orly antidote for picnicus mul-
tGaIiol the only thing that Will
e'er chccS its ravages. is the sound
ing Of a clarion note. the vibrations
of which will cause the dlsintegr1-
tInn Cf that symbol OF original sin
the 3asi<'t. And the only person
known 70 science or fable who can