The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-12-28
Found Her Prime BOOSTERS Carefully
ALFRED In Cooked Hats and Trousers.

Found Her Prime BOOSTERS Carefully
Attlred In Cooked Hats and Trousers.
had wilted, his collar button had
slipped into q puddle. He tucked the
collar into place, the best 1t might.
Just In the midst of dinner the ends
yawned forth. making Of him q hid
eous and distressing picture.
You might have anticipated the ac-
cident!" scolded Beulah.. when her
other guests had departed, and, un-
easy, embarrassed and uncomfortable,
Ellis blurted out:
Il reckon you never wore a collar
button!"
THAT is indelicate-you shock mel"
spoke Beulah Jelly.
sBeulah," answered Ellis, on his
mettle and sorely aggrieved, I'm look
ing for wife, and not a boss. When
l marry"
You had better choose some one
who will not care how you lookl"
snapped out Beulah and did not even
bid him good night as he went silently
down the steps.
A week later he called, but no one
answered his ring at the door bell.
Beulah was proud and hurt. Then
when a public picnic came along. they
CHANGED to come upon one another
where neither could not very well
avoid being courteous. In fact, they
were well on the way to cheerful
mutual humor when lodge bore but
ton-holed Ellis and the chance for
reunion passed by.
After that neither ever referred to
the other, bowed when they met, drift
ed apart. and each went the way die
tated by grieved spirit Ellis set
tied down into grim and unsocial
sybaorite. Beulah became IAN old
maid
The designation was e misnomer.
Health, frame and features belied the
appellation. She was a woman in the
most radiant perfection of loneliness.
Suitors came, but were promptly dis
missed. She counted her one love ad-
venture as her share in the expert
hold duties became her world.
She had few choice pets: Canary
birds, faithful slumberous old tabby.
9 young collie that went wild when al
lowed to run free. Withal Beulah was
lonely, however, and she took q new
interest in life when a friend came
in one day with the conventional:
What do you think?"
Beulah looked ready for any news
that might rouse her out of humdrum
routine.
THE house next door, vacant for
two years, is taken"
Il shall be glad of neighbors," spoke
Beu,ah truthfully, and longingly.
One week later, however, Beulah
changed her mind. The family that
had mosed IN next door had proven
a sore disappointment. The father
and mother were eminently respect
able, but the boysI-there were three
of them. and such ladsi
Mischief had been born in them.
They were never still, they disturbed
her afternoon nap and they played all
kinds Of tricks on her.
When Beulah found her prime roost-
ers carefully attired In cooked hats
and trousers, she only clicked her teeth
and looked mad at her frolicsome tor
mentors. When, however, Tabby came
into the house with walnut shells on
her tender feet, she made voluble
complaint.
For about a week the boys sub
sided. Then one day they coaxed Lad
die. the dog, out of the house. The
delighted canine had one whole day
of free rowing with his new lovable
education. also. In fact, af
ter Beulah had got the burrs, CRIME
and mud off from him, carry and
FETCH" she discovered, had been en-
grated into him.
Whereas, Laddie had heretofore
been a peaceful, contented. well-be
haved animal, he suddenly developed
a constant impulse to seize any OBJ
ject near at hand and run away with
it between his teeth.
And one afternoon, while she was
busy with lady caller in the parlor
Laddie heard his fellow-arch conspira
tors whistling in the next yard, seized
a little blank book lying on the desf
and bolted through the kitchen screen
door.
"Crackeyl" exploded Ned Ransom
elder Of the brothers, as he glanced
over the written volume. here's
find!"
What is it," piped his juniors IN
unison.
Miss Arnold's diary. Um-ml 'ThiI