The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-11-09
A REsTFuL Time
ANONYMOUS.

And to think that l separated my
self from two weeks pay just for a
bouquet of freckles!" she said to her
chum and patient listener. IF you
have any artist friends who want to
entertain you in an isolated cabin take
my advice and tell them you have an
other engagement. Then don't go any
farther out of civilization than a nickel
and transfer will take you. My good
ness! l believe my nose is going to
peel"
What's the difference? You had a
good time and no cloaks to SELL"
chirped her friend, giving light touch
to her pompadour.
"A disfigured nose does not prove
your assertion. If should expose my
ruined disposition you would think 1t
dangerous for me to wait upon my GUS
toners. Do you suppose these mos
quito bites will mark me for life?"
| Ned won't mind them. Why, when
you started on your vacation you
said"
Eyes, know what l said. l was
right here when said it, but that was
before taking"
mo men?"
Only one of sixty-five summers.
However, l didn't go there to make
conquests this year"
Made up with Ned, haven't your
81 wanted quiet time without burial
alive. When my friends talked about
their cabin in the northern pines it
sounded pretty good to me. OF course,
| thought it was to be a house party,
and took all my pretty summer
dresses. Well, they were never out of
my trunk What do you think of that"
Not one worth while?" said her
sympathizer with metallic laugh.
They simply do not wear ball cos
tunes in the wilderness. Mrs. Bob
wore flannel sailor suit the entire
time"
But for dinner"
THE mention of dinner gives me a
pain. You don't know what real hun
ger is
lunch hour" said her chum, glancing
at the clock, Let us get behind some
wax ladies'. so the tloorwalker won't
call us forward until after I've got rid
of fifteen cents in riotous living"
After ten-hour ride" continued
welcome even a piece of our boarding
house pie
You poor thing" There was real
feeling in the friends voice.
81 reached there about six o'clock in
the evening | found Mr.. and Mrs
Bob sketching After pleasant greet
ing they told me to make myself com
Portable. giving me a three-legget
stool. They wanted to finish thu
sketches before the light was gone.
tried to sit ON that wabbly seat and a
least look happy. but it would have
taken an acrobat to keep his balance
and fight the mosquitoes. l had t.
keep my dimpled mitts flying like
windmill.
IL was glad when Mrs Bob tinall
, cdiu i<Ct qult III WV uay' ioai
her husband say. All right; I'll e
|. and catch the trout while you pick tn
berries
Imagine my feelings, ! was star>
ing and dinner had to be caught an
, picked. After he got the fish he wen
, to the neighbors' to pick some pota
, toes"
, II think potatoes grow"
: "Of course they do didn't SUI
l pose they came in cans. Well, we at
/. dinner at nine o'clock"
5 Sounds good to me-"
I 1T was good when we got It. ! wa
t tired and they showed me a bandbo
to sleep in. The bed took up all tn
J. space-length and breadth and heigh
Q had to get chair and climb to &c
q on the straw tick and then it was a
3 slippery as the bumps. just hung o
for dear life with my head and fec
q hanging over. My pillow took fient
n ish delight in leaving me and | coul
4 not reach it without losing my balance
d The mosquitoes made as much nois
u as lou Oh WOuleil dt hic oaio'
o In the morning thought my friend
n we're dead. for they didn't appear unit
d 8: 30, and by that time my sweet disp
l. sition was nearly ruined. Then tn
s breakfast had to be caught and picke'
Q as usual. The rest of the day ] Ii
n tened to them talk of perspectiv
e technique and color scheme until n
n head buZzed. Mrs Bob said 1t wa
just the kind of restful vacation CIR
e who worked ought to have, but m
d gyrations on that camp stool viii
ID trying to rid the North of large ere
r of mosquitoes didn't strike me as res
st full. ! was worn to frizzle."
Is Your muscle will be better for pu
+ ing women in and out of cloaks,' col
~ mented her consider. did you sta
70 there for your whole vacation"
Hardly wrote Ned to telegraph
Dangerously i'll; come at once Nh
Bob told me she was very sorry, but
le heard her tell Mr. Bob that, while 81
enjoyed my visit, 1t worried her
ID have company, because she had to
ID particular about having meals or tim
u, Considering that during my thr
L. days stay breakfast was served
$50. II and 8, luncheon was eat
Sc from the pantry shelves-the time b
ing a matter of personal opinion-al
d. dinner was eaten whenever it ha
he pened to be caught and picked, | a