Evening star., 1916-08-12

tire week end was revelation and a Joy
and took Bill into a land Of ease and
comfort which he had never dreamed Of
About the only thing, that Bill was able
to get to remind him of the trip was a
wooden lemon squeezer. He just figured
| that when he got home he would ger
himself just such a lemon saueezer, ana
| ment he would get out his lemon squeezer
| and make lemon drinks just like that
accomplished fishing club steward had
| done.
| Il want to buy a wooden lemon
squeezer," he said to Mrs. Bill.
why. we have a patent lemon squeezer
| out in the pantry" she replied
| said.
"Biil. don't waste money on a lemon
| squeezer when we have one: What on
earth is the matter with you?
| Bill didn't know how to express it. The
| patent lemon squeezer Is one OF the nor
rible glass things on which you impale
a half lemon 9and-th turn it around and
get your fingers all covered with lemon
! Juice. 1t is a distinctly feminine opera
ton 1t is not neat and manly and mas
terful like squeezing lemons in power
full wooden clamp. But all women ike
| them.
| Bill said he was going to get a wooden
| sQueezer anyhow, and Mrs. Bill pointed
out with considerable force that there
were certain things much more needed
| than a wooden lemon squeezer.
| SO Bill didn't get It neither did he in
vite any men up to the apartment to get
lemon drinks.
| One day he was shopping with Mrs.
| Bill and they ran across lemonade
set. marvellous combination OF squeezer
and glassware, which would do credit
| to the finest country home. Bilfs eyes
| longingly rested upon it and he MUIR
| INJURED that he just wished some one
| would give him one of those things for
| a birthday present All his ideas of
country life in Kmerica began to center
around the proper kind of lemon
| squeezer Mrs. Bill promptly dragged
him away and made him buy freezer
for ice cream, also some sort Of patent
dinkus to put on the end of a vacuum
| cleaner and clean the dust from the
backs of pictures without effort.
buy that wooden lemon squeezer and
make lemon. drinks. He also started a
| movement to build a cottage with vines
| around it. but Mrs. Bill vetoed both
idea that home is the place where the
! janitor does all the work. and in fact
/ Bill was beginning to think that life
was just one fiat after another.
And so it went. Bills one ambition
| in life. now that the cottage idea had
| failed him. was to have all the lemons
| he wanted, all the ice he needed and
all the concomitants necessary to NAL ke
| all the cooling drinks that he could
! pour into his and his friends systems.
| But no. Every time he started after
! that wooden squeezer Mrs. Bill de-
clared that it@would be waste of mon
ey, because they already had glass
! one in the kitchen. But a glass one
wouldn't do. Bill knew what he wanted.
He wanted a wooden one.
| And now that more than ten years
have gone. MRS Bill has taken large
part Of Bilrs earnings SO that she may
mountains. Bill was feeling lonesome
| one afternoon. and having filled him
| self with temporary brand OF cour-
age which comes in glass. he swore
! a mighty swear word and went down
| town and bought himself the finest,
| woodenest wooden lemon squeezer that
| he could get. He bought 1t in the most
| expensive shop he could find and has
j am sure will deplete the market.
Two nights ago he invited me to his
home. Since he has the lemon squeezer
| he calls it a "home"-heretofore 1t was
just come up to the apartment" He
glasses, icehergs of ice and large sup
plies OF other things. Bill just squz
| and squz those lemons. Life was be-
ginning to-open its petals to him again.
and haven't the slightest doubt that II
he keeps his courage some day he may
| force Mrs.-Bill to change her ideas
about that little vine-clad cottage. Bill
| has not written TO her about the lemon
! squsezer, but am told he will do SO
| tomorrow.
| t-t 4 4
A young -man asked me to. 60 swim
ming with MIN.
He was. y. most delightful person in a
| bathing suit. and wore upon his care
fully brushed. hair q rubber cap which
made him, look like q person utterly bald
and with dark purple scalp. We went to
q pool where- we paid 50 cents apiece and
numerous tips to attendants The pool
was concretec ten feet deep at one end
and Ave feet deep at another. There were
diving bcardS with carpet upon them All
the young men took great delight In maxi
ing pretty dives. They swooped into the
they SWAN II reminded me Of seals NOV
ing noiselessly through the pool
All this - 10 different from the swim
ming with which ] used to delight myself