The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1916-08-31
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She Concentrates

Glancing around her with her ap-
pealing blue eyes, the pretty little
woman smiled angelically at the
others.
"You can't imagine what I'm do
ling" she told them triumphantly
And I'm 5000 interested! I'm
learning to concentrate my mind!"
YES" she went on as every body
appeared to be smitten dumb. 1T
isn't nearly as terrible as it sounds,
either! First heard lecture about
it and then John said he wished to
goodness I'd decide what wanted to
say and then take straight line to
it instead of wandering all over the
land of the living! He added some
thing about life being short and he a
nervous man, but I'm sure l don't
know what he was talking about.
John is the queerest-though nothing
at all to compare with his brother out
west! Why, that man was positively
eccentric! He made speeches and got
arrested-No, I think what he got iE
trouble for was something about .he
bank failing, though of course, he was
absolutely honest himself-it was
just his trust and confidence in other
people that landed him in court and
the family never was bit ashamed of
the affair, because he was vindicated
despite the ten-year sentence he got.
ut really is quite fashinoble these
late years-going to jail-if it's big
concern you are with. 1t did inter-
fere terribly with his daughters we'd
ding, come to think of tit was to
be a huge affair with dresses from
Paris, and all that, and, of course,
they had to call it off, and her clothes
were all out of style before the trial
was over and everything!
81 don't mean, of course, that my
John ever robbed a bank because his
brother was connected with similar
affair-only you can see how queer
ness runs in the family-his wanting
me to concentrate and all that!
why, john | told him it sounds
Just like cod liver oil or food tablets
or something! I'm sure l should
think you'd lots rather have my
thoughts as they flow, spontaneously,
Instead of docketed and ticketed and
turned on so much a minute-or
what ever 1t is they do to your
thoughts when they arrange them sys-
tematically.
John said If he we're on long
vacation that might be amusing be-
cause when l started telling him a.
bout my letter from Aunt Ella concer-
ming her new house he would make
bets with himself whether I'd end
with reading clipping about ague in
Arghanistan or telling him how Mrs.
Jones made rice pudding-but that
he did wish I'd read booklet he had
brought me on concentration.
Il always make point of pleasing
John, so | took the book along and
read it every time I was dummy at
the bridge table that afternoon--but
somehow | couldn't make much out
of it. | think it was the fault of
the dress Mrs. Bicker had on-every-
one there was talkink about it! Why
that woman has grandchildren-posi-
tively-and if you didn't look at her
face you'd think she was sweet girl
graduate! | know for fact she
starves her family so she won't be
tempted to overeat.
ut was her husband you know who
was called to the witness stand in
that celebrated case that all the pa
pers were full of--you know which one
| mean-where that lawyer from San
Francisco think it was San Fran
cisco, though possibly it was New
Orleans-yes, guess it was New Or
leans, because | always like that mo-
lasses that comes from there, best
for gingerbred-don't wou? If you
| put whipped cream on cold ginger
bred it makes the incest desert, but
| we never can have it for John hates
whipped cream. | always think it's
because he lived on a farm when he
was a boy and they made him milk all
those awful cows. If had to milk
4, a COW I'd simply die! never took
any stock in these pictures Of milk
maids with rosy cheeks and nice white
hands.
! THAT reminds me, Alice wrote me
that her husband has just finished a
picture that some millionaire has paid
thousands for-and l can't believe 1t!
Why, ! knew Alices husband in
school and he was positively the stup-
idest boy in the class It's wonder
full how he does it with paints and CO.
lors so high because of the war, but
then you never can tell.
However, since I've been studying
the book John spoke Of can notice
the most wonderful results, even
though l don't understand much Of
the book. l suppose just the at
mosphere of it helps. All | have to