The Glenwood post., 1917-11-03
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| US, Loretta lauSneu, 'Dut parClcuJhrly
on me.'
81 deduce that you allude to your re-
cent trip on the lakes" her brother
said languidly. ut seems to me- 1
have heard something about such a
voyage"
"You needn't make fun of me be-
cause I've talked lot about it." Lo-
retta told him. you would be just as
proud yourself if Aunt Kate had asked
you to go, free Of expense, on trip
around the lakes"
"Perhaps," he concluded. "But she
ignored poor me and took you, who
always have long vacation some
where while I am toiling In the hot
office"
"Nonsense !" Loretta shifted. "You
went fishing for two weeks and the
rest of the time you played golf with
Anita Blake.
Aunt Kate had secured staterooms
adjoining, so we had lots of room," L0-
retta went on. "You see, usually one
of the party has to take the upper
berth, but Aunt Kate said she wasn't
going to have an athletic looking crea-
ture like me climbing over her to get
into an upper berth, so she took two
rooms and made US both comfortable"
"A cinch all right" her brother
sighed. "Why wasn't Aunt Kate born
twins so that the other one Of her
could be good to meT
SWELL" said Loretta. Then she con-
tinued. 1T was breezy upstairs where
we were. You know we had our rooms
In the top story. But for a while Aunt
Kate stuck 1t out and then we sat all
swaddled In steamer rugs as well as
all the winter duds she had made me
take along. She observed that It was
quiet and away from the common herd
up there and should say it was! No
body was anywhere near US except the
captain and the wireless man, and they
couldn't leave and 60 downstairs"
downstairs meaning on the lower
deck" queried Loretta's brother.
you're so technical!" complained
Loretta. "Finally, however, Aunt Kate
began to sneeze and had to give up.
She's always sure she's in for pneu-
monia II she sneezes even once and
that morning she nearly sneezed her
head off," -t
Thereby depicting the worlds re-
serves Of beautyi" .. in a
II never said Aunt Kate was good
looking. but she's certainly kind and
generous to me. Anyhow, after a while
We got the sailorman to move our
We settled into warm spot and were
comfortable. Aunt Kate told me that
she didn't wish to make any acQuaint-
ances, so, Of course, didn't so much
didn't care about talking with them
myself, because there was no one ON
board that was especially attractive.
"A lot Of real young people were
exchanging life experiences and snap
shots of themselves In all sorts Of CO.'S
tunes before we had been out "a hours
and they had dancing In the dining
room, but would not have left Aunt
Kate even II I had wanted to dance
with strangers. Once or twice fat
woman IN a purple sweater stopped
at our corner to tell Aunt Kate an
ecdotes Of her grandchildren, but the
reception she received did not encour-
age her to come often. A tall, thin
man, who said he came from Mem
phis, told Aunt Kate how lonely he
had been since his wife died, but she
did not seem to hear him."
did 1t make you feel real nice and
exclusive3"
"Since there was no one there who
looked interesting" Loretta said, II
was glad to have a chance to write my
paper on modern Russia. am to
have the very first paper at our lit
erary circle and was glad to have
time to write it."
"Aunt Kate always did insist On be-
ing exclusive to the limit"
Il must confess really enjoyed
it." Loretta acknowledged. II finished
my paper and I felt quite ike . duch-
ess or countess or something trav-
cling sincoguito." ..ilLfe s54als zy4a
1isJust like Spy" her brother
laughsd, hut where does the joke
come inf"n.oJ bag l-huun7II suI
TT came In Just ~ ws left the
stssnfs, aftsr lthe weeks, ,etrip." Lpr-
stta1 ssxpaains9- s..Aant, Kate bad had
arlqpd time Apa vas aslta tuhslAet
bssspss sshep haa net mass. anE ssnds,
tsiapls aequsinataness. N Int INT shs 80
"a, hsssr fNr ths remark. II AHes made hythsi
'0npnlA RVNokAp yam n ,fo hop hnsha~A