The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-09-27

! of the high price OF silk the Dress
makers association has decreed tina
ladies' silk dresses will be shorter
and for the same reason that they
will wear half hose. And then he
petulantly asked "What shall we SEE
next ?"
At the regular Thursday evening
prayer meeting of colored congre-
cation a fire broke out, and in the
panic that ensued several of the mem
bers were quite severely injured OF
burned. A physician in attendance
on one Of these cases said: $50 you
are one of the ladies who was injured
in the confagration, are you?"
"Well, subj" the lady replied with dig
nifty, Else one OBJ de ladies dat got
hurt, but I'll hab yoh ondehstan dat
it walnut at no confagration, hit war
at a prayeh meetin' at de Baptis'
church at Seventeenth n Bohregahd."
The old red schoolhouse on the hill
has lost it's summer air of chill. In
stead of empty rooms and halls, with
spiders climbing on the walls and big
flies flying all in vain against the
dusty window pane, it now resounds
with life and noise, because of busy
girls and boys who several hours ev
cry day must study now instead of
play. Oh, why the teachers worried
look as she sits porting DER her books?
Is it some secret of the state that
makes her frown and hesitate? She
has class of twenty-three that she
must teach geography, and they're at
chapter twenty-nine, which deals with
boundary line! o, reader,
pause and say to me what you would
do if you were she. You'd have to
say, "Ahem, ahem, the boundary line
ut 2 p. m.-was, let me see, yes, here
It runs. The boundary lines line
IF Huns. And by the postscript we
will see just where they move it to
oy s." Newspapers in these times
must be the textbooks for geography.
every once in a WHILE" remarked
Did Bill Misgivens, 81 notice that the
,apers tell of some one who has hard
uck Some of them remind me of
he case of Hard Luck Peterson
Hard Luck wasn't his real name. He
vas christened Horatio Lochinvar Pc
erson, which perhaps was the begin
ling of his hard luck. His mother
vas sentimental kind of female who
ad read good deal, and those names
Ioratio and Lochinvar, sort of stuck in
er mind. So,when her first baby came
long she decided that she's going
0 give him a grand name if she could
OF give him anything else. Little
Ioratio's dad wasn't much of Teller
o far as amounting to anything was
He never seemed to have
cured out why he was on earth, and
Or that matter he wasn't behind his
eighbors any, because none of them
ould give any good reason why he
'as on this rolling sphere, either.
Jhen he died, old Squire Lightfoot,
no had a reputation of never saying
nything bad of anybody and always
uniting for something to say in ev-
rybody's favor, was quiet for good
lille the day of the funeral, and
nally said that there was one thing
2 could say for Jake Peterson, the
sparted brother, and that was that
e could spit furder than airy other {
an he ever knew Horatio's moth
had lot more pep in her than her |
lsband had. Her neighbors often
ordered why woman with as much
nbition and education as Lavinia
me to tie up with man like Jake I
eterson, who had about as much I
nbition as toad in the winter '
i'd maybe as much brains as an an
e WORM. however,, lutTe 10 JuSt
accounting for the tastes of wom- +
!. The Peterson family, l will say,
as better off after they planted Jake {
I'd Lavinia took complete charge of +
ings herself. Jake was renter S
I'd always lived from hand to mouth, !
i'd sometimes when the hand got to S
e mouth there want much of any I
ing in the hand. If Jake didn't do G
UGH for himself and family it is a c
nch that he didn't make any money ]
r his landlords, either. Well, when l
died and Lavinia took hold she +
owed lot more business sense and t
ID management than her late hus- v
nd. She had three or four boys q
owing up, among them Horatio v
,chinvar and among them they made a
good deal more money for them s
Ives and the landlords than Jake o
d done while he was alive, but right S
ON the start luck somehow seemed t
run against little Horatio Lochin- t
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