Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-09-21
THE BUSINESS
OF LIVING
ONE MAY Be IDLE AND RICH AND
STILL NOT HAVE A VERY GOOD

I'M -
What are You doing?" asked Mrs.
Weeks as Eleanor met her at the door.
"Oh, msndinG. It has come to be a
continuous performance since got SO
behind while Douglas was sick this
summer" laughed Eleanor.
"Good!" exclaimed the neighbor. II
don't mean that ! am glad you are
showed under with work, but / can
visit with YOU while you mend and
not hinder you: can not?" Mrs.
Weeks drew up rocking chair to the
mending basket.
THAT will be fine smiled Eleanor,
replacing her thimble.
Give me needle and thimble and !
viii help you. You always make me
feel 30 useless and idle because you
are SO busy" Mrs. Weeks reached for
needle from the basket.
Surely you do not want to come
over here and do my mending when
you hire your own done because you
do not like It," demonstrated Eleanor.
Yes. I do. I do not mind when /
do not have to do It, 1t Is the feeling
| that I must get It done that is SO
irksome. / like to be able to leave my
|
someone will pick 1t up for me-"
Il see, It is the care free attitude
that you are used to. I should not
know how to act and should make a
miserable failure of it, not ever having
lived In that atmosphere" There was
a twinkle in Eleanor's eyes.
you are making fun of me-" Mrs
Weeks poised her needle in the air
and looked at Eleanor with her head
on one side. every one does. Caro-
Ign, Mr.. Weeks sister, poked fun al
me all summer. Am l such a joke ?"
Jokes have very useful place in
life: why object to being one? Tell me
about your summer. We haven't had
q visit since came back" Eleanor
was glad to change the subject.
| Had we decided where we were GO
ing when you went away began the
little woman, darning as busily as II
| 1t was the one occupation she loved
II think not
We'll, we had an awful time decid-
Ing Where to so. We do every year
Ralph wants to go to some howling
wilderness where he can loaf around
in a flannel shirt and khaki, and hunt
and fish all day long or go on long
tramps, and he is in a state of con-
slant surprise that I am bored to ex-
tinction. You would think he would
learn in the course of years, but he
never does, and every year he listens
to my objections and calmly overrules
them and then he listens to my com
plants and tells me I have a fault
finding disposition Mrs. Weeks
cIn A,.t<
her piquant little face broke into a
| laugh instead.
why don't you get temporary d.
vorce for the vacation months? laughed
| Eleanor. You could go to fashion
able resort and show your fine clothes
and your husband could return to the
| simple life undisturbed"
II think myself it would be a good
thing; might save a permsnent d.
| vorce in fact, but neither of us will
take a vacation without Elizabeth -
She dropped her hands despairingly in
her lap.
Tell me about the place where you
| went" resumed Eleanor
well, in the first place. Ralph
| rented a rustic cottage in northern
Wisconsin on the bank of a lake. We
were to live in the same cottage with
his sister, her husband and four-year-
| old child She waved her hands de-
| spairingly In the air THAT did not
| last week, and / skipped out to the
| nearest hotel when could stand 1t no
| longer. Fortunately, or unfortunately
do not know which, there was an
| other cottage not far from the first
one md Ralph rented that fnr ,iuD
did your maid go with your"
mo, we were supposed to get our
meals at camp dining room half q
mile away. Is that Elizabeth crying?"
She ran from the room, followed by
| Eleanor.
tTo be continued)