The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-07-25
MAKING TIME FLY
BY JANE OSBORN


and setting things to RICH. in the
kitchen and the living room when the
clock struck eleven.
"Eleven o'clock already! she ex-
claimed, looking reproachfully from
her work in the kitchen toward the Of
Tending timepiece.
"Only eleven o'clock" sighed Jack,
who was arranging fishing tackle on
the kitchen table. Goodness! 1t does
seem as if mealtimes never come here.
I think it's in the air-the air and
your good cooking"
jill placed two watersoaked, small
hands squarely In the pockets of her
bungalow apron.
slack Mast, I'm just ashamed of you.
Why, you had enough pancakes and
sausages for breakfast to feed large
family. Home you wouldn't think of
eating anything but eggs and toast"
Jack looked self-reproach and guilt.
"I'm sorry, honey, but I'm as hungry
as a bear. This mountain air Is i'm
mense. Maybe in day or so / won't
eat so much.
I'm glad you like my first cooking"
sighed Jill with weary smile, as she
hurried to the cupboard for flour and
sugar for the mullins for luncheon.
Jack and Jill Mast were on their
first vacation tOgether-that is, except
ing the wedding trip of week or so
few months before, when there had
been no thought Of anything SO rustic
as a trip to Jacks little cabin in the
mountains, or anything so mundane as
the cultivation Of a large appetite.
After luncheon they planned short
walk through the woods. While Jill
was changing her bungalow working
frOck for a short khaki costume, Jack
carried out the plan that had been
brewing in his mind since daybreak.
The clock pointed to five minutes Of
glass face, and, carefully listening for
Jill's approach, turned the hands
ahead to five minutes of four.
1t was not hard to get the converse
ton around to the subject of watches.
"Of course there are no tramps or
burglars around the shack, but / was
thinking that you ought not to leave
that watch of yours around" COM
mented Jack. Suppose I take it and
put it in a safe place for you"
Jill looked up with little surprise
and then: II was thinking exactly the
same thing myself-about your watch.
You left it in the bedroom the other
do x1,hn fchi
way, now that we are away from civil
lization, why should we keep track of
timer"
Eyes, why should WEI" echoed Jack,
delighted that Jill had fallen in so
readily with his schemes. Lets both
put our watches away"
"Ill take them both right now" Sug.
gested Jill easily.
So at the outset of the ramble the
watches were rolled into JilPs hand
kerchief and slipped into the cartridge
pocket on her khaki suit.
Funny how time flies in the woods"
he remarked by five. II can tell by
the shadows that it is about six-al-
most time for dinner"
"Oh, you silly man." squealed Jill.
"I'm sure we haven't been gone an
hour. I'm sure I can't tell anything
from the shadows, and ] don't believe
you can, either. You're just trying to
bluff the new wife and make her think
you are regular Indian"
They both smiled, and with one &C
cord started to retrace their steps
toward the cabin. Jack stopped to
gather some wild strawberries at Jill's
request. He wondered whether she
would be surprised when she saw the
clock pointing an hour nearer supper
time than she supposed.
Of course there was this difficulty
that had occurred to Jack when he
first formulated his scheme for max
ing time fly. By leaving the clock an
hour faster it would mean an hour
earlier rising time, and in order to
hasten meals any more the next day
there would have to be another
abridgement of the time, which would,
of course, be rather difficult In the long
run. That was why he made an ex-
cuse about going to see the 'poSsum
traps that night after dinner.
So Jack walked around the cabin
three times in the starlight, and then
noiselessly went toward the living
room with designs on the clock. But
as he was about to turn the knob he
saw through the window a figure In
white-Jill, to be sure. She heard him
and stopped, and then lighted candle.
Hello, you up?" he asked, casting
guilty look toward the clock. Jill also
looked at the clock. He had noticed
it when he went out. It said nine
o'clock then, and now it said ten.
lie started in alarm. Then he heard
LIS nervous laugh. He looked at her
! 10 his surprise she laughed again
.y.'ly and whispered. "I'm sorry,
.5.:,.c I'll have to confess. I thought
J. I'D take longer for you to fix
i traps. That's why you caught
La. You see-you see, l set the clock
! ho@r back when you were gather
i.:g berries, so I'd have more time to
clt supper. 1t didn't really seem to
help at all, though. had to set it
forward again so we could get up at