The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1919-08-09

1919, by the MCI
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| tCOpyTtght, 1919, by the MCLiuFe News
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"By gOIlyw suddenly exclaimed Dor
IS from where she stood by the win
dow, "if that job doesn't end soon
there won't be a clam left in the
cover
Doris !" came the reproachful voice
of her mother, please don't use such
unladylike words"
Find me one as expressive and |
won't" responded the irrepreSSlbIe
Doris. "Fm dying for some CLANS, and
those laborers laying the new gas
pipes are just digging them all up be-
fore get a lOOk-in."
but they are busy putting in the
pipes, aren't they, dear| mildly Quer-
led Doris mother How can they dlg
claims at the same timer
"Oh, they're Just stalling on the JOB,
mother, waiting for some more pipe.
! The little foreman told me so yeSter-
day. Meanwhile they're just digging
up all the CLANS"
DORIS the mother aG"ln S''''e" ~
demonstrate with her 'VeIE young
daughter but as olten hapPeh3o' mat
same daughter took the "oF"S lI"I.
I''r "'o"'h' KNOW, 'l"'n',' "'''''
you're going to Say-PleaSe don't 20
/ around taking to tiat strange H"'",T
man. 1"n heedh worry l '' 'nH
seen one worth SPoaAI'H 10 H'l''' w
caIle-aId he was cIal'''nIh7' Low
came from over across 'At COVE ,','''
Wlere. Got a Iot' 100. Il ~ u N"'
any dec'hcE he0 nave one, :" '','
some GOODNESS KNOWS "'I'''" u '''"-
~ enough.
ne LI''e ii"'i'eF r'il'"i N'' III Il
signed tone: lie ulo0Sn' you 1'I
cI'iIo' pFopa0iE' Win H"ui ''""''''
hair ana that short req SNIF',
1 Shohid worry "fiat lie 'ti'dSm',
mes some country c'd'" '''i>''''
DORIS replied lau%mhSlE' All me
same, | wish my bootS would arrive.
II was 50 stupid Oh us 10 lo'Set ','eiH'
linen SpeculatlVeiy lllat water ; 'oo
coid 10 go INTO Dareleeseu'
1 should say so, the mo'heE lhaue
naSte TO reply. LOFTS uou Sou
think of such a thing
mo, mother won l. uutliu'lS
spoke the daughter Dusty Schemlhg III
her impatient young head some way
OF getting over those ciaih MUS "heie
at the moment several ltallanS were
industriously digging.
Now, Mrs. Dart, Doris mother, nad
purpOsely omitted packing those boots.
She had a rather guilty feeling all day,
as Doris watched for the parcels post.
This clever, up-to-date young daugh-
ter was rather beyond the old-faShioned
mother.
She was proud OF her, OF course TOT
didn't that same cIeverneSS enable
Doris to hold up the government at
the rate of thirty-tive per, With
months vacation" as Doris herself eX-
messed It?
And didn't that weekly thirtv-fve
! make possible the yearly vacations at
the shore, even if sometimes they had
to come at an unheard-of early date?
But oh dear! if the child would only
care about clothes like other girls and
not insist on boI,bing her hair with
the ridiculous excuse that it saved
time.
And then those awful kniCkerS-aGd
bOOts-that she insisted on wearing out
fishing and claiming! But Mrs. Dart
preferred not to think about them.
Doris was a wizard at finding way
ont of dilemma. Probably that was
why %he succeeded so well in business.
Ths only way out of her present orN,
st,A decided, was over a bridge farthe.'
Up the cove.
This bridge had been started with a
flourish by some bunkO amusement
company and finished in a fizzle. It
lacked FIVE feet of reaching the fiat Is
land in the center Of the cove. But
on that island were camS-that could
be gotten at without the aid Of boots.
So on the following day, no boots
having arrived and low tide coincid-
ing with her mothers rest hour Doris
got into the obnoxious Knockers and.
armed with short-handled hoe and a
bag, walked over the diminished bridge,