The daily morning oasis., 1920-01-02
THE BOY and THE
CARNAT|ON GIRL
AND THE VINEGAR

/ AS per announcement in NogaIe.
newspapers last Saturday, the fal
famed "Carnation Girls" have beer
in evidence at the line city, this week
making demonstrations at the severa
groceries of Carnation. Brownie ant
Albers cereals; and they have beer
doing a splendid business. As sug
gested last week by "The Oasis
while their wares are the very best
and sell readily, the personal grace
and charm of the fair salesladies as.
sists no doubt in the good work they
are doing.
And that suggests a little incident
that occurred at George Psomas' store
Wednesday afternoon. A farmers
wife was at the store doing some trad
ing. She was accompanied by hel
son, a youth about seventeen years
of age. When she had completed her
purchases she gathered some of the
parcels and the boy took the rest of
them, to carry out to their automobile
standing in front. Among those the
boy took was bottle of vinegar, in
his right .hand, the parcels on his
left arm. AS he turned away from
the counter his eyes rested for the
first time upon two of the Carnation
Girls. at their demonstration table
Miss Mary Shipley, the manager land
Miss Lita Zollet, one Of her demon
,strators. The dazzling radiance com.
ing beneath his ken so suddenly,
startled the boy that he dropped the
bottle upon the concrete floor, smash
ing the glass into hundred bits, the
vinegar running away; and it was
with difficulty that he retrieved the
parcels without dropping them. And
the boy can hardly be blamed. Many
"a man has dropped a great deal
more than a bottle Of vinegar at so
istunning a sight as greeted his eyes.
And it is a safe bet that the boy
himself will be like the boy of about
the same age, told by Oliver Gold
smith in his "Citizen of the World"
written $50 years ago.
AS told by Goldsmith man who
had been deceived by his wife, after
living dogs life with her several
years, took flight and went far away,
taking with him an infant son, but
two or three years of age. He located
in a strange region, and lived the
life of a recluse, visiting no one, and
receiving no visitors, the nearest
neighbors so far away that the boy
never saw any of them, and had never
seen girl or woman, nor had been
told even that such creatures existed.
By tilling the soil and raising few
chickens the recluse supplied food
for himself and the boy; and occasion
ally he would repair alone to a far
distant village to purchase the simple
commodities needed he could not sup
ply from his own exertions, leaving
always the boy locked up during his
absence. In that way the boy had
reached the age of seventeen with
out having ever seen a woman.
With approach of age the father
found quite severe the task of carry
ing home his purchases made at the
infrequent trips; so, to assist him
bearing the burdens he took the boy
along one trip. The purchases had
been made, and the twain had started
home with their packages and bund
les, when the boy called attention
of his father to three beautiful young
ladies resembling perhaps, the
Carnation girls, passing on the other
side of the street, and exclaimed:
"See, father; what are they?"
"Come along, my son, they are
devils, and they will destroy you"
said apprehensive father as he hur-
ried the boy on the way.
After they had returned home the
boy seemed a changed being. In
stead of his former light hearted,
sunny disposition, he became istless
and detected went off his feed. tossed
on his bed restlessly at night and
became the very picture of misery.
His father watched with alarm the
development of the symptoms describ-
eG, and after much solicitous delibera-
tion asked the boy what was eating
him:
"Oli father, that tallest devil; that
tallest devil"