The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-05-15
Elizabeth's Party

The clock in the hall was just stlik-
ing seven and the sun was begin.
ming to come up,
This was the day for the party
and Elizabeth had been planning
for several days about it.
Well" she said, Il might as
well get up"
When she went down stairs she
saw only her mother.
why where's father and Tom.
my" she asked.
you know your father goes to
his office at $50 and Tommy is
not up yet said her mother.
well, think that if Tommy
wanted to get things ready for the
party he would be up" she pouted.
1t was busy forenoon for both
Elizabeth and her mother. There
was the cake to make and the
table and the room to decorate.
1t was to be Elizabeths birth
day party and she wanted every
thing to be right. She was thir-
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Tommy helped too. He got all
the coal that his mother needed
and he helped Elizabeth get the
decorations ready.
When everything was ready it
was about eleyen-thirty and so
they had their dinner and then
they began to get ready to receive
their guests.
The first ones who came were
Mary Barlow and her brother,
John. Then Jennie and Alice Mae
burn, Ernest and Carl Cameron,
and last Virginia Ralston, Henry
Wallace, Helen Thomas and Philip
Judson
Presents were piled upon Eliz-
abeth and everybody was laughing
and talking at the same time.
What a time they had! They
played Upset the Fruit Basket,
musical chair, coductor and all
kinds of games.
Then came the luncheon. There
was pink and white ice cream with
carmel sauce on it, pink and white
cake and pink and white fairy
sticks, and lemonade to drink.
Everything went well until Tom
my had his ice cream on the ann
OF a rocking chair began to rock
and spilled his ice cream on to the
floor.
Elizabeth hurried out to tell her
mother to come in and when her
mother came in she cleaned it up.
After lunch they played some
more games and then something
happened,
1t began to rain. When the
children came there had been no
sign of rain and they were all sur
prised. 1t was about time for them
to 90 home too, but they could not
go through the rain.
In a little while it was raining
so hard that they could hardly see.
1t was also getting dark.
The boys had been sitting around
not knowing what to do. The girls
were doing about the same way.
All at once Tommy thought of
his pet calf and that he had left it
out He told the other children
about it and then he said, Il must
go and get that calf in" The other
i've boys said they would help
him.
They got on raincoats or any
thing that they could get and Ian.
Lers and went out.
They had quite. a time getting
The calf in. When they came in
they were so wet that they had to |
stay in the kitchen until they got
Try. !
Tommy and Elizabeth thought it
would be a good plan for all of
hem to stay all night, but the
others did not know what to do. ;
but at last they consented and it
was a tired bunch of children that !
went to be that night.
In the morning the sun came
out and the children's parents came
after them. !.
well" said Elizabeth. as the
last ones went around the curve
IN the road, ''it was not such an I'M |
lucky birthday after all Anna
Brees, Middleboro school, seventh
grade, 13 years old.
NHonorable mention in story-writ.,I
ing contest) !