Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1921-04-08
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Maids Adventurs.

I DiccliHS, anu PETS turn HeF lODcs
On the world at the age Of ter
with no prop but a faithful, sicklJ
and destitute old nurse, kill off tbs
nurse q couple Of years later, let tbs
girl fend for herself as sculIery-mait
end what not through the unlnterest
ing stage that precedes the sudden
bloom Of unexpected beauty, give hen
a long succession Of jobs secured ~or
her looks" and lost because she
wouldn't, lead her up 70 the crowded
portal Of despair and the long-drawn-
] out surrender; then snatch her sudden
| ~ back from destruction, feed her
give her the sole freedom for a night
Of Mr.. Robert Hevey Randolph's COM
Portable apartment and-what viii she
do? The answer Is easy. She VIII
find the bath and turn on the hot
water.
That was the very first thing that
Miss Imogene Pamela Thornton did
after she had finished spying from the
window On the movements Of what
she supposed was Mr.. Randolph and
what IN reality, was Mr. Patrick
OReilly in Mr.. Randolph's best top
hat. best suit Of evening clothes and
overcOat, best gray silk mufier. price
twenty-five dollars, and best patent
leather shOes-the last a very tight
fit which made the revamped gentle
mans gait a cross between that Of a
chicken on a hot stove and a drunk
on his reluctant way home
Even the unsuspecting Miss Thorn
ton was puzzled by that hating loco
motion in connection with what she
knew OF Mr.. Randolph. but she added
it two and Two, with the mysterious
twenty minutes spent by that gentle
man and the driver in the recesses Of
the cab. apparently TO settle a differ
ence in ideas as TO the value OF a
waiting taxi, and decided thar poor
Mr.. Randolph must have issued from
the interview in semi-crippled state.
She herself was too excited to let
pity altogether absorb her. Without
waiting for either the tortured way
farer or the taxi to get quite cut OF
sight, she dropped the window curtain
and turned 10 possess herself OF her
world OF comfort for a night A
starved instinct led her straight TO
the luxuriously appointed bathroom.
AS previously intimated, she turned
on the hot water and cIasped her
hands ecstatically as she watched It's
crystalline surge and imagined she
could smell the opalescent steam.
But not for long was she Inactive.
Having surrendered 10 circumstance
to the extent Of promising TO stay in
the fat until ten the following morn
ing. she decided to do the job whole
heartedly, for Imogene Pamela was
one OF those lucky and fated young
women who can never give themselves
by halves If happiness so much as
showed its nose, it was her nature TO /
tackle blindly for its waist and 20
to the mat for the immediate present. |
Consequently. let not her mOdesty !
be misjudged when it is related that.
in the short time It took to i'll the /
bath, she accomplished the following: /
Rooted out Mr.. Randolph's best silk 1
pajamas, found his sOftest bathrobe. !
filed a hot-water bottle and slipped II
far down between the too cold linen
sheets of his big bed. Continuing ar
his rate of achievement, il may be
that in ten minutes more the /
-oung lady. having bathed. was curled
ID and sound asleep. Not on your
ifel
Item: It took her twenty-one min
ties by the clock 10 scrub out the
memory Of the scabby zinc bathtubs
# many years. Item: Twenty more
minutes to wash her hair. Item
Half an hour more TO scrub her under
year and stockings. Assorted items:
'arious pauses during whick she
hamelessly looked at herself in a full
ength mirror of such pure Rejecting
ualiues as had not crossed her path
ince England was a pup. After chat,
long, enhancing item, called dry
lg her hair"
Did you blame her. three lines hack.
1 your heart for her frequent inxpec-
ions of self in the mirror? II you
id, look at her now. Mr.. Randoiph's
athrobe is billOwed at her waist and
ed tight TO keep it from trailing on
lie floor; for almost a like reason,
: sleeves are rolled up above her
bows. 1t is open in a V at the neck.
lOwing the adoleScent curve OF
rginal but much excited bosom
With a woolly towel in both hands.
lie plants herself before the staid old
Oking-glaSS and gives il such a treat
J il has never before savored in its
xty-two years Of service 10 the Ran
,lph family. Rub, rub, rub with she
wei. Her cheeks grow pink and
mixer, her eyes round and rouneer.
hey twinkle and smile. and once,
hen she made a little face at her
II. they laughed out loud. Her bair
)wly wakes from its srringy damp
IS until II, too, bursts into sort Of
hit and curly merriment. Panels