The New York herald., 1921-11-20
Went to Get Drink of Water
And Ruined the Family Library


Everything went all right considering, ex-
cept when 1 went to get drink of water
and turned on the faucet in the dark, for
getting that Ella had piled all six of the
books in our library in the sink. But we
don't read much anyhow. as told Ella, so it
didn't matter if they were wet or dry But
Ella says 1t wasn't so much that, but she
knew the covers would run and they'd lool;
terrible in the bookcase.
Well. next morning everything was set for
the cripples. But wasn't too sure that any
thing would be done when / got home But
1 was wrong
They had the walls all scraped in fine
shape and the scraped paper piled on the
piano and on the beds. And the Chamber of
Horrors was plastered!
Tomorrow" Ella said, quite excited
"Botticelli will do the chamber"
"What?" I says
"Botticelli," says Ella.
II give up" says Whats the answer"
Its man. Ella says zone of the paint
ers."
rs chat his name?" asked her
She said it was.
We'll" says, 'it sounds to me like soup
or something you play on
1T wouldn't if you knew anything she
snapped Hes named for a great painter,
a great French painter"
"If they wanted to name him after a
painter" | came back why didn't they name
him after one people could pronounce? Like
Thos. Cusack or o. J. Guide or Sherwin Will
Jams"
Its all right, Pa Pansy says here. His
last names Murphy
He's young art student" Ella said. HE
says he's going to have a career but he's
short of cash and has to work as a paper
hanger or a painter every once in while to
make enough money to pay for his art"
"In that case, why don't he try plumbing?"
I says; but then I suppose he wants to keep
up on his painting. Is his last name really
Murphy"
Ella said it was
Then" I says, sternly, "how come you
call him Bo- Bot how come you call him
by his first name?"
HE likes every one to-" Ella explained.
"It's more artistic. he says He even wants
the other paperhangers to call him Botti-
celli."
But they don't, Pa" Pansy puts it; 'they
call him Bott for short"
Anyway he's got swell IDEAS" says Ella.
"and he's going to make this house look like
something
'I know the answer to that one," says
What are you talking about?" asks the
wife.
What the house Is going to look like"
came back
Don't show your coarseness before your
child" Ella snapped.
II know what you mean, Pa" puts in
Pansy here "hell!"
Going out next morning I says to Ella:
you let IBott try out his swell ideas some
place else and stick to straight painting and
paperhanging here. We have to live in this
place; he don't"
No use talking to woman, especially
If she married you. I got home that night
and the Chamber of Horrors was a sight
The ceiling was all smudged and the walls
looked like enfargements of some of Pansy's
drawings she made before she went to kin
dergarten.
run amuck? No Why should he?"
"The ceiling. It's all smudged"
That's not smudge That's clouds. It's
supposed to be the sky. It'll look swell when
it's drer."
"What do the walls represent" 7 man.
aged to ask.
That's a Revel in the Garden of Ban
Ella said reciting IL as IL she had learned 1t
by heart.
(Which one is Johnson" I says
what are you talking about?' Ella says
"Ban Johnson. Didn't you say this repre-
sented his garden?'
"I didn't say anthing about him" grabbed
Ella, "Ban was a Greek god and he used to
run around after the Greek happers playing
an accordion"
Well, It turned out finally that Ella didn't