Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-05

FIVE FIJI

the best thing I can tell her, and
you're an old oyster, Ponderosa, not
to have told anybody about your
little friend. Why just think, 1
might have known a real dancer for
all these weeks!"
And of course, Ponderosa had to
admit that 1t had been rather mean
of her to keep a dancer all to her-
self when any girl in school would
have gladly done a hundred lines of
Virgil a week to have had such a
chancei
SO she did take Helly, and Helly
was wild about her-her name is Vi
vienne, Otis really Mary Grady but
"Vivienne" gets her better contracts.
SO I guess Vivienne will probably get
through her twelve weeks all right,
If Helly is that much interested. And
she said Vivienne ADORED the bath
her eyes as 1t hung at the foot of
her bed. Well, who wouldn't?
Next time I write, Mary c., it
won't be from Miss Q's school.
Probably I shan't have anything in
teresting to write about all summer
but there will be so many other
girls who will be doing wonderful
things that I expect to see F1ve-Fif-
teen just filled with mountains and
beach parties and motor trips and
vacation jobsi Why, yes, that would
be interesting. Perhaps some other
girls, like me, can't go off to an
expensive school all the year and
then go off larking all summer. Let's
exchange vacation experiences, girls
Mines just plain workingi
With the best Of wishes for a won
derful summer to all the column, and
to you. dear Mary G., from
Well, Ted, you have written us a
thrilling story. and I am delighted
with Ponderosa. 1 wish l knew her,
don't you, girls? But then we all
do now, since you have portrayed
her SO wildly. We shall expect to
hear from you during the summer,
Ted, and shall not anticipate a drab
letter, no matter at what you are
working.
The drudgery Jobs do have TO be
done, don't they. and the way to
ease them along is to dig into them
and do them as well and as quickly
as possible, 50 that at least we can
have a pride In the work we have
finished. That isn't just hot air,
girls, I know all about 1t. But
have learned that the more quickly
l can accomplish the drudgery, the
sooner | can get to p1easanter tasks.
The drudgery can be regarded as so
much exercise, a kind of daily doz-
en-" that isn't particularly interest
ing but is really good for you"
I wonder IL I have space enough
to tell you the sad story CT a beau
tiful desk? 1t Is an aristocrat of a
desk, distinguished and fine, and
made by a real cabinet maker WIN
loved his work so well that he was
willing to sign 1t with his name.
When that desk came into my
study, l thought, "Oh, you beautiful
thingt Everything about you must
be perfect,-there must be neither
dust nor disorder, and there must
never eve be a scratch on your
satiny surfaced" And it seemed as
IL the only place in the room for a
basket of choice RISES or pink tu-
lips at Easter time, or the fics. daft
fodils from the garden, was right on
that desk. II Just attracted to itself
all that was lovely. 1t was almost
a shrineI
Shall I tell you what # looks like
at this very moment? Well, there's
a mass or papers, as you might ex-
pect, and a sewing LaEket with a
discarded piece Of embroidery hang
ing out, and soma loose buttons and
a thimble strewn around. more or
less mixed up with a bunch of keys.
There's a box of pins, some jewelry
in boxes that are TO go to the bank,
a d~emobnized hat, with the new parts
waiting to be assembled, n new book,
some shoe trees, and yes, indeed, a
bundle of bills!
AL this on my beautiful aristocrat
of a deski
But you see, Mary g.. is also going
on a vacation, very brief to be sure,
but still a vacation. And now I shall
bid you all a goodbye, and apologize
to my desk by restoring 1t to its
natural dignity!
First, away goes the typewriter!
The vacation has now begun! Then
a little sorting out, a little throwing
away. a little busting, and the desk
can be locked up. The hat can be
removed to a more sympathetic en-
vironment. where | can pin, and
try on, and pin some more, without
having turned upon me the outrag-
ed feelings OF my noble and ele-
giant desk. 1t is just as well, for the
hat is Enthusiastically sports, and
you can see very plainly that such a
desk wouldn't understand that type
at ALL
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But Five-Fifteen is still going on.
girls, and your letters are always well
come.
MARY G.