The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1926-09-16
Touch Of the Strenuous

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"wen. Lucyl" greeted the pink
checked girl, Il haven't seen you for
an age! Have you been awag?"
The girl in brown disappeared into
the depths of a huge armchair.
"Yes," she murmured weakly, "for
two weeks"
"Why, Lucy Rowe" objected the
pink-rufTled girl, you have not! saw
you only day before ycsterC You
| were with MISUNDERSTANDING person
{ in a green hat. You seemed 70 De IN a
hurry"
! Lucy sat up with jerk.
81 didn't say I'd been out of town."
she defended. Il said I'd been away,
and have. I've been seeing the sights
with my Cousin Jane from Ohio. rye
been up on MontlnoreAcy S tower to
get a bird's-eye view and I've been out
in the lake to see the shore line. rye
] consorted with every mummy in tho
museums and every old statute in Vie
/ art galleries. I'VE haunted greenhous-
es and batteries and the park ZOOS I'M
/ til | feel intimate with every ape IN
town. I've visited all the seats OF
/ learning and most of the churches
rye attended five concerts and lot OF
plays and been down in the Russian
quarter to buy old brass. I've"
Somebody stop that grill" cried the
person with pink rufflcs. 1t fatigues
/ me to hear her! You don't mean to
say that you did all that in two weeks,
Lucy"
Lucy made scornful gesture.
"All that!'' she echoed. THAT isn't
j one-half
You see Cousin Jane is deter
mined person. Lucy continued. i had
\ thought that she'd like to sit around
and knit, with maybe few tea parties
| and matinee. l imagined Ohio peo-
/ ple to be quiet in their tastes. But
] Cousin Jane arrived with a guide book
and a complete schedule for every day
! Of her visit. She's one Of these Wild
eyed women who worry for fear they
! aren't getting the most out of life. She
I had planned to sightsee five places
i that first day, so had nothing to do
4 whatever but be personally conducted.
! I've forgotten just what We saw. but
I l know | had headache and cinder
/ in my eye and blistered feet and lum'
bago when we got home. But Cousin
/ Jane had had a wonderful time. she
went out again that night to cabaret
and saw a long-haired person she
thought was an artist-it took her an
! hour to record her impressions in her
fat red dairy.
eHave you ever seen the Hawaiian
room in the Art Union? MOI Well,
! when you go you ought to go with
Cousin Jane She had studied the sub
ject beforehand so that she could
1 speak Familiarity of everything she
!, saw. know that she would earn for
tune as guide. I'm going to suggest
it to her! She was awfully scornful to
me because / don't know any queer
Bohemian people who write or paint
or anything; ! thought of asking you
out, Helen. as you're the Queerest PEI
son know, but we didn't have time.
1.-THE third day we spent in Ohio.
That is, we called on all the Ohio peo-
pie who live in town. I'd no idea there
/ were so many. That state must be de-
populated.
"And one day we shopped. II yon
want to learn how to shop take lessons
from county cousin! Cousin Jane
was very firm about seeing every suit
in town before she selected one. Ano
think she wanted the saleswoman to
take part payment in eggs from the
farm, but I'm not quite sure.
Cousin Jane was awfully surprised
because didn't know all our relatives
in-law who live hereabouts. She should
think I'd see them every day or SO,
since we live in the same town. And
she thought was neglecting my OBJ
portunities dreadfully not to be study
ing art and music and social science
and csthetic dancing. She couldn't
understand why / didn't go in for five
or six such things. If she lived in the
city
! Il know" murmured the pink-cheek-
| cd girl, alphabetically. MY aunt
from Montana was here last summer.
But I've always been glad had that
opportunity to see the sights"
The pInk-ruffled girl sighed mourn
fully.
Il haven't any country relatives
she mourned. i've never. been in tow
ers and things. 1t sounds awfully in
teresting. But / suppose you do get
tired. Why don't you 60 into the
country and rest for few days,
Lucy?"
The girl in brown collapsed into her
chair.
! The country" she exclaimed. 1T
would be too strenuous! No, sir, I'm
! going to stay right here and restl
may not know how to get the most out
i Of city, but do know how to rest in
it. Cousin Jane didn't"
% II Now.
Rastus and Joe had been accepted