The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-06-15

| presently 1SOOel DUrSL out. j m
sick and tired Of being a second
rate musician! / want my own
home, Brenda. my husband, my
my childreni1IineYer see a linen
sale that don't go and price cum
ming little breakfast cloths and
napkins, wonder if I've forgotten
the convent hem my grandmother
taught me to do / know exactly
how / want to furnish my living
room, just where to put the couch
and the biggest armchair. want
to plan clever little meals that are
properly balanced. / even"-she
slid shamefaced glance at her
aStOnished listener-"1 even want
to wash disheS-provided they're
my own dishes! A little white
enamel diShpan-oval, you know
with lots of foamy suds: and
a mop. because I'll have to keep
my fingers from getting stiff. And
vinegar in the rinse water for the
glassware. Brenda, did you
know that if you put a little vim
egar in the rinse water for the
glassware it will make it sparkle
like diamonds?"
Brenda said soberly that no, she
hadn't known that important fact.
"And over the sink I'd have
a little shelf to keep toilet articles
on: a good hand lotion. you know,
some cold cream. pair of rubber
gloves Housekeeping" stated
Miss Burke wiStfully. Should be
both a science and an art. It has
been degraded from its high es-
tate into sheer drudgery. And
Just when women have every
thing to work with, tool Darling
little glass baking dishes. gay
enamel pans. electric refrigerators
-" She sighed more deeply
than before. Il could make a
home out of two sunny roomsl"
81 believe you could" Brenda
aSsented. Then the spirit of altru-
ism which never slumbered deep
ly within her awoke and reared
its head. There must be hum
dreds-there must be thousands of
young men in this town who
would adore a home like that
a wife like that"
eff there are they've failed to
mention it to me" was the brief
comment.
Monkey Wrenehes
"QUT, Isobel, you don't talk like
- this before-before other peo-
plei Here I've lived in the same
house with you almost a month,
and this is the first time I ever
dreamed you'd like-you are so
domestic! Do you," she ventured,
lever tell Eric and - and Mac
about your ideas?"
ISobers eyes. which had been
more gray than green, now be-
came more green than gray.
Not likely! Eric has social as
pirations. He'll never think of
marrying until he can have a ten
room house and three servants.
Mac"
"Mac?" prompted the willy
schemer gently.
Mac thinks l have real talent
as pianist. He thinks it's my
duty to cultivate it, she said
drearily.
Brenda gave her a comforting
pat and let her seek her own
room. The agile brain beneath the
smoky curlS was already busy
with plans in IsobelS behalf. She
was devout believer in the say
ing: THE Lord helps him who
helps himself" Seldom had she
turned her efforts toward the
achievement of some particular
bit of activity that Fate had not
stepped in to assist her.
So it was now. though even the
optimistic Miss Burnham had
never dreamed CT the enormous
shove Providence was to give her
plans.
She began her campaign by
throwing any number of small
n inconspicuous monkey
wrenches into the already creak-
ing household machinery. Twice
she offered to telephone the
morning orders and omitted the
most important items thereon
Tie resulting dinners were ane-
mic. Adelaide was so used 10 be-
ing the cblprit in these cases that
she apologized vaguely for the
mishaps, not realizing that the
new boarder was the real culprit.
And Brenda sat with the face of
a pious cherub and let her do it.
Several times when the land
lady was away for the day,
Brenda careleSSly instructed
Grenadine about the cleaning.
Where the dickens are my PEN
cils-the stuff I was working on
last night?" Mac shouted from his
door the first evening after this
occurred.
"And where" Eric demanded
wrathfully, "are my neckties?
Somebody's been tidying up my
bureau and can't find a con-
founded thingl Grenadine-"
Adelaide came hurrying UP the
stairs Don't blame Grenadine,"
she begged in an agitated whiS-
per. ITS my fault; I went off and
left her with the cleaning to do.
And she's planning to 60 TO the
movies tonight - somebody gave
her a dollar, she sayS-and she's
in a terrible hurry to get dinner
on. Overlook It this enc time like
the dear boys you are" she plead.
ed. "and tomorrow I'll find every
thing Lstraighten up everything!
Please9" e~A 1roE foi
When Adelaide said 1please?"
on a helpless, irfterrogative note
there was nothing to do but as
sure her that it didn't matter in
the least.