| Show modern s BV Bp Geo f JIde i I j The Modern Fable of How Aggie Had Spells That the Home I Remedies Could Not Touch I MAN AN and aDd Wife had a r peat pearly ehy A Daughter named Ante Aggi When she was 17 ther put pt her into nto lot Training for her Der Party Now that Aggie wa was a Tc ung Lady about bout to ta be Launched her Parents Parent were muc relieved to know that She had been Brought Up so successfully They wrought v ht that Inasmuch as she had hadi i passed through the Perils of Childhood od and sun Ived the Mumps damps Measles Scarlet t Rash Cholera R hoopla Cough etc etc she was wu safely out of th the Woods Foods They had bad guided her h r through the Grammar and High Schools and sent her tc to tv a Dancing Dancing l ing Academy and the Music Teacher r came to the House HOUR twice a Week Now t t that Aggie had theoretically arrived at atthe atthe atthe the Age of Discretion D and the final foal coat of Shellac had been put on her List Lilt of I tJ c 1 g r s L Aggie Suffers Prom Aca o tee A Accomplishments titer Ute looked upon h her heras r ras r ras as a Completed Job But as Time passed pas ed on they learned that thit there are aie many serious Ailments thi th t may nay overtake a Girl after shy flut flutters flutters q out ru Oi the Nursery ursery About the time that Aggie formed the Chocolate Cream ream H Habit and an i began to wear ear her he Hair in the Anna Held Style she caught the th Matiree Matinee Fever complicated d with Acquit and She would go to the Theatre a as often as she Me shea a could d muster the Price and there she shep p would sit in a pensive pensie Attitude and a d gaze at the pale Leading Man w with ith tte i le Black Ringlets After rt r 11 turning Home HOine she would mope around In her blue and say that she didn t Cal cai caie for any Dinner Then nten Mo Mother Mother o ther would give gle her some Camomile lea OJ 1 ea and nd a t hot Foot Bath and nd tilt tell h r that she he ha 1 l caught aught Cold When h u Came rame to t Diagnosis Mother was waa a aShIne ShIne ne While hUe sh she he was still subject to these t ec a rip A Attacks of another Malady lam lain lai told lOld on her Oi Ore One e d 4 iv when ben Father came home Rome b be beK was vas K ae met by rn Mother who w o wa WU pale hale ale up d worried j x J t eK f t said Raid Aggie hat baa Art OB OR tut the oe JJ main am amIt It was too lOO True I rue She had at ati ata no ell ella d da a Studio Tea n a large laiSe smelly Place all sll donE dent i passionate Red with ith paste JJ pastel Ite l board boud Armor on the Walls Walla There she had bad met n A Any one on could tell that he t as u the real Latin LaUn Quarter Ar Ai for he lie WOre woe the cornsilk Tassels and never nen r combed his Hair and anti smoked u II Pipe even when be he lord had Cal Call Calus us rs H HP was as made up in Velveteen and anda andu a u Fant roy Collar ad a d his Cravat would hi ve done for a S sh h Aggie was pin pining I ng for Bohemia So Sa she de decided I dried that tha t she be would marry the Genius h n i r had bad been Shaved and they could ton Id U Un together in the Paint Shop an 1 cook all their Meals in a hating Chafing Dish Dih She began to comb her Hair down ov over r her Ears and moved her hera he herVa Va a t Lir up until it was wal stopped Ir by her Am Army and md she wore mere long clinging clin H and nid a nil tried to be De exactly 11 like the th Slim SUm s that show up in a Jo 1 Panel Ati this made Fa Father Father Father ther very ery I xh d Father was in inthe Inthe the I rig Fig ig Iron Business I and he dUn t think frink that Art was Wai such a Much He HeThe Hex x 1 z i l J it t tr tR r The R he Real Rea Latin Quarter Article said that a Man with silky JoJo who tao I painted Dying Sunsets that no one u to buy bux was not his pick for a aion ion w He wanted Aggie e to se selet select let lect a Practical Man Mana a Brewer if i pos poe possible Bible sible There is no telling what would have happened it u a ne new Disease had not attacked Aggie For one Day Daj Da as Fa Fe Father Fether ther tl r ent red Drawing Room he a strange Thumping and Pound PoundIng Pounding Ing Inv overheat which caused canned cau ed the whole bole Building B to if Vibrate Some d i ie tearing out the Sec Second Second I ond tOI y he hf said in Alarm Marm No replied his Faith ul Wife Fife but butth the th Wort has come DA Daughter Js is ha hay hav having v vIng Ing tag n Attack of Ph Culture Th They y went up and looked through th ush the Kev Ke Hole Aggie had on a s naty Juit of tf Blue Bl Flannel and she he was trying to beat Sipe t out of a Punching Bal Bag BapIs BagIs BalIs Is there anything w the h e can do inked aked J 1 s h b her r distracted Pop I Nothing was the T We must fa Nature Nadirs take its It curse urse She wit win WillIet get tret o Ot i r it in about abou Thie Thle Weeks Iq In meantime we mus wacl tier ier care careful I ful fully v 01 or she may e pe j t wib lb some After Jf ter I Truly enough nough the i jasm ism of ef Muscular 1 Jar lar Development Ian laft T 1 r i lj twenty one nf DaA Da Days after which he hf t took hok k a good g Rut Rest Bf t ar art I slowly regained hd la Hei Uh Her Pai Parents felt h hopeful The Th Violent peni f fl to have neve h H worked all at tb the theart Art a lu 1 Act t rit out of of her System Just ts t F h i and Mother were be I 1 t 1 fi easy fasy in their Minds an awful TI i It tr c eat cat e orT nT tt Aggie Aprie A le wandered out one t T nii hart harj ril n d f stumble on em a Club Meting Meeting at which an u Authoress with Gold Spectacles did dida a Balancing Act on a high Pedestal Aggie came home v with the Literary Microbe her at every very Step She dmd d to write an Historical Novel and aM she she e had better hurry and aad ad get fet at it before she was too Old So she abe began bean nto to wear her Clothes loose and had bad Pencils stuck In her Back Hair and ink J Stains on her Fingers She Sh Shin succeeded in getting set acquainted w with ith t sane off tJI the Literati Nt v aad and then s Hr wild bring Belli Jt up ill to th House eed then them the a Father P t see I at an aI Aggie said sad it was w s a great i Privilege to meet People who Do I Things TI qs Father said that some of them ought to do Time The Dealer in Pig i iIron I Iron was not very ver Bookish Just about the time that Aggie was I convalescing from the severe Case of Literature she was seized seised with Social I Reform She discovered that she had hada a Mission She was going out among the Working Classes to show sho them how I to be Intellectual Mother suggested that she Ibe remain at Home and nd Show Fa Father Father Father ther how to be Intellectual For nearly ten Days DRYS she was out uplifting the Lower Classes Clas es Then one day d she bounded bounced into the House Hou and said Mourner M Mow mer I am going in for Photography Photography Photography raphy Mother groaned but she was not greatly surprised She was getting used to the Fads F and Foibles Aggie began n to blow up the House Hous with it h Flash Lights and she converted the Clothes Press into a Dark Room The Premises had a Chemical Odor I The he Pictures would have hae been all allright allright 11 right if the Light had been better or orthey orthey they bad had been given Time Expo Exposure ure I or r the Camera waggled or Something As it was they were full fullor of or Fog and Moth Bails Balla One afternoon Aggie Ag was swiftly transformed from a into a aMenti Menti She brought home a aBo aBo Bo Bok k so Deep that Mother make Head or 01 Tall Tail of it Next Day a Young Man walked into the Office an said to Father j I I f I The Muscular Development Spasm I Sh Str I should fUld like ike to marry W your YOU r I te ter terL L t know mow who you are was the Reply bat b you tan la have Mer het MORAL The Artist I is too O much for the Parent Copyright 1981 HM by Robert Howard R Rue Ruesell sell eID CI 1 |
