| Show Practical I By SMITH STEVENS 6 MH I Service I I I IT IT HAD taken exactly I 18 iS years to I make moke Arnold Arnoll I cal Hint Chat Is to say It had taken those teeming years to make her realize to nn tin uncanny extent It teemed seemed to her pretty city aunt Ag 1 Ag lies nes that life lire was ex ex- serious and nl mainly unpleasant ant Tills This soma aunt punt was deter determined I ruined mined that now her exacting grand 1 I parents had died she sho should learn I II II I to be Impractical The two were sitting silting one summer evening r on the old farm Carm porch Th Thair The Theair Theair air was mellow with a surge of or rain drenched geranium and roses and I I the scene us as peaceful as ns the heart of ot Katherine was not I I Im ini Just wondering w began Ag Agnes nes nl'S It if youve you've ever believed in fat fal- I I rles I 1 rather doubt It ll It Have you I The words were spoken so soI s o oi i thoughtfully yet carelessly that ha ot t Katherine Ka felt n a sudden tear fear for her I charming churning relatives relative's scarily sanity I 1 eel cerI i I have we not ant the she said sullenly I i Then l perceiving p that her reply was scarcely Ren gracious ls she added I Grandmother forbade fairy books Wo We did rend some O In la school I though I You know dear to me roe that's horrible You lid You Poll I poor youngster Instead of ot living tving j i j I them I And In tills this paradise for tor this I country Is I lovely ely It 11 reminds me of ot I I Sicily I I The ranch was situated In county California that home 1 of ot ex ex- i wild lowers flowers I j I You couldn't I suppose try try- try try try-r i Just to please me to me-Io to believe In In I them now You see sel I do dl believe In j I fairies Unit that Is In all nil lovely 10 spirits dwelling In lowers Bowers and trees and sunsets sad books Looks and theaters theaters- I 1 yes dear I know grandmother i thought theaters were wicked but I they're noll Anil Aid In oh musk oil yes I there are nrc fairies In music perhaps most mist of or all nil I 1 want you to know and enjoy nil all these things because until you do you lust just haven't really lived t I 1 I at 01 nth nil And so Katherine was taken to be he I outfitted In Sari San The girl Inherited nil all her grandparents grandparents' sav say Ings lugs She wasn't poor poor but but oh so so poor r nor In Joyful experience i thought her aunt I Katherine was passive She al nl al lowed her hair to bo Lo bobbed Lobbed and conceded It sauce made her look less loss sol eol She Sho submitted to soft and silken underwear She admired the tho attractive frocks and hats that now wore were tiers hers Dut at one thing she sho rebelled She would not be nice niceto to the well meaning young youna men her conscientious aunt punt provided as play m. mal a I do not Intend to 10 marry Aunt Aun t Agnes she declared watching th the e seals ambling over the rocks from fro m the Ule C 13 house bouse e I have a r little moo mon moncy cy ey and I am nm quite convinced cO I 1 i should ba bo happier single You arc gotta q til to the funniest little e girl Ive I've ever met said Agnes for tor you talk like Inca a book about about ohl ohl maybe 1000 1860 You arc are tar far too quiet ever to succeed AS a bachelor girl Irl old molds maids are arc extinct Its It's just that you dont don't like I the way Harrys Harry's hair grows nun anil the me way Ambrose Amoroso eats cats spaghetti well spaghetti well I 1 dont don't myself Katherine had hod to smile I f con con- confess confess fess Less youre you're right Aunt she sho sold said Out tut I 1 cant can't Imagine how It It la you know I chose a husband myself myself- once her eyes clouded for tor the adored husband lost his life lite In the Ule beginning of 01 the great war but Katherine you really do rather like Jim Jackson Jockson now dont don't you Yes Yel I do Katherine was wal always alway rank frank And If it you wont won't think me crazy Ill I'll tell you why He hates hales the country My M dearl dear Her aunt paused Then very softy softly Was Wal it as bad as at that thaU It was horrible If U you really think that Jim will wll never never want to go away even in the sum um summer mer flier or it if he must will fish alone Ill I'll have him He lie It Is rather dear In lots lot of ways but I 1 wont won't ever milk milka a II cow or listen to a squeaky radio or hold conversations over the tele tole telephone phone with neighbors listening In again as 81 long as I live Aunt Jim asked me to marry him last lut night I was afraid I dont don't know city life lit e although 1 I think I f love it Ive I've never neve worn a dress that grandmother didn't choose Last night is the first firs time Ive I've ever been to a theater Until Jim told me what It U was I i didn't know the meaning of a sym symphony symphony phony concert I 1 knew nothing but cows cow and calves and harvesting g fruit and oh you have no idea how boa dreadful it wasl wash Grandmother be believed lIeve In mortifying the flesh an and d made me eat cot coconut cake I asked Jim If it he liked it and he said hed he'd he d have a luxury tax on coconuts It Ithe Ithe he could And he hates coco too She sighed lg This is very very nice said Agnes Ag Agnes nes forbearing to laugh Jims Jim quite a dear boy and I 1 know all aU his hla people well He lie loathes the country coun try the the kind of aspect that you yo know moYo you poor poor child 1 I As A much as you do do And he once threw thre w a coconut cake out of the window when he was about nine years old How flow heavenly I Katherine new flew lie lieto w to the telephone and called Jims Jim's s number Her aunt withdrew She a growing thank young oung goodness she said to herself hersel I couldn't have hay e stood her elderly ways way much muc L longer e |
