Show = i + + + + + 4 + + + + + + + tt + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + H + + + H + + + + + + i KH > + + + + + + H > + + f HH + + + t + + + + + H + + + + + + t + f + + + r t + + HttH + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + H + + + H + + + + + + + + + i + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + J WHfr54 f I i MIlS COURTEIL YOU TELLS OF A i MRS HEINRICH THiNKS HER NEIGHBOR 1 J SAL T AiR TRIP WITH THE CHILDREN Iv HAD A PERFECT RIGHT TO CRY 4 + + + + H + + + + + + + H + + + + Hr + + + 4 + + + + + 4 + + + + J + + + + + + + + t + + + + f r + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + t 1 + + 110 > + + + + + + + + + + I Mrs Oorlclyou who had been reading the personal column laid down the ipaper when her neighbor Mrs Hcinrlch Entered 1 may be all right for bank presl ilcnus and l other big bugs of high life togo to-go Hcootln across the country In palace ears anJ drawingroom coaches Mrs TTelnrlch hut they never had a pack o young ones to lake with them All they have to take along Is a puck of blank etwei If and a letter ot credit When I go I have to take everything but the 10 house J tires me out just to go to Bnltalr and back 181nlr I Did you Saltalr have been t07 asked Mrs llelnrlch by way of incentive to have Mrs Cortelyou tell her troubles STARTED FOR SATTATR f I started Mrs llclnrlch but I didnt get there Here you little Imp got out i of that mud and come in the house or Ill give 5 ou the worst licking you ever I had and your fatherll give you another one when he comes home Thats Just the way I went the other day Mrs Helnrlch Vhrn I w as pulllner one of them young onos out of the water the other was falling into the mud You never had but five Mrs llelnrlch and I have six and you dont know what It IB to draw around n whole asylum of them and buy popcorn for every one WILLIE TN THE SWEETS I Is lucky I began to get them clean In the morning or I never would have got to the street cars I had tho whole brood fixed up and was Just getting the baby riggrd out when I heard Willie bawl 1 I went Into the kitchen and there he stood with the molasses running down his nice new frock that I had Just washed out and Ironed the day before Well I got hlin fixed out l again when land sakes If Mlnne thats the youngest young-est one next to Willie there didnt fall down or the Iont stoop and tear her dress clear across I Just made up my mind not to ETC when that Imp pC a young one across the street struck Johnnie across thi > head with a Hammer oero5 lnmmer and raised a bunch over his left eye as big as an apple Then I couldnt Und Jlmmya hat1 haul to chase around the corner for a new pair of shoe airings to I put In his shoes and Minnie had to comedown come-down with the toothache I Its enough any one almost crazy to drive remarked Mrs llelnrlch sympathetically sympa-thetically NOT CRAZY FRANTIC Crazy Mrs HeInrich 7 I was frantic Well by 1 oclock I had them all ready I put tip t little lunch and we started for the car There was plenty of time but I had to carry the baby and the lunch with Willie and Freddie tugging tug-ging at my skirts and the rest dragging along behind When I got to the corner Jimmy was missing and I had to walk back a block to find him There ho was I In Mrs Cassldys yard stealing apples I had to yank him out ofhla stanaos and oC course lie bawled all the way to Main street Hot Mrs Helnrich I every Inch of my back wan an Irrigating Irrigat-ing ditch Then the whole outfit saw the drug store and wanted me to buy oda water When I got one quieted down the other one began to yell Then Minnie almost got run over by n streetcar street-car some one knocked Willie down and stepppcd on him and the cars camo There was 3 whole bunch of them clanging their gongs fit to scare the devil and shouting all ports of places aI got on the first car that was handy Some kind man helped me up with the lunch or I never would have got on Then Minnie had to get black grease all over the front of her dress and Ill never be able to get It out Ive tried Salts of Tartar lemon Juice and tea I but It looks worse than It did before I After we got started I aoked the conductor con-ductor If wo were on the right car lie lold me he would give me a transfer when we got there and for the rest of he trip I had my hands full trying to keep the young ones from falling out o the windows LANDED AT STMARKS I dldnt notice where we went I supposed the conductor know his business I busi-ness lie seemed to think I was taking the family down to St Marks hospital for an outing because wo were almost to Warm Bprlngs when he looked at me and yelled all out for the hospital Tasked T-asked him whero my transfers were for Saltalr dopot Ho swore up and down that I didnt aak for any Well 4t wasnt no use arguing I paid our faro back and asked him to let mo off at the right plnre and give me transfers This time he took us way out to Calders park before he seemed to remember about me He told me that T wns GCV ernl miles oul of the way WAS READY TO CRY I was ready to cry The baby was yelling Its lungs out and the rest of tho I young ones were teasing me to take them Into tho water The conductor finally told mo that If I would stay on the car ho would carry me back to Second Sec-ond South street He thought thero was plenty ot time ot Well off we went I galllvantln to the Lord knows where until the car stopped then we started the other wny This time thy conductor I put us oft at the corner where we could catch tho car Of course Minnie had to fall oil the step and skin her nose I bought her some popcorn to atop her bawling and we finally got on the right I car pan By that time I was like 0 dripping TRAIN PULLED OUTDid OUT-Did you by the depot get Im com In t that Mm Heinrich Just as we got pretty near there the train began to pull out The conductor told me It always ctopped a minute about 0 block down the road Well he helped us got off and I started to run after the train I stopped Just as he paid But just as I got hear It oft Il starlet itgftln like a straw hat In n gale of wind Mrs llelnrlch that time I was ready to swear and heaven bless tho baby I did too 1 said dam twice Onco under my breath and once over it Mrs Heinrich A man heard mo and I kept l on damming a tune Just as though I was nlnging a Rca1 I JUST A FOOT RACE The man aked me If I I was trying to catch the car I told him no I said I was only trying to see 1 thero were cushions on tho neats Trying to catch thy carl I wonder If the Idjlt thinks Id bo carrying 1 baby and lunch basket in mo arms and dragging three cross youngsters with my skirts for two blocks just for the fun of running a footrace foot-race with an excursion train Well that Just settled me I was ready to alt down and boiler and I would If that Idjlt hadnt ben looking at mo BOUND TO HAVE LUNCH I made up my mind that wed have the lunch anyhow and go to Saltalr some other day Wo got on tho streetcar rmo street-car again and started back up town t got transfer ane and waited for 0 car at Main street Tho children wanted to go to Saltalr and play in the wind I had to make all kinds oC excuses before they got quiet I told them they could VaIn Va-In the lake and that I would buy tom candy and soda water and give them sJ ride on tho merrygoround MIXED PICKLES AND JELL l Well when tho CalderH park car came alone they iroro hanging to the foot board and there wasnt room t put a lunch basket nay nothing about clx I young oneS and meselL I got discouraged dis-couraged right there but I mae up my mind wed eat that lunch in tho park We finally caught n Liberty park car that wasnt crowded When TVC got there I went for tho lunch When 1 opened tho basket the lunch was ruined The cake was soaked with vinegar tho beans were In the bottom of the basket and tho pickles butter and Jelly were all mixed upI up-I Heirrlch I Just sat down then and cried 1I Helnrich sI Joost dont blamo you replied Mrs 1 |