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Show , 1 44 Just Too Lovely'' l8N8o - ,TTT OULDN'T It bo perfectly A lovely!" sighed the young V person of fifteen as she selected an especially fat chocolate cream from the box. -Wouldn't it," agreed the one in the striped middy blouse. "I just dream about it!" continued -the girl in the wicker chair. "Ever ince my sister got married last year I've thought how perfectly beautiful it would seem to be married and have one's very own home and all new things!' I've considered it only lately," Teaiu the young person of fifteen. , glrtce I've grown up. When I was a uttio girl, of course, I didn't have -tf- Eense enough to be Interested in the real things of Ufa. Why. I don't uppose I ever even thought about a house as being a well, a house with a family in it! I just took it like daylight and the stars, as be- longing there naturally. Now, I'm Just crazy to have one of ir.y own.'" -I shall have beautiful vines growing grow-ing over the porch of my house," mused the girl in the striped middy. "And I shall sit under the vines in lovely white dresses that fluff and trail, and when he comes homo tired after a day's work it will rest him Just to look at me. Oh, I read a story once where the husband always al-ways kissed his wile's hand when he returned to her and the sol't light from her eyes thrilled his very heart. It was perfectly lovely!" "Oh. C'elial" breathed the girl in the wicker chair. "Wouldn't that be sweet? I can just see it! I am going go-ing to have vines, too." "I shall have ice cream every night for dessert when 1 get my own house." said the girl with the chocolate choco-late creams "I think puddings and pies are 'horrid. Hut mother just laughs at me when I say so.I think the vay people fuss over what they eat is so billy. I'm going to have easy things that can be done In no time and then I won't have trouble with my servants"- "rforvants!" reproachfully Interjected Inter-jected the girl in the striped middy: T-Oh, Esteile! How horrid to have outsiders fussing around! Consider how lovelv it would be to keep hou.se for him yourself. There isn't so much to do around a house at least, I never noticed that there was. 1 Mi think mother fusses around all the while Just because she's got the J habit I am going to have plenty of ' time to embroider and read. Don't you think doughnuts and coffee would be lovely for breakfast? I certainly am going to have plenty of coffee. "Mother won't 'let me touch It be-cause.. be-cause.. she says, it's bad for me. Just wait till I get' my own house! And I never yet had enough doughnuts. You can buy lovely ones at the bakery bak-ery on the next street so there's your breakfast. "What !f your husband got tired of doughnut?" suggested the girl In tWfl wicker chair. "Oh, he'd like 'em because I did," asserted the girl in the striped mIOdy. "He'd bo glad not to have me fuss around a horrid old kitchen. So I'd have more time to be with him! Anyhow, Any-how, I never knew a boy who didn't like doughnuts. And I shall always have chocolate cake for lunch. And tea! Mother won't let me drink tea, either. You can get the cake where you clo the doughnuts." "Don't you loathe potatoes and things?" asked the girl with the chocolate choc-olate creams. "I shall always have chicken three or 9four chickens so that there will be plenty of white meat. And I'm going to have full length mirrors on all the closet doors so that 1 can see how my skirts hang, and dozens of dresses, awfully pretty ones. And nobody will be there to keep me from putting on the prettiest one every day if I want to. Mother has such peculiar notions!" "I shall have parties every night," s:ild i be girl In the striped middy, "Loads of company to dinner. 1 don't see why mother makes such a fuss if 1 bring nemo two or three girls to dinner when oifr cook has left. And he will be so proud of me as a hostess! hos-tess! I shall have lots of diamond rings and when I pour the coffee my hands will look eo nice! Oh, it would lie perfectly beautiful '" "Cella," said the mother of the girl In the striped middy, anpearin g at the door, "please run oVer to the grocery r.nd order a peck of potatoes and bring three bars of laundry soap. And don't forget to dam your stockings stock-ings some time this afternoon and cl?an out your bureau drawers. 1'vo got to preserve a crate of strawberries straw-berries myself!" "Mercy!" said the girl with the chocolate creams in the silence that ensued. "Isn't It awful how peopis let horrid material things like potatoes po-tatoes interfere with the really beautiful things of life? When I hAve a house it won't be that wayi It's perfectly ridiculous!" |