Show Evening Chit Chat BY RUTH EUTH CAMERONA CAMERON CAMERONA HALF DOZEN DOZE children bound on onA onono A ono one of those thORn wonderful excursions exclusion A whose chief chlof feature ca Is a fairly or ordinary or or- dinar lunch Glorified Into n a toast bv by being partaken of or under the tin open skies passed us the tho other day while white wo we were out walking There I remember I promised ed to take tAko m my boys out Into the tho woods for Cor J a picnic supper soon said the tho fresh happy little lady lad who Is s big sister nut and t 1 chum as well as lL a most wonderful mother moth moth- er or to her hor boys You poor dear dear pitied pilled the aesthetic lady you jou OU have havo my sympathy How blow I Ido Ido Ido do hate to eat outdoors You never nover know know whether your food Is going to tobe tobo bo ho flavored with ants or spiders or pine pineneedles pineneedles needles or Just plain dirt I think you OU aro are n n. perfect mart martyr to those those- chil chil- dren No such thing thine rejoined tho the fresh little lady Indignantly Why Vh I love loveto loveto to cat outdoors Just as ts much as I lid did whon when I was a child I think Its It's great fun Cun If I were not with th you ou folks Id I'd wish I were going with those children this ver very minute That's the tho kind of a n. lad lady who will al always al- al always she aho has hils W ways S 'S have havo more friends than time for Cor who will always as be bo wanted wherever she goes who will wilt always be hailed as a delightful ad addition to any Ce festivity Because sho alto hasn't yet ct lost her enthusiasm enthusiasm enthusiasm en en- for simple things I once knew a a. little girl for Cor whom everybody liked to do things because she Aha everything e so much It was a a. perfect delight ht to take tace heron her heron heron on a picnic or an excursion because she sho simply bubbled over o with enthusiasm nem every ever oyer minute of oC the time She Is 18 grown rown up now At least she sha hc thinks so 50 And I fanc fancy myself that she fhe Is older now than she will ever be bo again I happened to bo be with her lur on n n. Jolly joll little HUle excursion the other day day- Her ennui was pathetic I remember when I J was a n little girl girland girland Irl Irland and used to come up here hero what whal a fuss CURS fussI CURSI I used to make mako about going out on the thc lake ake In one of those wretched little boats sho he reminisced In the manner of of e very old young youn folks Why now Id I'd want to be bp paid Just to get Into one of tho the dirt dirty little tIttle things sl And then with an air all of oC evident pride Ive certainly certainly outgrown own my enthusiasm Her air of oC pride ought t to have havo been an in air of ot re regret ret and s sorrow I think There Is nothing to be proud about In being bored Absolutely the tho contrary Ive reached the ago age when ono one berins be be- s to prefer sherbet to Ico ice cream and orangeade and moxie to Ice Ico cream soda a whimsical young 0 un I marl man remarked to mo me the other day It was a rather clever characterization and ind I J suppose It t Is symbolic of oC the at attitude attitude attitude at- at that t most of oC us get Into as we wea a anco In our twenties But oh ohl I love lovo the tho people who dont don't the tho tho dear folks who still childishly d delight dc- dc tight light In Ice cream eream and ice tee cream soda And I think the tho rest of the tho world loves them too It lau laughs hs at them once In a n. while but ju lust Ui-t t as It loves a child so It loves that childs child's heart within the mans man's I. I J |