| Show HINTING MC e II I DECLARE said sold Mrs to Mr Mrs lIson It t does doell beat blIt nit mill I how that gets gel everything she wants just by hinting I 1 dont believe she alto could go 10 straight at al a n thing to save Rave her life liCe Sho She moves away round like Ilke one of those toy loop railroads at nt the exposi exposition tion and you never knows known till after she makes the whole Journey what she he Is after atter Last summer cummer she wanted wan led anIn on an In n to our place In the th country Sho She begins by b sending Bending mo me an nn Easter Caster card Then of ot course to bo be polite I ask aRk her to our house to dinner She Sho COnies comes und and all nil through the dinner and after aCler It she tells me how delightful It Is us Isto to a 11 lone woman loman to get a 0 glimpse even for Cor two hours o that home life lire which Is denied dented to her herThen herThen herThen Then she Mho begins and talks about how dreadful It Is le to stay In tho the hot hoi town lown nit all summer alone or else to lo go to some country boarding house hous where all the theair theair theair air smells of pigs and where you are ore watched and talked about every move you make Its to so terrible to be alone In the th world nUll and not have much mon man money mane mcney ey e says And she shA puts her handkerchief to her eyes eos Then of course Ouo I felt sorry for tor her and I up and said before beCore I 1 thought Miss loss If IC Ifa ifa a 11 week eek at our place ploce In the country will willbe willbe willbe be pleasant for tor you OU you may ma como come and stay that Ion lonG though I have many guests through the summer Sho Rho snaps th the word out of at my mouth Instantly and aliI says Oh you ou dear It will be lip like heaven to me one In May she writES to remind me the of or It Then she Invites her herself hert self Jelt to come came the let 1st of ot Juno June and down t she elms alights on us and Ill cat eat my lint hat It Jt she sho slay stay a II whole month And she ahe acted Just as though the house be lie belonged belonged longed to her Ivor ordered everybody around and put pul her frocks and frills trills Into our wash till Ann threatened to leave leae I never neer was as so glad to get rid of at anybody In my lite life as I was of o At A t her boarding house one of at the la ladles ladies dies has haR a n new sealskin and she show showed cd etI It Il around among the women One day said to her hers I am Invited to luncheon at Mrs rs 8 well tons today and I 1 dont know what Ill do I know my cloak Is not warm enough for tor such lIuch sucha a 0 cold raId day da and Its a shabby old thinK thing anyhow Oh dear Its hard hurd to be poor Then ot of course what can the lady do but lend the new seal sealskin sealskin skin akin jacket And A nil she flourished oft off In It In great greut style Last LuRt week brother Sam had hac tickets to take his hili wife to see sec In inThe Tho The Bloody Finger Print found It out She happened to drop droll In at Sams just before dinner and had to tobe tobe be asked naked to dine diM Sam and his wife never mentioned they were going to the tile theater but she Rhe said ald she he was WAi crazy to see she had not nol been to the tho theater since her cousin caul In died and antI of ot course she sho could not go 10 alone Sam did not say any sa anything aloud but stayed sta and stayed and when they th had to tell her they were going out she hll sold said Well Roll Ill Jut Just walk along with you as asfor n asfar tar for as RS you go 10 Its so lonely to 10 IH Ill alone She actually went along with them to tho the door She slopped when they tho stopped and Sam Sant swore like Ill a 0 teamster to himself but he had hatI to get HI geto n o ticket for her to The Bloody Finger FingerPrint l Print too Hut But the slickest t of at all Will vas the WilY way she worked the ll Belladonna club climb to get J t herself to their swell reception She wrote the tho chairman of at the entertain entertainment meat ment committee that she had n II poem on the mystical charms harms of oC belladonna and nm Would not he ho like to have her send I It to bo be read at the reception She had read It In the midst of ot thunders thunder of ap up applause applause before a meeting at al Sena Bena Senator Benator tor for was v present arid and an lehe the wrote him and Senator x said ld he never neverIn neverin In all his life nr heard anything like It II And that thai was so 80 too for there thero never novel was wan anything like poetry The rhe chairman ot of atthe the Is ls a n soft sort headed kind of oC ofa ofa a 1 thing cant bear to snub a woman so of ot course he wrote rote to come rome and read the poem hT herself i lf She Sho did go 10 and tend rend It and there she he was smiling and antI smirking around and making pea peo people popIe pIe plc compliment her pOEm as os though she eke was somebody She Ahe bores folks till they dread the sight eight of ot her but she gets gels there thore JOSEPHINE JOS HUNTER BUNTER |
