Show ND IGNATION MEETING BY JAMES HARDING well that make you urea called mrs brill as she came ont out on her back porch and slammed the door sharply behind her her neighbor mrs graves looked up in surprise tor for mrs brill was ot of a most unruffled demeanor ordinarily bitting sitting back on her heels in the grass she abandoned her pursuit of dandelions long enough to inquire sympathetically pym what mrs brill drills s prettily trilled frilled dust cap fairly stood on end with indignation I 1 vo ve been trying to get raymond s school by telephone for at least halt half an hour you know my sister and her little boy are coming up tor for the day and of 0 course raymond wants to stay at home well he hes a in the en next week and I 1 wanted to tell his teacher hell be absent today and I 1 wanted to find out about his costume but do you suppose I 1 could get that school no indeed and I 1 tell you mrs graves the phone service we have here now Is something awful there Is a phone at the school for I 1 saw it one day therein there la no number in the book and all I 1 could get out ot of those girls was we have no record I 1 tell you our im provement pro association ought to get after the phone service instead of 0 putting up any more fancy street lamps now mrs brill drill expostulated the woman oman two doors away who bad had sus operations on her clothesline to listen and who stood drooping gracefully over the fence and rattling the clothespins in her apron pocket it isn t the fault of the telephone at all it its s the schools or the school board or something listen to what happened to me the other day I 1 wanted to go down town early and get at the sales before the bar gains were all picked over related th tha woman two doors away I 1 hur ried so that I 1 forgot to take the pigs feet off the stove that were cooking tor for my husband husbands supper he likes them once in a while and they have to be fixed just so in order to suit him these were awfully nice ones and I 1 wanted to cook them as long as ble on the car I 1 remembered that 1 I haan t removed them but the gae gas was turned low so they couldn coulden t burn very soon well I 1 hurried to the nearest phone hone to call up bobble at his school and tell him to run over at recess time and turn out the gas but do you suppose I 1 got any sat Is faction well I 1 didn t oh I 1 was mad here I 1 had planned on those sales for a month you know to get some furniture and hangings cheap tor for the porch I 1 didn t halt half look at what hat t they ey had just bought some things in a hurry and then rushed home I 1 was hardly in time either for those pigs feet were scorched then my husband got mad you know john Is awfully particular about what he eats and I 1 had to send the furniture urn iture back became it wasn gasn t at all v ft hat I 1 wanted she paused a moment for breath and to enjoy the sympathetic corn com rients of her neighbor then with a coquettish toss of hen head she con linued well I 1 just told john how it a all 11 was you see my husband knows s the tie superintendent of this district real well they go down together on the 7 45 train real often so hell just fix it up at headquarters the idea of not being able to phone to one a own child in a city of this size sizel mrs brill nodded emphatically at mrs graves who had gone back to hunting dandelions though osten sibly bibly talking to the woman two doors away she directed her next remarks straight to mrs graves whom she considered more or less a party to the misdemeanors of the city school because mrs graves had once taught in them that a just it declared mrs brill drill now in Splash ville where my sister teaches you can phone to anyone in any school at any time about any thing that s how tt it should be suppose somebody should die suddenly or break an arm or something lou couldn coulden t get word to the child in any way here mrs graves answered the tion as she picked up the mutilated dandelions preparatory to going into the house surely every kind of mes sage should be given and to every one of the thousands of youngsters in the schools just because some one might die some time it would t take ako several clerks just tor for that and the classes would be continually dis but what of that well pouted mrs brill what do we pay taxes for tora that s right insisted the neigh for two doors away anyway my husband a going to see about it chi cago daily news |