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Show HAD PLENTY OF TIME By CHARLES PLEIN8. "Don t wasto any pity on us for being be-ing up hero in the woods at this sea-1 boh of the year," wrote the girl to , her best friend In town, who had been sympathizing with her by letter. ' "We are having a perfect time, and I'm beginning to find out what leisure 's at least I should be flndlug oat .f I weren't busy every minute. That sounds contradictory, I know, but the truth is that I am reveling in the kind of leisure that gives me oceans of timo to do all tho things that I've ' always been wanting to do. j "Just fancy the dollgnt of having four solid hours of reading everj night and then being in bed nt 10:30! You see, we have an early dinner and the evening begins promptly nt C, and mother and I Bit with our needlework needle-work In hand whllo lirothor Will reads ub chapter after chapter. Don't , you wish you had a chance to get acquainted ac-quainted with Little Nell, Colonel Newcomo and Maggto Tulllvcr again? "Whllo mother la working on her silk quilt In the mornings I take an hour or two for magazines and modern mod-ern novels and I've uclually found that I havo a tasto for poetry. "You mustn't think, hox.tver, thai reading furnishes our only nmuse nient. We havo a great dea' of other entertainment. The bird banquet which we have set outside o.ir dlnlnc room window is a constant source ot Interest. Wo have a piece of salt pork tied to a cedar bough' and every morning morn-ing as we eat our eggs and bacon a black nnd white woodpecker with n dash of scarlet in his topknot comet and pokes his beak into thls-brano of breakfast food, which appears Just to suit him. He is usually followed by two bluejays that, not being adept at pecking, content themselves with the crumbs which mother, keeps un der the cedar treo for them. "We feed the yqulrre! nlo. Th?y floeb t- M: a-d feith in frcnt of ou: j window s all 1-jv lens '--i-i; fron roof o boyc'i n"d o-.--r-.-if Trrf the tncwv lawn with t" n 'alls high' In Mm nr IP enu-fiiil red rlum;a ' Drothcr VT diiu-e 'lint tn-tv.r pnd I are ppupriir ; tso little nUh bors of r-i-- ' - '-' -'iat out drniM"'- '" -- , 't- jr v !:h thcli ' self-reliance. "Hut tho recreation "rit llrothei Will and 1 enjoy most U mother'f talk! Think of It, in nil tho years that l'vo been her daughter I never realized until this autumn whnt a brill!""- talker mother Is. Until now -o havo always been too busy with the ' -v-'!t- r-,l'5 rf llfo to converse con-verse ubout anything moru Important t'nn r'""" 'loucekeenlnit. entertaining, entertain-ing, lists of gueitB and nil tlin other never endlrg ileitis c' existence. If ,,-p hn!n' rtiv-i ( V" '" "'ry this autumn I mljjht "-. '- rown whnt a voaith o' ' ' .- nnd nrerrio ,r 'r" ; ' in mother's memory &V- member t'm etirrlng rtavs of the Civil war flio passed through the rr"' Ch'cm lro and Ehe plrneerecl i-' MisV. ' o tho rold rt'h Pre"" V I'l - ' 'tavo heard ! thrl'.INr rto-ir ' n aft-r-""-"i hpn hP riin- r- iln has kept up close to the r.od fro "Vpii mustn't think ''" uk ns ent'rely cut off from the outside v nrld "very onco In a vb"e f see foiti" rw 'rom the village It 'vat cnlv nlpi't before lapt that a min went b'- wl'h 'i lantern! lan-tern! Rrother Will nnd I hnd 'iPat-ed 'iPat-ed argument as to whether It vis the hired man from Iho iiPirnsr farbouso or the villas olork who Is snld to be 'waltlns rV tm farmers datiph'rr. "This lnornlr.p Hrother Will r-Mled me from my book to look nut '-f Mie vt"fW t ((- -, ff((Ht i,, turtle tur-tle was on the highway with the niral 'ree dell'ery mur.'s curt 'and a wagon load cf hogs, both In eight at once. "So, you see. life Is far from dull. "Brother Will fcao Jrst Interrupted my r-rltln" to (" rne that his morning morn-ing mall has de-lftsd him to move Into town enriv rxt week. "Of course I've enjoyed every minute min-ute of this lone R'l.nmn here, but now that I know I chell ho back in the midst of things bo soon I can h-dly wait. Why I hivon't even decided on a winter suit yet. and as for a hat, or, dear! I Fupposo the shqps are cror-rted to distraction with Christmas buyers, but I shall not mind thaf In the least. I shall enjoy mingling and iilxlng with my kind. "The country Is nit right, but-well, but-well, It seems a century since I've been to tho theater." Chicago Dally News. |