Show house party was fine for jay kate the weekly short story by jane osborn afternoon at leonora S SATURDAY drews party turned 0 out ut to be dismally rainy it was a chill chin penetrating rain that made leo noras doras suggestion Uon that they should don raincoats and go for a tramp meet with a chilly reception lets pretend that we any tiny ot of us a it cent dor nor any influent bial friends or anything and come here to get jobs I 1 I 1 said eald big roger tilden the athlete ibis Is it the an employment bureau and each I 1 lisso one of us has to write out his quail alture ficat lons personally if I 1 found batch myself stranded in some strange strong of place like australia without a cent and no friends I 1 dont don t know what I 1 could do unless maybe I 1 could get I 1 et a job as a furniture mover bu bul even then id probably smash the mirrors anyway lets write out our qualifications dont lets write it out suggested one of the girls just let a say it IL roger you take us one at a time and a ask k us just as it if we were lately landed in australia and you were the employment agent start with will leonora after a little urging leonora revealed the fact that st she was an expert dancer she could even do ex hibit lon dancing and she could swim like a fish and drive a car and fhe filie bad bious as an interior decorator maud of course could male mahe a career for herself as a musician alice boasted of two university decrees degrees and had specialized in blob ogy agy so she could get a job in a uni varsity or a laboratory bob felt qualified fled to work as a garage me chanec walter said he w outdo t try to get a job at all hed vamp some rich australian girl and land soft boft and arnold assured the others that he conid could write as successfully in australia as anywhere else it vias as kates turn and kate looked and felt confused 11 1 I don dont t dinou mat I 1 can do anything the she said of course I 1 can cook a little and I 1 can mend but I 1 can t dance or drle a car or sing or paint point or do anything like that eich mind kate said leonora leenora nora with a little ra patronage if we did go to Aust australia mila we wouldn t let you starve meanwhile the rain iraln had turned from a steady drizzle to a devas devils tating donn downpour pour leonora seemed uneasy and started at the slightest sound finally the telephone rang rarig and after file minutes coave sa tion in the telephone nook in the hall ball leonora came back with flushed face ono ani bewildered ex pres slon 1 I II 11 have bare to tell you the truth she said wed had bad trouble in the kitchen and when the girls heard we were having baving this party clicy walked out left this morning mother telephoned at once to ben ton ft here vie get our maids and engaged exo and after got here she drove oer to get them and now she has telephoned to say that she couldn coulden t t the girls and get back here herself the bridge between here and rind benton has been undermined by the rain and so here v we e are a re the rain had increased to an alarming extent that there u be no hope of the arrival of the outside guests for the dance that night still there were eight people in tile house and dinner had to be prepared and leonora was frantic it was not until kate donned a smock and went to work that there was vias any promise of any sort of r roger somewhere found an apron which he tied about his stalwart person and then tir every one else out of the kitchen said that dinner would be reada at seven and that he and kate coul I 1 bork better alone having nothing else to do the others dressed tor for dinner which turned out to be most toothsome and well served even elea forgetting that there are dishes to t wash afler after dinner donned a light pink frock she had made espe especially cialli for the occasion so efter otter darme no one needed much urging to con sent to leae leme the work to kate and roger the last dish and pan had been washed and kate was scrubbing up the sink while roger was laborious ly drying the last saucepan youre youie been a trump said wild roger I 1 it 11 be their turn tomor row though 11 but ie lie really enjoyed doing this only it was rough on sou roger id really rather do it again tomorrow than have those girls fussing around without get ting anything done well if tou you do it tomorrow I 1 m going to help I 1 couldn t bear the thou thought of anyone else here with you katei wanted to tell you this afternoon when we were playing that stupid game you are worth all the other girls put to gether kate rate I 1 want you to prom ib aaa to carry narry nc ric but roger said kate holdin holding her cripi log ng hands all away ay as he lie drew 9 w her to hit hir t leonora think it was funny I 1 mein me in I 1 dont think shed like it very much to think proposed to me at her bouse house party her iler house party you evil it when you on do all the work said roger seizing kate kates s hinds despite their waterson water soaked led 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