Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 279, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1911 — Mrs. Appleton Pays a Call [ARTICLE]

Mrs. Appleton Pays a Call

rXXtSnTou that I made a cake last week and it self to take ’ll out Some callers are' so thoughtless that way.” Me with a glove button reminded het she needed a new pair. "Ajomag brato,” she said, “is 4 to remember the size of her gloves,* her shoes, her hose, her corset, ber collar, her belt; how much she weighs now, and what she weighed the six times previous, and the date of the birthday ot every friend she fita, and I don’d? tarned bl Jart and toror Daysey Mayme. Bhe’s Grown Up. “Yes, She'S a grown woman now,” she-skid with a sigh. “There’s'a piece of poetry about a girl standing with Mductant feet Or something like that Wtare the brook and the river meet, meaning she has become a woman, but pshaw, I knew Daysey Mayme wta becoming a woman when she stopped stealing pickles and began to do up her hair . ??..<-’■ . “Yes, talr does cost a good deal these days, though B have heard that • the walnut coiffure is coming back. It seems incongruous to call a Httle knot of hair done up so tight one has to use a monkey .Wrench to undo it a 'coiffure? ooesnT it?” “Well, w«t, if there is anything in the smell, your cake is burned too badly to ice ny now.” v The door was opened by the hostess who, by ttos tUne was looking W a toothsoap advertisement with the foam around her mouth, and Mrs. Appleton'stepped out. Forgot the Cake. “Are you interested in the Proper Methods of Teaching Children How to Play? It is » grand movement, though lots different frdm y hat I knew as a qhlld. In these days mothers used to stand on the back pot-ch and seream their lungs out to get their children to stop their eternal playing and get to work.” She took two steps from the door and one step bank to tell her hostess of a new joke she had heard on thb men h * frnm that into a dohcrip iion 01 aii iriHii lac© conar ts&o new recipe ter making tomato soup. Thirty ririnutes later, she was telling how many yards of lace she bad on her wedding Skirt pnd rambled from that to a sure cure for croup, *Ste running 6 back. Someone had seen the smoke qf the HXwB a fa department. “I thought 1 would come back and help,” saTd Mrs. Appleton, preparing to throw furniture out of the window.