(CECILY: "Cyrus keeps my hair in his Bible for a bookmark, so
Flossie tells me. He says he means to keep it always for a
remembrance though he has given up hope." DAN: "I'll steal it out
of his Bible in Sunday School." CECILY, BLUSHING: "Oh, let him
keep it if it is any comfort to him. Besides, it isn't right to
steal." DAN: "He stole it." CECILY: "But Mr. Marwood says two
wrongs never make a right.")
HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT
Aunt Olivia's wedding cake was said to be the best one of its kind
ever tasted in Carlisle. Me and mother made it.
ANXIOUS INQUIRER:--It is not advisable to curl your hair with
mucilage if you can get anything else. Quince juice is better.
(CECILY, BITTERLY: "I suppose I'll never hear the last of that
mucilage." DAN: "Ask her who used tooth-powder to raise
biscuits?")
We had rhubarb pies for the first time this spring last week.
They were fine but hard on the cream.
FELICITY KING.
ETIQUETTE DEPARTMENT
PATIENT SUFFERER:--What will I do when a young man steals a lock
of my hair? Ans.:--Grow some more.
No, F-l-x, a little caterpillar is not called a kittenpillar.
(FELIX, ENRAGED: "I never asked that! Dan just makes that
etiquette column up from beginning to end!" FELICITY: "I don't
see what that kind of a question has to do with etiquette
anyhow.
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