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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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Che Pricillas' Picnics
Sew, Sew, Sew, !
Sew, Sew, Sew, !!
Sew, Sew, Pricillas ! ! !
At last after months of talking and plan
ing fourteen girls and ladies and 'just
one boy," the driver, found themselves well
on there way to the picnic grounds beside
the beautiful Willamette River. The Pri
cillas decided to have a picnic a long while
ago long before the frost was out of the
ground. Every time they talk it over some
new confection, cak or dainty was added to
the lunch. Small wonder it was then that
the major part of the wagonette was taken
upon Saturday by a gigantic lunch basket.
On the way down most of the remarks,
giggles, tnd snickers centered about at
the paper gee gaw which Miss Bowman had
around her neck. Ladies of the east,
north, and south come West for latest
styles! Irene Campbell had been appoint
ed official reporter for the occasion and she
was kept ( busy taking notes for the
''American" '
The heavily loaded wagonette reached
the grounds without mishap and in a
twinkling hammocks and swings wera up,
the coffee on the fire, and the lunch' whs
taken from the baskets and arranged fur
the "Spread of there leves." The teporter
succeeded in getting a "little of each" of
the following: Sadwiehes, s'. titled ejr;-?,
Boston baked beans, buns, piune butler,
potato salad, lettuce, Rookies, silvdrcke,
"trimed with turtles" olives, pickles, milk,
lemonade, strawberries and cream, cnffce
and toothpicks, There may have been
a few more things but the reporter was un
able to take them in.
In spite of this appetizing bill of fare tlm
Pricillas had a hard time in persuading
Levi Sortor, the driver to partake of it witli
them. Twogirls finally led him while Mi?.
Cloutier brought up the rear with an enor
mous club.
Anyone passing the grounds durinj
that luncheon wouid have thought that a
party of deaf mutes were picuicing. N"i
a souud escaped from anyone. My, but a
drive does create an appeiite ! Most of tli
party finished eating within the time limn,
but as long as a crumb of cake orantr;w
berry was in sight, Miss B nvmiu reiniiii l
true and "staid with it :' perhaps h!,
would have been able to rsimiu evci
longer had not a goodly pTiion of tli
lunch found its way iuto Mary J. SiuMi'
big pocket.
Then came an hour under the trees. T;,
"lazy hour," tby called it. Fin illy ir
one, we don't know ho, tnanag d tu
far enough away from the remnants of t
lunch to quid the swimming hole. Slif an
nounced her di covery and a on tin' j;
were all in the water. II- re ki:i M
Bowman showed a ne w siyle of l ' I. '
suit w hich was voted very . beconiin,'.
The water had been a little dm!y f
some and a game of base-ball w is st ir;
Then while we Were packing iinK
home someone discovered nome c.-ki- r
had been overlookbd an) a light r t'r.
mnt of cake and lem ma le w is sm-'l
Unlike most picnickers, thutrpi"
was not a quiet one, none of thevki'i
nef-s of the day was 1 sr. T'wts notnv
band that reached Ohemiwu that ev-i. .
but rather the Name, lively, jeliin.'.
happy "Pricillas", 1. 1'.