The Sunday Oregonian., December 09, 1906, Magazine Section, Image 52

n
"W1MMI& FAD3N-
o m j
v Y
TOWHgyKID ILLUSTRATED W tl, OALLAWy
ptt -rccr
IT TAKEcf A CTEOW BA TO GET HEK. JTATTED
ICopyright, 1906, by the yew Tort Herald
Company All Rights Rettrved.
THE best thing about the country
is that winter comes earlier than
in the city, and there is room
enough to see it. Most that 1
remember about the city 'winter
are the things papa used to say
bout the furnace man, but I'm not
going to -write those things here, ' be
cause Mary soys if I keep Rood she'll give
us a moonlight coasting party as soon as
the snow comes to stay.
We've had some snow already, and it
might have stayed, because there are no
snow shovellers and carta to take it away,
but the sun came back to give us one of
the warm days he forgot about last
month, and he'd been keeping it to him
self so long it got awfully hot.
That thaw, though, was what gave us a
ripping adventure which we wouldn't
have had if it hadn't come. Grandma
asked Enry, Pussy, Susie and 'me to the
farmhouse for dinner and a sleigh ride,
and when the thaw came she said she'd
like to have us come just the same, be
cause the pies she'd baked and the dough
nuts and cookies would feel dreadfully
neglected if we didn't turn up. We did.
I think grandmas are the best people
in the world, for they've got over
thinking all the time about themselves,
and that gives them a chance to think .a
lot about kiddies, which grown ups . who
are not grandmas don't.
Bob drove Pussy, Susie and me out to
tbe farm, and Eggy came over from bis
mother's bouse. When we got there
grandma 6aid that the windstorm which
followed the thaw had blown down a lot
of trees, and it we Went over there be
yond the hillside pasture, at the edge of
the woods where they run up the moun
tain, we could get a notion of what the
wind had done, and at the same time get
an appetite for dinner.
I. never saw such a girl as Pussy;-she
had on stout boot6 and rubbers like the
rest of us, but she wanted to stay in the
house and read the old bound volumes of
Godey's Ladies' Book, which grandma
uses to get the fashions for her frocks
from. But, besides the fashions, they
have a bully lot of stories, and if Pussy is
all curled up before . the fire in one of
grandma's deep rocking chairs, with a
story book to read, it takes a crowbar
to get her started. Cousin Bob whispered
to me that he had the crowbar, but
he must have been joking, for I didn't
see any. Instead of trying to get her
started, what he said was, "Susie, you'll
have lots of fun with two escorts to help
you over the fallen trees, and you'll have
uch glowing red cheeks when you come
back I'm 6ure grandma will let you cut
the pumpkin pies."
For some reason or other Susie sud
denly concluded she'd go with us, and we
tramped oft, and it was good sport up
ihom ithprn the trees bad been, thrown
down, because Eggy and I pretended that
we were the Continental 'my under
General Gates ' and the trees had been
cut down by the British troops to protect
their camp from surprise. Pussy would
not pretend she was an army, but Susie,
who's always game to be anything you
want her to be, was an army, too; and
the way'we charged the Britisn made us
glad we'd worn our old clothes, for some
thing ripped every time we got over a
tree.
When we'd got to the other side of the
windfall Susie pointed to a funny look
ing hole in the ground, right at the foot
of a great big rock, and said, "There's
where our last shell struck!"
Eggy walked up to the edge of the hole
and sang back to me, "Coie along, Ham,
this is a bigger hole than any of the
others. Let's fortify it, so that we can
repel Burgoyne if he tries to retake our
position."
Eggy jumped down in the hole as I
started to run toward it, and I heard a
half smothered yell of surprise, but when
I got to the edge of the hole no Eggy
was in sight. Wherever he was he was
not more surnrised than I was. As for
Pussy, I believe she would have fainted
if she had known how.'. But Susie leaned
over as far as" she could and yelled out.
"Eggy, where are you ?''
"Wait till I get the -mud out of my
mouth, can't you, then I'll tell you?" came
back Eggy's voice, and I'll bet a million
dollars I'll never be so -glad, to hear any
thing as I was to hear , the: old chap's
growl. ".' , ' '.
Then Pussy began to-blubber, and say
that we should all run home;-so, to get
rid of her and,her fidgets, ' I told her to
go around the windfall as fast as she
could and bring back grandpa and Bob.
Susie and I took hold of hands, just to
steady ourselves, I guess, though we
didn't say anything about it, and all the
while we could hear Eggy growling and
grumbling, his voice not. sounding a bit
as if he was hurt, but as if he was having
the surprise of his life. After a while I
could make out that his voice came
through an opening at one side of ' the
bottom of the hole, which was nearly cov
ered up with leaves and sticks and loose
dirt "that had sKd in there after him, so I
yelled to him to sit tight and I'd open up
the hole and give him light, and we'd rig
up some way to get him out if we could. I
dropped-down into the bole, and Susie
passed me as long a broken limb as she
could handle, end I yelled to Eggy to ask
him if there was room for him to step
aside while I cleared out the opening.
"Room," answered Eggy; "there seems
to be miles of it. Bet you it's a cave."
I didn't have much trouble clearing out
the hole, and when my eyes got used to
looking in the dark I could see Eggv.
"Come on down," he said; "it's a corker!"
"Let me go, too " Susie said, and before
T could stOD her she bormpd iW. i-. .
hole, aiid both of us shinned down the
pole to where Eggy was.
There was a little light coming through
the opening, enough for us to see oulre a
little ways about us. It was a cave sure
enough, running into the hill Ji
trees which had blown down had blocked
the opening to the entrance of the cave a
hundred years., ago, grandpa said after-
tvaiu. msj eca took one of
Susie's hands and we felt our -way alone
as far as there was a bit of light; then we
left Susie, and Eggy and I crawled a long
ways further. That's what we were up
to when Bob and grandpa came in there
with ropes and candles. Maybe you think
it wasn't exciting going through that cave
and finding bones and arrowheads and all
sorts of bully thiifs.
It was a late dinner we -had, and after
ward grandpa told us the story of the
cave, which he knew from legends.-and
I'll tell it to you nest time.
for It I saw you just now studying, the
quotations on oysters. -
"Now, If you look In that table at the
top of the card where It looks like the en
tries for the, first race you'll see that an
oyster fry Is put down at twenty cents.
If you play It straight you'll get just pre
cisely . six oysters and two triangular
pieces of bread, no less and no more. Away
down In the last race, where you are likely
to overlook it, an oyster sandwich is ad
vertised at five cents. In that sandwich
you will get two oysters and naturally two
slices of bread, only this time theyare
square. 1 told you it was an easy game
to beat. All you have to do is to order
four sandwiches for twenty cents and
you get four itimes as much, or eight
oysters and eight slices of bread. You
beat the game by two oysters" and six
pieces of bread."
" The newcomer hastily gave bis order for
oyster sandwiches, and turned to his new
found friend.
"And it works quite as well," he contin
ued cheerfully, "if you want eggs. . The
resrular market auotation for two fried
eggs Is fifteen cents. There will be just
two of 'em and two pieces of bread. An
egg sandwich Is five cents. Tou order
three of them and they are bound to bring
you three fried eggs and six nieces of
bread. You eee, you are one fried egg and
four pieces of bread to the good.
ECONOMIC SCIENCE IN A " QUICK LUNCH " PL'AC.
T
HE quick lunch restaurant was in full some skill, sine from six to eight f
Y- -""uujuy T iiT-nto
must be distributed In a sort of patchwork
N'toUm'"'vy hteral sense
rubbing elbows, was an obvious stranger
making laborious calculation on the menu
card. His method was to follow the ner
pendicular column of prices on the extreme
right, and. when one caught his fancy fol
low the long: involved Una across the 'card
"Excuse my butting? in," said the oW
habitue, general "Se you're a Dewoom
er. Will you take a. tip from me on that
price Uatr
The newcomer was voluble In his
thanks. .
i ve reaa tnose cards ror years. I knowi
all the past performances, and there are a
101 or corooinauons you can work on 'em,
swing. Long unbroken lines of. people
occupied every table, apparently eat
ing against time. Another crowd
awaiting Its turn was herded together back
of the chairs, hungrily -watching each
mouthful disappear and calculating when
-a seat would be -vacated. Long wait
ing bad made the crowd exceedingly ex-1
pert in such judgments. A man who Is
busied with the early courses of his meal
Is left severely alone,..but the instant he
begins to discuss his dessert a, group quick
ly gathers about the back of his seat,
matching the last mouthfuls disappear,
with hands extended to grab the empty
chair.
The old habitue had given his order and'
was busily engaged in covering his knee
OL' P
I
lass ws
mt&hl':-' if I v 1 I- T-r- '" ft
i l .J'-V,.. X I'" ... .-- --.v I lf . . S,S . I vt-l' VIII. 9 1:. I
7? S' - .' A. I I h
if
M
S.ijiiui.ii ii m,
J"
1
7
w
fi
w.mh
1 mm.
mil
' 4
"MAYbE . IT WoTNT EXCITING
GOING WOim THE CAVE "
"And here's another scheme. A pta.te of
beans costs you ten cents. And If you
pick them you get only two pieces of
bread. It's only when you buy fifteen
cents' wortn of anything that you are
you have bought ten cents' worth of any
insr on the card you have the option of
purchasing a portion of beans, the same
quantity, for five cent additional.
it a like buying bonds or preferred stock
with nankins, ffhia Is a Wort dsmandiax If a- an aay am to beat, txlf oen.uj wortn oi anytnmg tnat you are xts iikb Duying ponos or prer erred stock straight without rebates it would cost you of the entire dining room, and a solid pha- ing for their chair and. disftppeaxed in the
jq safiue SajJHffW.MwMW .ISliifitjnm SSWO &i tov4&m,S&W tf would,!) ewbajHr had redicrowd. uyeu in
of common stock. 'Well, then, for fifteen
cents you get your ten cent portion, an
other tern cent portion vof beans and an
extra, slioe of bread. If you bought ithem
straight without rebates it would cost you
So, yni see, you are still ten cents ahead."
Meanwhile the unprecedented sight of
two customers remaining to talk over their
empty, plates had attracted the attention
themselves back, ot the coveted ohalra. la
the face of this popular demonstration the
two economists surrendered their places.
tougnt tnelr way tnrougn 1uie tnrong wait-