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About Intermountain tribune and Linn County agriculturalist. (Sweet Home, Linn County, Or.) 1913-1914 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 20, 1913)
j- H-!-H-H-f! ! t H i-t-H What Theyy Heard ii :: The Result of Idle :: Curiosity I By CLARISSA MACKIE i J The Pendletons' telephone bell jin gled sharply, and along the rural line five receivers were stealthily lifted to as many curious ears. “That you, Bonnie?” came Jack Pen dleton’s voice. “Yes." responded Mrs. Pendleton. “I’m bringing a friend home to din ner. Will it be all right, dear?” “Ye-e-s.” Mrs. Pendleton’s voice did sound doubtful. “There isn’t a thing to eat in the house, but I can”— “Never mind. then. We’ll dine in town and come down afterward.” said Jack in a disappointed tone. “If you don’t bring him home,” pro tested Bonnie. “I’ll never speak to you again. Jack Pendleton, and”— “Hang up along the line there!” bel lowed Jack, with sudden intuition that his performance was Interesting his rural neighbors. So five receivers were noiselessly re stored to their hooks, and five good housekeepers, pink of face, but with excited eyes, went back to their pro saic duties. The Pendletons concluded their con versation. and pretty Bonnie explained to her adoring busband that she had not planned anything to eat that day because, if he would only remember, he had invited her to dine in town with him and go to the theater after ward. and absentminded Jack ruefully acknowledged his guilt. They were newcomers in Dayville and fresh from the big city, where one’s neighbors' business is not of the slightest interest, and they were some what bewildered by the almost avid curiosity displayed by their new ac quaintances in the little village. So Bonnie worked busily all day long preparing an appetizing repast for her husband and his business friend, while the five housekeepers dismissed their tasks with deft hands and dressed for the Wednesday afternoon sewing so ciety with a pleasant sense of impor tance in being the center of interest, for in Dayville the bearer of “news” invariably holds the middle of the stage. By 3 o’clock the society meeting was tn full swing, and the Pendletons’ af fairs were made the subject of discus sion. “I bear they make a terrible mess of getting along,” said Mrs. Henry Beebe. “Don’t get along, eh?” wheezed Mrs. Bush skeptically. “1 don’t wonder, her being the house keeper she is,” said Mrs. Charlie Sayles.. “And him such a poor provider. I expect he don’t earn enough to keep soul and body together.” was Ellen Spencer’s significant remark. “They’re both pretty husky looking.” put in Mrs. Bush. But she was ignored by the news bringer?. “I’ve heard that he treats her dread fully." simpered Miss Fanny Wicks, who had ideas of her own regarding the perfect married life. t “I heard they was going to sepa rate.” said Mittie Loomis. After that tongues clacked more it best. “And.- yes. I’ll take tea. Mrs. busily than the noddies flashed The Pendletons would have been Wright. Let the young folk* have quite stunned with surprise if they lemonade." had known how intimately their af Her middle aged companion* uncon fairs were known and discussed by sciously bridled at being classed among their neighbors. / the yotinger generation, and so a feel “Talks to her like a dog.”. asserted ing of good fellowship was established Fanny Wicks. when Mrs. Bush dropped a bombshell “If his bed ain’t made before he in their midst. takes the train or if his dinner is a “I saw Mrs. Pendleton at her front mite late.” added Mrs. Charlie Sayles, gate, and I told her what you' all was with relish. “And. being the poor saying about her,” observed Mrs. Bush housekeeper 'she is, I guess it keeps coolly. him dinging at her all the time.” There was a moment of breathless “No woman will stand that for horror, and five pairs of eyes started long,’.' said Mrs. Henry Beebe, who with guilty fear. Mittie Loomis found ruled her little husband with an iron her tongue first. hand minus the velvet glove. “Aunt Louisa, you never did!” “Just think of there being days when “I did. 1 wanted to find out If there they don’t have a bite to eat!” put in was a word of truth in the hull thing Ellen Spencer. “I wonder if it 'twould or whether folks had been listening on be an insult to give ’em a donation.” the telephone again." “If they’re going to separate they There were five feeble protests, and won’t thank anybody for giving ’em a five pink faces were the cynosure of party.” remarked Mittie Loomis. all eyes. “That’s so. But I wonder what we Mrs. Bush went on mercilessly: can do. I don’t like to feel that there’s “I told her, and she says. ‘Mrs. Bush, anybody in our midst that’s suffering I do believe those good gossips have for food when I have a-plenty,” twit been listening along the telephone line!' tered Fanny. “No more do I,” said Mrs. Charlie And then she up and told me all about it. and all 1 got to say is I don’t see Sayles thriftily. “I’ve got some can ned fruit that’s not going . to keep. how any sensible, God fearing woman Land knows what got into it! I could can deliberately misconstrue some body else’s innocent conversation and leave it there unbeknownst to her.” twist it into news that sets every “She might guess who 'twas that body by the ears. I know some thing* never had no luck with canned stuff," 11 ain’t , never told. I met Mr*. Pendle whimpered Ellen Spencer to Mittie ton’s brother, and he showed me a Loomis. picture of his wife and children; had. Old Mrs. Bush had skid “Fiddle It in his vest pocket. They’re all com sticks!” three times and ‘‘Bosh!” twice, ing up to spend two weeks pretty soon. but no one took the slightest notice of So where’s your romance about the her. Presently she folded up her work, other man. Fanny Wicks? Fiddledee!” popped it intp her black sateen work- The silence was profound, while Mrs. bag and got up to g'o. ... ■ Bush told the members of the sewing “Why. Aunt Louisa, you. ain’t never society all about Mrs. Pendleton’s busy going now? Why. we’re going to day preparing for the unexpected ha ve refresh ments.” protested.. Mittie guest. She also related how she her Loomis. self had poked an inquisitive nose into “1 < nn't stay.” said Mrs. Bush, acidly. the Pendleton pantry and had seen a "I’ve sot things to do that have to be goodly store of eatables there, and she did." ’nd she marched off with an air translated Mrs. Pendleton’s remark to of deonn offended dignity, and the her husband as being the exaggeration half fri-'htened pleading of the minis of a good housekeeper when she ex ter’s ineek little wife was of no avail. pects company—nothing in the house “1 wmi'ier what she’ll do when she to eat. gets a divorce.” shuddered Fanny Then Mrs. Bush told another secret Wicks, with a sentimental sigh over Mrs. Pendleton had given her permis the grave of dead romance. sion to tell them, and it was the sort "Marry again most likely,” of secret that all women are interested “Why. Mrs. Sayles, you don’t mean in. It brings tender smiles to their to say she’s got her eye on anybody?” lips and a warm maternal light to the "There was that tall, dark man eyes, even to the eyes of such spinster* that eatne by stage one morning when as Mittie Loomis and Fannie Wicks. her husband was 'away. She kissed “You can all make it up to Mrs. Pen him. 1 saw her.“- dleton by fixing something tor th* lit “It was her brother.” explained the tle new baby that’s expected,” said minister’s wife. Mrs. Bush, her sharp voice softening "Mrs. Wright, how do you know?” wonderfully under the influence of this “She told me so.” magical topic. “Now, what can yon • “Oh. she told ypu so!” do. Mittie?”' “And 1 expect he leads a gay life '"A knitted carriage robe, blue and in the city. Them brokers are here, white.” said Mittie eagerly. “It’ll be a there and nowhere all the time. Of Tot of work, but 1 don’t mind." course 1 mean Mr. Pendleton, not the “1 shall crochet three pairs of little other man." shoes.” said Ellen Spencer. “I know “The other man. How dreadfully, a pretty new pattern." romantic!" sighed Fanny Wicks. “And you. Fanny Wicks?" asked “I think we better have some re Mrs. ¡Bush sharply, for Fanny liked to freshments now." said Mrs. Wright write poetry in her spare moments and nervously, and for once in her color was not fond of work in any form. less life she used rare diplomacy in se “Bibs." said Fanny dreamily, “six- lecting her helpers: little- embroidered bibs. 1 saw some With Mittie Loomis. Fanny Wicks, patterns in the fashion sheet this Mrs. Beebe. Mrs. Sayles and Ellen month. They were so cute I was wish Spencer al! cutting cake and passing ing 1 knew some little one to make lemonade and plates, there was little them for." chance for’these informers to add to “I shall embroider a pillowslip.” said the stream of gossip they had started, Mrs. Charlie Sayles briskly, and one indeed, the stream flowed briskly along could almost see the beautifully work and was threatening to become a flood ed pattern that would result from her ot scandal when the side door opened labors., and Mrs. Bush trotted briskly in and “I will make a cap,” said Mrs. Beebe, sat down in her empty chair. her mind busy with the details of this Her little black eyes sparkled -ma , interesting needlework. - liciously. and she fanned herself with “Then, when everything’s done, I a black mittened hand as she talked. guess we might have a kind of little “Thought I’d get here in time for a party for Mrs. Pendleton and give ’em bite to eat. Mittie, is that poundcake? to her. I expect she will like that Well, jest give me the end piece; I like kind of 'a donation.” said old Mrs. Bush, and she had forgotten to be snappish, and her black eyes beamed youthfully. Well, it is a fact that now. when th* Pendletons' telephone bell rings, all the receivers on that line remain on their respective hook«, but the five subscribers always look a bit anxious and say: “1 hope nothing is the matter with that blessed baby!” When in Lebanon go to the Home Restaurant For Your Dinner Stung! We furnish the be£t dinner in the valley for 25 c6nts BRUER BROS. Props. LEBANON, ORE. Trojan Stumping Powder NO FUMES, NO FREEZING, NO HEADACHES Guns, Ammunition and Bicycles Everything for the Sportsmen and Athelete BICYCLE AND GUN REPAIRING . 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