Judge — November 13, 1920 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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Drown by Ganinea O. es Laborer’s Wife (wv LITTLE LOT O° CRUB. nker's family) -Ksow1s’ you y'r Ads AN Tues, Too, | sorta rere | own it 10 I s HAD MUCH TBAT Lereny, TP rnouc MY NEW PosiTION. Ads By Faris Parker Bu luthor of “* Pigs Ts Pigs” WN the 95th day of Sobtober, 1906, at exactly 73 minutes after 29 o'clock, G.M., Mrs. Anna Louisa Bullock a respectable married lady of the United St was cast away on an absolutely desert island in the Pacific Oce. 82 degrees North and South longi tude and $4 franes. 7 shillings and 6 pfennigs East by West latitude. You will observe, by the above. that this is to be a tale of the imagination. Whenever an author attempts something wild and weird and impossible in the way of imagination he thinks in terms of cither (1) a desert island, or (2) a glass of real As this tale is to be founded on fact the scene is laid in (1) a desert nd instead of in (2) a glass of beer. In introducing my heroine, Mrs. Anna L. Bullock, please note that I place the island in latitude 54 franes, 7 shillings and 6 piennigs, East by West. By using the world “ pfennigs.” which indicates a coin of the German empire, | call to the reader’s at tention the fact that Mrs. Bullock was cast away before the late world war. The year. thus firmly fixed in your mind, was 1906, Mrs. Bullock, indulging in what may be called this uninten tional desertion party, wore a neat being-shipwrecked gown of dark blue serge trimmed with soutache braid, and a hat with feathers, On her feet she wore a pair of shoes.one oneach foot Her underneaths were, for the most part, of fine muslin, neatly embroidered. She was, indeed, gowned as became a lady of twenty-cight, the wife of a man of ample means, and the mother of two charming children. Although the vessel on which Mrs. Bullock had been travel ling was absolutely demolished and everyone aboard, except Mrs. Bullock, miserably drowned, her state when she found herself cast ashore on the desert island was not altogether miserable. Among other flotsam and jetsam from the lost ship there had been cast ashore one portable house with parlor beer. dining-room, bedrooms, kitchen, bathroom, hot and cold water: gas and clectricity, in perfect working order. Also seventy rods of privet hedge. cight bags of fine lawn seed, bulbs and seedling Nowers. The huge wave that cast Mrs. Bul lock ashore carried the portable house to the top of a pleasant knoll and, in receding. sowed the lawn seed, planted the hedge as a neat fence, and laid out the garden. [t also burst open a package of waterproof matches, scraped one along the inner cellar wall of the portable house and thus lighted the gas-burning water-heater in the cellar. In the hot climate in which the desert island lay vegetation grows rapidly. Thus when Mrs. Bullock recovered from the swoon into which she had fallen upon being cast ashore, she Siw before her a beautiful house, lawn and garden, and had only to. enter it, turn on the hot and cold water, bathe and dress, and prepare an excellent dinner That she was able to dress and dine was largely due to the fact that the storm has! also cast ashore from the wrecked ship o8 trunks full of the finest Viennese and Parisian gowns and lingerie, and 7548 barrels and cases of every sort of food and pleasant temperance drink, including tea. coffee, cocoa and many others too numerous to mention. This was all quite miraculous. [Il tell the world it was! stand how it could happen, especially when [pause to think that one of the things thus cast ashore was a cook stove, with the fire brightly burning, and that another was twelve tons of range coal done up in gunny stcks. When I stop to think how hard it was for me to get four tons of coal to start the winter with this year, and then think that Mrs. Bullock had twelve tons Hoat ashore that way, tree of charge. | am willing to say it was miraculous. 1 think Lan of the greatest imaginative authors in the world, to be able make such things happen. seven cases of T can hardly under