Judge — April 1933 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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“I'm takin’ a bath! Any objections!” Mastress Pepys’ Journal By Baird Leonard ARCH 6.—All a-twitter this morning over the discovery that Katie, my cook, has one hun- dred and eighty-three dollars in cash which she has neglected to take to the savings bank because of foul weather on her days off, so for the loan of it I did reward her with the plum-colored crépe de chine which she has always coveted and which does fit me none too well on the shoulders. Also on my knees to give thanks that our credit is good, in view of the extended bank holiday, since Sam has but nineteen dollars and sixty cents, and I exactly eleven. Moreover, when I bethought me of the small keg into which I have been tossing coppers for years and did find four hundred and two of them therein, I could have been no whit more excited had 1 suddenly come upon Captain Kidd's cache. A letter by the first post from the Daughters of 1812 demanding a list of my children and grandchildren in order that their records might be kept complete did set me in a great yale, so I did go in to tell Samuel, and found the poor wretch grim- acing before his mirror, and de- manding when it had been cleansed last, and did I think the quicksilver on its back to be of the best quali confiding, when I sought the basis of such curiosity, that he did not consider his appearance up to its usual mark, and that many people had spent thousands of dollars on chirurgeons merely because they had 10 poor looking-glasses. Marge Booth! in with news of her first Sprir hat, to the front of which she hes ordered two silver bullets to be w- tached so that it will maintain proper tilt over her left eye. And when I did tell her t the di cleaner is to be my principal ally the assembling of my next wardrot and that | had taken advantage « my long illness in bed to send hi everything that maculate, sl could not refrain from pointing out the recklessness of such a step, fo asmuch as IT might not have reco) Whereupon we fell to talkiny of the disposal of our various per- sonal belongings after our demis¢ Marve announcing that she wants n to have her 1 should I survive her, so I did brazenly suggest the it would be well for her to put he wishes on that point in writing, f Lord! had I but a quarter of t jewelry which friends have — bi queathed me orally, in especial aft: two or three cocktayles, I should | 2 runner-up to Peggy Joyce in the celebrity which bunds the pos- session of precious stones. Nor has it been a pleasure to see, in seve instances, bracelets which are m mine on the wrists of se was sur in betimes, usual matutinal that the most } ARCH full of chatter, incredible statement in the world is his telling me that the taste of successfully disygui Chinese because th in the sense of equilibrium, until ! bade him ce so that I migh achieve the restful mood which best complements an imminent — facial massage, causing him to remark that if one were expected to revalue one’s hand, there was no reason why one should not occasionally revalue one’s face. And when I enjoined him not to forget his dentist’s appointment. he quoth, “Dentist! That fellow’s an archaeologist!" All the morning gone over “The Eel Pie Murders” which Johnny Farrar sent me, when I should have been lengthening my lingerie slips and mending the Aler con lace on my blanket covers, but finally up, did on my suit of brovy spongy woolen, and off to lunch wi B. Cartwright, the decorator, \ did tell me how he had taken hand two large and exqu vases to exhibit to a we as the proper coverings for va or oil can. be nd that the become aviat tas ar.