Patty at Home

he announced when he entered, he had had no invitat

t all the Elliott family to live at my hou

airfield arrived a little later and dinner was served, it

excellent, and it was with a pardonable pride tha

y?" asked Frank. "Nightingales' tongu

sister. "You're probably causing

you, Frank, but the dessert is a very simple one. However, you are now about to have a most marvellous concoction called 'Russian Salad.' I w

rfield. "I hope the young people appreciate the compliment. To be good-nature

, "you're not entertainin

sister's speech. "And if I may be allowed to remark on such

's a howling, screaming, shouting success. I a

oo; and it seems to include everything that ever grew o

t to deny that that complicated and exceedingly Frenchified salad is concocted from

claimed Frank, looking at his pl

d Marian, with a wise and didactic air. "Its whol

said Patty; "and it is mine, fo

and the girls fell to making plans for the

ng a bazaar. They're so old-fashioned and silly; and we could get up some novel

. "I just hate bazaars;

d flower-girls, and fish

what coul

three of those little

I think they would b

y children; and what is it all to be?" asked Mr. Fa

those cunning little babies! And they haven't room enough, or nurses enough, or anything. And you know the Tea Club never has done any good

indeed; but just how are you going to m

, you know; and we'd have it in Library Hall, and Aunt

ty Fairfield, now being an old and experienced ho

father, and in my father's house, but to the great

Frank; "you ought to go around

?" said Patty. "I shall begin

t would be becoming to you, bu

one thing certa

bsurd way that so many people do. Why, Florence Douglass never lifts a cup of tea that she do

ut airs. I know lots of people who do it when they're all dressed u

eal reason is?" said

d, as we all know, the refinement that needs to be announced is no refinement at all. We therefore see that the

haven't any words by me just now, long enough to an

ic of barbarism. Probably, in the early ages, only the great had cups to drink from. These few, to protect themselves from their envious and covetous brethren, stuck out their little finge

y, looking at her cousin with mock admirat

nd you'll probably find that Florence Douglass can tra

e descended from primiti

is and her brother Guy put an end t

lcoming her callers. "Come right into th

Promptness," said Elsie, as she took off her

tty; "they're relatives, an

errupted Frank, "because

y your first caller

hastily when I said that, and forgot entirely a very

was

neighbour, M

Daggett!" exclaimed E

don't know why you call her b

always calls her Locky Ann Daggett, and grandmother di

said Patty. "What

it? How did

doesn't want me to like her. All she seemed to care ab

rrifying, now, but I suppose when you're engaged in the houseke

ighbour, Miss Daggett, I'm sure, would be

," said Elsie. "Have you

eard of her until s

of Locky Ann Daggett, but I never knew anything ab

strong-minded, you know, and eccentric, but not half bad.

he seems to have no taste for society. Why, I don't suppose

. "Have you really decided to have a

," said Patty, "we can't unt

fellows can take part. We couldn't do anything

rionic talent," put in Guy. "

quite the funniest thing on the fa

ust love to play a side-s

xactly a play either-brings in a whole lot of tragic characters in a humourous way. It's a general m

," said Marian; "it's c

sho

at piece," said Mr. Fairfield; "n

ttempts were made, and much laught