Jacksonville High School - Crimson J Yearbook (Jacksonville, IL)

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The Nautilus Vol. IV. JACKSONVILLE, ILL., MAY, 1906 No. 8 Miss Samantha’s Summer Guest HATTIE CAROLINE ADAMS, ’06. HE likes of some people!” i n d i g-nantly exclaimed Miss Samantha Calpurnia Bil-lings, as she looked over the gold rim of her spectacles from the letter in her hand. “Here our second cousin Sophy’s a sendin’ her boy Tommy here to us for the summer vacation!” “For the land sakes!” gasped her sister, Jerusha. “She says he’ll be so lonesome to stay at home, with her and the other Tommy gone. I make out from this letter, too, that he’s usually pretty well, but just now he’s been sick, or somethin’, and needs a beautiful, quiet place in the country like this. It seems they’re all scatterin’ round, somehow—no two of ’em goin’ to the same place. The other Tommy”— Miss Samantha paused thoughtfully —“the idea of mixin’ up things this way! Sophy never had any brains to speak of, if she did marry money. The other Tommy—why that’s Sophy’s brother that lives at her house with her; he’s goin’ to his grandmother’s for a spell. Well, I’ve not seen any of the family for so long, I disremembered that his grandmother was still alive.” Jerusha Portia, Miss Samantha’s younger sister, dared offer no comment until she saw exactly how her sister felt toward the coming visitor. , “Seems to me as if fashionable people as has plenty of money are alius’ tryin’ to get rid of the responsibility of their own younguns,” snapped Miss Samantha, examining the letter again with a perplexed frown.” She says somewheres here somethin’ about a fine nurse that they’ve bad for a good bit of time. Now, how old do you suppose her boy is by this time? Let me see, he was born the year Pa died. I remember, because Sophy did get her wits together long enough to write to us a letter of sympathy, and told us at the same time about the