SUMMER VACATION SCHOOL

The Misses Kathleen and Julia Carey announce the opening of
classes for private instruction on July 1st, from two to four
o’clock daily in the

Hamilton Barn.

Faculty.

Miss Kathleen Carey Reading & Elocution 2 P.M. 
Miss Julia Carey Dancing, Embroidery 2-30 P.M. 
Mrs. Peter Carey Vocal Music, Part Singing 3 P.M. 
Miss Nancy Carey Composition 4 P.M. 
Mr. Gilbert Carey Wood carving, Jig Sawing, Manual

                                              Training from 4 to 5 Fridays only.

Terms cash. 25 cents a week.

N. B. Children prepared for entrance to the academy at special prices.

Meantime the Honorable Lemuel Hamilton had come to America, and was opening doors of daring at such a rate of speed that he hardly realized the extent of his own courage and what it involved.  He accepted an official position of considerable honor and distinction in Washington, rented a house there, and cabled his wife and younger daughter to come over in September.  He wrote his elder daughter that she might go with some friends to Honolulu if she would return for Christmas. ("It’s eleven years since we had a Christmas tree,” he added, “and the first thing you know we shall have lost the habit!”)

To his son Jack in Texas he expressed himself as so encouraged by the last business statement, which showed a decided turn for the better, that he was willing to add a thousand dollars to the capital and irrigate some more of the unimproved land on the ranch.

“If Jack has really got hold out there, he can come home every two or three years,” he thought.  “Well, perhaps I shall succeed in getting part of them together, part of the time, if I work hard enough; all but Tom, whom I care most about!  Now that everything is in train I’ll take a little vacation myself, and go down to Beulah to make the acquaintance of those Careys.  If I had ever contemplated returning to America I suppose I shouldn’t have allowed them to settle down in the old house, still, Eleanor would never have been content to pass her summers there, so perhaps it is just as well.”

The Peter-bird was too young to greatly dare; still it ought perhaps to be set down that he sold three dozen marbles and a new kite to Billy Harmon that summer, and bought his mother a birthday present with the money.  All Peter’s “doors of daring” had hitherto opened into places from which he issued weeping, with sprained ankles, bruised hands, skinned knees or burned eyelashes.

XXXIII

MOTHER HAMILTON’S BIRTHDAY

It was the Fourth of July; a hot, still day when one could fairly see the green peas swelling in their pods and the string beans climbing their poles like acrobats!  Young Beulah had rung the church bell at midnight, cast its torpedoes to earth in the early morning, flung its fire-crackers under the horses’ feet, and felt somewhat relieved of its superfluous patriotism by breakfast time.  Then there was a parade of Antiques and Horribles, accompanied by the Beulah Band, which, though not as antique, was fully as horrible as anything in the procession.