Everybody's Lonesome

By: Laughlin, Clara E.

Book Excerpt: The next few days were spent in sightseeing; and Mary Alice would neverhave believed there could be any one so enchanting to see sights withas Godmother. They looked in all the wonderful shop-windows and"chose" what they would take from each if a fairy suddenly invited themto take their choice. No fairy did; but they hardly noticed that.Then they'd go and "poke" in remnant boxes on the ends of counters inthe big department stores, and unearth bits of trimming and of lacewith which Godmother, who was clever with her needle and "full ofideas," showed Mary Alice how to put quite transforming touches on herclothes.They visited art galleries, and Godmother knew things about thepictures that made them all fascinating. Instead of saying,"Interesting composition, that!" or "This man was celebrated for hischiaroscuro," Godmother was full of human stories of the struggles ofthe painters and their faithfulness to ideals; and she could stand infront of a canvas by almost any master, and talk to MRead More

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN13: 9798713345693
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"