HAD ENOUGH OF BEANS

Evening Star, Issue 14473, 26 January 1911, Page 7

HAD ENOUGH OF BEANS

A young couple, both aged seventeen, Beatrice Sanders and Bertram Tallman, have returned to civilisation, ajid from llio contents of their diary one learns (the New York correspondent of the ‘Daily Telegraph’ says) that the simple life, remote flOlll man, which they had tried to live after the fashion of Paul and Virginia, lies many drawbacks. Mow they are respe, -tablv married and in furnished lodgings in New York, which they rcgaid as altogether superior as a winter residence to tho cave in the woods they recently forsook-

Tailman's diary tells the stoiy at a glance: September 18.—Mol. Beatrice in tbc street, and decided to live Ibo simple life in the country. Slept at lodginghouse. v September 19.—Off to the woods in the Catskill Mountains. Beatrice found a cave just about bedtime, and made a tiro of branches and leaves. We bad a gun. a littb baggage, and £6. Nothing io sleep upon. Pretty dump place, this cave. September 20.—Tbe.-c woods are great. Went fishing. Beatrice wants some beating as a cook. September 25.—Simple life gels on our nerves at times. Live chiefly on beans, (letting deuced cold at night. Our lire won’t stay lighted, and cave is often )illed_ with smoke. Beatrice is a brick. She cooks better and bettor. September 26.—Shota rabbit and squirrels. Walk in tbc woods a. great deal. I sail to Bc'Oi . : " Bet’s chuck it.and : 1 ioI., i- an.” She says “No."

(Jetting along Hue. October I.—About midnight we wcie greatly frightened by sumo animal which invaded the cave and made great'racket. We are getting sick of beans, and the nights are getting cold. October s.—Hang this cave! Nearly spent all our money. Beatrice cooks, washes clothes, and seems quite content. November s.—We have had enough beans and simple life to last ns 100 years. Cave is always wet now, and lire won’t burn.

November 12.—W'o’vo had enough of the woods and the damp cave. Beatrice is still jolly, but agrees that wo must break up tamp. To-morrow we’ll walk to New York.

The lovers did tramp to New York, ami, being arrested for vagrancy, their parents intervened, and the couple were released on the parents’ assurance that they would get married. Since then Tall man, who is an assistant druggist, has seemed a job, and both are lie-dug together happily.