THE TURNER TRIBUNE
VOL.
T U U N E B , OliKUON, TJICItHDAY, J U N E
V I.
RAIL MEN FAVOR WALKOUT
40.0UI)
OF CURRENT WEEK
Union Hallota Indicate Over
RATHENAU SLAIN;
whelming Sentiment.
Detroit, Mlcb.— Karly returns on the
strike
vole
taken
by
tbe
United
llrotherhood o f Maintenance o f W’ay
Brief Resume Most Important
Daily News Items.
Kmployes and Hallway Hhop (.«borer*,
German Minister is Victim of
following the recent wage rut ordered
Assassins.
by tba United Htates railroad labor
board. Indicate an "overwhelm ing ma
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Jorlty” In favor of a walkout, condi
tional, however, upon similar action
by
other crafts
reductions,
It
affected
was
by
board
announced
hern
S t r a t i o f Nutrii l'rople, Governments Monday night at the general head
and I’ arifir N u tth .n t, and Other
Thing. Warth K n o *la g .
Marahal Joffre. In the nanm of tha
French government, Tuesday decorat-
•d with tha Insignia o f otflrar of tha
l.t'glon o f Honor, Samuel H ill of 8*-
altla, wliii escorted tba marahal arroaa
lb# United Btatea on bta raoant trip
Tha aaaaon of aoailon hunting la on,
and Wllllatu Hunter, who laat year
runtrarted with tha elate of Oregon
to alaughtar tba anlmala along the
Oregon roaat, atarted at tha t'apa
lUanco reef, killing In hla flrat raid
227.
quarter* of the maintenance men.
Tabulation of tbe
ballot*
started
Tueaday morning, and It was said
about 40.000 had been checked. It was
added the vote waa considered " f a ir
ly representative.’'
Exact figures were withheld under
Instruction from K F. Grable, grand
president, now In Chicago conferring
with the leaders of other union* whose
membership ha* been affected by wage
cut* and who. It waa said, would con
sider taking some joint action In pro
test,
Home of the memheralilp. according
to officials, favor striking Irrespective
of the action taken by. other unions
but tbe greater percentage, It was em
phaslsrd. favors a strike only In the
event other workers participate.
l.eglalatlun la being prepared, with
I ’raaldunt llardlug'a aanctioa, which
will return to approtlm alely 10.000
Mr*. Lsn Small Dies.
liarmana and Austrian* property taken
Kankakee. Ill — Mrs Den Smalt, wife
over during tha war by the alien prop-
arty custodian In atuounU of 910,- of Governor Small of Illinois, died
000 or leaa,
Monday morning.
1‘raaldanl Harding baa glren formal
Mrs. Small waa stricken with ap
approval to pUna o f republican lead-
oplexy Saturday night during the ex
era In tho bouca to bring the admin
citement Incident to the celebration
tatmtlon aplp aubaldy bill to a vote
at tbla aeaatun Immediately after tba by friends aud fellow townsmen of
tariff bill baa boon aatit to conference tbe governor’s acquittal that after
by the houao.
noon at Waukegan. 111. With her at
liemoval of t)r. C. Kllaworth of I ’cn-
diet on. Ora , aald to be an acknowl
edged member of the Ku Klu* Klan,
from the atate board of chiropractic
eiamlnont for the "good of tho eerv-
Ire," waa announced by Governor en
ro ll Monday morning.
T o meet rondltlona which Ita frlenda
declared have been emphaalged by
the women'* auffrage amendment, the
houae Tueaday by a vote o f *01 to t.
paaaed a bill which would open to
alien married women aubatantlally all
naturallaallon and cltlsonahlp right*
enjoyed by alien men.
tbe time of her death were tbe gover
nor and their three children. I.eslle
and iludd Small and Mrs. A. K. In*
lesh. all of Kankakee.
The long trial of nine weeks at
Waukegan, where the governor was
charged with conspiracy to defraud
the stale of Interest on public funds
during his term as state treasurer,
several year* ago, had been a heavy
strain both on the governor and his
wife. Mrs. 8mall. however, had borne
up under the strain exceedingly well.
It had appeared, until she was stricken
an<l sank Into the governor’s arms as
the noise o f the celebrators filled the
neighborhood about their home at the
joyous homecoming Saturday.
President llardlng'a tentatively pro
jected Alaakan trip thl* auminer haa
been abandoned. It waa announced de
finitely Tueaday at the White Houae
Heat of Desert Kills Three.
The prealdenl waa aald to regret great
ly that be aaw no poealblllty of leav
Ilrawley, Cal. — "Death from heat
ing Waablngton under prevailing con proetrallon" was the verdict reached
dition* of public bualneaa.
by a coroner’s Jury here Monduy at an
8enor Marconi, wonder man of wlre- Inquest over the bodies o f three men
leaa, baa unnonnred tha Invention of
who died In the desert a few miles
what might be termed a radio search-
southeast o f Nlland, neur the Southern
light, by mean* of which radio wave*,
which can be reflected like light Pacific main line, laat Saturday.
SEVEN
BULLETS HIT
The administration Is considering
the matter of decreasing second-class
postal rntea. It wns said Tuesday at
the W h ile House. Considerable dis
cussion waa given to the subject at
the cabinet meeting and I’ realdent
Harding and Postmaster General Work
are Inclined to believe that at least
a part o f the Increase In the second-
class rates made during the war
should now be removed.
,
Lion Beside T ot’s Crib.
Eureka, Cal.— Mrs. J. Crtspo, wife
of a homesteader at Higher, awoke
Sunday morning to discover a large
mountain lion crouched besldo the
crib where her year-old child was
sleeping. The lion had entered through
the open door of the tent house. Mrs.
Crispo screamed, awakening her hus
band, who seized his rifle and fired
ltnv. Donald D. Stewart, well-known two shots at the lion. Tho lion es
throughout Uallfornla as a temperance caped.
worker, credited with having caused
Quick Decision Urged.
the elimination of segregated districts
from a number of towns of the state,
and author of the song "W e ’ll Make
Uallfornla Dry," was arrested near
Hlerra Madre, 20 miles northeast of
I,os Angeles, Tuesday. It Is charged
that he had committed bigamy In sev
eral states and had swindled his
wives out of thousands o f dollars.
San Francisco. — A call to "every
merchant and shipper In California”
urging (hem to go on record Imme
diately regarding tbe threatened separ
ation of tha Southern raclflc and Cen
tral Pacific systems was Issued here
by Wallace M. Alexander, president
of the chamber o f commerce.
Haines.— Ranchers living on the east
side, or unlrrlgated part qf the Haines
valley, commenced their harvest of
first crop alfalfa this week. The yield
Is said to be from one to two tuna an
acre.
Hood River.— Construction work on
Chinese City Stricken.
Shanghai. — An outbreak of pneu
monia plague In Foochow Is report
ed by Rev. Dr. C. M. Lacy, arriving
here from Foochow Saturday.
The plague has not yet reached epi
NO. 40.
Sweat Home.— A new shingle mill
has been built at Foster by Fred
Wedtb. This plant plans to have a
steady run this summer
Ilerlln.— Dr. W alter Itatbenau. Ger a large scale be* been launched by
The men were J. J. Evcrtiarty and
wave*, may be aent In a given dlrec
tlon In a beam, Itialead of being »cat- Henry C. Drown of I.os Angeles and
tered to all point* of the rompaaa.
David Wilcox, an aged prospector, who
IHaaater for the atrlklng railway had lived In many western mining
union* and unfortunate reaulta for district*.
W ilcox’s body was found about ten
their memheralilp waa predicted to fol
low the threatened walkout, on which miles from Nlland beside a small
a atrlk* vote ja now bring taken by wagon drawn by two burro*, which
nine railroad organisations, la a letter won- standing patiently In the Intonse
from lien W. Hooper, chapman or tho heat.
Kverharty’s body was found In an
railroad labor hoard, to the union
automobile about six mtlus from
lender* Tueaday.
The aherlffa office at Los Angelo* Nlland, and a short distance away was
get* all aorta of job*, but a writ of Drown, still alive, but died soon after
attachment that came In Tuesday caus arrival.
Army of 137.000 Indorsed.
It wns estimated the temperature
ed It to pause for a moment. Tho
Washington, D. C.— The house Fri
writ directed tbe sheriff to take and where the deaths occurred was be day night concurred with the senato
safely keep one den of alligators and tween 132 and 1G2 degrees.
In fixing the size of the army at 125,-
one tank o f performing seallona. all
000 enlisted men anil 12,000 officers.
Schooner Frozen Tight.
the property of a show that had gotten
The conference report on the army
li)to financial shoals.
Nome. Alaska —Tho schooner Teddy- bill, which fixes Its strength between
A woman haa been nominated for llear. missing nearly eight months senate and houae figures, was adopted
United States senator by a major and believed lost, Is frozen In at l ’oten by the house 175 to 39, without dis
political party for the flrat time In river, 12 miles south of Kmma, Knst cussion.
the history of the country. This be Cape, Siberia. A ll on board are well
While there were other Items In
came apparent Tuosday when returns and waiting for the Ice to clear out of the report to be accepted. Including
from half the precincts participating the river before returning to Nome. a senate appropriation of $7,500,000
In Monday’s primary election showed This Information was telegraphed to towards completion of the Wilson dam
Mrs. Anna Dickie Olesen had raptur Cnptaln Ross of the local roast guard at Muscle Shoals, tho enlisted and of
ed the senatorial nomination of the unit Monday by Captain Cochran of ficers’ personnel totals now have pass
democratic party In Minnesota from the United States coast guard cutter ed the legislative stage and only wait
Bear.
the president’s approval.
two male opponents.
1922.
STATE N E W S
IN BRIEF.
8alem.— Six men lost their lives In
the 50« accident* reported to tbe state
Hand Grenades Also Thrown by Mur Industrial accident cetnmlsilon during
the week ending Jane 22, according
derers Young Republic Coring
to the weekly report made public here
Serious Situation.
Saturday.
man foreign minister, and more close
ly Identified than sny other German
with the efforts for rehabilitation of
hla country nines tbe war, waa shot
and killed by two or more unknown
aaaaaalna while on his way from his
residence Saturday morning to the
foreign office.
The minister was subjected to a
veritable hall of bullsta. one o f them
striking him In the throat and paaa-
Ing upward to tba brain, while others
struck him In various part* of the
body.
Hand grenadea also were
thrown, almost wrecking the car In
which Dr. Itatbenau waa riding and
Inflicting further Injuring on the min
ister.
Chancellor W lrtli’s government mar
shaled the natlon’a element* to the de
fense of the young German republic
and organised labor, represented In
both socialist parties, again was first
to buckle on the armor, Juat aa it
did during tho Kapp revolt.
An
nouncement was made that tbe gov
ernment would establish extraordinary
courts for tbe trial of nationalist
plotters and that a state of emergency
for Prussia would be proclaimed.
A ll regimental reunions and mill-
larlstlc demonstrations are to be pro
hibited. Yet. despite vociferous cries
of ’’long live the republic.” which re
sounded through tbe relchstag cham
ber at the close of a memorial ses
sion to Rathcnau Saturday, thought
ful men of all ranks and parties were
silently but gravely apprehensive for
the nation.
W hile the heat of resentment and
partisan feeling haa not yet suffi
ciently cooled lo warrant a sure ap
praisal of the direction In which tbe
political effect of Ratbenau’a assas
sination will spread, yet this much
la certain— the government la facing
a far more precarious situation than
It did when natlittiallst bullets struck
down Krsberger In the Black forest
10 months ago.
Tbe emotion which marked the brief
addresses o f Chancellor W lrth and
President Id>ebe before the relchstag
reflected aonttmenta which were shar
ed by many others, while the rioting
of the radicals throughout what was
to have been a decorous memorial to
the dead foreign minister reflected the
feeling of unrelenting vengeanee vow
ed In behalf o f the German proletariat.
N ever did the relchstag witness such
scenes of turbulence and execratlona.
Dr. Karl Helfferlch, the nationalist
leader, who attacked Dr. Rathcnau In
a savage speech In the relchstag. sat
curled up in his scat far to the right
of the house. He appeared to be In
a very depressed and somewhat fear
ful state.
29,
tbe Dhoenlx U tility company now en
gaged on a new $1,2(0,000 power plant
on Hood R iver for tbe Pacific Power
A Light company.
Portland.— T b e number of federal
personal Income U x returns for tbe
calendar year endfsl December $1,
1920, filed In Oregon w et «7,(40, ac
cording to figures Just compiled by
Clyde a . Huntley, collector of Inter
nal revenue.
SL Helens.— The plant o f the 8t.
Helens T ie A Tim ber company, which
baa been closed down for several
weeks on account of the high water.
Is expected to resume operations with
in the next few days It the water con
tinues to fall.
Eugene. — Farmers around Elmira
have made complaint to the state game
department that b e a te n are damaging
their property. H. S Hawker, district
deputy atate game warden, this week
made an Investigation of the dam
age and will report to the depart
ment.
Bend.— More than 20,000 head of
sheep, which yearly have .made a
railroad trip from Maupln to Bend
for aummer range, returning by the
same means o f transportation In the
fall, w ill travel by foot this year as
the result of tbe putting through of
a driveway acroeg U i« Warm Springs
Indian reservation.
Eugene.— Early white cherries are
arriving at tbe cannery of the Eugene
■->011 Growers’ association, but the
standard varieties, such as Royal
Annea, have not yet begun to ripen.
The crop of the early whites, while not
normal, la better than the Royal
Annea, according to J. O. Holt, mana
ger of the association.
E ugene— A bronze marker set In
a granite boulder erected at McKenzie
bridge, In memory o f the early pio
neers of Lane county, who blazed the
trail over the Cascade mountains, was
dedicated with appropriate ceremonies
Sunday. Several hundred Eugene peo
ple and a number from other parts
o f the staje were In attendance.
Albany.— Laying o f "hot atu fP for
the pavement of Burkhart crossing, on
the Pacific highway, on the outskirts
o f Albany, has begun. The Dennis
Construction company Is doing the
work.
The stretch o f paving will
be 400 feet long on that part of the
highway where the Southern Pacific
and Oregon Electric tracks are cross
ed.
Halfway. — A movement has been
started here to form a co-operative
creamery with B. E. Small aa Ita head.
The plan Is to establish a station In
Portland nnd ship cream there and
make It Into butter. Mr. Small la con
fident that funds will be available for
the enterprise and that buying of
cream and milk w ill start within a
short time.
St. Helena.— Since the river began
to fall tho run of fish has Improved
and many of the boats are averaging
200 to 250 pounds per day. The sal
mon are of the bluojaok variety and.
while small, averaging 8 or 10 pounds,
are o f excellent quality. Prices paid
the fishermen range front 12 to 14
rents a pound. Indication are that
the run will increase, local buyers
stated.
Salem.— A resolution which declares
that the worthy celebration o f the
"L o rd ’s Supper." makes necessary the
use o f real wine In Its observance, and
that "w e must regard It as command
ed by our Lord that we abide by the
use of real wine In the sacrament,
even In the face of popular disfavor
or persecution," was adopted Friday
morning by those In attendance at the
Oregon-Washlngton Lutheran district
convention here.
demic proportions, ho said, but has al
ready taken the lives o f two medical
missionaries.
Dr. Edmond Fellows
Corvallis.— Destruction by fire of the
Lawson and Dr. Marcus McKenzie
contracted the disease while attend sawmill o f the Foster Lumber com
pany at Rltner, In K ing’s valley, en
ing the sick and died.
tailed a loss of approximately $100,-
000, It waa learned here Sunday. The
Five Suffocate In Mine.
Hartford, Ark.— At least five mem plant had a dally capacity o f approxi
bers of a picnic party wre suffocated mately 126,000 feet and was built about
Sunday In an abandoned mine near two years ago. The mill had not been
here. Three others, who attempted to In operation the last six months. It
rescue the victims, were overcome and probably will not be rebuilt. The plant
were reported to bo In a serious eon was located on the line between Ben
ton and Polk counties.
dltion.
as could be, an' she never so much
as looked as If she wanted tier hus
band to stay with ber, when he said
right after supjier that he guessed
S Y N O P S IS .—la a preface M ary
M arl* # ip la in s her apparent "double
he'd go out to the observatory. An'
personality" and Juet why she la a
'twas that way right along after that.
rroes-cureent and a contradiction ,"
I know, 'cause I watched. You see.
■h* also tells her reasons (o r w rit
I knew what sbe'd said she’d do. Well,
ing the d ia r y - la t e r to be a novel.
Tho d ia ry La commenced * t A ruler-
she did It.
eonvltle. M ary begins with Nurse
“ Then, pretty quick after that, she
Ssrsh's account o f her (M e ry 's )
began to get acquainted In the town.
birth, which seem ingly Interested
Folks called, an' there was parties an'
her fnlher. who Is n fam ous astron
omer, less than s new stnr which
receptions where she met folks, an'
was discovered the asms night.
they began to come here to the house,
H er name le a compromise, her
'specially them students, an' two or
father Insisting on A bigail Jsn*.
Tha child q uickly learned that her
three of them young, unmarried pro-
home wan In eome wny different
feasora. An' ahe began to go out a
from those o f her small frlenda.
lot with them— skatin’ an’ slelghridln'
and was pussled thereat
Nurse
an' snowshoein'.
Sarah tells her o f her m other's a r
riva l at Andersonvtlte as s bride
"L ik e It? O f course she liked It!
and how astonished they nil were
Who wouldn't? Why, child, you never
at the eight o f the dainty eightoen-
saw such a fuss as they made over
year-old girt whom the sedate pro
your tna I d them days. She was all
fessor had chosen fo r a w ife.
tbe rage; an’ o f coarse she liked It.
Wbst woman wouldn't, that wns gay
C H A PTE R II—Continued.
an' lively an' young, an’ bad been so
lonesome like yonr ma had? But some
"An your ma—poor little thing! I other folks didn’t like It. An’ your
couldn’t think of anything bat a doll pa was one o f them. T h li time Twas
that was thrown In tbe comer because him that made the trouble. I know,
aomebody’d got tired of her. She was cause I heard what he said one day
lonesome, an’ no mistake. Anybody’d to her In the library.
be sorry for her. to see her mopin’
“ Yea. I guess I was In the next room
round the house, nothin’ to do. Oh, that day, too— er— dustin', probably.
she reed, an’ sewed with them bright- Anyway, 1 beard blm tell your ma good
colored silks an' worsteds; but ’course an’ plain what be thought o f her gal
there wasn't no real work for her to livantin' ’round from mornln' till night
do. There was good help In tbe kitchen, with them young students an’ profes
an' 1 took what care o f your grand sors, an' havin' them here, too, such a
ma was needed; an' she always gave lot, till the house was fairly overrun
her orders through me. so I practical with them. He said be was shocked
ly run the house, an' there wasn’t an' scandalized, an* didn't she have
anything there fo r her to do.
any regard for his honor an’ decency.
“ An’ to your ma Just had to mope It If she didn't for herself! An’ oh. s
out alone. Oh. I don’t mean your pa whole lot more.
was unkind. He was always nice an'
“ Cry? No, your ma didn’t cry this
polite, when he was In the house, time. I met her In the hall right after
an' I'm sure be meant to treat her they got through talkin', an' ahe was
all right. He said yea, yes. to be sure,
of course she was lonesome, an' he
was sorry.
T w a s too bad he was
so busy. An' be klaocd her an' patted
ber. But be always lx-gun right away
to talk of tbe com et; an' ten to one
be didn't disappear Into the observa
tory wlthiD tbe next five minutes. Then
your tua would look so grieved an' sor
ry an’ go off an’ cry, an’ maybe not
come down to dinner, at all.
“ Well then, one day things got so
bail yonr grandma took a hand. She
was up an’ around the house, though
ahe kept mostly to her own rooms.
But of course she saw how things was
goln'.
Besides, I told her—some.
T w a s no more than my duty, as I
looked at It. She Just worshiped your
pa. an' naturally she'd want things
right for him. So one day she told me
to tell her son's w ife to come to her
In her room.
“ An' I did. an' she came. Poor lit
tle thing I I couldn't help bein’ sor
ry for her. She didn’t know a thing
o f what was wanted o f her, an’ she
was so glad an* happy to come. You
see. ahe was lonesome, I suppose
’"M e ?
Want me?— Mother Ander
son T she cried. "Oh. I ’m so glad!’
Then she made It worse by runnln’ up
the stairs an’ bouncin' Into the room
tike a rubber ball, an’ cryln’ : ’Now,
what shall I do, read to you. or sing
to you, or shall we play games? I'd “ Yea, I Guest I Was in the Next Room
love to do any o f them !' Just like
That Day, Too— er— Dustin'."
that, site said It. I heard her. Then
I went out, o f course, an’ left them. white as a sheet, an’ her eyes was Uke
But I heard ’most everything that two blazin’ stars. So I know how she
was said. Just the same, for I was must have looked while she was In the
right In the next room dustln.' ami library. An’ I must say she give It
to him good an' plain, straight from
the door wasn't quite shut.
“ First your grandmother said real the shoulder. She told him she was
polite— ahe was always polite— but In shocked an' scandalized that he « uuld
a cold little voice that made even me talk to Ms w ife like th at; an' didn't
shiver In the other room, that she did he have any more regard for her honor
not desire to be read to or sung to, an' decency than to accuse her of run-
and that she did not wish to play rin' after any man living— much less
games. She had called her daughter- a dozen o f them ' An' then she told
la law In to have a serious talk with him a lot o f what his mother had said
her. Then she told her, still very- to her, an' she said she had been mere
polite, that she was noisy an' child ly try In' to carry out those Instruc
ish, an' undignified, an' that It was tions. She was tryin' to make her
not only lilly, but very wrong for her husband an' her husband's w ife an’
to expect to have her husband’s entire her husband's home popular with the
attention; that he had his own work, college folks, so she could help him
an' It was a very important one. He to be president. If he wanted to be.
was going to be president o f the col But he answered back, cold an’ chilly,
lege some day. like 111* father before that he thanked her, o f course, but
him ; an' It was her place to help hint he didn't care for any more of that
In every way she could— help him to kind of assistance; an' if she would
be popular an’ well-liked by all the give a little more time to her home an'
college people an' students; an’ he her housekeepln', as she ought to, he
couldn't be that If she Insisted all the would be considerably better pleased.
time on keeptn' him to herself, or look An' she said, very well, she would
in' sour an' croas If she couldn't bave see that he had no further cause to
complain. An' the next minute I met
him.
"O f course that ain’t all she said; her In the hall, ns I Just said, her head
but 1 remember this part particular high and her eyes blazin'.
’’An’ things did change then, a lot.
on account o f what happened after
ward.
You aee— your ma— she felt I'll own. Right away she begnn to re
awful bad.
She cried a little, an' fuse to go out with the students an’
sighed a lot, an’ said she'd try, she young professors, an’ she sent down
really would try to help her husband word she wasn't to home when ttiey
In every way she could; an’ she called. And pretty quick, o f course,
wouldn't ask him another once, not they stopped cornin'.
once, to stay with her.
An’ she
“ Housekeepln'?
Attend to that?
wouldn't look sour an' rroas. either. Well, y-yes, she did try to at first, a
She'd pmmlae she wouldn’t An’ she’d little ; but of course your grandma
try, she'd try, oh, so hard, to be proper had always given the orders through
an' dlgnlfled.
me, I mean; an' there really wasn’ t
“ She got up then an’ went out of anything your mu could do. An' I
the room so quiet an’ still you wouldn't told her so. plain. Her ways were
know she was movin'. But 1 heard her new an' different an’ queer, an' we
up In her room cryln' half an hour llke«l ours better, anyway. 8 « she
later, when 1 stopped a minute at her didn't bother us much that way very
door to see If she was there. An' long. Besides, she wasn’t feeliu' very
she was.
well, anyway, an’ for the next few
"But she wasn't cryln' by night. months she stayed fn her room a lot,
Not much she was! She'd washed her an' we didn't see much o f her. Then
face an' dressed herself up as pretty by an' by you came, an’— well. I guess
F A T H E R AN D
MOTHER
that's all— too touch, you little chatter
box I"
C H APTE R III
The Break Is Made.
And that's tbe way Nurse Sarah
Pnlxhed her story, only she shrugged
her shoulders again, and looked back,
first one way, then another. As for
her calling me "chatterbox"—she al
ways calls me that when she's been
doing all the talking.
As near as 1 can remember, I bave
told Nurse Sarah's story exactly as she
told It to me, In her own words. Bat
of course I know I didn't get It right
all tbe time, and I know I ’ ve left out
quite a lot. But, anyway, i f * told a
whole lot more than I could have told
w hy they got married In the first place,
and It brings my story right np to tbe
point where I was born; and I ’ ve al
ready told about naming me, and what
a time they bad over that.
O f course what's happened since,
up to now, I don't know all about, for
I waa only a child for the first few
years. Now I’ m almost s young lady,
"standing with reluctant feet where
tbe brook and river meet." ( I rend
that last night. I think It’s perfectly
beautiful. So kind o f sad.and sweet.
It makes me want to cry every time
I think o f It.) But even If I don't
know all of what's happened since
I was born. I know a good deal, for
I've seen quite a lot, and I've made
Nurse tell me a lot mote.
1 know that ever since I can remem
ber I've bad to keep as still a t a mouse
the minute Father conies Into the
bouse; and I know that I never could
Imagine the kind of a mother that
Nurse tells about. If It wasn't that
sometimes when Father has gone off
on a trip. Mother and I have romped
all over tbe house, and had the most
beautiful time. I know that Father
says that Mother Is always trying to
make me a "M arie," and nothing else;
and that Mother rays she knows
Father’ll never be happy until he's
made me Into a stupid little "Mary.“
with never an atom o f life o f my
own. And, do you know? It does seem
sometimes, as I f Mary and Marie were
fighting Inside o f me, and I wonder
which Is going to beat. Funny, Isn't
It?
Father Is president o f the college
now, and 1 don't know how many stars
and comets and things he’s discov
ered since the ntglit tbe atar and I
were born together. Bat I know he’s
very famous, and that tie’s written up
In the papers and magazines, and is
In the big fat red “ Who's Who“ In
the library, and has lots o f noted men
come to see him.
Nurse says that Grandma Anderson
died very soon after I was bom, but
that it didn't make any particular dif
ference In tbe ousekeeplng; for things
went right oi Just as they had done,
with tier giving the orders as before;
that she'd given them all alone any
way, mostly, the last year Grandma
Anderson lived, and she knew Just
how Father Uked things.
She said
Mother tried once or twice to take tbe
reins herself, and once Nurse let her,
just to see what would happen. But
things gut in an awful muddle right
away, so that even Father noticed It
and said things. A fter that Mother
never tried again, I guess. Anyhow,
she’s never tried It since I can remem-
her. She's always stayed most of the
time up In her rooms lu the east wing,
except during meals, or when she
weut out with me. or went to the
things she and Father had to go to
together. For they did go to lota of
things. Nurse says.
It seetus that for a long time they
didn't want folks to know there was
going to be a divorce. So before folks
they tried to be Just as usual. But
Nurse Sarah said she knew there was
going to be one long ago. Tbe first
I ever heard o f It was Nurse telling
Nora, the girl we had In tbe kitchen
then; and the minute I got a chance I
asked Nurse what It was— a divorce.
My, I can remember now how scared
she looked, and how site clapped her
hand over my mouth. She wouldn't
tell me— not a w ont And that's the
first time I ever saw her give that
quick little look over each shoulder.
She's done It lots of times since.
As I said, she wouldn't tell me. so
I hod to ask some one else. I wasn't
going to let it go by and not find out
— not when Nurse Sarah looked so
scared, and when It was something
my father and mother were going to
have some day.
I didn't like to ask Mother. Some
way, l had a feeling, from the wsy
Nurse Sarah looked, that It was gome-
thing Mother wasn't going to like. And
I thought If maybe she didn't know
yet she was going to have It, .that
certainly 1 didn’t want to Jpe the one
to tell her. So I didn't ask Mother
what a divorce was.
"Oh, my baby, my baby— te
think I have subjected you te
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