THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1945
PAGE NENE
. ' XV- '
Early In February f cmsln Vic
toria wrote us that she would
board for- the remainder ol the
winter at tue Amertpan House.
Balmoral was getting too jnuch
lor ner. ane wouia arrive, sne
announced, on the afternoon of
the fifteenth. (Cousin Victoria
never consulted anyone's conven
ience. She merely announced her
own.)
"I suppose we should be thank
ful for the extra rnqney," my
mother said. "But it does seem
. . .". What she meant was, "TJjis
is the last straw."
"She won't stay a week, if she
comes," my latner assured her.
"You know Victoria. As likely as
not, she won t turn up at ail.
Someone ought to convince her
that the Queen was steadfast," he
t added with a wink at the three
of us.
Cousin Victoria had always Imi
tated the Queen. From girlhood
she had studied pictures of the
royal costumes, and. being an ex
pert seamstress, copied them. Her
home bore the name of the
Queen's. Her dog, now buried
under the lilac bush, had been
called Dash, Reading once that
the Queen had gobbled her food,
Cousin Victoria had fornied the
habit, too, and as a result was
constantly "in distress." Naturally
she kept a Journal, which now
in her seventy-thind year had
reached its eighty-second volume.
This was her second most valued
possession. Her first was a let
ter, dated Nov. 16, 1898, from a
Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen
herself, replying to Cousin Vic
toria's cabled felicitations' upon
the Jubilee of 1897. '
Like the Queen, Cousin Victoria
was a wjdow, and still (ostensi
bly) grieylng. Her husband's pic
ture hung aoove the fireplace in
the parlor of Balmoral, .delicately
musiached and whiskered. His
name, discordantly, had been
Hiram, a circumstance which
Cousin Victoria had found hard
to bear. She was childless. When
she lamented this state, you had
the feeling that her grief was less
for the children she lacked than
for the opportunity she bad
missed of presenting them with
royal names. ' , ' .
Instead of arriving on the aft
ernoon of the fifteenth, as she
had announced, Cousin Victoria
came, bag and baggage (includ
ing volumes of 76-82 of her Jour
nal) on the morning of the twelth
in a hired carriage, much upset
that no one ha4 met her at the
train.
She was a handsome woman.
She possessed you had to admit
it a truly regal air. Stepping out
of that carriage, her hair as black
as her bonnet, her eyes bright
and her body nimble, she had a
good deal about her that the
Queen herself might have envied.
My lather, who had told us
only an hour earlier that he was
going to spend a quiet morning at
home, left almost immediately fori
his office. My mother had re
sponsibilities in the kitchen. But
we girls had no escape. We fol
lowed Cousin Victoria upstairs
and dutifully helped her unpack.
rp o u s i n Victorians room was
next to the parlor and facing the
village. It was the best room in
the American House. "If I put her
there in the first place,1' my moth
er said, "mere won't be any ex
cuse for her wanting to change."
But Cousin Victoria took nothing
on faith. Before we could un
pack a bag she had to be shown
every bedroom, including our
own. Then, satisfied, at least tem
porarily, she allowed us to help
her settle.
In selecting Cousin Victoria's
bedroom, my mother had thought
of its convenience to the pallor,
where she had planned for her to
sit during the day with her cro
cheting. Cousin Victoria used her spare
time and surplus energy, in mak
ing lace for edging. This neyer
wore put. A pair of drawers
might fall into shreds, but the
lace remained as good as ever. In
order that none should be wasted,
my mother used it lavishly
around hems, necklines, and even
armholes. We girls had hardly a
spot on us that had not at one
time or another been scratched
by it (Cousin Victoria had a very
embarrassing way of lifting our
skirts to see how it was wear
ing.) Roll after rqll lay un
touched in her work basket. Yet
she kept right on. . . . -
But Cousin Victoria soon made
it clear that she didn't care for
the parlor. She preferred the so
ciability of the office. She Ignored
Mr. Cutter as she did all the
help but she relished the drum
mers. One of them couldn't be in
the office five minutes before she
knew his product, his route, his
schedules, and the size of his fam-
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ily. Even the most agile couldn't
i ii. Vint- tnt cho hai llW ( h ,"1 i I"
right by the dr with, anQther
drawn up beside it.' if a victim
startea; oy, sne seuea nis iqw
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mis cusiressea my momer iw
rihlv. Something had to be done,
she said, ' -
Something was. miring ine
morning Cousin Victoria wrote
In ka TnnrtiDl V. 1 1 i,r-lnr t )l Q rv-
j away from the office became an
other of our cnores.
TViarxi tuara itict huA wove V111
could keep her In the parlor. One
was to get her to give you a les
son in lace making; the other was
to get her tq read aloud from
one of her Journals. (These were
underlined, of course, in the man
ner o the Queen.) Since long
and Intimate association had
made us detest the lace, we usu
ally promoted the Journals. They
were dull reading. "Awakened at
"seven." i-ay until "seven-fifteen."
For breakfast "oatmeal, prunes,
gooseberry jam, toasted muffin.'
Two cups of tea. (Green) Record
ed the events, of yesterday. Ex
amined the books of F. of the H.
F. Branch 2. Found them In "good
order," Re-read "In Memoriam."
Here follows my reflections on it
. . Those reflections might cov
er from 10 tq 2Q pages.
We began to think wore long
ingly than ever of the time when
vacation would be over.
(To Be Continued)
G.I.'S PLOW iS ACBES
Camp Ellis, 1(1. IP Soldier
gardeners at Camp Ellis have
plowed 45 acres for "victory gar
dens" so far during 1945. The
"gardening detail" hopes to sur
pass its 1944 total of more than
500.000 pounds of food, 30 varie
ties of vegetables, 230. acres of
cultivation and savings of approx
imately 450,000.
Gary, Ind. fhrQr4inaTiiy,
churches upheld reputation, but
F. Laurence ' .Anderson charged
the First Baptist church imr$
with damaging his, and he asks
$5,000 damages. He claimed that
he wa excluded from the church
without goqd cause after 20 years
of attending and paying dues,.
The dormouse usually hiber
nates far six months, and a sud
den coercive' wakening jgay fee
fatal. ' " , "
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