Tillamook headlight., April 28, 1922, Page 6, Image 6

Friday, April 28, 1922
THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT
“Yes, Aunt Jane,” said Mary, po­ touched the keys. I love to play. ■food. "SEe- says sewing Is much more
lite and proper again. (I shan't say There wasn't any music there, but I sensible and useful.
whaAlarie said Inside.)
Sensible and useful! I wonder how
dou’t need music for lots of my pieces.
We didn’t do anything In the eve- I know them by heart—only they’re all many times Tve heard those words
and of course I didn't like to go back nlng but read and go to bed at nine gay and lively, and twlnkly-toe dancy. since I've been here. And durable,
for It. But the conductor was very o’clock. I wanted to run over to Cer­ Marte music. I don't know a one that too. And nourishing. That’s another
nice and kind, and came In twice again rle Heywood’s; but Aunt Jane na Id would be proper for Mary to play.
word. Honestly, Murle Is getting aw­
to see if I liked my new seat; and of no, not till morning. (I wonder why
But I was just tingling to play some­ fully tired of Mary’s sensible sewing
course I said I did. It was very nice young folk» never can do things when thing, and I remembered that Father and dusting, and her durable clumpy
and shady, and there was a lady and they want to do them, but must al­ was In the observatory, and Aunt Jane shoes and stuffy dresses, anti her nour-
oatmeal and whole-wheat
a baby in the next seat, and I played ways wait till morning or night or upstairs In the other part of the house
But there, what can you do?
with the baby quite a lot.
noon, or some other time!)
where she couldn’t .possibly hear. So
It was heaps of fun to be grown up
In the morning I went up to the I began to play. I played the very I’m trying to remember that It’s differ-
and traveling alone! I sat back in schoolhouse. I planned It so as to get slowest piece I had, and I played ent, anyway, and that I said I liked
my seat and wondered and wondered there at recess, and I saw all the girls softly at first; but I know I forgot. something different.
Eleanor H. Porter
what the next six months were going except one that was »lek, and one that and I know I hadn’t played two niopes
I don't see much of Father. Still,
to be like. And I wondered, too, if was away. We had a perfectly lovely
there's something kind of queer about
I’d forgotten how to be “Mary."
time, only everybody was talking all
It, after all. He only speaks to me
“Dear me! How shall I ever re­ at once so that I don’t know now what
about twice a day-*-just “Good-morn­
Illustrations by
member not to run and skip and laugh was said. But they seemed glad to see
ing, Mary,” and “Good-night.” And
loud or sing, or ask questions, or do me. I know that, Maybe I'll go to
so far as most of his actions are con­
“•R. H. Livingstone
anything that Marie wants to do?” I school next week, Aunt Jane says
cerned you wouldn’t think by them
thought to myself. And I wondered If she thinks I ought to, when It’s only
that he knew I was In the house. Yet,
over and over again at the table, and
Aunt Jane would meet me, and. what the first of May. She’s going to »peak
she would be like. She came once to Father when he cornea next week.
at times when I didn’t even know he
was 'round, I've found him watching
when I was a little girl, Mother said;
She was going to speak to him
me, and with such a queer, funny look
but I didn’t remember her.
3YNOP8I8
about my clothes; then she decided to
In his eyes. Then, very quickly al­
Well, at last we got to Anderson­ attend to those herself, and not bother
PREFACE.—'Mary Marie” explains her ville. John was there with the horses, him. She doesn’t like my dresses. She
ways, he looks right away.
apparent "double personality" and just
But last night he didn’t. And that’s
Why she la a “cross-current and a contra- and Aunt Jane, too. Of course I knew Came Into my room and asked to see
■lctlon;" she also tells her reasons for she must be Aunt Jane, because she my things. My 1 But didn’t I hate to
especially what I wanted to write i
writing the diary—later to be a novel. The
was with John. The conductor was show them to her? Marie said she
about today. And this Is the way It
alary is commenced at Aadersuiivllle.
awfully nice and polite, und didn't I wouldn’t; but Mury obediently trotted
happened:
CHAPTER I.—Mary begins with Nurse
It was after supper, and I had gone
•arah’s account of her (Mary's) birth, leave me till he’d seen me safe In the to the closet and brought them out
which seemingly Interested her father, hands of Aunt Jane and John. Then one by one.
Into the library. Father had gone out
who la a famous astronomer, less than a he went back to his train, and the next
to the observatory as usual, and Aunt
Aunt Jane turned them around with
•ew star which was discovered the same
night. Her name Is a compromise, her minute it had whizzed out of the sta­ the tips of her fingers, all the time
Jane had gone upstairs to her room as
mother wanted to call her viola and her tion, and I was alone with the begin­
usual, and as usual I was wandering
sighing and shaking her head. When
lather Insisting on Abigail Jane. The
’round looking for something to do. I
child quickly learned that her home was ning of my next six month».
I'd brought them nil out. she shook
tn come way different from those of her
wanted to play on the piano, but I
The first beginning was a nice her head again and said they would
small friends and was puazled thereat.
didn’t dure to—not with all those
Nurse Sarah tells her of her mother's ar­ smile, and a "Glad to see ye home, not do at all—not in AmTSrsonvllle;
rival at Andersonville as a bride and how Mls%” from John, as he touched his that they were extravagant, and much
dead-hair and wax-flower folks in the
astonished they all were at the sight of
parlor watching me. and the chance of
the dainty eighteen-year old girl whom hat, and the next was a “How do too elaborate for a young girl; that
the sedate professor had chosen for a you do, Mary?” from Aunt June. And she would see the dressmaker and ar­
Father'» coming in as he did before.
wife
I knew right off that first minute that range that I had some serviceable
I was standing lu the window star­
CHAPTER II.—Continuing her story, I wusn’t going to like Aunt Jane—just blue and brown serges at once.
ing
out at nothing—it wasn’t quite
Cturse Sarah makes it plain why the
dark yet—when again I had that queer
Blue and brown serge, Indeed I But,
ousahold seemed a strange one to the the way she said that “Mary," and the
child and howber father and mother way she looked me over from head to there, what's the use? I'm Mary now.
feeling that somebody was looking at
drifted apart through misunderstanding,
me. I turned—and there was Father.
I keep forgetting that; though I don’t
each too proud to In any way attempt to foot.
smooth over the situation.
He had come in and was sitting in the
Aunt Jane Is tall and thin, and see how I can forget It—with Aunt
big chair by the table. But this time
CHAPTER TIL—Mary tells of the time wears black—not the pretty, stylish Jane around.
■pent "out west” where the "perfecUy black, but the “I-don't-care” rusty
But, listen. A funny thing happened I Was Having the Best Time Ever, he didn’t look right away as usual and
all right and genteel and respectable'’
give me a chance to slip quietly out
Something came up
divorce was belna arranged for, and her black—and n stiff white collar. Iler this morning,
and Making All the Noise I Wanted
of the room, as I always had before.
Sother’s (to her) unacountablu behavior
eyes are the kind that says, “I'm sur­ about Boston, and Aunt Jane asked
To.
y the court's decree the child la to spend
Instead he said:
elx months of the year with her mother prised at you I" all the time, and her me a question. Then she asked an­
"What are you doing there, Mary?"
and alx months with her father. Boaton mouth Is the kind that never shows other and another, and she kept me before I was having the best time
Is Mother's home, and she and Mary
“N-nothlng!” Father frowned and
leave Andersonville for that city to spend any teeth when it smiles, and doesn’t talking till I guess I talked ’most a ever, and making all the noise I want­
hitched In his chair, Father always
the first six months.
■mile much, anyway. Her hair Is some whole half-hour about Grandpa Des­ ed to.
hitches in Ids chair when he’s Irritat­
gray,
and
doesn
’
t
kink
or
curl
any
­
mond,
Aunt
Hottie,
Mother,
and
the
Then
all
of
a
sudden
I
had
a
funny
CHAPTER IV.—At Boston Mary be­
comes “Marie.” Hhi- la delighted with her where; and I knew right off the first house, and what we did, and, oh, a feeling as if somebody somewhere was ed and nervous. ‘‘You can’t be doing
■ew home, so different from the gloomy minute she looked at me that she
whole lot of things.
And here, Just watching me; but I just couldn’t turn nothing. Nobody but a dead man does
house at Andereonvllle. The number of
gentlemen who call on her-mother lends didn’t like mine, ’cause it did curl.
two days ago, she «’as telling me that around. I stopped playing, though, at nothing—and we aren’t so sure about
her to speculate on the possibility of a
I was pretty sure she didn't like »he wasn't interested in Grandpa Des­ the end of that piece, and then I him. Wliut are you doing. Mary?”
new father. She claaeee the callers as
“Just 1-looking out the window.”
"proepe five aultora." finally deciding the my clothes, either. Tve since found mond, his home, or his daughter, or looked; but there wasn’t anybody In
choice It to be between "the violinist"
“Come here. 1 want to talk to you.”
sight. But the wax cross was there,
and a Mr. Harlow. A conversation she out she didn’t—but more of that anon. anything that was his 1
"Yes, Father."
overhears between her mother and Mr
There’s something funny about and the coffin plate, and that awful
(I Just love that word “anon.”) And
Harlow convinces her that It will not be
I went, of course, at once, and sat
hair wreath; and suddenly I felt as If
that gentleman, and “to violinist” seems I Just knew she disapproved of my Aunt Jane.
down
In the chair near him. He
to be the likely man. Mrs. Anderson re­ hat. But she didn’t say anything—
the room was just full of folks with
ceives a letter from “Aunt Abigail Ander­
ONE WEEK LATER.
great staring eyes. I fairly shook with hitched again in his seat.
son, her former husband's slst.-i , w hl Is not in words—and after we’d attended
Father’» come. He came yesterday. shivers, but I managed to shut tlie
“Why don’t you do something—read,
keeping house for him, reminding her that to my trunk, we went nlong to the car­
“Mary" la expected at Andersonville for riage and got In. My stars! I dldu’t But I didn’t know it, and I came run­
sew,
knit?” he demanded, “Why do I
piano
and
get
over
to
the
door
where
the six months she Is to »pend with her
father.
H>r mother la distressed, but suppose horses could go so slow. Why, I ning downstairs, ending with ii little the light was. Thon, a minute later, always find you moping around. doing
has no alternative, and “Marie” departs we were ages Just going a block. You bounce for the lust step. And there,
out In the big silent hall. I crept on nothing?”
for Andersonville.
see I’d forgotten; und without think­ right In front of me In the hull was— tiptoe toward the stairs. I knew then,
Just like that he said It; and when
CHAPTER V.—At Andersonville Aunt
Father.
all of a sudden, why I’d felt somebody he bad just told me—
Jane meets her at the station. Ker fa­ ing I spoke right out.
I guess he was a» much surprised was listening. There was. Across the
ther Is away somewhere, studying an
“Why. Father!” I cried; and I know
“My 1 Horses are slow, aren’t they?"
eclipse of the moon.
Marie- "Mary"
"You see, Grandpa has an ns I was. Anyhow, he acted so. ile hall In the library In the big chair be­ that I showed how surprised I was.
now-Instinctively compares Aunt Jane, I cried.
Just stood stock-still nnd »tured, his fore the fire sat—Father! And for “I thought you Just said I couldn't do
prim and severe, with her beautiful dainty auto, and—”
mother, much to the former’s disadvan­
face turning all kinds of colors.
"Mary
I
”
—
Just
like
that
she
Inter
­
'most a whole half-hodr I had been nothing—thut nobody could!”
tage Aunt Jane disapproves of the dain­
“You?" he gasped, Just above hie banging away at that piano on
ty clothes which ths child is wearing. and rupted—Aunt Jane did. (Funny how
“Hh? What! Tut, tut 1" He seemed
replaces them with "serviceable" aerges
breath. Then suddenly he seemed to marches and dance music! My! But very angry at first; then suddenly he
and thick-coled shoes Her father arrives old folks cun do what they won't let
home and seems surprised to see her The you do. Now If I'd Interrupted any­ remember. “Why, yes, yes, to be sure. I held my breath and stopped short, I looked sharply Into my face. Next, if
child soon begins to notice that the girls
You are here, aren’t you? How do can tell you. But he didn’t move nor you’ll believe it, he laughed—the
at school seem to avoid her Her father body like that!) "You may as well
appears Interested In the life Mrs. An­ understumF lit once," went on Aunt you do, Mary?”
turn, and a minute later I was safely queer little chuckle under his breath
derson leads at Boston and asks many
He came up then and held out his1 by the door and halfway up the that I’ve heard him give two or three
guest tons In a queer manner which Jan«, “that we are not Interested In
pussies Mary. Hhe finds out that her your grandfather's auto, or his house, hand, and I thought that was all he stairs.
times when there was something he
schoolmates do not associate with her
was going to do. But, after a funny
I stayed In my room the rest of that thought was funny. “Humph!” he
on account of her parents being divorced, or anything that Is his.” (I felt as If
and she refuses to attend school. Angrv I was hearing the catechism In little hesitation, he stooped and kissed evening; and for the second time since grunted.
Then he gave me another
at flrat, Mr. Anderson, when he learns
my forehead. Then he turned und I’ve been here I cried myself to sleep. sharp look out of his eyes, and said:
the reason for her determination, decides church!) "And that the less reference
that she need not go He will hear her you utake to your life In Boston the went Into the library with very quick
“I don’t think you meant that to be
lessons Tn Aunt Jane’s and her father's
steps, nnd I didn’t see him again till ANOTHER WEEK LATER
quite so Impertinent as it sounded,
absence Mary dresses In the pretty clothes better we shall he pleased. As I said
■he brought from Boston and plays the before, we are not Interested. Besides, at the supper-table.
Well. I’ve got them—those brown Mary, so we’il let ft pass—this time.
liveliest tunes eh« knows, on the little-
At the gupper-table he said again, and blue serge dresses and the calf­ I’ll put my question thl» way: Don’t
used piano. Then, overcome by her lone- while under your father1» roof, It
somenese. she Indulges tn a crying spell would seem to me very poor taste, In­ “Ibow do you do, Mary?" Then he skin boots.
My, but I hope they're you ever knit or read or sew?”
which her father’s unexpected appear­
seemed to forget all about tne. At stiff and homely enough—all of them I
“I do sew every day in Aunt Jane's
ance Interrupts. She aoba out the story deed, for you to make constant refer­
of her unh« polneas. and In a clumsy way ence to things you may have been do­ least he didn’t say anything more to And hot. too. Aunt Jnne did say to- room, ten minutes hemming, ten min­
he comforts r.«r. After that he appeare
ing while not under ills roof. The me; for three or four times, when 1 day that she didn't know but what utes seaming, and ten minutes basting
to desire to make her etav more pleasant
Her mother writes asking that Mary be situation is deplorable enough, how­ glanced up, I found him looking at me. she’d made a mistake not to get ging­ patchwork squares together. I don’t
allowed to come to Roeton for the begin­
ever you take it, without making it But just as soon ns I looked back at ham dresses. But, then, she’d have to know how to knit."
ning of the school tertn, and Mr Ander­
son consents, though from an expression
positively unbearable. You will re­ him he turned his eyes away and get the gingham later, anyway, she
“How about reading? Don’t you
he lets fail Mary believes he la sorry she
cleared his throat, and begun to eul said; then I'd have both.
member, Mary?"
care for reading?"
la going
Well, they can't be worse than the
Mary said, “Yes, Aunt Jane," very or to talk to Aunt Jane.
“Why. of course I do. I love It I” I
(Continued next week)
—not the way yon would look after polite and proper; tint 1 can tell you
After dinner—I. mean supper—he serge. That's sure. I hate the serge.
a child, but the way a gentleman that Inside of Mary, Marie was Just went out to the observatory. Just as They’re awfully homely. Still, I don't
he always used to. Aunt June said know but It's just ns well. Certainly
would tend to a lady. I liked him boiling.
her head ached nnd shq was going to It’s lots easier to be Mary In a brown
very much.
Unbearable, indeed!
There was a young gentleman In the
We didn't say anything more all the bed. 1 said 1 guessed 1 would step serge and clumpy boots than it is In
The Ladies of the
O:
■ent In ftjnnt. too, who was very nice, way home. Naturally, I was not going over to Carrie Heywood’s; but Aunt the soft, tluffy things Marie used to
=
lie loaned me n magazine, and bought to, after that speech; and Aunt Jaue Jnne said, certainly not; that 1 was wear. You couldn't be Marie In these
■otus candy for me; but I didn't see said nothing. So silence reigned su­ much too young to be running around things. Honestly, I'm feeling real
much more of him, for the second time preme.
nights In the dark. Nights I And It was Marylsh these days.
the conductor came In he told me he'd
Then we got home. Tilings looked only seven o’clock, and not dark at
I wonder If that's why the girls
Will have another of their
found a nice seat back in the ear on quite natural, only then* was a new all I But of course I couldn’t go.
seem so queer at school. They are
the shady side, He noticed the aim maid In the kitchen, and Nurse Sarah
Aunt June wen» upstairs, and I whs queer. Three times Intely I’ve come
famous
catnte In where I sat, he said. (1 hadn't wasn't there. Father
wasn't there, left alone. I didn’t feel a hit like up to a crowd of girls mid heard them
I
noticed It specially.) But he picked either. And. just i as 1 suspected, 'twos reading; besides, there wasn’t n book stop talking rl.-:ht off short. They col­
up my bng and magnslne—but I gu-ss n star that was to blame, only this or a magazine anywhere asking you
ho forgot the candy box the nice young time the star was the nmoti—an to rend. They Just shrieked, “Touch ored up, too; mid pretty quick they be­
gentleman In front had just put on my eclipse; and he'd gone somewhere out me not!” behind the glass doors in the gan to slip away, one by one, till there
wasn’t anybody left but just me. Just
window sill, for when 1 got Into my west So he could see It better.
library. I hate sewing. 1 mean Marie as Qiey used to do in Boston. But of
new sent the candy wasn't anywhere;
He Isn't coming g hack till next week ; hates It. Aunt Jaue says Mary’s got course |t can't be for the same reason
ami ’ when I think how he made tne to leant.
at the Vaughn Grocery
here, for they
the.t ’ve kr. >wn i>H along
For n time I just walked around the m iout the divorce and haven’t minded
come 1 on the first day, so as to get In
the whole six months, when all the different rooms downstairs, looking at It at all.
time lie did m care enough about It the chairs and tables and rugs all just
I heard this morning that Stella
to be here himself, 1'tu Just mad—I ■o, as If they’d been measured with a
.it
hew hi >d a party I., st night. But I
mean, the righteously. Indignant kind yardstick. Merle Jerked up u shade
iln’t get halted. Of course, .you
10 a. w. to 4 p. m.
d—for I can't help thinking how and pushed a chair crooked and kicked
u
lys ask everjbaly to your
n
rug
up
ut
one
corner;
but
Mury
put
would
have
loved
those
Mother
t this was a real big party. 1.
them all back properly—V) there
extra days with her.
,-n't found a girl lu school.
n .1 I bn»-i
Aunt Jane so' d I whh to have my wasn’t any fun in that for long.
yet, that v isn’t Invited—but me. But
After a while I opened the parlor
old room. anti so ns soon r.s I got here,
I g less It »n .n’t anything, after nil.
door
and
peeked
In.
They
ti»<
‘
d
to
1 went right up rnd took off my hat
aietla
is a new girl that has come
and coat, and pretty quick they l;ecp It open when Mother was here; here to lire since I «•ent away, Her
brought up my trunk, an I I unpoekcil but Aunt Jane d> ,-sn’t use it. I knew folks are rich, anti she's very popular,
It; and 1 didn't hurry about it, either. where the electric push button was. and of course she has loads of friends
I wasn't a bit anxious to get down­ tin vgh, iiml I turned on the light.
she hud to invite; and she doesn't
here Is always something
Before I got the light on, the chairs know ute very well. Pvnbahiy that was
stairs again to Aunt Jane. Besides.
mighty good waiting for you to
I may as well owu up, I was crying— and sofas loomed up like ghosts lu it. And maybe I just imagine It about
the the other girls, too. Perhaps It’s the eat—tender roasts, delicious vegeta-
a little. Mother’s room was right tiielr linen covers. And
across the hall, and It looked so lone- light did come on, I san that all the brown serge drees. Stilt it can’t be bles served In the moat apprising
some, and I couldn't help remember­ old »hit or place» were there. Not one that, for this is the first day Tve worn ways, creamy, fluffy potatoes.
ing how different this homecoming was missing. Great Grandfather An­ it. Rut, as I said, I feel Marylsh al­ piquant salads and dainty deserts.
was from the one tn Boston, six deraon’a coffin plate on black velvet, ready.
Have breakfast, lunch or
the wax cross and flower» that had
months ago.
dinner with us. You'll be
I haven't dared to touch the piano
Well, st last 1 had to go down te been used at throe Anderson funerals, since that night a week a*A only once
delighted with the excel­
the
hair
wreath
made
of
all
the
hair
dinner—I mean supper—and, by the
when Aunt Jane wus at a missionary
lent food, the quick ser­
way. I made another break on that. I of M»venteen dead Anderaons and five meeting, and I kn->w Father was over
vice. unfailing courtesy
celled it dinner right out loud, and live ones—no. no. I don’t mean all the to the college. Hut dldu’t I bare a
and unusally reasonable
never thought—till I saw Aunt Jane’s hair, but hair from all seventeen and good time then? I Just guess I did!
prices.
I
five.
Nnrse
Sarah
used
to
tell
me
face.
Aunt Jane doesn’t care for music.
“Bupiter will bo ready directly." she about It.
Hraldr*. It’s noisy, she says, ami would
id. with cold and Icy emphasis “And
Well, as I »aid. all the shiver places be likely to disturb Father. Bo I'm not
ay I ask you to remember. Mary, wore there, and I shivered again as 1 to keep on with my music lessons here.
please, that Andersonville has dinner looked at them; then I creased over to She’s QU4 to teach ns tu saw tn-
at St* V clock.” ________ Mother*» uld piano, opened It, and
¿MARY
¿MARIE
Then the Conductor Called “All
Aboardl" and the Bell Rang, and
She Had to Go and Leave Me.
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