Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-07-30
call on her list, for Mrs, Brown was
doing parish duty this safterno on. Il
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s And how are you all to-day? ask
ed the minister 8 wife. ]. Il s.. &,
zs5s't Oh, we're REASONABLY well, all but
Nellie; she got throwed down at the
rink last night, and sprained her ankle
real bad. I've expected all along
something like that would happen to.
her" =.t B. 81. . ..sss% n /
Don't you think it is a bad placef for
girls to go anyway?n asked Mrs.
. 9 Land, yes! But all the young folks
are possessed to go, and you can't
stop 'em. wish to goodness the
men that built that rink had been
further! There's all sorts go there,
and they talk to everybody, and get
familiar-like with folks you wouldn't
have them know on more than moth
ing. But it makes money; SO you
cant stop 'em; nobody can't" !
"Why do you let your girls go
Mercy! L can't help 'em goin'.
Girls is as headstrong as pigs; the
more you pull 'em one way, the more
they go t'other. way. I've always
wanted my children to have a good
time whilst they was young; there's
trouble enough ahead of 'em; so I've
let EN- run, and 'tisn't to be expected
that / can up and stop 'em now
There was no controverting that
point, so Mrs Brown said no more.
The next house was Mr.. Meeker's.
Mrs. Meeker stood at the window,
watching with anxious eyes her Oldest
son, who was experimenting with O.
new bicycle.
"Oh, Mrs. Brown" she said, looking
over her shoulder, "come in, do: l
can't 60 away minute from the win
dow, Pm SO afraid Charley'll fall and
hurt him. He's been crazy after g. BIZ
cycle, and Mr.. Meeker didn' t know how
to get one for him--rheyre real cost
ly-and I begged him not TO buy one,
for knew shouldn't have minute s
peace while he was off with it;
but the boy wanted it, and
that's enough. What he wants
he's got to have We're behind with
the taxes, and Pm fixing over my old
clothes rather than ask John for a
cent; but Charley's got the length of
his fathers loot, as folks say, and I
don't know why he shouldn't have.
Boys must be boys, you know, and
never did believe in making images OF
'em to do just so and be prim and
proper all their days. Oh, oh! there!
I thought he was off that time, but he
wasn't. do believe my nerves will be
worn to ravelin's with that bicycle.
Don't co."
II won't stay now. Mrs. Meeker. I
know you want to watch Charley. I'll
come some other time
So, quite unattended, Mrs. Brown
found her way to the door and went
on to the next house, where Miss So
phronia Packard lived all alone and
took in sewing. Mrs. Brown made
the usual civil inquiries, and then Miss
Sophronia opened the conversation.
81 see you come from Mis- Meeker's
well, do pity that W oman; she hasn't
minutes peace for them children;
and here's Mis- Bunnell, nexc door, is
just as bad, though she hasn't got but
one; but her May is headstrong, now
I tell you. Why, she goes all the
time! Il it isn't dance, it's a picnic,
or a ride or q sail. She's as impu-
dent SIS q humble bee, and as bump
tious as q wren, but she isn't OF no
use in this livin' world, as see, but
to plague her ma. Why, t'other day
Mis- Bunnel found out that MAY was
going over to Norwalk in buggy, with
young TELLER, at eight o'clock in tn
evenin', cAlculatin' to come home by
moonlight, betwixt one an two in the
mornin', and, materially, she sot down
her foot that May shouldn't 20. She
didn't know the Teller. and she knew
real we'll it wasn't seemly for a. gal OF
fifteen to go off that way with any
young man, and SO she said; but ii
you'll believe it, Mis- Brown, that
piece jest put on her sack and bonnet,
and walked right out of the door and
off with her teller! Ii I'd been her ma,
she'd have got a locked door in her
face when she come home"
ooh, Miss Sophronia, do You think
that would have helped the matter?
A fathers house ought never to be
closed on q child, any more than our
Fathers, least of all when the child's
faults are the result of the parents
folly and weakness" g.
"Well, mebbe there's something in
that! But it does seem to me that
something ought to be done, when a.
girl flies right in her mas face like
that!'
"I'm afraid it is too lI>te to do much
at Mays age but pray for her"
Land! you don't suppose Mis- Bun
mel thinks May needs prayin' for?
Why, she thinks she's about as nigh
perfect as they make 'em; she's clean
eat up with that child--all the one she
ever had. If you should so much as
hint about prayin' for her, l guess
you'd raise a muss right Off"
Mrs. Brown tried to control her
face, but found it hard. Miss Sophro-
MAS air OF fine scorn was irrisistable
She changed the subject by saying:
II am sorry Mrs. Phelps has gone
away; meant to have called on her"
"Well, you can if you want to; she
amt gone" said Miss Sophronia, in
very acrid tone.
"Not gone! Why, she had wanted
so much to see her sister, thought
nothing would hinder herr"
II know it; she hasn't seen Mrs.
King for three years, but Marian went
and asked two girls, and the brother
OF one OF 'em to come this week
and stay till after the Fourth and
Mis- Phelps wasn't goin' to leave EN-
there alone to raise hudy; besides
that, her hired girl ain competent to
do for company. But that's the fash
ion; the children rewl, nowadays. I
feel thankful to goodness every day
that l wa MT never beguiled into the
married state, and ] haven't got no
youngsters a-walkin' over me, and a
maxim s. door mat Of me! Not but