The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1888-03-02
GRANDMOTHER'S SIGNS.


We were all very glad when Grand
mother RYDER came 70 live at our house
She was nv mothers mother. and one
I, he best-intentioned little old wom-
u n the world When grandfather
died. INV brothers and sisters. As well
a myself. we're afraid that grandmoth-
y would make her home at our Uncle
Mats or At our Aunt Marys. and there
was great rejoicing when the letter
came in which she wrote:
II aid think at first that I'd better
% 10 Narys, but the grounds in my
cosse-cup never pointed favorably TO
II. and last night had dream that
I've dremp three times running. that
made il clear to my mind that I'd bet
Ter come 10 you. l would start to-
morrow il il wasn't Friday, and ]
sometimes think the Friday sign runs
into Saturday. too; 50 will not start
until Monday. which viii bring me 70
your house on thu day the moon fulls,
and I take that 70 = good sign
An amused smile came into fathers
face As he read this letter aloud TO Us
children, and be burst out laughing
when said:
I'D Just like to know what coffee
settings and dreams and the moon
have 20 DO with it2r
aNothing. my dear; nothing at all. !"
said mother. laughing softly. " But
grandmother has odd notions that we
need not say any thing about. or mind
q All. when she i here"
We lived in the country on . splen-
6A farm. On the next Wednesday
stsrnocn. 70 our great delight. We saw
t;Lss driving up the long lane leading
q our house. with Grandmother Ry'
Ger seated on the spring seat BY hi
side She waved her handkerchief
and six eager children set OF on ruI
% meet her. We had not seen her fo'
three years. and IS soon as we wcr'
near enough to hear. she began say
ing:
why. bless my soul. how you hcr
growed! declare. don't know 10th
er from which. but guess that's Ber
'ie' and that little girl with the rufiie'
apron \ Mamie. and that's Tomm,
with the red ribbon to his neck
Looks zactly like the ambrotype Of hin
I've got Bless all your little hearts
anyhowl Ill know which Is whic
lore two hours"
When father helped her out Of III
wagon, she struck her foot on some
Thing, and would have fallen had b
not caught her.
Mercy on usr' she said. ssrI
glad STUDDED my right toe. II IL I'm
Teen the left it'd been a sure sign
vas going where l wasn't wanted"
Ton know that you are wante
here. no matter what the signs say.
said mother. as she took grandm
into her arms and kissed her man
times.
Yes, dear. I know il. l know il
SAID grandma; "but AL the same.
couldn't have helped worryin' some
y had been TIE LEI: toe"
We soon discovered that grandmotl
er had a sign for every thing TIL
happened. and tor much that didn
happen When any thing unusu
occurred. grandma suddenly recalls
the manner in which she had pr
vicusly been forcwarned If H. III
fact that her signs and predictions &c
orally failed Of fulf;lment did not d
tnrb her in the least
One day ! overheard mother %
Don't you often notice. grandm
that your signs do not come s-u
You said yesterday, when you saw q
eai scratching the fence. that Il won
rain. sure. before night; bnt there "
not cloud in the sky al day. and n
drop 81 rain fell"
why, Susanr' cried grandma,
tone Of great surprise. IT
morning paper says there was = p
iect dccd yesterday down In a
bamA"
The proof was ncontrovcrsiblc. n
outstanding the fact that Alabal