The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-04-19
A GLACIAL PERIOD.
Which Is Followed By a Decided
and Satisfactory Thaw.

:" Here / am, mother found all
tbs doors open, so walked straight up
70 my old room. A fellow doesn't
stand on ceremony when he hasn't
seen his maternal relative for year.
Here's your boy. mother"
Ralph Wakefield threw his valise in
corner, and walked quickly toward
an elderly woman who was standing
just inside the door OF pretty enid
die chamber"
= Ralph Wakefield! How you do
like TO surprise folks. Two days soon
er than you promised! Well. well.
Now your pa w,ii be set up"
just this, and hearty handshake.
Nothing more. Doubtless. Mother
Wakcfeld's heart would have thrilled
with a new JOY had she fallen on the
neck OF that handsome. manly son.
and covered his face with kisses: but
thcn-she would have thought the act
rather silly" On Ralph's part. had
such salute been offered. he would
have returned it with interest; but
there would have crossed his mind a
dim suspicion that mother was be-
ginning TO fail"
They lived in Connecticut
Pas in the field. and Ruth Is woods
ing somewhere. You are going to
have the spare room and be made com
pany Of Ruth has taken yours"
..Xho prav il Rurh2''
Ruth Wise. i wrote you about
her.
80 you did. mother. so you did.
But thought the visit would be
ended before came. An ovcrworked
school-teacher the daughter OF an old
girl-friend OF yours; come here for
rest and change. wish she hadn't
Mother. I'm disappointed; I'm vexed.
feel frustrated. I've worked hard
over those old aw-books in the dingy
city for more than a year. without
play day; and now that I'm fairly
inside the bar. and first-class part.
nership awaiting me in September,
wanted to have the strain let up on
me entirely. wanted you and father
and the old farm ali to myself this
vacation
shell not be in your way. Ralph.
She almost lives out o. doors"
But why did you give her my
room?"
because she said the spare room
was too nice to dry ferns in. and ia
keep MOSES and rocks and toad-stools
In. Fungi. she calls them. So gave
her your old quarters. that are used
to such things. Take peep at her
books. She thinks the world and ali
ofthem few books"
20 Mother Wakefield. what have
you donc?"
Ralph, whose innate sense OF pro-
priety had restrained his eyes from
wandering about the room no longer
his own, now allowed them to rove
over the titles Of the volumes neatly
arranged in the small bookcase.
Something between sigh and a
whistle was his first comment
'Climatic Theories! Buckle. Mill,
'Rerue scicntifqrc. Deep Sea TX.
plorations. 'Spenscr on the Uncondi-
toned, Darwin's Expression in AMI
mails Great Egypt, what a list! Wise
BY name and wise by nature. per-
ccivc. Mother. owe thing is settled;
shan't like her.
Nonsense, Ralph! You read al
these things; why shouldn't shcP'
mo reason. OF course. Only dom
prefer masculine tastes Ia woman.
''She's no masculine tastes, Ralph.
She's bright and capable, and full oI
fun. And she's as handy TO help il
the kitchen as II she'd always lived or
q farm And she likes 70 talk about
dress as well as any girl"
Talk! Oh. you haven't heard mel
talk yet. Science Is her vocation, ans
metaphysics her recreation. Philology
cthnology and the cosmos for break