Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-03-18


pleasant IN Its effects as had feared Il
would be.
beiore spring arrived | had decided N
remodel our room after the same p,an
ana send our elegant furniture. aarnets
ana curtains ~ donation to some friends
IN acoider country. Mollie Laughed bar
ripping, silvery laugh when she cave
nome Tor her second vacation and fonnd
another room Invested OF its cumberao,na
elegance. ,
! said Its all owing to your idea
Noble, and she laughed harder thar
ever as she caught me around the nncL
and cried: "You don't think it's onlv
siily notion then, do you. father?,
or you see that was the first time |
had mentioned the idea by it's proner
name, always having called 1t silly
notion.
After that Mollie let her idea roam
| around considerably In fact. / hardly
think she locked 1t up at all except per.
| maps when we had company. Several |
times found her big book on INV |
| library table. | must confess onened |
1t on one occasion, and was so interested
in what found inside the covers that
was sorry when it disappeared. |
wouldn ask for it, however for Mollie
could laugh SO when any thing amused
her, and hate to be laughed at dread.
fully.
Fall came and Mollie's idea hurried
her away again. Time dragged more
slowly than ever this time, until toward
spring when we experienced surprise
not altogether agreeable. NV head
book-keeper decided quite suddenly to
take trip to Europe at my expense,
carrying with him sufficient means to
meet all emergencies. Immediately
after his departure fire broke out in the
basement of the building in which had
my store. and with the assistance of
water, kindly thrown as an extin-
guisher completely ruined my stock of
new, unpaid-for goods. 1t took all
could realize from insurance and the
sale of my city property to make me
straight with the world again. And
then mother and ! sat down to look the
situation in the face. Two elderly peo-
pie with nothing left but ourselves and
) our great desolate home. just then
in came Mollie, big book, trunk
r idea and all, like a fresh June
breeze, or more truly speaking, a
, regular Western cyclone. Rless the
5 child. We had almost forgotten her IN
: our bewilderment. She Rugged and
Q kissed us. and shed few tears over
1 | mothers lace cap, then, with little
t | choke in her brave voice. cried: Now
4 we'll see what that idea of mine can dc
: for us. | think I've mastered it, and
S haven't earned the title of Nurse Mollie
r for nothing. So cheer up, dear folks
v you have something left, if it is only
J. Mollie and her idea" And itching up hel
e big book she pranced gayly up and dowr
n the room until we were forced to laugh
}. in spite of the dismal state of affairs.
e The weeks few rapidly by after he
" coming, very busy weeks to us all, blu
o particularly so to Mollie. BY summer
/: time our stately home in the suburbs wa
It filled with the most interesting compa
d ny of individuals | had ever seen
d Mother and were allowed to keep on
4. room in peace, and Mollie shared her
n with IA sweet-faced girl who filled tn
place of assistant nurse
n The small parlor was turned into
" reception-room, the dining-room an
kitchen placed in charge q good
ID natured Maggie, the cook, while the re
ID mainder of the house fairly swarmc
err with ba bies.
he Babies of all escriptions, from tn
plump little beauty to the frail, we
he morsel too weak to even smile. Over "A
a pres ided Mollie, blissfully, RADIANT
at happy. Always busy. yet never to
I'd tired to pillow weary little head o
ok her shoulder or to sing fretfui, We
1t stranger to Sunderland. The ba bic
err soon learned to know her quick stel
is and would laugh and coo as she passe
ed by with smile or kiss for each litt
r. upturned face.
Id Mother grew young again in spite
'e- her silvered hair, the company OF III
playful elves was so inspiritint
ly .'Dranma," they called her. and nev'
ng wearied of her quaint old fairy-tales
he she sat in her armchair with HI
er bountiful lap full of the cunning crea
ly ures. and row of curly heads abo
de her knee. Every evening. just beto
bedtime. | had a grand trollc In II
MT nursery until driven forth by Aunt
re Nollie." and loud cries of ''tum adj
as dranpa.
to By winter | was again established
adj business. though on smaller scale Uni
les before. Mollie's idea paid her we
to and her wealthy patrons. the lathe
and guardians of the motherlesS bao
Ter in her charge. would not hear to n
giving up her baby garden. as she h
ier christenod it, So she reignei mlstre
lat ! over the house, and steadily added
Ter the bank account, leaving mother "a
ect me to spend our money as we thoug
ny | best
'as When would see Auntie MoIlle
nd ting in her sunny nursery, her SW'
tni face wearing a smile, and her pre-
on hair ali tumbl from contact with on
all little fingers. | could not help Think
an ia myself how good thing 1t was u
18th she did become possessed by an idea a
asst how much better it would he Tor
ar world in general and every body IN
YER ticular if every girl had tied to
ry- apron-strings a good, sensible loea
on uuide her through life.
lac It seems ! was not the only one
,dr,irea Nollie and her idea. The ma
she some Young doctor who called 10
iVy Baby Marjorie when she burnt her III
'ur- ,Mollie's old standby, Dr. bla
10 beinr out OF town was fascinated a
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