The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-26
THE RELATED BUTTER.
A Story with 81 Moral Told by Six
Year-OId Girl to Her Grandfather.

New York SUM-
See here, June Bridegroom said Mr..
Golden Wedding, as they seated themselves
together in the ferry boat, what do you
"Think of children?" stammered June
Bridegroom, taking on a color that an an
cient ballet girl would have enVied hlm
Children" he repeated Il cant say mat mat
know I'm an only child, and my wife is an
only child So we have. never had any
nieces nephews around, and we haven
been married. another painful blush,
but" and then he stopped, too embar-
"Ah. has CALCULATED Mr.. Golden We'd
ding. II understand. Well, young man,
let me give you piece OF advice born OF
experience. Study your children; don't
merely love them, but study them. Not
only science admits it nowadays, but the
children themselves invite this study.
never did anything but love my 1our boys
and my darling little girl, and I'm afraid
1 made a mistake. l should have studied
them, for since my grandchildren came on,
and I've been observing them very close
ly, I'm often puzzled TO know TO Just what
extent my children studied me wnen they
were shavers. They must have gone into
their subject very deeply, for Mrs. Golden
Wedding insists that they always ruled me
with a rod of iron, that they could Wheedle
me into doing anything or into allowing
them to 90 anything, and that il 1t had not
been Cor her firm discipline the whole lot
of EN- wouldn't have amounted to bill OF
beans"
Whatever started you off on this track?'
asked June Bridegroom recovering his self
possession. Two of your boys are most
successful business men, two are making
fine records in Yale and your daughter
promises to be a great success in society.
What more could a man ask of his chill
dren?"
"Oh, just a little story heard my little
granddaughter Dorothy telling her little
brother last night. Dorothy has been teas
ing me for pair of roller skates for weeks
/ didn't mind getting the skates for her.
of course, but / was afraid shed break her
neck on the darned things. Well, a few
days ago, while Dorothy was cavOrting
around the yard on her pony. she fell and
Sprained her ankle. / had spaSms, as the
women say, because if there is anything
on earth a man can love as well as his
own child, it's his grandchild, June Bride
groom. You see, you don't feel so much re-
sponsibility for your grandchildren. and
on your own offspring into just that much
more love. But to get back to Dorothy.
She saw how upset / was, and great tears
rolled down her cheeks.
Tell me something you want, Dorothy,
said 1. Grandpa will get it if he has to go
Roller skates, promptly responded that
yOungster, for she saw she had me.
I'll bring EN- home Tomorrow 1
meekly promised, and so | did.
when I carried them to her last night
she was beside herself with joy, and for
me, why / was as happy as if all my in
vestments had advanced 10 points in a day,
and happier too. Presently Dorothys face
grew very thoughtful, and she called her
little brother Arthur up to the bed. She
her.
Arthur she said, Dorothy wants to tell
you q story arthur was all eyes and ears
in a minute because Dorothy is a very i'm
aginative child and her stories are some
times worthy OF yellow journalism, in very
adulterated form of course. Arthur she
began solemnly, once there was little girl
an she cried an cried an cried cause she
was hun-gery an had no bread to eat.
After a while when she kept on cryin',
piece of bread fell down in her lap, and
then the little girl cried an cried because
she had no butter to eat with her bread
an her tears ran down, on the bread and
made draVy Chats what Dorothy calls
gravy. am when she had eaten her bread
an dravy all up, down fell some butter in
her lap an then the little girl cried because
the butter had come too late after she had
eaten of her bread
II tell you, June Bridegroom said Mr.
Golden Wedding as he concluded the child s
story what that baby said set me TO
thinking as she went on with her story.
but when / glanced at her and found her
big sad brown eyes fixed on me / never
felt so cCnsaience stricken in my life. And