The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-26
LOUISE'S LAST TANTRUM.
And the Way Luella Cured Her.
BY GERTRUDE SMITH.
Copyright, 1897, the S. S. Mcclure Coz

You can't expect your cousin to
make any difference between you two
Now stop pulling, say; Louise. stop
pulling.
Louise, hidden away in her slat sun
bonnet, was the exact reproduction Of
Luella in straight lines of pink calico.
AS her mother spoke, the sunbonnet
fell away from her round face, and,
opening her mouth, she screamed shril-
ly, shaking from head to foot.
Now, Louise, you know what hap
pens when you have tantrums. Are
you going to have one?"
For answer Louise stiffened rigidly.
Her face became the color of soap
stone and she fell forward into the
deep grass.
"Shes in one! Run for pa, Luella!
Luella strolled leisurely out of the
yard and crossed to the big red barn
on the. other side of the road.
PA, Louise is in tantrum," she
said, calmly.
Her father sat on the barn floor
husking corn. He sprang up and ran
past her toward the house.
Luella sat down in the barn door
and looked out of her pink sunbonnet
across the warm October fields and
froWned.
That's how Louise always gets what
She wants." she thought. They'll
tend her, and ma will say, 'Luella, your
sister amt so strong as you. Don't you
think you might give in and let her go
to town this once? And pa will say,
Yes, Luella supposing your sister was
to die in one of these spells, how bad
you'd feel And Louise will tremble
and culver her lips, and I'll give in,
like I always do. If she wasn't so
proud of having them, / wouldn't mind.
Now, I'll go back and see if it won't
happen just as I say"
Luella walked slowly back into the
yard, where Louise still lay, seemingly
unconscious Her father was chatting
her hands and her mother was sprink-
ling water in her face.
You haven't any feeling, Luella
Broclway," her mother began you
saunter about and don't think to do a
thing for your sister"
That's what you always say re-
piled Luella, with unusual daring.
Every time she has one, you turn on
me-"
Il never saw her so long coming to-
said her father, looking up with an
anxious face. Run and get another
dipper of water, Luella.'
Il know a quicker way than that to
bring her out" replied Luella. Il don't
care if do tell"
What way do you know. Luella?
Don't stand there and say that you
know and not do a thing" said her
mother.
Luella threw her sunbonnet on the
ground. Louise squirmed and showed
signs of coming to-
But before she had time to recover,
Luella had rolled her over and over
three times, and ended by giving her a
sharp slap on each check.
stop that, Luella Brockway! Stop
THAR cried Louise, clutching at her
sisters arm, and drawing herself into
sitting position, and then, looking
from her mother to her father, she be-
gan to cry.
..Of course I'd come to if she slaps
me in the face like that!" she sobbed.
Mr.. Brockway turned and walked
away to the barn without word. Mrs
Brockway, after standing a moment in
open-eyed amazement, exclaimed:
Louise Brockway, do you mean to
tell me you We're letting on? Luella,
was she letting on?'
'No. not edzactly. She's done it so
long she thinks she can't help it, so
she don't try answered Duella.
you go right straight up and go
and dig the potatoes for dinner! Lu-
ella, don't you help her"
She caught her youngest daughter to
her feet, and pushed her toward the
hoe and pail that stood by the kitchen
door Louise took them, and walked