The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1900-04-26
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blinking along the avenue Of the past
'Mebbe, mebbe'
Sidney fretted under the old mans
vague replies and said, But darn 1t all,
can't you tell us what you thinkT
His father did not take his eyes of
the lyeheld. I'm thinking he answered,
IN the same old fashioned way, that I've
been working here since you were born,
Sid. I've Numbered along somehow, just
boggling my way through. l amt got
anything more to say. The farm amt
mine any more, but I'll keep my scythe
sharp and my ak ground just as / al.
ways did, and I'm for working as I've
always worked as long as I'm let to
stay!
| "'Good Lord, dad, don't talk that way.
Things aren't going to be any different
for you and mother than they are now,
only, of course. He paused.
| "Hhe old man pieced out the sentence,
| Only, of course, there can't be two WON.
en- ruling one house, Sid, and you know it
as well as l do
| "Exactly how Sidney's wife told the
old mother of the great change Sidney
never knew, but when lie went back to
the house the gray look in his mothers
face told him more than her words ever
told.
"And before thev left that night the
pink millner had already planned the
changes which wore To celebrate her com.
ing and hor rulinp
$50 Sidney and his wife came. NIL the
man nronhesied in few hriof sentencea
TO his wife proving true.
"rhere was no great struggle on tho
mothers mart. She stepped aside from
governing and became as like servant
ns couId he.
"An insoent hired girl came. and she
md Sidney's wife started n LITTLE drama
Of incompetency. which should end os the
hotel keeping ended,
"Wastefulpess, cheap luxury tawdrv
living, took the place of the old. frugal.
simple life.
But the mother went about with that
unchanging sweetness of face and bodv
whitening about a fretted soul, She had
no bitterness, only miserable distress.
But every slight that was mt upon
her, every change, every newfcnglci
idea. from the white sugar to the scented
SOAP and the yellow buggy, ranked in
the old mans heart,
"He had resentment both for herself
and himself, and he hated the mink MILL
ner for the humiliation that she heaped
upon them both,
Sidney did not see one-ffth of it, and
what he did see lost its force, because.
strangely enough he loved the gaudy
wife who wore gloves on her bloodless
hands as she did the homework and
spent numberless afternoons in trimming
her own bonnets.
"Her peeyisbness grew apace as the
newncss of the experience wore off,
"Uncle Jim seldom spoke to her, as he
seldom spoke to ANYBODY. but she had
an ipkliug of the rancor in his heart, and
MANY A time she put blame upon his
shoulders to her husband when some un-
ayoidablc friction came.
% "a year. two venrs. nassed. which were
rs fen unon the shoulders of the old MOO
nle. and then In the dend of winter an
iinnortont thing b,nnanad
Il "About tho month Of March Sidney's
first child was axnecte1 At tho end Of
January Sidney had 70 20 away. eynect-
;nr n retnrn in Lass Than n month but
In ,bo middle ~ Eob,uorv tbo womon,s
socrad trouhle came bafore it's fine,
"And an tbot Iov thora reji sucb n
s+o.,n nc nod not hoo, soen for many n
YEAR Tho concession road was blocked
Lofaro dow hoI wall got !, NJ horse
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