Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-03-17

as precious pair of babes IN the
| woods AZ ever ! saw. But, after all,
| Adplinp's not as big n fool as she
looks and reckon you won't do my
thing worse for the time being than
waste money and spoil Nannirs fun.
| don't believe Adeline's fripnds-the
| men all seem to he 80 or older will
be very lively for her. and | should
| think" she added maliciously. you'd
| be afraid they would undermine her
principles. There don't seem to be
many W c. T. y people among EN-"
But Cousin Anne had talked all this
over with me and had settled her
course.
| wrote 10 my friend Amy Milmnn.
q young painter who shared my little
fat. to engage certain bedroom from
our neighbOrs In the front apartments,
and | came north with Mamie.
Amy, who knew something OF the
state of the case, met her with ma
ternal graciousness and then took me
aside. closed door upon us and asked
what In the world | intended to do
with her.
IL don't intend to do anything" I
declared. II am simply the tool OF
circumstances. Probably she will stay
here awhile and 20 home all COM
fortably enough and take up the life
that suits her there
mo, she won't" stated Amy, with
solemn emphasis. I'VE are aidng-you
l.,, IL. a II.
one human creature for life She won't
belong anywhere after she's tried an
independent existence here awhile.
She'll be neither fowl. fish nor flesh"
Well" pleaded. don't try to wake
up my conscience about II all. Amy,
dear. II can do nothing but distress
me. ! said all | could to Cousin Anne.
| wanted this visit to be regarded as
just an outing. n lark. But. no: the
child has been loaded down with the
obligation to find life work, and by
that her mother means what she calls
n career, something at once dazzling
and
What did her mother say when you
talked to hprY
Say? Why, asked how | should like
to marry and live In Strathboro all my
life myself. and told me that Mamie Is
very literary In her tastes. more so
than any girl in her class. and that one
of her essays had been published In
the Strathboro what dyou call It week
ly. aud that she loved to see woman
eager TO help on her sisters. and
stop! Do you think she's got bit
of talent for anything I'm the world?"
Not an atom that | can discover,
eXcept-what Is II James says?-tho
talent for being the incest Of little
girls"
Maybe II she has not a bit It won't
bc so bad. Dent worry anyhow, you
poor girl. Go bring her into the sit
ting room. and wen have some tea,
and I'll give you some newspaper
stun"
Alas, poor Mamie had never drunk
tea In her life. and ! think the very
sight of us ged In such a curious
rite Increased her Inconsistencies. She
was. OF course. terribly homesiCk. Ey-
erything-our little rooms. our way Of
life. our talk. thu very outlook from
the windows-was d.i SO crusbinriy
strange. She was benumbcd for weeks.
ana her one comfort. her mothers let
tiers. was, after all but sorry COM
fort. for they bristled with questions
as to the progress of her ambitions
Tor the future. POOR Mamie! | think
at last she began TO realize what an
awful thing II Is to be asked to make
n career otfhand, rs II were. IL was
worse than Miss Uaversham's demand
that her little visitor should play. But
Mamie was self contained little soul
and at last escaped from her worst
throes and began to come into relation
with the life around her without hay
Ing unbosomed herself to anybody.
She came down with me to the Office
or The Appeal several times and sat
hours In that grimy sanctum. very
proper rs TO attitudes and very natty
as to dress. but she voiced no impress
sions and gave uttcrance to no opln-
Ions as TO her fitness for Journalism.
! was bound to be grateful for that.
she also spent hours In Amy's studio.
and thought II would he much better
for her to so In for painting than for
writing.
WHY demanded Amy arguments.
lively. defensively.
"Oh. II will give her time" I soid.
There IL regular way of studying
IL. No one expects to succeed In that
at once. Her disappontments and NOR
tihcations will reach her so much more
slowly. She could even spend life
time. under favorable circumstances,
putterlng away at II and not be much
the wiser IA to her unlitncss."
But she said nothing as to taking up