Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-12-25

) Greatorex links so much of her. The
\ Rev. Artlr also wonders many
VIKINGS.
EMIn crise like these Miranda and 1
have sontimes limited desperately to
one anotr of an eternal Separation,
&with lpital s. We have drawn
pathetic ictures Of how we would di-
&3de evSthing between us, and she
&puld and live with her mother,
while strobe into life's highway,
manful putting the past behind me
LIN ordeto become great, and, instead
Bf goii to theaters, spend my even
y&gs sting by the fire, waiting her
Eootst on the stair. Miranda would
alwayget quite worked up by this pa
thetip picture until she remembered
that was useless taking half the
n hing because her mother had no in
n Eenhl OF turning the house into
6torf company for the furniture of
4 iotheI So the trouble generally blew
Il over But this time it went as far as
N5ny Iaking out list Of the things in
my den" before we were reconciled.
HllMirada saw then that she was on the
ibrii Of an awful precipice, and it
4 maj her shiver. So it did me, be-
II car there's beautiful bronze Brit
( tshion from JAPAN in my "deno
A|wh she has set her heart upon hav-
tnand know we should have squab-
blower that. When she says, "Dicky,
A yoe such dear" pats my brow and
81 w the other hand takes the very
d til l don't want her to have, the
p3s Of the situation degenerates in
u tGce. and-and-oh. you know what
yg wives are like! The next time
TRY I shall choose solid, estima-
bady OF mature age, with false
~ and without what little Noel
~ tparlor tricks"
Is soon as Miranda told the Rev.
AEhur Greatorex about her projected
Z plgpong tournament he smiled in a
IL phsed way and said that he himself
n vNld be the first to take two shil-
EAy ticket. He also threw out dark
Mis- that Miss Jarvis would like to be
led. They're not really engaged. be-
the Rev. Arthur hasn't enough
to marry, but he calls Miss Jar
ear sister" and looks at her, if he
he is unobserved, in the same
hat Sir Lancelot did at Guinevere
King Arthur was out. OF course
ida knew all about this "ge-hilty
pn," as she calls it, and that was
he told Miss Jarvis that the Rev.
ar was going to play and then in
med him that Miss Jarvis would
j be there. So she had them Gin the
as it were, and the members OF
blanket club almost cried when
the were too old to play. To
Ase them, Miranda made special
that If they liked to take tickets
~ could get some one else to play
them, and, as the old men were
"a of excitement, they pawned their
aiming blankets scpd bought twelve
PTS for the tour ment. '1t do my
'eart good to gposa little permiskus
il lrt like this 'eresy said CATER Hind
IEto Miranda, uasnd I've got four
NI5ts on with AfsF Burridge as little
8ka pointinkr 10 Noel" ill play
aS Ne and knoSo his ugly 'ead off. I
as 'ow HuTAress Jarvis sewing
III be a-goin'E nd try to knock us out,
&lsthere's tYaisie on us wants little
Ee to do s,aer best for u.s. 1t do
our old 'earts, it do, to have a
III real sport like this newfangled
Tie. Most as good as days rattin'
4 surelie."
Hen Miranda asked her little niece
to stay with us, she said that
q blue eyes, golden hair, mournful
with its II do want to be loved
LIE heaven claims me for it's own"
of expression, made her uneasy.
q me also. l knew the child, and
Ia also aware that heaven could
long very well without her-for a
Fat all events. She was little
/ pn at lawn tennis and could pick
iny new game in ten minutes. Be-
s9 as she told me, she had been
Eng hard at pingpong in order to
Brother Tom" / had little
ice with her before the tourha-
came of. and She But I ant1ci-
Ia Jarvis, although she loved Mi
dearly, did not like the success
blanket club. After all, we were
newcomers, and we ought, like
&, to have walked delicately" for
years before bursting into such
~ pric fame. 1t occurred to Miss
E.when she saw the special rule
III would be sporting kind Of
Sfor her sewing club members to
y len masse. Though most of them
ethe wives of the blanket club
ia ,ke never seemed to realize that
El}e divided against itself cannot
So she bought a dozen tickets
Min sewing club and, when Miranda
y ktrated with her on this prolific
4ture, as good as limited that it
i business of Miranda's. New
m the place could not be ex-
IN 20 understand "the dear people"
as she did. OF course when she
&sty" like that Miranda nightly
that the blanket club players
Emite the feminine Amalekites
Sewing club hip and thigh.
was so popular in the village