Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-07-19

RS1as99 So is Miranda! But little
49, Noel Hartley is as fresh as a
rose and wonders why the Rev. Arthur
EreatoreX thinks so much of her. The
Rev. Arthur also wonders - many
things.
In crises like these Miranda and l
have sometimes limited desperately to
:one another Of an eternal Separation,
with a capital S. We have drawn
pathetic pictures of how we would di-
vide everything between us, and she
should go and live with her mother,
while strobe into life's highway,
manfully putting the past behind me
IN order 10 become great, and, instead
of going to theaters, spend my even
ings sitting by the fire, waiting her
footstep on the stair. Miranda would
always get quite worked Up by this pa
thetic picture until she remembered
that it was useless taking half the
ahings, because her mother had no in
tention Of turning the house into
storage company for the furniture Of
others. So the trouble generally blew
over. But this time it went as far as
my making out list Of the things in
my "den" before we were recOnciled
Miranda saw then that she was on the
brink of an awful precipice, and it
made her shiver. So it did me, be-
cause there's a beautiful bronze Brit.
ish lion (from Japan in my "den"
which she has set her heart upon hav-
ing. and know we should have squab-
bled over that. When she says, "Dicky,
you're such dearv' pats my brow and
with the other hand takes the very
thing l don't want her to have, the
pathos of the situation Jegenerates in
to farce, and-and-oh, you know what
young wives are like! The next time
/ marry shall choose a solid, estima-
BILE lady Of mature age with a false
front and without what little Noel
calls "parlor tricks"
As soon as Miranda told the Rev.
Arthur Greatorex about her projected
pingpong tournament he smiled in a
pleased way and said that be himself
would be the first to take a two shil-
hints that Miss Jarvis would like to be
asked. They're not really engaged, be-
cause the Rev. Arthur hasn't enough
money to marry, but he calls Miss Jar
Wis "'dear sister" and looks at her, if he
thinks he is unobserved, in the same
way that Sir Lancelot did at Guinevere
when King Arthur was out. Of course
knew all about this "ge-hilty
passion" as she calls it, and that was
why she told Miss Jarvis that the Rev.
Arthur was going to play and then in
formed him that Miss Jarvis would
also be there. So she had them Gin the
net" as it were, and the members of
the blanket club almost cried when
told they were too old to play. To
please them, Miranda made a special
rule that if they liked to take tickets
they could get some one else to play
fond of excitement, they pawned their
blankets and bought twelve
tickets for the tournament. cit do my
old cart good to get little permiskus
sport like this ERE" said CATER Hind
ley to Miranda, land I've got four
quarts on with Joe Burridge as little
to Noel" ill play
for me and knock his ugly 'ead off. I
do ear as low Mistress Jarvis sewing
club be a-goin' to try to knock us out,
and there's twelve on US wants little
missile to do her best for us. 1t do
Il 1.tc do to HOY
bit of real sport like this newfangled
game. Most as good as days rattin'
it be, surelie."
When Mira nda asked her little niece
Noel to stay with US, she said that
Noel's blue eyes, golden hair, mournful
face, with its Il do want to be loved
before heaven claims me for it's own
kind Of expression, made her uneasy. |
1t did me also. l knew the child, and |
was also aware that heaven could |
get along very we'll without her-for a
time. at all events. She was little
demon at lawn tennis and could pick !
up any new game in ten minutes Be-
sides. as she told me, she had been |
hard at pingpong in order to
sick Brother Tom" l had a little
practice with her before the tourna-
ment came off, and She But l antici-
pate.
Miss Jarvis. although she loved Mi
randa dearly, did not like the success
Of the blanket club. After all, we were
only newcomers, and we ought, like
Agag, to have walked delicately" for
/ few years before bursting into such |
meteoric fame. 1t occurred to Miss
Jarvis when she saw the special rule !
hat it would be a sporting kind Of
hing for her sewing club members to
enter en- masse. Though most of them
we're the wives of the blanket club
men, she never seemed to realize that
4 house divided against itself cannot
stand. So she bought dozen tickets
COR the sewing club and, when Miranda
with her on this prolific
as good as limited that it
was no business Of Miranda's. New
.omers in the place could not be ex-
9ected to understand 1.-THE dear people,
Is we'll as she did. Of course when she