Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-07-21
AN INTERESTING coURTsHIP.
In which the Lady Made Up Her Mind
She Wasn't Going 40 Leaves
Stone Unturned.

Susan and Mrs- Lathrop were great
friends, although there was some eight
or ten years difference IN their ages.
Susan was AZ, but Mrs. Lathrop had
married young. and this fact caused
her to feel ever youthful. and thus 70
be companionRble TO her girl friend
over the fence. Then. too. ever since
the death Of Mrs. Clegg. some IL years
before, Mrs. Lathrop's advice had been
indispensable to the others ignorance,
writes Anne Warner, In THE Marry
ing of Susan Clegg." In Century. dare
say there are some who may smile just
here and consider that at 30 Miss Clegg
should not have needed much motherly
counsel; but until one has really ar
rived al the age Of 30 II is impossible
to convince one how really immature
said age is, and can personally voueh
for the fact that a mother is Just as
handy to have about then as she is at any
earlier period.
Mrs. Lathrop had always had good
deal of time 10 devote TO her friends af-
fairs, because her family consisted OF
but one son, and she was not given TO
that species Of housekeeping which
sweeps under the beds too often Miss
Clegg had somewhat less time, because
her father (wavering between 20 and
500 was a bedridden paralytic, and had
been so for over 20 years He was OF
necessity a great care, and she did her
duty by him both vigorously and con-
scientiously; but the years in bed had
led her 10 confound the bed with the
father and 10 refer 10 them both as one
united factor in her domestic economy
Friday morning she always tore herself
away from the fence with the remark;
We'll, ] must be gettin' back 10 beat
father up an put him on his clean
sheets" and such phrases as 1--WE got
father into new pillow-slips, OF Next
spring mean % have fathers hair
picked over an get him a new itch"
we're ever rife on her lips. She was
generally very cheerful and quite re-
signed 20 her lot, but occasionally she
had a spell Of feeling that the world
had more 10 offer than she was getting
If father should live 10 be hun
bred, she said one afternoon IN June
as she and Mrs. Lathrop held a parley
on the borderline Of their respective
kingdoms-"if father should live 10 be
a hundred, / wouldn't stand much show
O. gettin married afterward. I'd be
so, an, even with a good new wave, GO
is 60"
Mrs. Lathrop ehewed her clover.
Nobody but a man o. 10 s goin' tc
marry me at 60. That'd make me bury
father just TO begin on some one else
/ got TO thinkin' about II last night, an
I've been keepin' on this mornin', too
an can see that If want TO get mar
ried at all. I'd better do II now. There's
no time like the present This worlds
made for the young IS well S for the
old. Besides. If ! do 1t before cold
weather. he'll pay for half of next win
| ter's fuel. Then could make my things
/ along durin' the SUMNER amt got
| nothin 20 sew on since ! finished my
orzas for the funeral You ought TO
81 that dress. Mrs. Lathrop; it's just
as nice. ! put Il away with camphor
balls. az stuffed newspaper in the
sleeves. There's nGl..n' TO do when
father dies but shake II out an lay IL
On his bed-'cause O. course that day
fxtheru have the guest-room-an' the
black gloves 80 two hlack-rimmed
pocket handkerchi, IS is all ready In
the pocket"
Mrs. Lathrop took a fresh clover.
so I've pretty much made dp ny
mind TO get married. an I'm goh, pset
right about II. Where there's VII
there's a way. amt goin' 10 les.
stone unturned, either"