The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-01
WORRY

Aa0EkEhZs
Now. do I look as though I ever
worried about anything % asked
Janet. II know I don't. but I am be-
ginning to think that time will shortly
make inroads on my beauty--such as
1t is-simplys because I worry over
worried people.
Don't tell me that that is the same
thing as real worry, because it is not
You try the genuine article for while
and then take up my substitute. and
you viii find there is a big difference
Still am beginning to worry now for
fear I shall lose some of my beauty
if I have any-worrying over worried
people. Don't get impatient. III
come to the point in a few minutes
Now. the immediate cause of my
/ present state of mind is my mother.
Mother will worry over the most
senseless nothings and totally ignore
the things in life that ought to de-
mand some worry"
Why didn't you educate her diner
ently?" asked the listener. And, by
the way, you are overworking that
word worry
Please don't interrupt" said Janet,
grandly. I'm the first place, some
dealer in everything owed father
money. In the second place father
I Y.
place, father, like most men, does not
/ know one color from another.
AS I was saying, this man owed
father some money. AS money seem
talked father into accepting some very
desirable household goods Among
them was twelve yards of beautiful
dress goods, which father said was to
be made up, as soon as received into
a suit for mother.
Mother was delighted and imme-
diately planned how it should be
made. Thinking of the way to make
it up led to the question of trimmings,
which led to the question of color.
Upon close questioning, father said 1t
was a beautiful shade of old rose.
Imagine mother in an old rose suit!
she did not say very much about
the disappointment, but I could see
that she was worrying over that twelve
yards of goods which could not be put
to any use because of its outlandish
color.
Zone day all the things arrived and
among them was a large, soft package
which we knew must be that ridiculous
piece of old-rOse goods That day the
package mysteriously disappeared and
none Of US dared to breach the subject
of it's wherea bouts to mother. Father
inquired several times, but mother al
ways murmured something in reply
about the dressmaker being unusually
busy.
Just here is where a great deal of
the worry came in. Mother, and the
rest of US for that matter, thought of
innumerable things we might have had
in place of that twelve yards of un-
worry made mother look year older.
| Now, it was not thing to worry about,
for mother was not in need of suit,
but she could not tolerate something in
the house which could be put to no use.
I, in q charitable mood, suggested
giving it away to the Salvation army
people. so they might dispose of it; but
no one seemed to want to infiict it Oh
) any one.
Several months passed and that aw-
full piece of old-rose goods became a
thing of the past. But every once in a
while I caught a haunting look in
: mothers eye and 1 knew she was think
ing of what might have been.
THE other day I rummaged through
the shelves Of all the clothes closets,
frantically looking for a magazine
which which contained a certain article.
In the course of my search I found
some ma gazines at the bottom Of var
ious miscellaneous bundles. In my ef-
forts to pull out one Of them knocked
down one OF those bundles The fall
broke open the paper wrapping and
+ there lay the most beautiful piece of
golden broadclothl
..Oh. it was a perfect dream. Mother
came in answer to my hurried sum-
mons and between gasDs told me it
must pc the despiSed plSCS u Olu ACSS-
l well, as far as can see.'' said the
listener, everything ended happily"
The commissioning glance she re-
2 ceived from Janet told her there were
some things about which she knew
nothing.
MY mother" said Janet, refuses to
/ have that goods made up. She says
l the man made a mistake and will, be-
fore long, demand the return Of the
Golden brOadcIO+h and inf7fct on US the
old rose Poor unother!''-Chicago News
Got the Appointment
When Richard Olney was secretary