Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-09-02

you know how.
Patty does beautifully, the
dear child, beautifully, but she
breaks out in a cold perspiration
all over, and her hands tremble,
, and the tears come into her eyes.
The baby thinks it is vale of
tears all around, and so she
, makes the most Of it.
II X X
'Old Elderly, the nurse, was
falling all over herself last night,
she was so tired. She gets worn
out just being her own self, l
think, so Patty and I sent her up
into the third story to sleep, and
took the baby ourselves or,
rather, I took it into my room to
sleep by me in its little bassinet.
"Robert was away, so Patty
and I left the door open between
our rooms, and when she was
| ready for bed she came in to kiss
the baby goodnight and we had a
regular boarding school seance
in our robes de matt. There wasn't
an inch of Roberts PROJECTIONS
we did not touch. We were ac-
tually hungry with enthusiasm
when We got through. We went
downstairs and looted the refrig-
orator, and had a midnight sup
per on the dining room table with
allthe shades up. We never
noticed them. And those lonely
woods lying all about US. And the
maid so young, and the nurse SO
old, and Terence Mulvaney only
a puppy-soggy with sleep in the
laundry, at that. The maid will
certainly leave if Terence sleeps
on her damped down clothes
again 7
"Do 20 know, dear, I hate to
say it, but Robert has changed
since he was married, and not for |
the better. He has grown sell
fish and grasping and I don't feel
free to tell him so, the way used |
to. That's the worst of married |
sons one cannot have at them
the way one did when they we're
little. Ones spanking instincts
have to be curbed at every turn.
Patty is too utterly sweet and un-
selfish with him, that is the
trouble.
"He is the worst about the
baby afternoons. Poor little
thing, she lies fiat on her back
twenty three hours out of the
twenty-four. It's the regime,
you know, the papoose regime.
From five to six in the afternoon,
though, before she goes to bed
for the nigEt-she has been 60
ing to bed ever since got here
poor little thing, she doesn't do
anything else-she is taken up
and held if she asks to be.
ASK I should say she did.
The way she improves every min
ute of that hour would wiring
tears from a grindstone. She
doesn't merely cuddle, she clings
in every little muscle, like a
lichen to a rock.
'Patty and I do not feel that
that hour is Elderly's perquisite
she has very large wages as it
is !; so we send her out at five for
her nstitutional-she has one
every day : it was in the bond
and I hold the baby.
"We had it all beautifully ar
ranged till Robert upset every
thing. He used to get home
barely in time to dress for dinner,
but now he is here on the stroke
of five. He swings himself off
that great boomerang of an cleo
trio and swarms up through the
wood path, right through the
flower beds and up the stairs,
and takes the baby away from
me. I might be bush the way
he picks her out of my arms. l
resisted at first. I held on.
But Robert, the crazy creature,
threw up the window and called
for help. Help help help he
shouted at the top of his lungs.
He always used to do that, you
remember, when | opposed him
about anything, and for fear of
the neighbors and the police l
would have to give in.
"He doesn 'tcare row of pins
for the new regime, Robert
doesn't he knocked it into find
ers. He actually dances clog
dances with that baby in his
arms. Patty and expostulate
until we are black in the face,
out we can't make any i'm pres
sion on him not. the least.