The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-14
Thursday, June H. 1906.

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+! hate to see you whimpering and whin-
ing about wrongs you have been cordial
years.
GRANDMOTHER! -
for aad then yo ao dasSod
over them. mean that Dora has this
fine clergyman, and Fred MostYn, and
on her side; ali of them sure that Dora
her brother, and mother, and father, all
can do no wrong; all of them sure that
Ethel, poor girl, must be mistaken, or
prudish, or Jealous, or envious.o
Oh, grandmother, you are too
80 elidn Il you have fewsfriends
on your own side9o
Father and Ruth never liked Dora.
s And Fred told you how Fred acted
as soon as he saw her,
Clifton, or that handsome Dick Potter.
Why didn t you ask them to join you
at your lunches and dances. You
ought to have pillared your own
side girl Without .iai her = bea aux
with beauX lis against her.
life. I wished her to haze all the
All her own share-that was right.
All of your share, also-that was as
wrong as it could be. -
Clifton is Yachting. Royal and l
had little misunderstanding, and DICK
Potter is too efusive.o
1.,-,,tt But Dick S effusiveness would have
been good thing for Fred's elusive
ness. Two men can It go on compii-
mentary ran-tan at the same table.
They freeze one another out. That
goes without saying. But Dora's IN
while she is under her fathers roof;
and I don It know If she hadn It
friend in the world, if they. would be
your business I have always been
against people trying to do the work
of Them that are above us. We are
told They seek and They save, and it IS
likely they will look after Dora in spite.
Of her being SO unknowing OF hersen
as to marry a priest in d surplice, when
fool in motley would have been more
like the thing
III don u want to quarrel with Dora.
After all, I like her. We have been
friends long time.
rWeH,. then, don It make an enemy
/ few against one. enemy. One hundred
: friends will wish you well and one enc
z. my will do you ILL., God love you,.
!. child Take. the world as You find it..
Only God can !. make it any better.
When is this blessed wedding te-eotne'
off a = : -
von IN not ~ y weeks. You got cards did.
ttI believe I did. They don t matter.
Let Dora and her firtations alone. unl
Like cures like. If the priest sees
nothing WrOngg f.,
HE thinks all she does is perfect. -
tbey care be say annhina are Hes seni love-
blind at present. Some day, like the
.prophetaof Pethor,* he will get his eyes
s opened. AS for Fred MostYn, / shall
have good deal to say about him by
and by, SO I IL say nothing now.
talk to me. any more about Fred. ,,
ttIt was very inconsiderate prom
Use, a very irrational promise! | am
sorry / made it-and I don t intend
to keep ii. - (
zone of the Hebrew prophets.
"Well, it takes two to hold con-
/. versation. grandmother. y
ITO be sure it does But if talk
to you, hope to goodness You will have
the decency to answer me. I Wouldn t
believe anything different. = And she
looked into Ethel's face with such a
smiling confidence in her good will and
and give her twenty kisses as she stood
up to put on her hat and coat. :.
You always get your way, Granny, !"
she said; and the old lady, as she
walked with her to the door, answered,
~ have had my way for nearly eighty
years, dearie, and I've found it very
good way. I'm not likely to change it
now
And none Of us want you to change
it, dear. Granny g way is always a
wise way - And she kissed her again
ere she ran down the steps to her car
rage. Yet as the old lady stepped
slowly back to the parlor, she NUT
tered, Fred Mostyn is fool If he
had any sense when he left England, he
has lost it since he came here. /"
Of course nothing good came of this
irritable interference. Meddling with
the conscience of another person is a
delicate and difficult affair and, Ruth
had already warned Ethel of its certain
futility. But the days were rapidly
wearing away to the great day. for
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