Middletown transcript., 1906-11-10
THE UNTANdLIN0 Or SARAH
BY MINNA sqANW00D

SSS tAuH No NSIe S6btlnS dlD0Ss
/ told him to send in a woman to !
help, il he could 4 good strong
one, with d few ounces Of horse
senseand siderable back bone
TO handle the commissary end
of the affair. So he sent the coll
ored woman who tended to his
office, d good natured creature,
who said she was used to serving
up things for the equality folks. =
When 1 found she had a daugh-
ter, called her to the rescue,
also,
LA came home hungry. She
threw her bag Of books on the
hall stand, hing her jacket on
the banister post, and walked
into the dining room with her
hat on. While the colored
woman was putting her dinner
on the table, she took off her hat
and gloves, and fastened her hat
to the back of her chair with q
hat pin. When she finished h01
dinner, she ran out and left
everything behind her. | fol-
lowed her upstairs to have a lit
tie talk with her and found her
putting Eer head through a great
heavy skirt that came just below
her knees. When ] asked her
where in the name of common
sense she was going in thatinde-
cent thing, she just laughed and
said it was her wheel skirt. The
dress she had worn to school
was on the floor, just where she
had stepped out oft Well, maybe
I didn't give her a real good talk-
ing to! ! told her that she Vas
named for me (her name was
Elizabeth Rebecca), and that I
had q lovely little opal stick-pin
that father used TO wear in his
shirt bosom, which / had brought
10 her becauselof her name; that
her mother was IN Il bad condi-
tion, and might develop into q
chronic invalid if We were not
careful of her; that dade was gor
ing to have her musicale, and I
felt kind of ignorant and help-
less. never having been to high
school, therefore / was going 10
depend on my namesake to help
me out.
Betram came home about four
O'clock, carrying an oblong
leather box that weighed ton or
less and when told him that
I'd enough sight sooner carry my
old canvas extension case, he
laughed and winked at sickish-
looking chap he had brought with
him, who carried a leather box,
too. Bertram took his mothers
sickness quite coolly, and re-
marked that really he did not
seem to understand the science
of the thing at all. / told him il
was a burning shame she hadn't
had the advantage of college
training. He looked a little con-
fused al that.
AS for the musicale well, we
got tllrough with it some way, I
can't tell just how. After it was
over, the girls eagerly besought
one another and Tom and Ber-
tram, saying How did it go OF /.
just as if il was a high expIo-
sive of some sort.
The next evening at supper /
told the girls I never saw such
measly specimens of humanity as
Maynwaring Jones aud Amati,
and the other men they had to
that musicale.
Then Tom said he had been
amusing himself the whole even
thinking of things that might
happen to Amati, providentially,
as it We're. He might get a chick
en-hone in his throat, and if some
one forgot how delicate and re-
fined be was, and gave him a slap.
on the back, it would surely de-
molish him. Another thing be
thougLtof was, that a fiddlestring
might snap and when it flew up
Iit might obligingly hit the soft
spot on his head, thereby causing
instant
But Tom did not finish the sem
tence, for Sade interrupted him
saying: 4 really did notfhink You
could be so coarse, Papa. and went
ont Of the room so fast that she
forgot all about being graceful.
Tom spoke seriously now. / tell
you, Becky. | wish to mercy 4
knew what to do with that Amati
# ! tell him to make himself.
scarce round here, he may get
Sade to run off with him.
Then, Tom said, you re ready
to sanction any means put forth
to nip the worm In the bud. are