The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-04-17

enough to see company yet.
ut wasn't that. Mrs Joyner eyed the baby
all over and then she said What nice little
ears she hast and old Mrs. Morris remarked
in comforting sort of way: But I've always noticed
the ugliest children make the prettiest grown peo-
pie"
They're Just q pair Of cackling geese, they don't
know fine youngster when they one. I'm sure
she weighed nine and half pounds AS for her
looks all babies are exactly alike can't be told apart
Goodness Fife you aren't crying again?"
II am afraid don't think she is pretty either,
confessed his wife between sobs Il cannot under
stand why should have daughter with red hair
But red it was and straight it was in spite OF Mrs
WAITS frantic efforts the contrary. She brushed
It backwards fifty times every morning yet 1t re-
NAMED as fagrantly straight as 1t was indlsputaDy
red When Madeline was older her mother braided it
into innumerable small plaits at night to make II
ripple next day
irving to fall asleep night process hindered
in spite CT her perfect health, by the discomfort
caused By the many braids Madeline overheard her
mother in plaintive nonologue Her name, by the
way was Of her mothers choosing; her father called
her Lima.
John. just don't know what to do about dancing
school took Madeline this afternoon. and dressed
her sweety could be, though it is very hard to
find anything becoming to her (now 1 could always
wear any color and the boys simply wouldn't dance
with her Madeline seemed absorbed in the music.
and stood there, unconscious If she was in our
hack yard swaying with the music and taking all
sorts of queer steps must have made up herself
Some of the girls began to laugh. and Gus Behman
said 4 think dancing looks real pretty and they
all made fun Of him, and the boys said he liked
greeneycd girls and teased him so he wouldn't dance
with her and none Of the boys did-and was NOR
tiaed!"
IL hope she had sense enough not to let TOOL 70"
of giggng boys spoil her good time
She will never be BELLE, moaned Mrs. Wyatt.
BELIEF" echoed Mr.. Wyatt. with something re-
sembling snort I'm glad she won't. II my front
steps were always swarming with small boys like
Major Bridgers ibid use insect powder to scatter
'em."
"Annabel Brdgcrs has way with her, all the
boys like her" pursued Mrs Wyatt. 1T Is strange
that my niece should resemble me more than my
own daughter. From the time 1 was fourteen, it
was just that way with All the boys in Bakers
Vile"
Yes yes, I know interrupted her husband. has
tlly. But my dear, it is enough to have married
belle; don't want to be the father OF one
Alas, Madeline never again heard urged this point
of view which would have contributed so much to
her peace of mind in the years that followed! For
Mi Wyatt died. and his widows narrowed interests
concentrated her daughter.
The years before her marriage, when 1t was fore
gone conclusion that any voting contest for the pref
test girl Bakersvlle" or the most popular young
lady in town" would register an additional triumph
for Ene Bridgers shone in undimmed glory in Ef1e
Wyatt's remembrance
! All that earnest maternal effort could do to give
an equally radiant period to her daughter. she I'M
fnchngly attempted.
Mrs Wyatt had been plump, blue-eyed brown
haired rosy-cheeked indeed. poppy checked might be
more exact In spite of the difficulty of her material
she tried to bring Madeline to this standard. The
girls height and slimness lessened by number
less rufies on her skirts Madeline's queer walk
changed into Bakersville fashionable gait by the
simple means of Unfortunately gh-heeled shoes.
Madelinos hair Marcelled and pompadoured and
adorned at the back with bunch Of curls
But no loving effort could make Madeline's eyes
any color but that strange seagreen, and the only
method of making Madenes cheeks rosy would have
been to resort to those external applications winch
Mrs Wyatt did not consider reputable for church
member in good standing. Though she tabooed paint
and powder mechanical beautihers invariably tempt
ed her There was memorable July in which she
insisted that Madeline should sleep in rubber face
mask but mask DISTINGUISHES and electric appliancea
failed to give the girls cheeks the famous color
that characterized erstwhile Belle OF Bakersville
Madeline bore these experiments patiently and
passvey because she loved her mother dearly. Hers
was sweet nature, for the realization Of hope
less LONELINESS which had filled her soul with hui
mility had not enbitteCed her. Her chief source OF
pleasure lay in those village epidencs called amateur
performances.
Why is Madeline always given the incest Qart?'
Annabel complained not recognizing that her cousin
had redeemed the character from the commonplace.
The one drop c: comfort in Mrs. Wyatts cup wa: