The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-09

a. GAl On inherent lines
For instance, his little AIgernon
1hetWood could speak nothing but
french, that bein' the brand Of gov
erhess ne d always had, and so he nat
uraiy couldn't be very thick with a
grandmother that didn't understand
word Of his lingo
Besides says Vincent. mother
ana my wife, I regret to say. have
genial"
/ might have guessed it if 70
stopped TO think of how old Iadv
from the country would 18th one
OF them high flynn CHI GOOD Iris.
Ihen she hangs out with your sis
Ter en-. and does her grandmother act
there says ].
Well hardly" says Vincent, color
IN up little. You see, Rodney has
never been very intimate with the rest
of our family. He's Kipp. and"
wen, you can't blame him: for mother
IS rather old-fashioned. OF course,
She's good and kind hearted and all
mat; bUt-but there isn't much style
about her"
Still sticks to the pOlonaise of 81,
and wears a straw lid she bought dur
IN the Centennial, eh?" says I.
Vincent says that AAout tells the
story,
And where is it she's been Twin all
this time Il at you've been gettin' on
so well in New York; says l.
In our old home, TOnawanda," says
ne, shudderin' some as he let's go OF
the name. It's where she should have
stayed, too"
So-o-o-O says I. I'd been listenin'
just out Of politeness up to that point,
but from then on / got interested. and
l don't let up until I've pumped out
of him all the details about just how
much Of nuisance an old. back num-
Der mother could be to a couple of
ambitious young folks that had grown
up and married into the swell mob.
It was a case that ought to he hei&
up as a warnin' to lots Of supcrfluOus
old mothers that amt got any better
taste than to keep on Twin long after
there's any use foE- EN-. Mother Vim
cent hadn't made much trouble at
first, for she had arnold maid sister TO
take care of; but when bad case of
the grip got Aunt Saphrony durin' the
previous winter, mother was left sort
of floatin' around
She tried visitin' back and forth be-
tween Vincent and Nellie just one con-
secutive trip, and the experiment was
such a frost that it caused ructions in
both families. In her Tonawanda re-
gala mother want an exhibit tina:
to pass the soup to and still keep a
straight face.
So Vincent thinks it's time to an
Choir her permanent somewhere. Ac-
corGin' to his notion, he did the hand
some thing, too. He buys her nice
little farm about mile outside of To-
nawanda, q place with a fine view OF
the railroad tracks on the west and a
row of brickyards to the east, and he
fnnfhTpCc
old German hOusekeeper for company.
He tells her he's settled 2 good, COM
Portable income on her for life, and
leaves her to enjoy herself.
But look a the ingratitude parent
can work Up, She amt been there
mOTe'n 2 couple of months before she
begins complainin' about bein' lone
some. She don't see much of the To-
nawanda folks now, the housekeeper
amt very sociabIe, the smoke from
the brickyards yellows her Monday
wash, and the people she sees goin' by
in the cars is all strangers. Couldn't
Vincent swap the farm for one near
New York? She liked the looks Of the
place when she was there, and
wouldn't mind being closer.
of course" says he, that was out
Of the question:,
"Oh. sureW' says l. How absurd,
bulletin about her being a stray?'
1t was nothing more or less than
that the old girl had sold Up the farm
a couple Of months back, fired the
housekeeper, and quietly skipped for
New York. Vincent had looked for her
to show up at his house, and when she
didn't he figured she must have gone
to NeIlie's. It was only when Rodney
Kipp fires the granny question at
him that he sees he's made wrong
calculation and begins havin' cold feet
IF she's here, alone in New York,
there's no knowing what may be hap
penng to her" says he. why. she
knows nothing about the city, nothin'
at all, She might get run over, or fail
in with disreputable people, or The
other pictures was so horrible he
passes an up.
Mother must be a great care says
L Il amt had one for so long ] can't
saws on my own hook; but I judge
that YOU and sister has had hard
time of il with yours. Excuse me
though. if I don't shed any tears Of
sympathy Vincent"
He looks at me kind Of sharp al
that: hut he's too busy with d-sturbin'
thoughts to ask what 7 mean. Maybe
he'd found out If he had It's just as
well he didn't. for / was some curious
to see what would be his next move.
From his talk it's plain Vincent is