The Washington herald., 1909-10-09
WITH MRS. ROBERT 8. PEARY


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time IN her life than she did playing with
those EsKimos, and she wants 70 go up
and meet them all over again.
Every time he goes Up" she said.
papa takes messages from me 10 them
and then he tells me how they all are
when he cores back. And this time he
says that the little girl 1 used TO play
with the most is married and has three
children. And she was two years young
er than I am"
II suppose II I should go up there
now I'd be regarded as a regular old
maid laughed the snow baby.
Goes TO school Here.
Miss Peary. when she is at home, goes
to school IN Washington, but she has
not absorbed any Of the Southern Ian
guidness of manner. Apparently a com
pound OF being born In the North and
brought up in the South makes a West
erner, for that, II you didn't know. is
what you would certainly think Miss
Peary was.
Her description OF the way the Peary
family received the great news had
very Western breeziness about Il.
Mother had gone upstairs with a sick
headache" she said. and had told me
II any reporters came-yOu know they
were botherlng us 10 pieces about that
Cook business-tO tell them she couldn't
see them.
We'll. reporter came TO the door and
l told him and he looked kind OF queer
and he said, have news from your
father Well. I had been standing with
the screen door between US. but with that
just flung II open and fairly seized him
by the lapel and I said. What is e., and
he held out the telegram and I read f.:
Have nailed the Stars and Stripes to the
pole" Well. l just made one dash up
the stairs for mother Half way across
the living room floor I had funny lit
tie recollection-the way you remember
things when you're terribly eXcited-that
had left that man standing up, and I
called back over my shoulder. Won't
you sft down. and could hear him
laugh as l dashed up the stairs"
Thought II n HOAX.
What did your mother say2'' 1 asked.
''she said, Isn't it glorious, don't
believe it. " answered Marie
Mrs. peary laughed a bit at that.
Yes" she said. Il was so afraid it
might be some hoax coming Just as Il
did right after the other news"
Robert, aged six, a yellow-haired.
sturdy youngster, is the latest member
Of the Peary family. and I thought I
ought not to leave him out so I asked
what he said when he heard the news.
4 just said bully" responded Master
Robert promptly. 7 was standing on
a great big rock when sister called out.
Robert. fathers found the pole and I
just yelled bully, and I was so glad
most fell right of that rock"
i am afraid Robert doesn't understand
a great deal about IT," said Mrs. Peary.
Hes glad his father Is back and he's
glad he got what he wanted, but = Is
awfully disappointed that Mr.. Nary
didn't bring the pole back with him. He
thought he was going to, and ne had
planned to Rave it used for a flagpole on
the island"
Loss of Daughter.
Perhaps the most exciting Of Mrs.
Peary's northern experiences was IN the
year 1900. Commander Peary went north
in the year 1898 not expecting to be back
for four years and not expecting 10 see
his wife during that time
A few months after he went. a little
blil WIS DULL lie news or his daugh-
ter's birth went 70 him on the next sup
ply ship. but by the time IL reached him
the little girl had died. so that by the
time he knew It was born, Il was dead
L knew that" said Mrs Peary. and
1t made me so crazy that I felt I had
simply got TO see him and salk things
over, so 7 went north on the next supply
ship. intending to spend the summer
with him.
But instead OF finding him. we found
letters from him that said he would not
be down until fall. You see he had no
idea that would be on the ship. Well.
We started IN the direction in which he
was, but 1t took us a week 20 30 twenty
five miles, and when We got that far the
ocean froze up and we had 10 stay there
all winter
4 didn't mind until It got time for the
commander to como in the fall and he
didn't come. I tried 20 send Eskimos to
go and hunt for him, but they said he
was dead-that they would find the whole
party dead. and they weren't willing 10
go on that account, for all Eskimos are
terribly afraid Of dead people.
They insisted that II the party were
alive the Eskimo men would have come
back 10 their wives who were near US
because they would know that their fam
lies wouldn't have any way of provid-
ing for themselves.
Cheerful, wasn't Il?