The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-09
When Grandmother Got Going By

r---a~ go on 4 grandmother hunt
,,.-.rsn the Red Ink district? Well,
!. .fr-t "a reglar not weather amuse-
-- of mine. but it has its good
hints. Maybe I wouldn't nave tackled
. az All ir I hadn't begun by lettin'
.-rsaIr get interested in Vincent's do
nestle Affairs
>-.r what I knew about this Vim
.,rr chap before we starts out on the
--arfm1ther trail wouldn't take long
- fsr He want any special friend
mine For one thing, he wears his
-s.r cut plush. Course. it's his hair,
md if ne wants to train it TO stand
-- on top like q clothes brush or q
,f..-fng daUbeT. who am 1 that
should curl the lip Of scorn?
last the same, l never could feel
~. dummy towards any one that
-.-faE one Of them self-raisin' cTests.
vincent want one of the chummy
t.-. though He's one Of these stiff
ts.sad. black-haired. brOwn-eyed
.-f.E-notioned sharp-sDoken ducks.
.-sr wants what he wants when he
.sr-s It, You know RE comes to the
suTf1 regular. does his fOTty-five min
MOS. work and gets out without
s~annfn' any more conversation than
Be- strictly necessary.
All the information I had picked up
sb4rt him was that he hailed from up
,r- state somewhere. and that soon
.f-sr To struck New York ne married
l-, 1r the ChetWood girls And that
,skss more or less capital to start
vf-i Guess Vincent had il: for
-ssr his ola man left him quite a wad
ar5 that now he's the main guy of a
trrashrn machine trust. or something
IKE that AWAY, Vincent belongs
On The four-cylmder plute class. and
hos bpEiuuin' to be heard of among
tre aIimony aristocracy.
Bur this amt got anything to do
zfth the way he happened to get con-
f5snrisI all so sudden. He'd been
rsyin' a hid pillow mix-up with Swiftly
To- inst as lively as if the thermome-
-sr vas down to thirty instead Of up
N ninety. and he's just had his rub
dow, and got into his featherweight
.s-rs when i'm drifts this Rodney Kip
that's fiEurin' so strong on the de-
tense side of them pipe line cases.
All Vincent says he.
Hello. Rodney says Vincent as
they passes each other i'm the front Of
fee. one gOin' out and the other comm
"a never happened to see 'em meet
before. Snd I'm some surprised that
they're so we'll acquainted. Don't
know why. either. unless it is that
they're so different. Rodney, you
know. is one of these light Completed
fsayyveiEhts, ana a swell because he
was born so. I was wOnderin' if Rod
nev was one OF NinCent'ss lawyers, OF
if they just belonged to the same
clubs when Mr.. kipp swings on his
heel and says
"Oh. by the way, Vincent. how is
srsnuy2'
Why" says Vincent, isn't she out
with you and Nellie?'
NO" says Rodney. "she stayed with
rs only for a couple of days Nellie
said she hadn't heard from her for
nearly two months, and told me TO
ask you about her. So long I'm due
fo- some medicine ball work" and
with that he drifts into the gym. and
shuts the door.
Vincent. he stands lookin' after him
with a kind Of worried look on his
face that was cOmiCaI TO see on such
cocksure chap as him.
Lost somebody, have yOu?" says I.
-Why-er-I don't know" says Vim
cent runnin' his fingers through the
hristles that waves above mis- noble
brow. IT'S grandmother. I can't i'm
ague where she can be"
You must have grandmothers to
burn SAYS 7. IF they're so plenty
with YOU that You can misIay one now
and then without missin' her"
I'm" says he NO, no, She is
really my mother. you know. I've got
into the way Of calling her granny
only during the last three or four
Years"
oh. see" says 7. The grand
mother habit is something she's con-
Uacted imperative recent, Ell? Amt
gone 90 her head. has it2"
Vincent couldn't say; but by the
Eme he's quit tryin' TO explain what
las happened I've got the whole story.
First of he points out that Rodney
Ai1p ha-in' married his sister Nellie,
Is his ur0ther-in-law. and, as they
both have d couple OF youngsters, It
makes Nuoent's mother d granny in
both families.
Sure" says T. "I know how that
works out. She stays part of the time
with EoE. and makes herself mighty
popular with YOUR kids: then she takes
75r trunk over to ROdney's and goes
through the same performance there.
and when she goes visitin' other
Places there's great howl all around.
That's lr. amt it2S
it WANT not within a mile. and I'd
showed un my low. common breedin'
lE suggesting such a thing As gently
77 o.. could without huTtin' my feel
r-- much. Vincent explains that
While w- program might be strictly
a"e. foot for ordinary people, The
Domestic arrangements Of the upper