The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-11-13


It scos lonely place for the women-that Stephen
generously admitted. 4 long ridge, some five hundred
young people leaving by twos and threes fast
as they grew and the roads very bad and vis-
So at last he sighed and said "A right mother, we'll
&c. btu IN declare hate to give up tbs FARM dom.
know w''.t in time III do with myself"
urcs rscallcd Marhas delight she watched the work
SET the Sd re e slab M
to rs.nemtsr how pretty she locked as she touched
re Hanging of the She was eeerfu and
Stephen believed. happy but when she went away he
begaI to realize thai she had really taken root IN
the West and now that he was growing old, he him
sell began to dwell! and in the land Of hi;
YOUTH his thoughts returned often to his rocky New
Hampshire intervale
Ys. hardest Of all to loose the , tendris of
arranged and redecorated after her heart Martina
fireplace remained unchanged.
s sit want this room to look as it does nov" just ''
A the time for the migration drew near, Stephen
s.e:e away from the disordered kitchen sadly
wa: willing Serbia should sell all the furniture they
had. except few pieces that had been Marthas. and
there demand for the irons and brasscs
around the fireplace. he expected to box them up as
The cottage in town seemed to grow smaller afte-
they moved into it; but Serbia and cariss were de-
advantages" with fluent tongues. ITS small of
course; but what do we want with big house? It's
just that much less work to take Of Besides, here
pump right in the Kitchen and furnace,
and bathroom and everything is neat pin
"You to just lay back and rest" said Hiram Fox,
Of u, are doin and we're dom it conscientiousy The
town is full Of tired farmers like u.s."
Sometimes at night when his wife thought him doz-
ing he was really bac in the old Coolly house watch
ing the blazing logs his mind filled with delicious sad
ou s e his I sat n
Portable room, possessing horse and carriage with
with ali 5 cat n 5 I
the thought of it. Oh. if he could only re-live it all
Winter descate; but Martins face shone like Star,
and the old heat rendered each night with his children
sweet t'" Hunger was keen but eating brought no Ill
in its train.
He was loyal to Serbia, the mother of his children;
wholly Of his heart-and her fireplace to typiiy
all that sweetest and most poetic in his life and in
they had gathered when the e1ibbed and the
cattle housed for the night In its light they had
He awoke with start.
Christmas?" he asked, night. 1--WE can't all get
into this little box of place. There amt in the
hsS:t nothing SeTa ao as sf oS'
clare it clean disheartens me-"
wen somehow guess We :, can't have bu;
part Of the children at time. that's all We can bid
mas"
This ranked in Stephens mind and thereafter he de-
ns roy :n oS but a ho in
grow DID, it revolving in spite of its shining paint
In reality it held out no charm no poetry associa
tions was as rectangular as dygoods box and as
child born in such house is cheated Of its birthright
of dim, wide lit up by the dancing freight;
robbed OF the the great trees chant as they roar
suggestion Something of this fitted through Stephens
he said sI"'n nG day. wsh had
room big enough round in, and carpet and
some old-fashioned chairs and hrepace- :. :,
his wife irritably Nobody has freplaces now, and
how you going to have big room in this house'"
Nonsense This house is all right, plenty big enough
for us--with Cariss likely to go off any minute. And
as for Thanksgiving and Christmas, we go to the
hotel and get dinner, take em in squads here at
home "
at ALL 1t wouldn't natural right for to to
hotel such days We'd ought o have all such meals
"Well, you wouldn't build big house just to for
Il d know but would" he answered, sturdly Il
soep mes 5"y the Merrill place and have @ to
No sirfee You don't ketch me Twin on the edge of
town. with sidewalks l want to be right in the
centre Of things where we can have our telephone
Il could put in the telephone"
farm to live in town. and don't want no halfway busi-
ness in mine
S.ephen surrendered to her Will and made no further
compliant.
They took their Thanksgiving dinner at the hotel
and on the way home Serbia said, :" There! For once
i'll lives, Cariss don't have to think Of Thanks
giving dinner dishes"
That's right answered Cariss and yet it doesnt
seem a bit like Thanksgiving docs it, pa? ?"
Stephen did answer, for he MS far away in the
holidays OF the past
It is tragic thing to old in daily labor. but
( is clnos. sad to grow Old with nothing to do