The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-02-13

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conversation; and I noticed that Aunt Matilda
didn't ask Uncle Scion awning ABOUT anu
Instead she turned the children's attention away
from their father by saying; .s@& -
your little sister Nelly She makes no complaint
She eats her food and says nothing, and she's the
Youngest of you ALL She's glad to help her fatner
Eyes, look at Nelly" said Rob. "she looks sick.
if you ask mel"
We all looked at Nelly She was a very queer
color. ~ =
"she feels perfectly wefl" asserted Aunt Ma
tilda. Don't you Nelly, DEAR"
At this Nelly rushed from the ROOM Aunt Ma
tda followed her anxiously. In moment
heard her calling for I went in and so dld
Pauline Nelly very sick little girl indeed 8
Aunt Matilda looked down on ner youngest 'nl'o'
Its one of her gastric attacks But now on
the healthy diet we've been having, she couio see
eating ANYTHING between meals, Nelly, dear?"'
Nelly is usually placid child, as nave tolo
you and good one but this question OF her motn-
ers stung even her spirit into rebellion Between
gasps and groans she cried:
between meals! Between meals! When nave
we had any meals? I couldn't eSt anything oe-
tween meals. There amt any meals ~ ea' any
thing between"
anything the matter with any of the children tn
II think I'll telephone for the doctor, mother
"It isn't in the least necessary, father, replied
Aunt Matilda. Its just one of Mey's gastric
attacks, which can perfectly handle myself
Uncle Scion, however, plodded gravelx out and
took down the receiver and pretty soon the doctor
there. I notice that when he does come Aunt
Matilda is as glad to see him as anybody.
What food he wanted to know, has this child
been eating?" ,
That's the queer part of it, Doctor" said Aunt
Matilda. II don't understand it at all: She's been
eating nothing but the most healthful food"
"Not been having any cures around lately?" the
doctor asked with suspicious look: mo no break
fast fad no cereal craze? I notice Mr.. shoemaker
looks pretty we'll, and 1 thought you might have
been starving him little lately: If you could
just keep him from eating much
Here Rob laughed a bitter laugh.
Eating much! We haven't had a square
meal for weeks-we kids haven't but bet your
life pa hits the grub when he's DOWNTOWN" :.
'Robert!' cried Aunt Matilda, scandalized. =
Raw an cheese Sci is T Rhat we've been eating
"No wonder!" the doctor exclaimed, that that
childs stomach is upset Salad and apples tor a
gexnG eh ad M ~ for 1es
~masticate properly; but children always swallow
everything whole. I've always told you that diet
gets one good meal downtown
At this point Uncle Scion walked with dignity
down the corridor. Nor was Aunt Matilda anxious
to press the point.
that this is what ails Mey?" -.
What more would you want?" the doctor In
CURED. Its enough to give any child indiges-
tion.'
Uncle Scion, his dignity unimp aired, walked
back. '.,#
''Tve decided, Matilda" he said, 'to give up
the cure However good it is for me, won't have
the chdren's stomachs impaired I'd rather suffer
than have them suffer-
AS Aunt Matilda would have spoken he held up
large hand. .H
mo" he said 1--WE won't argue the point. I
don't often interfere in the running of the family.
but when do, as you know, 1T is final We will go
back to our ordinary diet tomorrow,
I suppose 1t account of Melly's being
sick that I didn't sleep we'll that night, and
kept waking and falling asleep again. Nelly was
restless too. 1t must have been at two in the night
that awakened by her crying: sprang to
what is it, Menx?" asked. care you sick
"'Tisn't that" she sobbed, "tisn't that.
it's that I'm SO bad-but can't tell them OH
sWhat do you mean Melly?" asked her again,
iii tell you, Daisy, but don't you tell them; but
I've got to tell some one!" .... +
What do you mean, Mey?' I asked again.
-. "Oh I've done something dreadful" she walled,
lifting Up Up her pale little face to me- me- I'm hypp
What have you done?' asked her. as gently
could. ~. -s@% @z.-.
go look in my lower bureau drawer, under my
Clothes in the right-hand corner, and then you'll
know" -. ~ 49,
I did as she told me. There, wrapped in precise.
neat little packages were part of a mince pie, in
another package some doughnuts and in paper
bag some bananas. ~. 80 "a
That's why I'm SICK" walled Nelly, "rhe Lord
made me sick because he's angry with me. I got
so hungTy.I couldn't stand it. Oh, Daisy, it's an
awful thing to say, but love to eat and there
wasn't anything to eat! And i broke open by bank
full of my Easter Offering, and now I'm sick!
Oh, I'm awful sick. Perhaps I'll de!' 3.
Nonsense, Nelly said. You're not going to
die ..* .-.sI. i. -. .~..#59 49,:
She laid herself down the bed again.
II feel better for having told" she sighed
put my arms around her and kissed her.
1T wouldn't have been bad she sobbed, III
hadn't%done it with my Easter Offering"
I soothed her, and kissed her, and when I
thought had got her all right she burst out cry
ing again. *.z5
Don't feel so bad about It," said. when you
get WELL you cant tell your mother and I'm sure
she'll forgive you"
" 'Tisnt that I'm crying for, Daisy" she sobbed.
Its because-oh, I'm going to be so hungry when
IN well-and the Easter offerings all gone"