The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-11-26
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Susy had too much pride to weep before the servants
She went back upstairs different child from the pen
tent who had descended yearnng for her mother She
felt numb and little sick, but there brassy flare
IN her BRAIN that made her know things under
stood before during all the eight years of her life
She selected the most uncomfortable place she could
hnd-thc hard mat by the back hall door, under
which the cold air crepand there hugging her knees
she gave herself her misery She zCoS not oucd
Size not 1Vdncd. Her parents gone, bearing
Gcncyieve to glory and pleasure. the were
cross, but OF ALL Her Own Mother had suggested
the visit to Emmy, to have her, the undcsred and
loved child, we'll out of the way!
She wept long the would come By the
time her eyes dry and burning she was hardened
little shmael If nobody loved her, why should she
love any one? II very evident that if she died
one would Even the thought that they would all
be stricken with they gazed at her in her
fower-trmmcd coffin had cold comfort in it
She began TO look for the winch went TO the
making OF this situation Why did her parents love
Gencvcve better than they loved her? Why she
not adored rs Emmy Woods adored by her mother?
Thinking OF Emmy made her remember the green bottle
and that she had been seeking sympathetic confeSsor
tell OF its when the knowledge of her unlovcd
condition had come Upon her. She the
thought of this disaster into the questions prompted By
her of injury.
If Emmy had broken the bottle Emmy. the pampcred
and her German governcsS-would Emmy be scoldedl
No
If Gcncvieve had broken t-Gcncvieve, aged five
whom everybody kept kissng-would she be punished?
No
If her brother Bob had broken t-Bob aged eleven
off at boarding school, whose homecomings were
easts for whom the best OF everything kep-would
he be punished Rordy-nothng speak of certainly
He would hear few rcgreul words and be dispatched
TO apologize to Mrs Woods
This injustice. and Susy recognized it as such
She began to understand 1t in her way Emmy was
Only Child Gencyicve Youngest Child Her
brother Bob was an Eldest Child But she had been
placed by unlnd fate in the unattractive position
possibe-she The middle. She began to think
that tho fairy stories wrong and that Cinderella
mast have been Middle Well, what would happen
TO a Middle one when she quite by accident broke
green bottle? She would be taken sadly by her mother
to quiet library where her father would sit sternly
waiting. and after LOT of talk about how awful she was
and what disappointment 10 her parents various pun
Shments that she did to dwell upon, in
fancy would be arranged for her
At this point the instinct Of selfdcfense brought her
to decision:
III soy nothing about The bottle one anil krotu
Her face frightened Why not? Why confess and
be she the Cinderella, the unoyed Middle
Child? Mrs Woods would fancy that Emmy had broken
the bottle Very well, let Emmy who had everything
made pleasant for her. bear the blame. She Susy CD
vary had trouble enough in her dark life without both
cring about nasty little bottle that have been
very cheap to break easily. So, from stumbling
sinner sine became an ezuant one When she saw Gene
We've come back from her drive 7utih bdHoou she al
most did not mind she wickedy happy in having
put the OF her own fault upon an Only Child. Her
eyes were red but silence eloquent OF dark things
wrapped her about.
"Susy, dear" her mother asked whats the mat
- bar, her hcrh afr
after the tender, busy manner OF mothers Were you
disappointed because you weren't taken driving to-day?
I'm sorry, but there wasn't for you in the
ragc"
Susy wriggled from her Hords' Hordsi Words!
"On Saturday week. If its fine you shall and
Genevieye shall stay at home Gcncvievc won't mind,
will you-my swcct2"
Genevicve paused in her balloon-Aying She looked
dubious
What would I do while susy away in the han
SOM" she asked cautiously
"Why Margaret could take you to Central Park to
see tho lions
"Oh. then wouldn't care if Susy went" cried Gene
We've
You dear, generous, sweet mite! and Mrs Oivarry
caught her and smothcred her with kisses.
Susy had retreatcd to corner, and her set mouth,
her folded arms not unlike those of the cXied
Napoleons in the famous painting. The little scene
had borne her previous logic only too well. OF
when size was taken drlVlpS, something equally
charming provided for the Youngest Child. She
went to bed that night rebel ripe soil for more de-
ccpon If by it she could champion the Cause OF the
great army OF unapprcciated Middle ones,
But is usual when is eight all this was almost
entirely forgotten long before four days had passed So
many and really pleasant things had happened that
dark reflections had been crowded On Tuesday. she
had praise school for her realistic rendition of
The Charge of the Light Brigade and she liked to
remember the hush after she had cried in her best chest
tones:
Theirs but to do and die
Noble six hundred
Also girl had said it 4 shame to plat such
curly hair Susy had and this had led to friendship
sealed and signed with many marshmelow drops, and
other confectons dear the childish heart 1t was
no. -I-nl t:crefore, that on Thursday, when Susy