El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-08-01
Dorothy Dir WRITES sS SH
The Bachelor Girl Tells How
the Result

propitiOus for putting our long delayed
:. an into execution. The youngest child
was a sturdy lad Of 8, and the oldest
girl was old enough to run the house in
her mothers absence, and take care OF
him Everybody was well and healthy
In addition. I had had an unusually
profitable years work, and so ] de-
Scended on my sister, and told her that
now was the accepted time for that va
cation. and that we were going on it.
L was determined she should have
the time of her life. and I bought her
such supply of pretty clothes as she
hadn't had since she got her trousseau,
and L bore her off TO the gayest and
most charming resort / could find
When We began getting her ready to
go she was as delighted as child
Her eyes sparkled, her cheeks glOwed
until she licked 10 years younger. and
she simply dubbed over with happy
enthusiaSnls I noticed. though, as the
time drew near to start. that she began
TO have misgivings, and to look at the
children wiStfully as if she might never
see them again, and she spent most Of
the time while we were sewing for her
writing out instructions for running the
family in her absence
She Insisted on Worrying.
AT last we got off. Our trip took
us Though some Of the most beautiful
scenefy on the face of the earth. but
when turned to point out to her the
exquisite charm of where lake and
mountain met she would answer me,
oh, yes; 1 wonder IL Mary will make
Tommy change his shoes il he gets his
feet wet. His throat is so delicate
I knew that dinner in the dining car
would be an absolute novelty to her,
and 1 counted on her enjoying it as
such, but she didn't. She was worrying
about whether her husband had hts
coffee made exactly as he wished il.
John is so particular about his food.
she said.
~At the summer hotel had chosen
things were no better. She didn't rest
In the mornings as she had planned
She was up at the crack Of dawn writ
ing endless screeds to the children. She
couldn't fit into the gay life She
wandered re stlessly up and down the
galleries all day, wondering how things
were going at home, and what the chill
dren were doing. and the only human
being she met in whom she seemed 70
take the slightest interest was a little
girl that reminded her Of her own little
Mabel
Il never saw a more forlorn OF more
miserable. or homesick person, and at
last the crisis came.
The Vacations Ending.
One night 1 was awakened by
my sister was bending ove< me with q
face as CHASTITY as death itseh
Alice she said in a tense voice, I
am going home by the next train. I've
tried TO stand IL, but / can't. I've got
presentfment that something awful
has happened to one OF the children-It
has been killed. or is dying, or has been
kidnapped or something. Oh, why did
Gomez she walled. Something warned
me that I shouldn't do it. Something
told me that 1 shouldn't come, and
shall never forgive myself for being
a wicked. selfish woman TO think OF my
own pleasure instead of my poor darling
children
Well. you couldn't argue with a
thing like that So I got up and we
threw her things in her trunk, and
rushed her off to the railroad station,
and she went Historically back home
TO find everything perfectly all right
But the moral of the story is that
mothers can't take vacations, and it's
folly for them TO try. When my sister
was gone I sat down and cried a little,
and laughed a little. 1t is very hard
to be a slave like that, and very Won
derful and beautiful to love like that
And the Bachelor Woman sighed