The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-06
CLEVER AUNT CLARA
BY TEMPLE BAILEY.

why don't you let the other girls do 1T" she de-
Dorothea, hesitatng condemn stepsisters said
that they did not like to ruin their finger nails.
Dorothea took two red rough little hands the
now am here her aunt @ decided. sye sa are
not going to wash the dishes III hire maid and
that is worth seeing"
III Dorothea shook her head TIN afraid they won't
makes more work"
That night Aunt Clara preached the subject of more
help. She was not that she liked her brothers
new wife, but she meant to be pleasant to her and
TO see great deal of Dorothea and that 1t would
be best therefore to get some one 70 do the work
her so the maid was secured and Dorothea free.
the shops She fitted her out with everything In the
way OF pretty summer clothes There was an exaus-
OH Aunt Clara you are perfect fairy godmother!-
Well | think you need fairy Rodmother," Aunt
Clara said Il wish could help to find the prince
away away a.,
Dorothsa shook her head. 81 sure, but think
they told him was too young to marry"
n was al the answer sssa Aunt Cara made
stepmother and her daughters They admitted that
there had been young man, but that he poor
and Dorohea young, and besides they needed her
Aunt Clara went up to her room and wrote letter.
she was wise old woman. and she knew that love
money. and If Dorothea wished marry a poor prince
1t week before the came and in the
meantime Aunt Clara spoke of the big lawn party
mat ma she Intended to give The house was too small.
refreshment tent could be put the lawn. and.
money can do everything. the place could be quite
transformed the occasion.
She told Dorothea the embroidered white
white satin slippers although they did no. seem APP
serve lemonade but Dorothea was TO mtnge with tina
guests.
Thus IT happened that Dorothea. dream OF beauty
in her snowy white, the lawn with
Clara just in time to meet in nannels
Why-it's blackjack Barton!" --.I
Ii had business here" he stammered.
Later he and Aunt Clara had long talk. r
love her dearly"
with Aunt ciaras announcement. however tn. ,..
done her good work. the old lady left Tor home
routine, Dorothea again washed the dishes and. it
seemed TO her, the summer waned and the winter
that she and Jack growing farther
There nothing left OF the romance of the summer
s w .pps. hsd roh ep o the
top OF her dresser reminder OF the aay when
Jaek had had asked asked. her TO marry him. e.,
Jack declared. everybody says so
who everybody
], developed that the s,eps,stsr- mad been making
should not have existed And there was no fairy god
mother to straighten things out.
one night Dorothea sat In the kitchen alone Every
one else had the theatre. She had finished her
work and was resting for moment in the quiet place
Suddenly she heard step on the walk the knob OF
stepped in quickly it was Aunt Clara
Tell me what has happened? she said: i have
"He-doesnt me-" Dorothea sobbed.
Aunt Clara became peacemaker Her
methods were not those OF the godmosher in the fairy
and she had automobile which served her pur-
! pose better than a carriage. Into Il she bundled
Run upstairs hrst." she ordered, and put your
white gown and those white satin slippers II It's going
transformation scene right nov. have only this
evening to spend with you o-rnorrow~ leave tor
Europe and must see you and Jack married before
go
instead OF the prince searching for Cinderella
was not at his boarding house he was not at hi.
figure In her automobile bonnet and long coat
the tanitor Then suddenly Dorothea
that Jack might have gone TO call on her and they
lover Cinderella and her sodmother respondent In the
big drove and accosed him.
You are to come with us and get married." Aunt
Clara told him . - ..,.
stammered.
She explained that she vas going to Europe: tina.
would make trouble. and they had better get married
drove eat to place. Where les. foras w
than inside the city limits The pastor OF little old
ing and handed Cinderella envelope. Within was
gift of land and money that made their future
What's the OF being fairy godmother2" Aunt
do it right i hope when | am old you viii let me
come and sit in your chimney corner and are not
happy it isn't my fault
she really godmother in fairy tale. with -
funny goggles and her big straw cap.
Uncle Joe" Worried.
I-ncle Joe Cannon cannot be called lame duck~
by means, but he cannot help wondering he
will get along when he decides to quit publ. life.
The speaker has just passed his seveny-fourth birth
day.
1T doesn't feel any different to be seventy-four
old than ii did seventy three" he said feel
well and strong l did when years younger
My blood has lime In it, far know, and NY
veins are not hardening. My heart action is COOL
There Is only thing that worries some-
times / don't know what / will do with mySlf
when retire from public life Some day I probn.
bly, will have give up this work In which / have
been Interested long. have been in II now, van
see, for thirys six 1t has grown to be rather
habit.
Il suppose I'll find something else to do buk 1
can't figure out now Just what 1t will be-
{, The speaker hasn't expressed his views a yes -
the suggestion made by Champ Clark recently. tha3
rncis joe owed the publie book of rcminisesuccH
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