The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-07-20
Misfress
Make Believe

house for father and me just a week
and she told father last night that
she couldn't stand it any longer be-
cause I'm such problem. l don't
know what she meant by that
! Mother used to call me blessing,
dreamer girl, darling and hug
I me tight and lots of other things, but
she never called me a problem.
/ | stood In the door of the library
when Aunt Matilda began to talk to
father last night and when she saw
NE there listening she just closed up
her lips tight and pretended to read
book which was Upside down.
! Don't mind Janey. Matilda" said
father. I'VE never have excluded her
from any family councils
! But 1t is about her / wish to
speak, she said.
! why, if it's about Janey she GER
tainly ought to be present." said
father in what mother called his dear,
decisive way.
Just as you say, William Any
thing that's agreeab BILE to you," said
Aunt Matilda. who didn't look a bit
agreeable herself.
| wish she had curis around her
face, because her pompadour shows
so much OF her forehead and it's a
kind OF cross, worried forehead.
Mother didn't have any of those aw-
fully deep lines in her forehead, only
once in q while cunning little Fuckers
came above the nose before she de-
cided whether or not to laugh at me-
But she almost always decided to
laugh and then the Fuckers dropped
down into her cheeks and made dim
pies there
Your child William" said Aunt
Matilda, looking at me severely. 're.
sists all my efforts at correction and
[ find it impossible to show her the
gravity OF punishment"
But we never have found it neces-
sary to punish Janey." said father.
smiling at me.
Wen, think it quite necessary.
When little girl puts on one Of her
aunt's best gowns and pins on all her
aunt's puts so loosely thar they fail
Off and fly around the yard when she
goes out to parade I think it's high
time fer something to be done You
may laugh. William, but fail to see
the humor in permitting child to Go
just as she pleases all the time
brought Jane in and put ner in the
cioset-the linen one. which is wen
ventilated, you know-and when in q
little While / called her to come ont
she wouldn't answer / found her
draped from head to foct IN enc OF the
best llnan sheets. She might have
torn. It,.
80. Aunt atild2s said. =
wouldn't nave torn It. WIS Sister
Angelica and had taken tie VOW of
silence for twenty years. / was count
ing awfully slowly and each count
meant year. I'd only got TO seven.
teen, when ven called"
Then what aid Tie. little nun do?"
asked fatGar.
n took that sheet or her, answered
Aunt Matildaj and told her how
naughty it WIS to Russ up the clean
linen and gave Her the Bible and
told her to resd three chapters. Then
when lunch vas ready We rang the
bell four tines. and after that had
to send s4ilda fer her Children should
never be late TO meals
But, Aunt Matilda, was reading
about Ruth and | forgot all about
lunch. liked it better than my
story books"
There, William, you see how hope
less it is to try to punish her In
the afternoon | told her she must take
nap. Most children hate to take
maps, but Jane united her hair and
lay down perfectly still and slept un-
til woke her. Then she asked me if
l were the prince and she wouldn't
get up when said of course | wasn't
a prince
You see, Aunt Matilda, was the
sleeping beauty and I was waiting for
the prince. If you'd only been the
prince I'd have got up the minute you
said so but had to wait for him.
isn't that perfectly absurd, VIII.
liam? l was so annoyed that I-well.
perhaps lost my temper. threw
some water in her face. There's moth
ing like water to bring children to
terms"
Father looked sad for minute.
was afraid he was svexed because
hadn't got up at once, so said: Il
got up when Aunt Matilda threw the
water, father, for then l was Venus
springing from the foam Of the sea
like the pictures you showed me, only
| had on my clothes"
Father laughed real hard then, just
as housed to laugh when mother was
here. That made Aunt Matilda say
she guessed he didn't want her to
train me ipto sensible woman and
he said, 1.-The Lord forbid"
Now Aunt Matilda is packing her
/ sat at the head Of the table this
morning and poured fathers coffee.
sT'sp Ahe mistress of the manso," |
said All handed him the cup, and he !
safe he expected me to be wise
little mistress, and Aunt Matilda, who |
lust then came into the dining room |
ovrf,,lls late. said she didn't know |