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

MaRe-B Believe

Aunt Mduiud is perfectly QlScOur-
aged with me. She has been keeping
house for father and me just week
and she told father last night that
she couldn't stand 1t any longer be-
cause I'm such problem. / don't
know what she meant by that
Mother used to call me a blessing.
dreamer girl, darling and a hug
me tight and lots of other things. but
she never called me problem.
/ stood in the door of the library
when Aunt Matilda began to talk to
father last night and when she saw
me 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 agreeable to you," said
Aunt Matilda. who didn't look a bit
agreeable herself.
wish she had curls 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 while cunning little Fuckers
came above the nose before she de-
eided 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, IRE.
sists al 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-
Well, | think it quite necessary.
When little girl puts on one of her
aunt's best gowns and pins on all her
aunt's puffs SO loosely that they fail
off and fly around the yard when she
goes out to parade think it's high
time for something to be done. You
may laugh. William, but L fail to see
. the hunor in permitting a child to do
Just as she pleaaes all the time.
brought Jane in and put ner in the
closet-the linen one. which is well
ventilated, you know--and when. in a
little while / called her to come out
she wouldn't answer / found her
draped from head to foet IN one OF the.
best ti2en sheets. She might have
torn IT..
!. 90. ~ Aunt No IL said u
wouIdn't nave torn it. was Sister
Angelica and / had taken the vow of
!. silence for twenty years. i was count
Ing aWfully slowly and each count
4 meant a year. I'd only got to seven
! teen When You called,
Then what did the little nun dor
asked father.
II took that sheet OF her. answered
Aunt Matildaj "aad / told her how
naughty it WIS. to fxuss up the clean
] linen and I gave Her the Bible and
told her to read three chapters. Then
I when lunch vas ready We rang the
bell four times. and after that / had
i to send Hilda for her. Children should
never be late to meals. .
But, Aunt Matilda, 1 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
!, a 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
/ 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? ! was SO annoyed that I--well.
pcIudpSe " iOoI lily lCAupCI. Ks Iur6W
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 ,vexed because
hadn't got up at once, so said: Il
got up when Aunt Matilda threw the
water, father, for then / was Venus
springing from the foam of the sea
like the pictures you showed me. only
I 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. "The Lord forbid
Now Aunt Matilda is packing her
trunk
] sat at the head Of the table this