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

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 blessing,
/, dreamer girl, darling and 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 a
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 curis around her
face, because her pompadour shows
so much OF her forehead and it's
kind OF cross, worried forehead
Mother didn't have any of those aw-
fully deep lines in her forehead, only
once in a 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, 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.
well, | think it quite necessary.
When a little girl puts on one of her
aunt's best gowns and pins on all her
aunt's puffs SO loosely that they fall
off and fly around the yard when she
goes out to parade think It's high
{ time fer something to be done You
may laugh. William, but / fail to see
; the humor in permitting a child to do
Just as she pleases, all the time |
brought Jane in and put her in the
/, closet-the linen one. which is well
ventilated. you knoW-and when in 4
little while called her to come ont
she wouldn't answer | found her
draped from head to foot IN one OF the
best linen sheets. Shas might have
torn it,
!. seaa .iasse Amt ida, i said. =
Wouidnt nave tern il. vas Sister
3 Angelica and had taken tie VOW OF
s silence for twenty years. / vas count
ing aWfuily slowly and each count
meant a year. I'd only got to seven.
teen when you called.
Then what did the little nun dor
asked father.
Il took taat spset Of her answered
Aunt Matildaj and told her how
Z naughty it WITS to russ up the clean
{, linen and Eave Her the Bible and
told her to read three chapters. Then
4 when Lunch was ready We rang the
bell four times. and after that 1 had
to send Hiida for her. Children should
never be late to meals
But, Aunt Matilda, was reading
about Ruth and / forgot all about
lunch. liked 1t 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
Il nap. Most children hate to take
n maps, but Jane united her hair and
lay down perfectly still and slept un-
til | woke her. Then she asked me if
i were the prince and she wouldn't
4 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,
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 q 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 ] 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 into sensible woman and
he said, THE Lord forbid"
Now Aunt Matilda is packing her
trunk.
] sat at the head Of the table this
!. morning and poured fathers coffee.
pm he mistress of the manse,"
said a91 handed him the cup, and he
sale he expected me to be wise
little mistress, and Aunt Matilda. who
INST then came into the dining room
ss@7f,fts.f late said she didn't know