The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1911-04-14


down here and all eat the pie am
going TO clear off the counters SO .nes
can set up to them and be conholt
able and | an going to put buncn oi
eowars in between each pile OF PIES
Won't thew all have a good tme'
something in Miss Selma Lue's oe"in
ing hospitality smothered any nlssI
lngs that Mr. Alan might have hau
about the arrangements, and his go"
of anticipation matched her own
well" she remarked briskly' l
must be turning around If / am 10 se'
all that ready. Can't l help you Tx up
none9 Don't you want any pahts
messed? I would admire to do 1t. l
could borrow the heavy iron MIS-
Simmons presses Mr.. Simmons WIZ
and do 1t in no time.
Miss Selma Lue's sweet soilcltuue
went to Mr.. Alan's heart and ne looA
her hand as he said:
"If nv mother had been with me-
Miss Selma Lue, she would nave let
me tell her-abOut-it all-and she
would bave-asked about the trousers.
7 wonder If it is because you are not
anybodys mother that you are every
body's?"
"Mr, Alan, you are the first person
that amt put that to me pitying-hKe
about not having no children, ana
here YOU are giving me the whole
world to mother. Well, my heart
amt crowded yet they is room Ter
'em all. big, little and grown-ups 100
Seems like sometimes grown-ups snow
a mighty hankering fer little moth
ering, and l amt the one to hold II
hack from EN-. Lands alive, If there
amt Mis- Tyne and all the family
come back! You pick up Pattie and
bring her out here, fer know her ma
is lest dead to see her, and l will run
and help Sammie and Ella Virginia
carry that valise'
AS Mr.. Alan approached the group
that seethed around and against Miss
Selma Lue, the mother Of Patue Sc
gregated herself from the mass ana
without warning precipitated herself
on Pattie and so necessarily on that
young ladys new friend.
ooh, please excuse me, sir" she
painted, gaining her equilibrium ana
her offspring at the same time Il was
| lest that excited! Seems like | could
eat her up. Miss Selma Lue, you
can't never know how good 1t Is to git
back to one you've left" which seem
ingly, only seemingly, ungracious re-
mark had the edge taken off by Pat
ties emphatic squirm and whimper to
ward Miss Selma Lue. The quality OF
Miss Selma Lue's mercy she knew
, and that Of her mother she had forgot
| ten.
GIVE her back to me, Mis- Tyne,
and l will put her in her soap-box
while you all git unpacked. You come
Jest In time fer the party, and you
better git about fixing fer it. Thank
you, Mr. Alan-the valise are a heavy
load fer the children"
AS she stood on the grocery steps
and watched Mr. Alan carrying the
Tyne valise on down to the Tyne
front door with perfect courtesy, she
spoke earnestly to Blossom, who sal
in split basket by the door Bios
SONS personality though in the bud
exhaled the fragrance of sympathy
and made her a responsive mark fol
conversation.
Blossom" she said in tones Of
quiet Joy, ut looks like the two nicest
people in the world are going to gil
married to each other, and amt +
fine that they dispositions fit into ont
another like the edges of a piece o
paper tored in two? Sometimes whel
l see wives all wore out will
work and crossnegs, and husbands fe,