Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-02
Part TX.
A GRANDPARENTS INpIscRErIoN

A GRANDFATHER'S INDlSCRETION.
In the little company again gathered
in the "parlor Of Jones Manor" after Bob
and his father had taken their stroll it
was soon apparent that the high spirits
which Josie had at intervals manifested
had transferred themselves to Broadway
From one to another of the three Spots
woods his attention and his humor darted
Good news? Good news, my boys" the
Judge asked, referring to the business
caller whom Jackson had said he was
going TO see outside.
1.-THE best news in the world" answered
Jackson, with burst of joyous laughter
And good for the plant, too?" the
judge queried.
1.-THE best in the world for the plant
too'" went on Jackson. You see | was
under heavy obligations-and I had to
meet those obligations-in fact, they kept
following me around wherever l was
there was a whole bunch of them-and
they we're very old-in fact, they had had
three husbands-so you can see how
much older than those obligations
were
He paused. and the Judge, suspecting a
Soke, asked in a puzzled fashion:
THE PERPLEXED JUDGE.
obligations with three husbands-why,
my boy--I don't see
"Of course you don't" put in Jackson.
But you would have seen if you had
been in my place for the last few weeks
And now I've met those obligations, and
thank God, I'll never have to meet them
again, except that I'll bow to the Earl and
he win probab eav SIR
Broadway sa.o with so much
laughter, and yet So N.ia dir, that the
judge became alarmed. Is ,ros sought
his wife's. To the judges wonlo- there
was no amazement in her face Indeed,
as the judge stared at his spouse, whom
he now realized he did not know despite
lifetime's acquaintance, he decided that
she really sensed what Broadway was
talking about. At his unspoken inquiry
she made vague gesture toward Josie
as though she thought that he ought to
realize what she meant without other
clearer sign.
While the judge was still perplexed,
Broadway exclaimed:
Let's go out into the air
The first to obey the invitation was the
judge, who said as he moved toward the
door:
THE JUDGE BLUNDERS.
why, certainly, my boy; perhaps the
air will do you good mean
BY terrible look Mrs. Spotswood let
him see that he had Numbered again, but
Jackson had not noticed The moment
he had made his suggestion he had
stepped to Josies side quite naturally.
IN his continuing bewilderment the Judge
looked at his daughter Clara. In her face,
too, he read the same understanding of
Inc situation, while there was also mir
fored a profound admiration, longing and
appreciation of romance. The judge de-
clded that women were queer creatures
ana entirely ruled by forces not known to
man
once outside Spotswood tried to repair
'Ae plunder that he seemed to have ON
united, though he did not yet know what
,oal olunder was He kept close to
broadway and continued:
Now my boy, the air of Jonesville is
very oracing, I always said that the town
'us"l 10 be better known as health re-
So''. There are really no mosquitoes to
speak of and a good hoteI'-
suddenly he found that neither of the
,"' whom he was addressing we're paying
sue sIshtest attention to his word. He
'a"' too, that Clara and her mother were
ooHe distance away and that both were
I~oNllg rather impatient signals to him.
many his wife called:
guose' come here at once"
. w nat the matter, Mom?" he asked.
,,..,,. nara and have just made a very i'm
IA AM discovery" she answered. and the
%sS-ss shambed over to her. Soon the
Sra4"e were lost among the trees. with
arm Hoi husDdho py the
III BROADWAY HEsITATEs.
ona,,o,, ''tolleht they were alone Broadway
HE 80 IN ms mouth with determination, all
trfo5 t1oIS resolved. But the words he
W ~ get out didn't come Instead:
bor,a Htte house-here-littl home
~ -home-here, isn't it?"
,busi oIaI IoVe it, said Josie, with an en-