Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-07-11

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~ discretion demands that statement at the
" outset
4 ,s.ss Oliver HEREFORD has painvcy said,
!. !. J. !: = !: :
H@A@E "Some born babies, achieve
GXY4& babies, and some have babies thrust upon
SEs 4 WHE them" 1t is to be regretted that Mr..
ESAA&SE Herfori never illustrated this teemng
4 INTS though. Fancy and imagination wander
y joyousy among the wstful googoo-eyed
@eEa.asEszS babies and embarrassed, apprehensive
tSI&s adults which his audacious pencil might
W have evolved. But that has nothing
do with Miss Lolas history.
Miss Lola was not quite certain whether she stood
tat day, the plane Of achievement in the
'aIlcy where responsibilities thrust. At all times
she entertained kindly and respectful sentiment for
labes. In the concrete they merely gnmered on
Ter orbit as luminous tiny satellites of larger and
more definite bodies; but in the abstract Miss Lola
had ofen found babies extremely useful copy for
;nnocuous little poems which formed the realities Of
Ter existence, and which kindly editors sometimes
ceped-referrng them in the sacred secluson OF
the editorial office thus Steve, I've gotta have an
other filler Gimme o that stuff o Miss Lolas
Miss Lola had friend The acquaintance had not
been Of her seeking Indeed, nothing was Of Miss
Lolas seeking She represented in the scheme of Gre
alton merely the receptive attitude Of thought which
docs not seek but is sometimes found. Another girl
had found Miss Lola, and had found her extremely
useful as one who moves in a thought world where
the material male does not enter, hence one who OPP
poses fascinating personality nor matrimonial am
bitons tending to thwart plans of the mind more
acuely feminine This friend, socalled, Betty Bayls
by name, had pursued, from infancy, an undertaking
course which had resulted in carly marriage to the
she selected, nee Ford and chrlstened John ana
in prompt maternity.
If Betty had consciously found Miss Lola useful,
Miss Lola had, in her turn unconsciousy awaited OF
many of Betty's experiences to the demands of
the Muses.. An mpersonal viewpoint being literary
necessity, atfording perspective which personal
emotions only blur Miss Lola had reaped rich har-
vest from Bettys courtship and marriage while Betty
had regarded with mild amazemcnt and entire lack OF
comprehension girl whose sole interest in these
yicarious experiences was their adaptablity poetic
expression.
Since the advent of little Bays Rudolfo Ford, Miss
I.olas raw material had lavishy increased. Raw
tcria however is nfrequcnty subject to duty.
In Miss Lola's the tax paid in the form OF
visits to the sanctuary where Bayls Rudolfo was en-
shrined There each Of these young feminine minds
lad secretly aimed toward the other feeling of
wonder Miss Lola that Betty should seem to find
delight and abandonment Of the intel
cctual in the process of filling elongated glass bottles
with medcated preparations of milk and water, and
Betty that Lola seemed regard infant gurgles,
ings, and contortions merely matter for note
book and available for reduction to feet and lines.
On the day when Baylis Rudolfo entered d-
recy into Miss Lolas experience, it had been arranged
that she should remain in the fat with him while
Betty should go out to do bit of shopping Just
how this arrangement had about Miss Lola
could afterward remember 1t seemed to her. later
that Betty must have devised the plan 1t was unlike
Miss Lola TO initiate Besides, she had no motive and
in Investigations of crmnalty it is customary to con-
slider well the motives which govern the human mind
Bcttys motive, though rot occult, ndubitable
while Miss Lola felt that mother could
her of having sought the care OF Baylis Ru-
dolfo, fascinating though he
II! give him his bottle" Betty had said, lightly "and
put him in his basket. lie is almost to sleep un-
til | come home, but il he should wakcn he'll not be
bit of trouble for him is de goodies an bestes an
sweetcs-isn't h,n"-h-r- followed maternal rhapso-
dies which Miss Lola hastily transcribed into her note
book lending themselves future dialect poem
perhaps to be entitled "Under Cuban Skies" or "Thc
Hottento Babe"
Miss Lola found the quiet OF the fiat, after Betty's
departure, soothing There had been agitation pre-
ceding. as Betty had tried to "straiglten up the
place bit tossing small pillows into their proper
?laces tuckts discarded bbs minute hose, and other
my bla"'ets picking up rattles from the floor and
rearing apparel into the soedclohes basket, folding
ranging the rubber nenagcric the shelf where it
accustomed to stand when not being pursued with
ioosevean energy bv its during his waking
lo,rs. There had been, also blur of instructions
,egirning "lf he should and including then put"
4 varied nature that Miss Lola had no time nor