Lower coast gazette., 1913-08-02

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.JANET'S OLD SOLDIER :
GRANDFATHER /
By Aileen Cleveland Higgins.
It was hard for an old soldier like
me to feel that | wasn't-wel, what
Won might call necessary. It's a ter.
rible feeling to get hold of a man.
used to SILVER when ! woke up In the
morning and thought about fighting it
all day long again. | soon found out
there was no use fighting against II;
If was like the monster I had read
about one day in a book that belonged
to Janet: every time they cut on It's
head, two new ones came in pace OF II.
I never got out Of bed with any en-
thusiasm. 1t wasn't pleasant to real
ize that things would go on without
me if | { didn't get up. / didn't ike 10
think that there wasn't anything Tor
me to do, but there was no getting
round the facts; I was past work, AND
belonged on some rubbish heap.
Thinking about being good-for-lotn-
ing took all the snap out of me. Stand
ing my rheumatism and doing without
the leg that / left at Chattanooga
didn't hold a candle to %contending with
this feeling. Talking over old times
with the few Of my comrades that
-s. -.as
feel worse. When / finished looking
over the morning paper / felt as II
everyone in the world were doing
something except me.
Living where there's as much gong
J on all the time as there is In johns
family kept me pretty we'll reminded
|of my uselessness. There was john
rushed to death all the time with hi
business; Elizabeth, his wife, busy see
/ ing that everything about the house
went smoothly; and sixteen'year-ol'
S Janet, who daily carried seyera
$ pounds Of books back and forth De
i tween the house and school
"Now, make yourself comfortable
father" John would say, when q
started off to business, brisk an
lie ready for anything, for all the worl
ID as / used to be.
"Isn't there something you want
ID Johns wife would ask fifty times
to day. as anxious to please me as Jof
~ himself was.
"Can't / do something for you .
fore l go to school, grandfather
No Janet v forgot to say that, ev'
n. if she knew she was going to be la
Of Everybody was doing something !
an grandfather, and grandfather was n
nd doing anything for anyone; 1t kept
,ur busy pretending to be cheerful oV
the situation.
;th After Elizabeth died-it was q ia
time for us all when she left us
suddenly-everyone seemed to
or. more than ever to make me comic
able. Even Janet's friends took
doing things for me. "Janets
H. soldier grandfather they called
,;l1 IT liked the name and the attentl
vet there was something about lit
in made me feel worse than ever.
row. the thing that made getting up
lex much harder for me was the fact !
can everyone else was helping take
ner- place of Janet's mother to her.
Dnly wanted to do something, but v
could 1 do? There were more al
fra than Janet needed to e to
the clothes and her studies, and the :
in sand and one things q pretty
ould needs. So what was there leIt
!, or ~aJanet's old soldier grandfather
dem. do except to sit in his corner ana
the her grow up without feeling the
poses need Of him?
hose thought, while I watched
upon granddaughter Of mine tnat
vern- never before was a girl SO pretty
;oned loyable, There was something
her smile that went straight t
,ctice heart, and added every Gay 70
orr hurt that came from feeling tina
vote didn't need me. AS for her vo
! we have YOU ever heard a yellow-bre
warbler trying his first notes
o,r birch tree alongside running wat
while But one oay' "nen sne "as =
tho anagrams with me, she said
TO kill thing tnat maue me sis ny anu
lefend trying to nsure OUT now many
of sweet tones ! heard in her la,
Inere, I've maue ano..
,,ct;on p-a-t-r-io-ti-s-m," she spelled
most pointing to her cards on the