Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-04-25
Copyright by tho Bobbs-M errlll Co.l

: 80 q uEnuI0, Emmy
Degged, as much with her eyes as
with her voice. Il can hitch the
morse If Miss Keith minds.
But Miss Keith did not mind. sba
was quite willing to hold the horse
And the horse, sagging his elderly
head, appeared of no mind to move
whether held" or no.
"Well?" said Mrs. Conner when
they We're out of earshot,
Mother thinks she is Threatened
with pieurisy, and she is irving the
starvation cure,' answered Emmy.
she hasn't eaten a bite since yester-
DAY. I'm ashamed to be SO late about
my washing, but I've been cooking
Things all day, trying to tempt her
oh dear! Oh dear. Oh dear,''
moaned the figure on the piazza.
Mrs. Conner put her arms akimbo.
she looked steadfastly at the swav-
ing and moaning shape. Mrs. Conner
was woman who had been known to
Try fresh griddle-cakes for. tramps. She
drew in her breath and exhaled it ex-
plosively, as one that has been shock.
ed out OF speech.
Wont she drink a little beef tea?''
"Oh-h! Oh-hi U-r-r-r! Ug-h-h-h!''
shuddered the invalid.
Didn't you know she thinks meat
wicked? And milk's robbing the COW,
and eggs robbing the hen, who wants
to have family as much as we do"
said Emily, rather incorrectly.
More'n some Of us do, / guess re-
torted Mrs. Conner, "and more'n folks
ought to if they amt prepared to do
their duty by them when they've got
EN-" She launched a fiery glance at
Mrs. Barter, who was now groaning
vehemently. Got it all turned on
this afternoon, amt she?"
CDR Abbie Cruller told her that it
wasn't natural to suppress ourselves.
If you feel like groaning you ought to
groan--"
and she eats sech queer stuff she's
hungry most Of the time" Mrs. Con-
ner Interrupted, so expect she
groans a lot. Say, Emmy, have you
ever had anybody come in and give
your ma good hard-blowing up?"
The blood rushed to Emmy's face;
her eyes sank. She answered, in a
confused tone: Aunt Ida Glenn was
over yesterday. I don't know what
she said to mother, but mother--moth-
er told me the one thing she wanted
on earth was to have me-send Albert
away and have everything ended be-
tween us, for she never was so in
suited in her life as she had been by
Albert's mother
"Albert's mother amt Albert;
| though I don't blame her, Emmy, and
| Mrs. Glenn is a awful nice woman.
But it amt fair to hold Albert for
her opinions, right or wrong. AS !
said, she amt Albert, nor Albert amt
her."
$50 told mother" said Emmy I
did hate to be disrespectfui to her,
| but 7 told her so; and she answered
that Mrs. Glenn said Albert thought
so too. Then when l tried to question
her she was in so much pain ana
groaned so hadn't the heart to both
er. She let me put hot cloths on her,
and give her a Turkish bath over the
alcohol-lamp; and I hoped she'd let
mo make her some water cruel, Dut
she wouldn't touch a spoonful. MIS-
Conner. you don't suppose she-she
will keep it up much longer! En-
my's eyes dilated with an unspoKen
fear as she lifted them to the KIM
woman before her. "She said she felt
herself growing weaker this morning.
TT told her I wouldn't go to the PIC
mic with Bert, If she would only cay
something. But she said that she
couldn't eat anything. One tlme-one
time she went three days. | didn't ieI
the neighbors know; but was most
crazy. and poor little jimmy cried. Sne
isn't one to cry, either.
Mrs Conner backed off the piazza
che said she guessed she must go
and left Mrs. Darter moaning anu
rocking. ,..aa
aAnd to tell you the truth. Miss
Ke;th.a-thus she ended a GREATNESS
narration to her new boarder-,l Went
on;ck for / knew / couldn't hold IN
one minnit longer! And how'd II neip
moor Emmy to have her mother quar-
rel with Ida Glenn and me the same
day? There's Susy Baker making
ewes at Albert Glenn, this minnit; anu
If she amt carrying Mrs. Glenn solIe
If her mas blueberry cake! higne
bv the Darters, too; and Emmy see
| ing her." .4., Arc mar
xkxxr1..& T. tho matter Will MI .. Ds.-
teri" 10
.well, old DR.. Potter says she'S
.neurotic,' if you know what that i,
call it jest notions. What the oos
fors in my time called hypo, tnas :
what vS she is! She's always been 1ne
Greatest hand to dose. MT come.
SiIl have it she KEEP old Captain Dar,
| ter poor buying patent medicines !, Anu aol
che run after every new cure-an 81
; Sn # was electricity one year, anu anu
mother year it was blue glass, anu o.lu
t inc + remember she had 2 woman ma,
come com, Of the sort that used g eas
. TeaIra bone-doctors when wds
eASAAAS :. country wasn't MUCH