The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-03-14

she met the wide open dancing brown
eyes her own smiled warmly. impul-
sivcly. What did clothes matter on
such Il happy specimen Of boyhood?
NJ stars, but you're a big boy!"
she exclaimed. Il can hardly believe
you're the little Horace"
Horace: For PHYS sake. Aunt &c.
linda" Mrs. II. It's" voice frankly
rasped. that's only JOHNNY Brown!
Goodness me- Horace" Her eyes
swept the sturdy figure conten,ptuous.
~. She turned Indignantly toward the
surrey. Come, Aunt Celinda. you
II he very weary.
She completely ignored the boy un-
said to him: Tell your mother Aunt
Cclinda will be resting until evening":
and-mind now-don't you come
round bothering her. For mercy's
sake. 80 and tidy yourself. too"
She picked up the reins and they
drove Oft. Aunt Celinda thought the
boy looked rather wisttul as they left
him. She was on the point Of calling
back to him when "Mrs. II. T." claim.
cd her attention. With her usual
carelcssness. Aunt Celinda." she said.
Mrs. Johnny got it into her head
that YOU wouldn't arrive until tomor-
row; that's why she didn't meet sou.
too. When she woke up it was too
late to dress. Why she let the boy get
away in that garb beats me. but its
where, anyway. It's awful the way
her boys are being brought up"
Just how?" Aunt Cclinda inquired
gently. Somehow those sunny eyes
had made a hit.
Why. without any ambition being
instilled into them! Mrs. Johnny
hrazenly confcsses that she hasn't the
faintest idea what they're going to be
when they row up. Think Of IT,"
But" Aunt Celinda's tone was
vagueA-"goodness ME. they're only
children"
"Children: Yes. but it's now their
careers should be planned. My Hor-
ace and Travis fully realize what call
ing they are to follow"
oh. SO young!"
Yes indeed" Mrs. II. It's" head
lifted importantly. Horace will be
an architect. Travis a lawyer-a sreat
onc: he really is q marvel. I encour.
age their ambition i'll every way. I
do not bother them With household
tasks as some foolish mother do. Day
by day I watch their minds broaden.
their vision of what lies before them
become cleared. their"
She paused abruptly as Aunt ce-
linda coughed uneasily: then eyed her
suspiciously, and as she turned the
horse in an opened gateway added
tartly: AS for Johnny Brown, the
height OF his ambition seems to be to
deliver groceries for Schmidt after
school hours"
They We're at the porch then; and in
a few moments Aun; celinda had been
interviewed by her precocious great
was launched at elast upon the much
talked of visit.
1t only took her a few days to dis
cover that it would not be a 'particu-
larly restful one. Mrs. II. T." bored
the life out Of her pointing out the
amazing cleverness of Horace and
Travis. though as far as Aunt Celinda
could see they were merely a pair of
rather stupid. horribly pampered
youngsters. Who did just about as they
pleased. making their mother, like
wise the n small maid, wait on them
royalty.
Don't YOU make them do one soli-
tary thing for ~thennee1ves' she asked
os her astonihhed eyes beheld
the erstwhile indolent Mrs H. T."
p'NN uP q SOdI anu cap l1OTS
ace. Jr.. had SHE'D into a corner.
Don't You want to make them one
bit %useful?"
That will all come to them later"
Mrs. H. T." replied primly. LAS I
told o before. l am directing their
Young minds to the high things, not
mental ones"
1t only took Il few days also to learn
tnat there was no intimacy between
the STATIONS and the Browns. Mrs.
Johnny" only dropped in once; the
nrowneyed boy not at all. He had
waved his hand to Aunt Celinda once
or twice from the sea of Schmidt's
delivery wagon. and she had looked
rather longingly after the happy, i'm
little figure. Somehow
p%rodigies appeared very wearisome
and her thoughts turned wistfully to
Mrs. Johnny's' old conception Of
just boys"
She had been three weeks in Kan
sas when she decided suddenly
morning to SC ID Mrs. Johnny"
Spoiled children had never been in
her line. and the samples constantly
before her We're making her V
and irritable and putting many a
thought in her head Of the eastern
home. Perhaps a few days Of Mrs.
Johnny's' brood will fix me complete.
~" she thought dolefully, but I'm
going to try 1t, anyway"
She arrived at Mrs. Johnny's'' just
the children appeared from school.