Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-02-04
THE
OPTlMIST
By MARY PARKER DcANE

nIents they had over sonnet hing MrS.
Plum avrrrcd would happen some day
Or other to M them out OF poverty. en-
able hem 10 live more comfortably.
clio { the children he::a- and make
theIt. generally happy.
IN the first place. Maria" Mr. Plum
wouA say. 'poth:a3 ever comes from
rainbow chasing. - the second place.
II a hundred Il usand dollars were
suddenly dumped 1pon us we wouldn't
be any happier tlIn We are now"
"Wouldn't we? I'd just like to try It
once
You can bet your bottom dollar that
unless | work bard and you run rs
chcaply We won't even keep up to what
we're doing now. let alone putting on
airs"
DO You mean to tell me there's moth
ing in Itrk:'
"MIShty little At any rate. no great
fall will ever happen to more than one
person in million"
But haven't we got just as good a.
chance to he that one person as all the
RESI-! I"
Dan Plum shrugged his shoulders.
but did not reply to this argument. lie
went to his work every day: as usual.
aud hfs Wife 2tuchpd and saved. One
day when he came home 10 the even
La; he found her In avid state of op-
tfnisnl.
!. oh. DAN she cried. did you ever
have a grandmother by the name Of
prendegast r u
Not TO my knowledge" was the So
Der sided reply why do you ask?"
"Because there was a uiah here this
morning who asked n,e II ynu had
What did you tell himr'
THAT didn't know - 4
"Dfd be say why be ttshed to
known 4
NO. but I'm SIRE your grandmother
IS dead and has left Us a lot OF money.
"oh. Aarias yon make ME tired: l.
couldn't Have a grandmother much iesS
than hundred years old. and women
Of that age don't often have fortunes
If they have their .descendants are
spread out Ikea fan 6nd none or 'em
gifts more than a few Collars =.
Il don't care. J. believe we are on
the verge Of some great blessing"
I'll tell you what TIT do. Marie I'll
make a bar4air1 witifsEou. Whatever
this blessing ia. I'H turn II all over to
you on condition thatsyou never say
the word 'wtudfalf to me again.
Done" ~ =. As%s4'~ - ii .>'-., r
"lsemenber. / eite tf5a m 1hst comes :
in this case. end II nothfpg, comes you
are still hound by your side Or tues
agreement
That's right :
They had scarcely struck this bar
gain when there was II ring at the
bell. Mrs. Bfnm went 10 ttIti door and
ushered d man into the sitting room:
This is the gentleman who called
this morning" said Mtst Hum.
Your wife" said the visitor,
couldn't answer the questions asked
her: so concluded to come back when
YOU were at home. Did sou have
named PrenGegast?''
Not that ! Know or And ! didn't
have grandmother BY the name of
Foote or StetfhlHn or Wiii!ams or Hum.
ki1S either
Did vOn ever hear Of any of your
named McDermotf''
"McDermot? Why. yes! Ny grand,
mother on my fathers side wy named
Her name was Sarah She MAR.
ried Enoch Prenfpglst- They hlH
one daughter who married Thomas
Follansbee. ind they bad II daughter
who married Daniet Spoouer Plum "
Mr.. Pium's eyes were growing tHrSe.
Eve got this By seatrchfng the rec
ords Of some property owned by
Mrs PrendegaSt. who had recently
died In the John Brown hospital. aged
years. ! tgnFe It that she
was your grandmother.
. III I've had a grandmother living {
it,"
Nor she She came to the hospital
before you were born to be treated for
some disease. When she got well her
memory had left her. She didn't know
vito she was or where She came from
She was allowed to stay there aud
lived more than fifty years there and
Id that condition. JUST before Siie died |
her mencry came hack to her. She
said she was Sarah McDermot Prem !
degast. Deeds to property were found
where Sue had kept them in trunk
fhe hospital put them into the hands |
Of q lawyer. who says they came down
TO Daniel Plum through Ellen Fol, |
Iansbee and Julia Plum"
How much Il it," easPed Mrs
Plum.
ITS af>tse and lot that City years I
ago was on the outskirts of the town
1t is nae on the biggest shopping
street tES q worth a MIL
You. Ds-n," cried Mrs. Plam-"you !
make a deed Of that property 10 me"
And within six months he did. But |
be says they must have dreamed it all
Thus far the optimiSt hrs the better
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