Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19
A Bachelor S
Diary
By MAX.

1 ~
| VI since 1 told her she was no longer
- a baby. and must begin to be
the helpful little woman the Lord in
| tended her to be. is the most marvellous
| thing that has happened in my house in
| a year.
| She dresses and undresses herself,
puts away her clothes, is learning to
/ clean up her rom, and 1 must confess
| to real pain when l found her yester-
| day trying to sew on a button. Her
| babysh dependence has been as sweet
( to me as ii has been to Richards, and
I am beginning to realize in a. way what
| a desolate place this will be when she
has really entered womanhood's estate,
and we have child with us no longer
With Richards assistance she is cut
ting out and making Lady Jane and
| Sally Spencer, her best dolls, new
dresses for Christmas, and she makes
such a quaint picture with the dolls
| stretched beside her and needle in her
hand that I hang around the nursery
| more than ever to watch her.
l have talked with her a great deal
| of late about the children of the poor,
and have made the fairy stories I
! formerly told her more real by ex-
planning that little girls couldbe fairies
| If they wished. They need not grow as
small as tiny paper dolls in order to
become fairies; they could be fairies in
their real size, and the larger they grew
the more fairylike work they could do.
The little children Of the poor needed
books and dolls and blocks and toy
dishes and nice warm cloaks and hats
and gloves and the little tiny fairies
depended on the Live Girl fairies to
| provide them.
| She was eager to begin at once, and
| Tompkins and Richards have secured a
| list of all the children of the poor in
certain district, and Manette is using
her weekly allowance to give them a
| Christmas tree they will long remember.
| l have not allowed her to have credit
at the stores. Everything she gives, 1
explain to her, must represent some
personal self denial. Otherwise the
fairies will know she is a four fiusher.
When she wanted to know what a four
iusher meant. I referred her to Rich
ards. much to that good souls horror.
The Nurse Leaves.
| Nov. 9.-The pretty nurse left me
yesterday to spend a week at Eimdale,
a little country town about 20G miles
! from here. l wonder II she knows how
much we all miss her. The pup is so
bereaved he is carrying his tail at half
mast, which fact 1 wrote her this morn
| ing.
| Nov. 16.-The pretty nurse has not
returned. though her week was UP at
9 this morning. and it is now in the
afternoon.
Absence quoted Richards this
morning, and thought it very inane OF
her, makes the heart grow fonder'"
| 1T isn't the heart at ALL" l grum-
| bled; Its my shoulder that needs her.
| She knows a certain way to rub out the
| pain"
| Nov. 1.-THE weather is delightfully."-
the year and Manette is beginning to
look as II she needed a long outdoor
ride. I had never taken my little FAM
lily for long auto ride. and I really
| owed it to them 1t was thought OF
, them that prompted me to telegraph
the nurse this morning that Richards,
Manette and I would come for her in
the car, starting tomorrow, if agree
able to her.
In two hours l received a telegram
with just one word:
Delighted"
So am I. Manette needs the fresh
air. and even Richards doesn't look as
well as usual. Anxiety to see my pref
ty nurse and bring her back to us has
nothing to do with it. She is just a
foolish, pretty girl pleasant to have
| around and all that, but not at all in
| dispensable to my comfort. / have dis
covered in the six weeks she has been
| gone that I can get along well without
| her.
Six weeks, did I say? | meant to
| say eight days, but somehow il seems
like six weeks.
A Pleasant Outing.
November 24-We arrived home this
afternoon after the most pleasant out
| ing l have ever taken, and have had
| many. 1t must mean that ! am grow
ing to be sedate family man. To en-
JOY so thoroughly weeks automobil-
| ing trip with little girl her nurse and
! a woman who is hired to nurse me when
| am sick and to quarrel with me when
l am well. Really, 1t is the same as il
| lad W1e-SONle one 10 quarrel with
when l am well and who forgets all diff
ferences in loving care and selcitude
| when | am sick.
We took two days to make the trip
| to Elmdale. l had the chauffeur hurry
| because l felt that both Manette and
| Richards were anxious to see Jessie
| Boyce, Doesn't that name look strange?
1t is the first time | have ever written
it, for the reason that it is her name,
| and as her name is used by all who APP
proach her, somehow, l have preferred
| that she be nameless to me. l never
cared TO know anything as pretty as a
| flower by its big. long name. If II is a
rose. It's a rose, and il | have to men,
tally tag It with a title ten syllables
long I don't enjoy It.
In the same way Miss Boyce is lust
| a girl; q very sweet and pretty girl
Why call her Jessie when there are
thousands OF freckle- faced. pug-nosed,
| squirt eyed Jessies in the world? She
| is Just she That's all
But, as l started to say before. / di-
crossed we made a quick trip there to
reach her. because the others were anx-
ious to see her I wasn't at all. and
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