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

N since told her she was no longer
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 addresses herself,
puts away her clothes, is learning to
clean up her rom, and | must confess
TO real pain when / found her yester-
day trying to sew on a button. Her
babyish dependence has been as sweet
10 me az it has been TO Richards, and
l am beginning to realize in a way what
a desoIate place this will be when she
has really entered womanfood's estate,
anei We have a 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 a needle in her
hand that l hang around the nursery
more than ever to watch her.
/ have talked with her Q great deal
OF late about the children of the poor,
and have made the fairy stories |
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 10
become fairies; they could be fairies in
their real size, and the larger they grew
the more fairy-like 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 a
certain district, and Manette is using
her weekly allowance to give them a
Christmas tree they will long remember.
l have not allowed her 10 have credit
at the stores. Everything she gives, |
explain TO her, must represent some
personal self denial. Otherwise the
fairies will know she is a four -husher.
When she wanted to know what a four
fiusher meant. | referred her to Rich
ards. much to that good souls horror.
The Nurse Leaves.
Nov. 1.-The pretty nurse left me
yesterday to spend week at Elmdale.
little country town about 200 miles
from here. l wonder if she knows how
much we all miss her. The pup is so
bereaved he is carrying his tail at half
mast, which fact | wrote her this morn
ing,
Nov. l6.-The pretty nurse has not
returned though her week was UP at
this morning, and it is now 3 in the
afternoon.
Absence" quoted Richards this
morning, and | thought it very inane of
her, makes the heart grow fonder'"
TT isn't the heart at ALL I grum-
bled; cts my shoulder that needs her.
She knows a certain way to rub out the
pain"
Nov, 1.-THE weather is delightfully."-
bright and warm for this season Of
the year and Manette is beginning to
look as II she needed a long outdoor
ride l had never taken my little fam
lily for a long auto ride. and | really
owed it. to them. 1t was thought Of
them that prompted me 10 telegraph
the nurse this morning that Richards,
Manette and I would come for her in
the car. starting tomorrow, if agree
able 10 her.
In two hours | received a telegram
with just one word:
Delighted"
So am !. 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 l can get along well without
her.
Six weeks, did | say? meant TO
say eight days, but somehow it seems
like six weeks.
A Pleasant Outing.