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

" since l 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 undresses herself
puts away her clothes, is learning to
clean up her rom, and I must confess
to a real pain when [ found her yester-
day trying to sew on button, Her
babyish dependence has been as sweet
to me as it has been to Richards, and
l am beginning to realize in q way what
desolate place this will be when she
has really entered womanhoods estate,
and we have a child with us no longer.
With Richards assistance she is out
ting out and making Lady Jane and
Sally Spencer, her best dolls, new
dresses for Christmas, and she makes
such quaint picture with the dolls
stretched beside her and a needle in her
hand that I hang around the nursery
more than ever to watch her.
I have talked with her a 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 to
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
list of all the children of the poor in a
certain district, and Manette is using
her weekly allowance to give them
Christmas tree they will long remember
l have not allowed her to have credit
at the stores. Everything she gives,
explain to her, must represent some
personal self denial Otherwise the
fairies will know she is four fiusher.
When she wanted to know what four
iusher meant, I referred her to Rich
ards. much to that good souls horror.
The Nurse Leaves.
Nov 9,-The pSetty nurse left me
yesterday to spend week at Elmdale,
a little country town about 200 miles
from here. 1 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 l wrote her this morn
ing.
Nov 1s-The pretty nurse has not
returned though her week was up at
this morning, and it is now in the
afternoon.
Absence" quoted Richards this
morning, and I thought it very tnane of
her, makes the heart grow fonder.'"
TT 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."-
bright and warm for this season CT
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 a 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 1 would come for her in
the car, starting tomorrow, IL agree
able to her.
In two hours I received q telegram
with just one word:
Delighted
SO am I. Manetts 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 1t. She is Just a
foolish, pretty girl. pleasant to have
around and all that but not at all in
dispensable to my comfort. I have dis
covered in the six weeks she has been
gone that | can get along well without
her.
Six weeks, did 1 sayH meant to
say eight days, but somehow 1t seems
like six weeks.
A Pleasant Outing.
November 24.-We arrived home this
afternoon after the most pleasant out
ing I have ever taken, and l have had
many. 1t must mean that I am grow
ing to be a sedate family man. To en-
JOY so thoroughly a weeks AUTOMOBILE
ing trip with little girl. her nurse and
Il "OLlldil WIZ 10 liz Gu " hui 90 lie Wn6
l am sick and to quarrel with me when
l am well. Really. it is the same as il
l had wife-some one to quarrel with
when l am well and who forgets all diff
ferences in loving care and solicitude
when 1 am sick.
We took two days to make the trip
to Elmdale. 1 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 l have ever written
it. for the reason that it Is her name,
and as her name is used by all who APP
preach her, somehow, l have preferred
that she be nameless to me. l never