The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-02-24
The Evening Story II
II
DECISIVE DEATH,
o~Copyrisht. 1919. by w. wernlc.)

Copyright. 1919. by w. Wcrnlc.o
Edith was the positive kind. At the
tender age of seven slc selected the
Trimming for her rwn hats. And this
IN spite of x positive mother and
thre" advice profferine older sisters,
II know what | want" yelled Edith
and usually she attracted such 4
ashamed mother and furious .sistera
were glad to give it tn her as %oo,l
as loSsinl" and get her out.
At thr age of ten n abandoned
the Methodist church. which three
generations of her family had wor-
shipped in and been buried from and
Went over tn the Baptist SUNDAY
school. 81 like the wall paper better
shn explained. Those little angels
hNins over the windows in YOU
church aren't $50 pretty us the pictures
i'm minc.'
Her mother tried TO arsue. hut
hopelsssI>. Her sisters stormcd. her
father got angrN. you marc,,
straight back mex sunday" he threat
ened. Aftcrwar,l her mother drew
him aside. Don, ho hsrsll," she
pleaded. She'll make a. scene So
he. mad wise by experience, gave in.
anu edith was hencefnrth a Baptist
and a dear. perfect little scholar"
S' he" 'eaSi'Ef TOOK p5lnS To seek
ncr mother ont and tell her.
When Edith was thirteen She was
halt ton1hoy and half saint. Her SIS
ters never enjoyed tho latter transit
u"ns. because they usually ended in
4 row, and Edith did what she pleas
cd just 10 show them that she could.
w non she reached tho maturity ,f NJ
eel she declared a solemn, deem ),,-
tired for all ma%culinity except her
father.
Dear, ii's e'ml, a relief" her moth
81 slslsd y" 'Gditia's sisters, who were
nsaged t" hc Inarried ut tllat time.
BECAUSE YOU know she might have
'ecn wild about them ('tllnm''
meant the high school l,oysl and you
Snow W" couldn't have managed her.
MA the gentle. craN-haireh woman
as a eecre' reward allowed Edith
twice as mucl, spending money as her
older sisters had been given.
The sisters. being engaged and So
moro assured. stormed at their par
cnts' You slv" in TO her disgrace
fully! You must quit they said.
II wish I could" said Edith's
mother. Then, prodded ny them, she
declared firmly to her youngest
daughter: Edith. YOUR father does
Mt like Your Joining three girls clubs.
He sayS---"
"TcIl him to lump ii, then" cross
~ retorted Edith. and bounced out
the front door.
But presently the older sisters We're
married. Edith watched the proceed
mss in1crestdlN. hut she candidly told
the family and tho public that she
dtdn' think much of her two new
brothers.. "Enob.' WIS one express.
siNc word applied. And they're moi
rici1 and they're moi good looking and
linn looks like a ,urnir and Fred
makes INC think of y sleepy Eostty,
terrier. she giGs]cd. what did yo,,
pick then, for she asked her sisters
pleasantly.
That strained the relations between
them and her to begin with. Then.
being married. they assumed d. wis
dom and q guardianship that they
had not dared before. IF they don't
quit nasging at me-" Edith coolly told
her mother. "1ll tell everybody in
town that Fred wells when the cof-
fee isn't just SO and Linr po1lts when
the grocery bill is a. dollar bigger
than tho week before. And I'll think
OF other things t., tell. And il l can't
think Of true things I'll make M
some" Her mother warned her sis
tors. And they subsidized. Edith had
=. habit of fulfilling her promises. Eut
they gloNcrsd from q distance,
tditl's father watched her worried.
~, hut he paused before he had more