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

n 1ON. Inc Cndnge IN Manette
N since l 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 mos marvellous
thing that has happened in my house in
year
She dresses and undresses herself.
puts away her clothes. is learning to
clean up her rom, and | must confess
10 a real pain when 1 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
1 am beginning TO realize in a way what
desolate place this will be when she
has really entered womanhoods 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 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.
l have talked with her a great deal
Of late about the children of the poor,
L
formerly told her more real by en-
planning that little girls couldbe fairies
II 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
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
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 a four husher
When she wanted to know what a four
fiusher meant. l referred her to Rich
ards. much to that good souls horror.
The Nurse Leaves.
Nov. 9.--The pretty nurse left me
yesterday to spend e week at Elmdsle,
a. 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 l wrote her this morn
ing.
Nov 1.-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 l thought it very inane of
her. makes the heart grow fonder.'"
ut isn't the heart at ALL" I 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 Of
the year and Manette is beginning to
look as If she needed a long outdoor
ride. / had never taken my little fam
lily for a long auto ride. and l really
owed it TO them. 1t was thought OF
, them that prompted me to telegraph
the nurse this morning that Richards.
Msnette and l would come for her in
the car, starting tomorrow, if agree
able to her.
In two hours I received a telegram
with just one word:
Delighted
SO am l. Manette needs the fresh
air and even Richards doesn't look az
we'll as usual Anxiety to see my pref
" 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
dispense to my comfort. | have dis
covered in the six weeks she has been
gone that | can get along we'll without
her.
Six weeks, did ! say? meant to
say eight days, but somehow ii seems
like six weeks.