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


puts away her clothes, is learning to
clean up her rom. and L must confess
to real pain when [ found her yester-
day trying to sew on a button Her
babyish dependence has been as sweet
! to me as it has been to Richards, and
l am beginning to realize in a way what
a 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 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.
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 a
Christmas tree they will long remember.
l have not allowed her to have credit
at the stores. Everything she gives, l
explain to her, must represent some
personal self denial. Otherwise the
fairies will know she is four fiusher.
When she wanted to know what a four
fusher 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 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 16-The pretty nurse has not
returned though her week was up at
8 this morning, and it is now 8 in the
afternoon.
Absence quoted Richards this
morning, and I thought it very fnane of
her. makes the heart grow fonder.'"
'Tt isn't the heart at ALL" I grum-
bed; ats 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 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 a telegram
| with just one word:
Delighted"
| So am l. 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 II. She is just
| 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 | can get along well without
| her.
| six weeks, did l say? I meant to
say eight days, but somehow it 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 1 have had
many. 1t must mean that I am grow
ing to be a sedate family man. To en-
| 10y so thoroughly a weeks sutomobil-
| 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
/ am well. Really, 1t is the same as IL
| ! had a wife-some one to quarrel with
when / am well and who forgets all diff
| ferences in loving care and solicitude
| when l am sick.
| We took two days to make the trip
| to Elmdale. | had the chauffeur hurry
| because l felt that both Manette and
| Richards were anxious to see Jessie
| Boyce. Doesn't that name look strange?
| II Is the llTSl Illle nave ever written
| II. for the reason that it is her name
| and as her name is used by all who APP
| proach her, somehow, | have preferred
| that she be nameless to me. | never
cared 10 know anything as pretty as a
| flower by its big, long name. If it is a
rose, it's a rose and if | have to men,
tally tag It with a title ten syllabl
long l don't enjoy it,
In the same way Miss Boyce is just
| a girl; a 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 l di-
| crossed we made a quick trip there to
| reach her, because the others were anx-
| ious to see her. | wasn't at all. and
| then after we had packed her in the
| back seat, with all her bags and bag
| gage strapped on behind, we made a
| detour coming home, and regarded
| neither time nor money in picking UP
| the most pleasing routes.
! We left the main roads seeking al
ways the roads that parted the trees
| like a ChalIed line, saying 10 the trees
| on our side: Now. you can step up to
| here with your toes. but not a step
farther" and to the trees on the other
side, Now don't step over this line
SO that they were divided like the ad-
| vance lines of two opposing armies
! Sometimes We climbed out and gath
cred nuts, and on several occasions We