The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-09
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 sank. on the side steps and laugh a until a busy old bumhIebee came own from a late honeysuckle blossom Rd buzzed around to see what it vas J about Henrietta's- statement of ee case was graphic and just one. ! allie has got tendrii around Hen etta which grows by the day. Poor It; she does have a hard and harden Ig time! And how can I lectare her pr swearing?
 :;;ttHA train of thought started 5J henrietta I sat at my solitary break Rst in Q deeply contemplative mood life was going to press hard on Hen letta. And reared in the fossilized tmosphere Of Widegables, which tried D draw all it's six separate femi- ine breatIls as one with a lone, sup ,orting man, how was she to, develop he bieeps of strength of mind and DuI as well as body to meet the con htions she was likely to have to meet? Ltill her coming tussle with Aunt Au- Eusta r7ould be tonic at least vas just breaking last muffin and Degin1ing to smile when I saw d. dele ration coming down the street and turning into my front gate. I rose to meet it with distinction.
 Aunt Augusta marched at the head, md Nell ard Caroline were on each tide of her. while SaIlie end Mamie Hall brought up the rear, walking nore deliberately and each carrying baby, comparing some sort of white ags of sewing Cousin Martha was srossfng the road in their wake with Ter knitting bag and palm leaf fan:
 One thing I am proud of having ac- somplished this summer is the estab- ss1ing of friendly relations with Aunt Augusta. made up my mind that phe probably needed to have some eof my affection ladled 0ut to her more han anybody in Glendale, and work d on all the volatile fear and resent nent and dislike had ever had for her all my life, and I have succeeded n iquefying it into a genuine liking for the martial old personality. If Aunt Augusta had been a man she would have probably led a regiment 1p San Juan hill, died in the trenches and covered herself and family with Elory. She is the newest woman in he Harpeth valley, and, though sixty years old, she is HneaIly Sa1lie Car uthers' own granddaughter.
 "Evelina,' she began as soon as she had martinled her forces into rocking rhairs, though she had Jasper bring her the stiffest and straightest backed one in the house, II have collected as many women as I had time to and have come up here to tell you and them that the men in Glendale are so lacking in sense and judgment that the time has come for women to stand forth and assume the respousibiIitv of them and sGlendaie in general As the wife of the poor decrepit mayor appoint myself chairman of tue meeting pro tenn. and ask you to take the first minutes. If disgrace is threat ening us we must at least face it in an orderly and parliamentary way. And I''-
 "Oh, Mrs. Shelby, is it-is it small pox?7 and as Eallie spoke she hugged up the puppy baby, who happened to be the twin in her arms, so that she bubbled and giggled, nnistaking her embraces for those of frolicsome af- lection.
 Mamie turned pale and held her baby tight, and I could see that she was having light spasnls of alarm, one for each one of the children and one for Ned.
 '.Smallpox, hddlestteks-I said dis grace, SaIlie eCarruthers, and the worst kind of disgrace municipal disgrace And as Aunt Augusta named the plague that was to come. upon us she looked as if she expected it to wilt us all as into scar and dried leaves. And in point Of fact we all did rustic