Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1915-04-08
WHEN HIS MOTHER
THE ELEVATOR NAM. 81

s. ..e,a'or man, VINO was shooting
up to the sixteenth story. ss3
HUH" chortled the eley.to, 3
oeaming' why shouldn't |! H.
n word that my mother is comm, = \,
me-"
The elevator man being i.
faced and of grown.up year, r.
worthy looked a trife bewildersl y
evidently from the manner 49,
the news was delivered he ~
pected to strike an attitude q ,,Is
) ishment and appreciation.
: THAT so?" Bangworthy Co.,
vaguely.
"Yep!" said the elevator man
wrote she'd be here next Fridi, p
the train that gets in at ten 49,
I'm going to get of and go meet ri
Hard to get away these days,- ~
Bangworthy. idly. why DOM =,
have your wife meet herr"
The elevator man laughed mr.
why" he chuckled, 'sny wife az
know my mother and my mother
or laid eyes on my wife. You q !
haven't seen my mother myself p
ten years-not since l came 70 Ca
cago."
"Oh!" commented Bangworthy II
aroused interest. Il see."
"Ten years." unused the eloy,
man, forgetting to open the W,
Gee! That's a long time-not q NJ
your mother. I hate to think 81 n
She never saw the two kids, eith4.sl
I'LL bet she thinks the boy ~
like mel" grinned the elevator manS
Bangworthy the next morning "
he headed for Bangworthy's doof! &
"Who-what?" asked BangworthY8
bewilderment. II
The elevator man looked aiuu1
hurt. "Why, didn't l tell you yea(
day that my mother was coming +
VISIT" he reminded. Say, you OUT
eat the custard pies my mot
makes! When I was a boy at hoi
I could eat a whole one. Just
creamy! My wife's anxious to G
out how she does It. She's going =
find out about lot of things Win
my mother is here. She says Tm3
ways talking about that .scrappf
stuff and raised doughnuts and thin
that she's blessed If she can NAH
my mother'll be tickled to ten ~
because if there's anything mothG
likes to do it is to cook. Gee! la6
just remember being up in the hlx
NOW and hearing her calling out Ill
the sugar cookies were out Of the oyeE
and If l wanted any-say, ever eat OK
sugar cookies all warm from the ovuk
and light brown on top" y
"They sound good" agreed BaafE
worthy, a trife obviously. I'VE hlfS
good things when / was q kid, too 8
not that we don't now. Of course Bdk
suppose this generation Of wom1o
las learned some different things ~
,ook."
you bet!" agreed the elevst0a
nan. I'm not saying that my win
init dandy housekeeper. either, ~
somehow things did taste difersnts
When was q hoy. My mother va "
orker. Once when she'd said not II
20 swimming and I did, anyhow, IN
'listered my back something awfilA
hurt so l wanted to cry, but ! didn't
ast tell her, and after I'd gone to Bet
he slips in with some soft cloths an1
intment and fixes me up without u
'ord. 1t gets me how mothers seen
D know about dots of things like thllS 4
'ithout being told"
%What's the natter" anxiously
'answorthy inquired Of the elevator /
ian the next morning when he nv ]
nat individuals countenance dl
loom.
Jaw, Just had a wire from mother
he can't. get here till Saturday. r.
tead of tomorrow" growled the die.
ppointed one. "And me all fixed ~
go to the depot tomorrow! The 4
ids have got new shoes, too.
'ouldn't miss seeing mothers face 4
" a farm when she lays eyes o.
lose kids. You oughta see the#
lings she sends 'em Christmas and
fridays. Makes EN- all herself!
he's been just crazy about EN- O
aper, and when she sees 'em-gee!
rs she coming today sure?" asksd &
angworthy on Saturday morning.
''Yep!" breathed the elevator mia d
letting q passenger for tae q
eventh floor OF at the ninth hoos q
I'd disregarding his frantic protesns 81
m getting of at $3.50 to hustle oves s
ter her. Say, I'm all sort Of n9t Il
IS. Amt it queer?" q
well, did she Gomez" asked Bang y
orthy, as he descended late that q
moon.
The elevator man looked at hin q
ON behind a subdued sort Of GLOW. q
!ep," he said. vibrantly. "She cana
~. would you believe It? lookes 81
ID looked and couldn't pick her os13
ON the crowd-mother's changeo N
I! Why, she's old! Somehow, ycss