The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-05

a scrap of flannel put on over her fat little stomach. Henrietta finally decid- ed the matter by being imDudent and sensible to them all about the temper Rture.
 Don't you all 'Spose God made the sun some to heat up kits sto1nach ?'' she demanded scornfHlly as she grab bed the little roly-poly bone Of conten- tion and marched of with her to finish dressing her on the front porch :1 the direct rays of her instituted heater.
 The household at large at Widegables can never agree on the clothing of the twins, and Henrietta often has to fin ish their toilets thus, by force. Aunt DiIsie being reduced by her phthisfc to position that is almost entirely or namental, Henrietta's strength of char acter is the only thing that has made the existence of the twins bearabIe to themselves or other people.
 As have said before, do wish that some day in the future you will come under the direct rays of Henrietta's in- huence, Jane. dear.
 'FYes, Sallie, I should call them re- sponsibility,'' I answered her, with laugh, as reached up my arms for the kitten. Then, as the little yellow head snuggled in the hollow that was instituted in the beginning between a woman's breast and arms for theNpur- pose of just such nestlings, whis- pered as I laid my lips against her little ear, land happiness, too, dar- 1ing.''
 And as Sallie rocked and recuperat- ed her breath Nell eyed the ruf11e ap- prehensively.
 Are you going to let us make an- other dress for the kiddies, SalIie, dear?' she finally was forced by her uneasiness to ask, though with the deepest sweetness and consideration in her voice.
 If am ever 8 widow with young children hope they will burn us all up with the deceased rather than keep me wrapped in a cotton wool of sym pathy, as all of us do,, Sallie.
 its lovely of you, Nell, to want tod do more for the babies after all the beautiful things you and Evelina have made them, and I may be able to get another white dress apiece for them after I give Cousin James the bills that are awful already, but this is some ruff1ing that just forced Mamie Hall to let me bring up to you girls to do for her baby. The poor little dear is two months old, and Mamie is just beginning on his little dress for him. He has been wearing the pIainest lit- tie slips. Mamie says Ned remarked on the fact that the baby was hardly presentable when you girls stopped ill with him to see it the other day, Nell. [ urged her to get right to work fix ing him up. It is wrong for children not to be kept as daintily as their fa- ther likes to see them"
 Hoyr any woman that is as spiritual ly .L%lded as I am and who.<has so much love for the whole world in her heart and such a deep purpose always to offer it to her fellow men accord ing to their need of it can have the vile temper I possess I cannot see.
 :.And the sight that would please me better than anything else I have even thought up to want to see,' sI found myself saying when became conscious-I hope didn't use any of fthe oaths of my forefathers which must have been tempting my refined foremothers for generations and which secretly admire Henrietta for in- dulging in on occasions of impatience1 with SalIie-''would, be Ned Hall left entirely alone with that squirming baby that looks exactly like him when it is< having a terrible spell of collie and Ned is in the midst of sick head ache, with all the other children cold, hungry and cross, the cook gone to a funeral and the nurse in a grouch be- cause she couldn't go and-and he knowing that Mamie was attired in a1 lovely cool muslin dress, sitting up here on the porch with us slipping 8 mint julep and smoking ten cent aj<r oYs- nd m QTa tite for supper. I want him to have about five years of such days, and then he would deserve the joys of parenthood that he now does not ap- preciate."
 ''Oh, Mamie wouldn't smoke a ci- garp' was the exclamation that show ed how much Sallie got of the motif of my eruption.
 .'Glorious!'' exclaimed Nell. with shining eyes.
 must be careful about Nell. She is going this new gait too fast for one so young. Women must learn to dekcherize freedom if it is not to give them indigestion of purpose.
 Still Ned provides everything in the world he can think of to help Mamie" said Caroline, who had come up the walk just in time to fan the flame in me by her sweet wistfulness, with a soft judiciousness in her voice and eyes, And Mamie adores the children and him.
 If one man is unattainable to wo- man all the other creatures take on the hue of being valuable from the re- lection. Caroline is pathetic!
 Itwouh be robbing woman of privilege not to let her trot the collie out of her own baby,'' SaIlie got near enough in sight of the discussion. to shout softly from the rear.
 I have often seen Cousin Martha on one side of the fire trotting the pup and Cousin JasmiRe on the other min istEa iincc liIloyEiSca .ta EE1. Lift SalIic>