Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1915-05-01
GRANDMA S0LDB00K
Leonore Found Romance in 1t,
but Found Much More in
Real Life.
ey LAWRENCE ALFRED CLAY.


Copyright, 1915, by the Mcclure Newspa-
paper Syndieate.)
One of the ancient and interesting
things to be found in Grandma Pear
sons ancient and interesting red farm
house was the big scrapbook she had
been forty years making. She had be-
gun it when a girl and now at the age
of sixty she was still occasionally past
ing in an item.
The first third of the book, as might
be expected, was devoted to such
items as would interest girls, and
among them were recipes to make
yourself beautiful, the significance OF
dreams, how to catch beau and other
nonsense.
Each year when Miss Leonore Min
turn, grandchild, came down to pass
few weeks with grandma, she hailed
a rainy day with joy. She was eight
cen, but she would get that big scrap
book down on the floor and lie at full
length as she read it. She had been
brought up in the city, but she had
the same superstitions and caprices as
the girl Of the country.
"If you dream of black fox three
nights running you will live and die
an old maid" read one of the items.
The girl partly believed it, but when
she asked grandma for confederation
the answer was disappointing.
1T may be so, but l never knew a
case of it,
Didn't you ever know of girl who
dreamed of black fox three times
running?"
mo, nor red fox, either. There
was Sarah Jumper. She dreamed Of
coon five times running, but instead
of living an old maid she had three
husbands before she got through"
"But it surely means that you are
going to fall in love If you look down
the we'll and see your face in the
water"
Eyes, l suppose it does; but girls
are pretty sure to fall in love, even if
they never look down a we'll"
But as the girl read on she gave
a gasp of surprise. She had come
across the following:
'If the sun comes up very red and
you are standing under a pear tree
and a white dove alights on your Shout
der, it means that you are going to
meet stranger"
"Why, I should think it would. 1t
seems to me it ought to-"
Grandma, l don't believe you be-
lieved in any of these things when
you were girl" pouted Miss Leonore.
"Well, you will find one here that
says If girl dreams that she falls
asleep under a sunf1ower and is
awakened by the twitter of robin, a
strange young man is coming along
to fall In love with her."
But did you ever know it to hap
penn"
Hannah Baker always vowed and
declared that it happened, but Hannah
was a good deal of a liar. She said
that the man who came along was
Tom Perkins, whom she afterward
married"
And they lived happy forever
more?"
mo, they didn't That's the worst
think about dreams. Hannah and Tom
fought like cats and dogs within three
months and separated"
"'And never made up?"
Not as l ever heard of. You
mustn't pay much attention to those
old items about dreams and things.
| Those we're days when girls were
very silly"
1t was the first time that grandma
had ever cast doubt on the absolute
veracity of the items, and the girl
went out into the orchard and sat
| down and had good cry. She had
| believed since she could understand,
and it was a bitter disappointment to
be told at last that she had been
believing in lot of nonsense. Grand
ma finally called her in to show her
how to make custard for supper, and
Miss Leonore dried her tears.
"But something may happen yet"
"Of course it may. Things are al
| ways HdppSlllii6- VIC Hdu that SpOL-
ted COW for thirteen years, and I'd
have as soon thought the Judgment
| day would come as that she would
kick, but what did she do the week
before you came but haul off and give
me a rap that sent me agin the fence
Keep your feet dry and things will
happen right along"
Three days later. while Miss Leo
more was chasing the calf around the
lot she ran a thorn into her foot If
she had had her shoes on at the time
she might not have run so fast, but
she would have escaped the thorn.
Grandma had to take her teeth to the
thorn, and there were yells and sobs
Il told you something might hap
pen any day. and now it has"
But won't be able to step on that
foot for several days." was protested
81 know it, and that's what you get
by playing the tomboy l will make