The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1915-01-20
WHEN HIS MOTHER GAME
THE ELEVATOR MANS STORY.

up to the sixteenth sIory'
Huhl" chortled the elevator man.
beaminK. why shouldn't l? Just got
word that my mother is coming to see
me-"
The elevator man being fat, req
faced and of grown-up years Bang
worthy looked a trife bewildered- YET
evidently from the manner in when
the news was delivered he was e@'
pected to strike an attitude OF asuon-
ishment and appreciation.
That so?" Bangworthy onereu'
vaguely. .,
"Yepl" said the elevator man. she
wrote she'd be here next Friday on
the train that gets in at ten O'Clock,
I'm going to get off and go meet her.
Hard to get away these days" SAID
gangworthy, idly. Why don't you
have your wife meet herr
The elevator man laughed hugely
WHY" he chuckled, my wife doesh
know my mother and my mother new
err laid ewes on my wife. You see, l
haven't seen my mother myself TOT
ten years-not since I came to chi
cago." 80
"oh," commented Bangworthy with
aroused interest. 81 see"
Ten years" unused the elevator
man. forgetting to open the door
Gee, That's a long time-not to see
YOUR mother. | hate to think or IT,
She never saw the two kids, either
I'm bet she thinks the boy looks
like mel" grinned the elevator man TO
Bangworthy the next morning Wheh
he headed for Bangworthy's moor.
''Who-what7" asked Bangworthy In
bewilderment.
The elevator man looked almost
hurt. why. didn't I tell you yester-
day that my mother was coming 10
visit?" he reminded Say, you oughta
eat the custard pies my mother
makesl When I was a boy At home
I could eat a whole one. Just as
creamy My wife's anxious to nno
out how she does It. She's going TO
ind out about a lot OF things while
my mother is here. She says I'm al
ways talking about that scrapple
stun and raised doughnuts and things
that she's blessed II she can make
MY mother'n be tickled to tell her.
because II there's anything mother
likes to do It is TO cook. Geel can
Just remember being up in the hay
NOV and hearing her calling out that
the sugar cookies we're out OF the oven
and II wanted any--say. ever eat any
sugar cookies all warm from the oven
and light brown on topT
"They sound good" agreed Bang
worthy, a trine enviously. We had
good things when / was kid, too
not that we don't now. Of course. But
1 suppose this generation OF women
has learned some different things to
cook"
You bet!" agreed the elevator
man. I'm not saying that my wife
amt a dandy housekeeper. either. but
somehow things did taste different
when | was boy My mother was
corker Once when shed said not to
20 swimming and / did. anyhow, ]
blistered my back something awful
It hurt so | wanted to cry, but l didn't
dast tell her, and after I'd gone to bed
she slips in with some soft cloths and
ointment and fixes me up without q
word. II gets me how mothers seem
to know about lots OF things like that
without being told"
What's the matter?" anxiously
Bangworthy inquired of the elevator
man the next morning when he saw
that individuals countenance Of
gloom.
"Aw, just had wire from mother.
She can't get here till Saturday, in
stead OF tomorrow" growled the dis
appointed one. And me all fixed VI
to go to the depot tomorrow! The
kids have got new shoes. too
wouldn't miss seeing mothers face
for a farm when she lays eyes on
those kids You oughta see the
things she sends em Christmas and
birthdays. Makes 'em all herself
She's been Just crazy about EN- on
paper. and when she sees 'em-gee!
'Is she coming today .sure?" asked
Bangworthy on Saturday morning.
"Yep!" breathed the elevator man
excitedly, letting a passenger for the
eleventh floor on at the ninth floor
and disregarding his frantic protests
I'm getting OF at $3.50 to hustle owe;
after her. Say. I'm all sort OF nery
GUS. Amt it queer?"
We'll. did she Gomez" asked Bang
worthy. as he descended late that aS
teruoon.