Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-01
EPISODE SEVEN
A MAMIE FOR A DAILY

NAME FOR A BABY
e S SsRe snE granny HsHnS n %rts TO E''
That's easy. Id do ii myself il
she didn't know my writing" replied Mir. Bar
manner.
the psycholosy Of it, 90 '>"s'' 40" get
tinctly en- fami!le: Resides Granny md me
there were only Jimmy Barton and Dr. and
And as he generally did when either Granny
or ] wanted 10 know anything, Dr. Kelog &
Dear Mrs. Fairfax what the people who
write VII to beatrice wait is Intelligent sympa
all too likely 10 get AT home. They want the
impersonal opinion Of some one outside their
prejudice ana advise uuInovcd by any prefer
ence for Mamie over John or John over Ma
And the next morning. when the very FIRST
letter opened was from girl who cried
tragedy. | remomhcred our conversation
and wondered il any or us had quite ex-
This is the letter which gave mo pause:
Dear Miss Fairfax:
you help ne? His father. q w,il.k,"wn law
yer; Ia to he married in a very TOW days tc a
Slrl who doesn't know.
AnXiously yours.
.p,,.,, "MapGE MNrrRN;. =.
The oldest tragedy in the road held me in
IT, grip, And just then in came Jimmie barton,
ANYTHING in the world need he tragic in that
he, he refused to recognizes tho fact that there
rearrange to advantaEe
r.a re peersd over my shoulder. and he
iead the nrSt sentence he laughed at tho
Inca or womans writing request that
know whether she ought TO take his arm, or or
me- ne ongh h TO- take hers, and whether stamp
laughed Jimmie. '
:, But as he read the mex; line of the letter
became
ano Why IT'S ,t the Very thing We talking
il this story in The American t,ts i; M Here IT
is; The Conley- Payne wedding-young law
nF m15e1ss socis,y
he . could be the man." asked Jimmie.
of Circumstance pretty FAR" said ''''@ ANN
harm to md out r@marl:Ga Mr We" rar,o 40 anH
sailed forth on. MS voyage Of ds@ove over; A'
my Ny faitn IN iimmi" had grown through
had nab..l-him 20 act with frcquenty as the
God cut Of The machine" but nevertheless 7
Cove: and early tina; afternoon ] ombarked
on my my p Gd or very stranc" adventure.
tucked away in the upper mart Of Yves, cbester
county AZ the station there wore two little
their shafts which looked as If they we're
pssehnistoIic re iicH | entered one and request
it TO take me to Miss NIinturn's cottage
cir, c,rryir we cane un9n pretty d-faced
her arms called to her and asked pI IL sh h"
could ooa , tel me- where Mads.e Minturn Aved:
and Just as had expected. she turned on I
to he the s!rl seeking
moment later had introduced myself
ni. s is Tera , for the trip when bGhSld
girls bitterly unhappy face.
80, Shs GsneLGd ne into a small sittingrooin
plain, neat little cottage There wag rather
pathetic effort TO make the place hnmelikc.
Of hopeless indifference which kept il from
helnE ANYTHING more than transitory abid-
Trn,urod a complimentary remark about
ne ne hoins' ana even as did II the girl caught
ITS not home-ira prison She sobbed.
When T be re, MY r. hn6y ~ d",he MA away
Now. Ralph doesn't care for me any more,
alive I:ut there's baby1batby, Iie. sDf zen
s,,d ~ rT in1 iSht to paGe in The world
AIld "a lnl 'onl"y will have 20 give him tha,
'l!alrh Conlcy, Tho man who ,s roin. -
MARY MareaTet Payne the day after to,
dif,er,ed ser prettI .a i" agony and hatred
Yes" she sohbed
~ 'hink you had he,,er tell me your story.
This is The story Msdse Minturn told
enough sto,y--one YOU nave hnard :, u" o."
many timcs before. was sixteen when I
lonesome and wanted r~iends and hanninca,
and good time ike other girls
foF TWO years / just worried and ate and
slept and got Up and dressed and went
through the same Old rounds again Then
Ralph, came nom" from college ana down "a
the Office and met him and ~ a. , y
loved me-and that's all! Here am ,,ne
just lonesome. couldn't stand il;
g! wanted 70 believe HIM when he said ha
loved me and was going 10 marry me.
wanted 20 believe him--and 40 / did
couldn't stand the loneliness any more I,u,
God knows ii was better than thie'
Poor little lonely elrl" said "Th,,.,
about the biggest tr;iiycdy III All ON, con,
Eested cruc! city !ife--and nouody seem,
able TO help IT."
The girl fen to sobb!ng Wildly. ana mo,
and there vowed that she should have he
hearts desire-a name FOR hcr baby. OF E.l
trice Fairfax would forever cal hera.,f
failure
We'll, suppose YOU want 10 know ius
how II was" Madge recovered h.rsclf an,
went on with her story quietly ana d:spas
sionately. with only an occasional sob L
punctuate It,