The sun., 1916-12-03
Rachel Crothers Finds City Audiences
as Prone to Tears and Laughter
as Their Country Cousins

can see my fathers house plain enough -,
without shuttin' my eyes to do II or
going through any eloquent contor-
tions. It's the milk house where I
done my churnin' that gifts me the most
in the ool o. the evenin' with father
settin' on the back porch e smokin'
his pipe-and the cows s%tretchin' their
Eecks over the meader fence to us with
that low, sweet bawlin' they do toward
night when the shadders begin to git
long an everything's kin o. still.
tJane has finished her work and sits
holding u bowl Of apples with her eyes
far away.l
Nancy tsnifing but still crocheting
and rocking energeticallyl-I guess I
got as much to remember as anybody.
II IT comes to that. 1t don't DO no good
talking about it. | try To fergit. Std
o. re%memberin'. Our house was full all
tho time. Weddin's an funerals and
babies ,bein' born an life-life goin' on.
Such a thing as one of us endin' up in
a. old ladies' home would "a been too
comical to think Of. Nobody comm
from good families ever could be con-
nected with such a thing. uh. How
little you know. Death takes one and
then another and the comfortable sup
ply YOU took for granted was going on
forever has dwindled before you know
II. and you're so glad you've got the
hundred dollars thatll get you in here
you can't think OF anything else for
a little while-not till after you're hero
and settled-and know one days
goin' to he just like the other till It's
all over. Talk about shuttin' things
up and sayin' good-by to 'em-I amt
done nothin' but say good-by to people
an things for twenty years-an' I was
the baby an the spollt me they all Civ
up to. Ch! II makes me laugh when
l hear folk remember things. Why.
my life was SO chuck full l wouldn't
know what to remember most IL l ever
let myself start. II was so full l amt
used to the emptiness even yet.
Abigail twiping her eyesl-Thcre's
one thing you all amt got to remember
| that l have. and hat Is little children
on your breast-little hands on your
cheek when you held EN- to nurse.
| They was all took away from me
some when they vas little--some when
they was growed up-but I've had 'em.
Jim wandered on-just got tired and
/ silB1Btd away Atotl AiNt
men get sometimes-but I had him.
too. I alters thought he o up with
some other somewheres an
give her a big family. too: but that
don't matter in the long run. Things
turn out bout as they've got to-so fer
as I can see. I'm old now and not up
to strugglin' much moro with any
thing-an' I've come to think that al
though the bed I sleep in amt mine
It was provided by kindness and good
intentions anyhow. and I made UP my
mind when I come here. to put my
head down on the piller at night with
nothing but thankfulness in !t-and let
all the rest go.
Nancy latter n pause1-There's a
lot in that-if you a bring yourself
to see IT,.
Blossy-There.s everything in II, and
I've been thinking about Anglia all day
to-day and how much worse her com
ing is than any OF ours was-because
she's had to say good-by to-day not
only to her home. but To her husband,
and thought all of a sudden what IA
selfish old thing ! was to be living
here in the biggest room just because
I happened to have n little extra to pay
when the little room Mt the head of
the back stairs that Angie was goin' 10
have would do for me just az well as
not There is gasping establishment
from the othersl and that II all thirty
of us would consent to ii we could AXE
Abe in with Angie and they could have
my big room.
Nancy-What!
Mrs. Homans-You're proposing a
very astonishing thing.
Sarah Jane--Unheard OF! A man
alone in the house with thirty women!
Blossy-Why not? He'd he ole
lady 81.