The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-08-31

Dut ltits Oh CouEsey ChHHUl uC tHdut
up of hours like that. No sane per-
son can even want to live In per-
| petual ecstasy. What makes noun
| tain peak is the fall away into the
surrounding valleys.
In their valleys of commonplace,
everyday existence-and these oc-
cured even In their first days together
--they were stiff, shy, self-conscious
with each other. And their attempt to
| ignore this fact only made the self
consciousness the worse. 1t troubled
and bewildered both Of them.
| The arrival of the twins, In the CON
voy of badly fiustered--and, to tell
the truth, somewhat scandalized--
Miss French, simplified the situation
s0mewhat-by complicating it, They
absolutely enforced routine. And
they gave Rose and Rodney so many
occupations that the contemplation of
their complicated states of mind was
much abridged.
But even her babies brought Rose n
disappointment along with them. From
the time Of the receipt of Miss
French's telegram. telling them what
train she and the twins would take.
Rose had been telling Off the hours
In mounting excitement. The two ut
| terly adorable little creatures, as the
| pictures Of them In Rodney's pocket
book showed them to be, who were
miraculously. incredibly hers, were
coming to bring motherhood to her
She didn't go to Boston with Rod
ney to meet them; stayed behind
in the cottage, ostensibly to see to 1t.
up to the very last minute, that the
| fires were right (June had come in
cold and rainy and, in general to be
ready, on the moment, to produce any
thing that their rather unforeseeable
needs might call for. Her real rea-
son was shrinking from having her
first meeting with them in the confu-
sion of arrival on station platform,
under the eyes of the world. Rodney
understood this well enough. and, ar
irving at the cottage, he clambered
out of the wagon with them and car
ried them both straight In to Rose,
leaving the nurse and the bewildering
paraphernalia of travel for second
trip.
Rose, in the passionate surge of
gratlfied desire that came with the
sight of them, caught them from him,
crushed them up against her breast
and frightened them half to death. So
that, without discrimination, they
howled and brought Miss French fly
Ing TO the rescue.
Rose didn't make a tragedy of 1t
managed smile at herself, though she
suspected she'd cry when she got the
chance, and subjected her ideas to al
instantaneous revision. They were
persons, those two funnily Indignant
little mites, with their own ideas, thei
own preferences, and the perfectly ade
! quate conviction of being entitled t
| them, How would she herself hav
5 liked 1t, to have total stranger, fiji
e teen feet high or so, snatch her Xix
r TINT?
a She was rather apologize all da.
e and got her reward, especially froI
( the boy, who was an adventurous an
d rather truculent baby, much, she fur
j. cied, as his father must once hav
$ been, and who took to her more quicl
Q ly than the girl did. Indeed, the Sc,
ond Rodney fell In love with her a
i most as promptly as his father ha
r done before him. But little Porti
I wasn't very far behind. Two days SUI
a feed for the conquest of the pair {
I them.
$ The really dlsquleting discover
n awaited the time when the wire edg
: of novelty about this adventure
a motherhood had worn off; when sh
h could battle them, dress them, fee
n them their very strictly regimente
d meals, without being spurred to ii
highest pitch of alertness by the fes
Q of making a mistake-forgetting SOM
thing like the juice of a half-orane
l. at ten O'Clock in the morning, IL
q omission of which might have-wt
II knew what disastrous consequences
That attitude can't last any woma
D long. and Rose, with her wonderful
clever hands, her wits trained not
h be told the same thing twice. h,
pride keeping in sharp focus the d
)" termination that Rodney should 81
Y that she could be as good nurse
v, Miss French-Rose wore Oft that ner
e Gus tenseness over her new job We
lie quickly. Within week she had
% routine established that was noisele
le --frictionless.
But, do YOU remember how agha
Q, she was over the forty weeks Jol
a Galbraith had talked about as Il
q probable run of ''rhe Girl Upstairs
% her CONSERVATION over the idea of ju
70 going on doing the same thing ov
Te and over again. 'around and aroun
like a horse ut the end of pole?'
lie Well, 1t WINS with something I
same feeling of CONSERVATION th'
Of having thrown herself heart and SO
ID into the task of planning and setti
in motion a routine for two year-au
rs a-half-old babies, she should find h,
50 self Strengthening up and sayin
rNVhat navt9u and raolizinp that