The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-06
BUSINESS OF LIVING
Mrs. Black Comes in to Help at q
Happy Moment.
BY MRS. EVA Lee NARD

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Happy Moment.
Margaret, can you watch the baby
and come and tell mother when he
wakes up? / have very bad head
ache and must go and lie down
while" Eleanor looked very pale
and lanquid.
Can 1 have Elizabeth ever to play
with me?' asked the child.
"Y-e-s,' hesitated the mother.
want you to be quiet. tho, for 1 must
to do the work"
ST WILL cried the child enthusi-
astically. 81 will go over and get her
now" She sped out of the open door
and down the walk.
Eleanor sighed as she stopped 10
pick up some scattered p'sythings.
can do the work in short time If L
can get my head quoted. l hate TO
leave the house looking like this she
sank down on the couch to wait TOT
| the children to reappear. The chill
dren soon came chattering up the
| walk, Elizabeth carrying her doll.
Now play in the front part of the
| house or on the porch, and you can
hear baby when he wakes and can
call me if he cries. Mother is not
we'll"
i Eyes, mother" answered the child.
| absently, her thoughts on her play
| Eleanor went upstairs, lowered the
| blind and sank onto the bed with a
| sigh of relief. How grateful the cool
| pillow felt. Every straIning nerve
| was beginning to refax. the soft lux
ury of drowsiness was stealing over
her when a sharp scream rent the air.
| She sprang up and hurried down the
| stairs
what happened?" Elizabeth was
| standing screaming on the walk.
"She fell off the steps," gasped
Margaret, who stood pale and fright
ened by her friend
| Eleanor went to the little girl and
tried to see where she was hurt, but
the frightened child wo"id not be
comforted and started for home
Go with her. Margaret. and tell
Mrs Weeks that 1 was lying down
and do not know how 1t happened.
said Eleanor. YEARLY putting her
threw herself on the bed. but she had
hardly dropped to sleep when the
baby walked and there was nothing
for Eleanor to do but to take him
from his crib She gathered his play
things around him and lay down, hop
ing to be able to rest little while
even if she could not sleep, but the
young man had other views ana
climbed up on his mother and began
| to play he was riding horseback,
chugging up and down over her hip.
She rose and placed him on the floor.
to his utter disgust. He set up a yen
of protest and a wave of nausea swept
over her. 1t had turned into sick
headache This meant, she knew, ut
ter prostration. why did not Mar
garet come back?" Just when she
began to feel that she could endure
it no longer Margaret appeared.
you will help mother if you will
go over to Mrs. Blacks and ask her
to come over here a minute, dear.
Tell her mother is sick" Eleanor's
voice was so weak that Margaret
was frightened and ran out of the door
without any objections
, Soon Eleanor heard the neighbor
coming up the walk talking to the
child.
$50 you are sick?" she asked
: solicitously coming up the stairs. She
seated herself by the bed and peered
into Eleanor's face.
Just a sick headache but 1 can
not hold my head up. If 1 could get
a little sleep 1 would be all right, but
this boy" A faint smile passed over
; her face sick as she was at the idea
of anybody trying to sleep with him
| around
= IT see." Mrs. Black looked trou-
bled You are all worn out. You
r never think of yourself at all. and
{ all summer. 1 am afraid you will be
2 down sick in bed"
"Oh no, 1 shall be all right
knew just how kind and helpful you
always are and / thought if you would
[ take the baby for an hour or two
and 1 could get nap
Come, 1 will get you to bed and
make you comfortable before 1 leave
, Eleanor surrendered herself to Mrs
, Blacks capable ministrAtions and fell
every care drop from her when she
was lying in bed in darkened room
with a cold compress on her head.
ITO be continued.)