The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-03-05
CONFESSIONS
OF A Wife
CHILDISH IDEAS on con

THAT little Margaret Ann IL a
limb Yesterday was over az
Euenea and. as ! always do I went
up to the schoolroom
The govorncss was out OF tho
room and Margaret Ann was sitting
in the big chair with her little feet
drawn up under her At her feet sat
Bulge and Teddy with eyes nught
and mouths open
Listen" said Ellcne "and YOU
child is going TO make either tho
greatest novelist or the greatest liar
cNtant"
Just then childish voice was
heard. And Budgie. when you die
you can $50 Go heaven IL sou want 20
An you have 60 do Is 60 be good
hoy. and when you die God takes
you right up into heaven IN a gold.
ms chariot
Look here Margaret Ann" put
In To-day the Hkcptical. you haven't
got that right atall Georgia Pat.
ten died the other day and Judge
and | ruined away and tagged tho
wagon in which they put him. And
they took him out 20 the almctery
ami dropped tn hole ct.thud
Now nuder and me We watched
very carefully, and unless God work.
ed ~ one % those mysterious ways
his wonders TO perform the man
tells about" said Teddy proudly. as
he evidently quoted from something
he had learned AZ church or sunday
school there was no EoldinE
chariot for George. was there
bulge 80
Nell maybe Teddy il was done
when We was asleep" said Budric.
the trusting. who would believe the
moon was made ~ green cheese II
Margaret Ann affirmed H.
Il know just how u was. " said Mar
Earet Ann In a triumphant voice
you see. when folks die they can
have Just what they wnnt--just
what they ask for. God or tho black
hole-cn thud. Some ask for Cod and
some ask for holes. You see GcorEio
might have been afraid Of Eoiding
chariota and took the hole
Ehcne turned TO me and said
Children work u out better than
they know We all have chance
10 choose. Margic don't We And
some OF Us choose holes. morra the
pity"
while We were thinking about a..
there rose an awful hubbub In tho
schoolroom E.licnc rushed forward
and separated the twins. who were
pummeling each other IN good
shape
what In the world are you DO
ing" asked Eli-nc. as she held them
apart
Wei" said BudEis. a. he strus
glcd for breath "Toddy just said
that Margaret Ann was either lying
or Joking. and I told him no gentle
man ever accused lady " lying or
Joking and he said Margaret Ann
was no Lady she was only a uttic
girl. and said there vas little girl
ladies'. and he said Little glrl
ladies. your grandmother and then
hit him
u think sou arc both horrid." said
Margaret Ann. You know that God
hates lar. but. OF course. God can
take a joke" Elicne looked AZ me
in constsrnn ton what would that
child think OF next
Wen. III tell YOU something that
Is no Joke" she aid to the children.
"BudEie and Teddy must not fight
each other. no matter how mad they
got and little Margaret Ann better
tell her mother all her intimate
ideas about God. and get her moth.
cr's opinion on the subject before
she talks much about IT."
There Is nothing very splendid
about what mother tells me. Aunt
Eliene protested Margaret Ann. Il
can think up lot Of things that
beat anything she sayH all O. pieces 4"
Well you had better use your
thinking cap on your lessons a
thesis on God will keep until you are
older"