The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-01-31

uenCe diWdyS SdyS uuSt keep IN eye
on Carol. She's so pretty, and the boys
get stuck on her, and-that's what
Prudence says. 1 forgot all about 1t
for a while. But lately have begun
to notice that the boys are older, and
we don't want Carol falling In love
with the wrong man. got uneasy.
decided to watch out. I'm the head
Of this family, you know"
"Such an idea !" scoffed Aunt Grace,
who was not at all of q scofiing ma
true.
"Carol was born for lovers, Prudence
says so. And these mems girls have
to be watched, or the wrong fellow will
get ahead, and"
"Carol doesn't need watching-not
any more at least"
"Tm not really watching her, you
know. I'm just keeping my eyes OPEN"
"But Carols all right. That's one
time Prudence was away Off" She
smiled as she recognized bit of Car
OILS slang upon his lips. Don't worry
about her. You needn't keep an eye
on her any more. She's coming, all
right"
"You don't think there's any danger
of her falling in love with the wrong
manT
mo"
"There aren't many worth-having
fellows in Mount Mark, you know"
"Carol won't fall in love with
Mount Mark fellow"
"You seem very positive"
eyes, I'm positive"
He looked thoughtful for a while.
"Well, Prudence always told me 10
watch Carol, so could help her if size
needed It,"
"Girls always need their fathers"
came the quick reply. ''But Carol does
not need you particularly. There's
only one of them who will require es-
pecial attention"
"That's what Prudence says"
"Yes, just one-not Carol"
mot Caro-" He looked at her in
establishment. "Why. Fairy and Lark
are-different. They're oil right. They
don't need attention"
mo. It's the other oLe."
"The other one! That's ALL"
"There's Connie"
"ConnieT
eyes"
CONNER
"Yes."
"You don't mean Connie"
| Aunt Grace smiled.
"Why, Grace, you're-you're off. Elk.
cuse me for saying it, but-you're
crazy. Connie-why, Connie has never
been any trouble in her life. Connie !"
you've never had any friction with
Connie, she's always been right so far.
One Of these days she's pretty likely
to be wrong, and Connie doesn't yield
very easily"
"But Comics so sober and straight
and"
"That's the kind"
"She's so conscientious"
"Yes, conscientious"
"She's-look here, Grace, there's
nothing the matter with Connie"
"Of course not, William. That isn't
what mean. But you ought to be
getting very, very close to Connie right
now, for one of these days she's going
to need a lot of that extra companion
ship Prudence told you about. Con-
ME wants to know everything. She
wants to see everything. None Of the
other girls ever yearned for city life.
Connie does. She says when she is
through school she's going to the city,"
"What cityT"
"Any CITY,"
"What for?
'For experience"
Mr.. Starr looked about him help
lessly. "There's experience right
here" he protested feebly. Lots OF
it. Entirely too much of It."
swell, that't Connie. She wants TO
know, to see, TO feel. She wants to
live. Get close to her, get chummy.
She may not need it, and then again
she may. She's very young yet"
"All right, 1 will. 1t is well have
some one to steer me along the proper
road" He looked regretfully out OF
the window. II ought to be able tc
see these things for myself, but the
girls seem perfectly all right to me.
They always have. 1 suppose it's be-
cause they're NINE"
Aunt Grace looked at him affection
ately. "It's because they're the finest
girls on EARTH" she declared. That's
why. But we want to be ready to help
them If they need 1t, just because they
are so fine. They will every one be
splendid, If we give them the right
kind of chance"
He sat silent a moment. 'Ive al
ways wanted one of them to marry
preacher" he said, laughing APOLOGIZE
cally. at is very narrow-minded, OF
course hut a man does make n hobby