The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-12-20

ems although you care for some Of
Z Thac lleray of which ! ana not per on :
ally fond Mother loFasit al. Moth
Ter, by the way, has been reading The
Legend OF Montroses 70 the little boys
and they are absorbed ia it. She finds
It hard to get anything that viii ap-
| peal to both Archie and Quentin. as
they possess such different natures.
/ am quite proud Of what Archie
did the day before yesterday. Some
of the bigger boys were throwing
baseball around outside of Mr.. Sid
| wells school and 1t hit one Of them
! square Il the eye, breaking all the
blood vessels and making an extreme
ly dangerous hurt. The other boys
were all ratified and could do nothing,
finally sneaking of when Mr.. Sidwell
appeared. Archie stood by and him
self promptly suggested that the boy
should go to DR.. Wilmer Accord
ingly he SCorched down to DR.. Viii
mer's and said there was an emergen-
cy case for one of Mr. Sldwell's boys.
who was hurt in the eye, and could
he bring him. DR.. Wilmer, who diu
not know Archie was there, sent ont
word to OF course do so. So Archie
scorched back on his wheel, got the
boy Il do not know why Mr.. Sidwe
did not take him himself) and led him
down to Dr. Winners who ATTENDED
to his eye and had to send him at once
To- a hospital, Archie waiting until he
heard the result and then coming
home. DR.. Wilmer told me about 1t
and said II Archie had not acted with
such promptness the boy (who was
four or five years older than Arch
te, by the way would have lost his
sight.
What a heavenly place sandbOx
is for two little boys Archie and
Quentin play industriously in it dur
ing most OF their spare moments when
out in the grounds. often look out
Of the office windows when have
score of senators and congressman
with me and see them both hard at
work arranging caverns of mountains,
with runways, for their marbles.
Goodbye, blessed fellow. shall
think of you very often during the
coming week. and | AM so very glad
that mother is to be with you at your
confirmation.
Pillow Fights With the Boys.
WHITE HOUSE, March 10, 1906
Darling Kermit:
During the four days mother was
away l made point of seeing the chill !
dren each evening for three quarters
of an hour or so. Archie and Quen-
tin are really great playmates. One
night 1 came upstairs and found
Quentin playing the panola as hard !
as he could, while Archie would sud |
denly start from the end of the hall
where the ptanola was, ana, accom-,
panied by both the dogs, race as hard
as he could the whole length of the
White House clean to the other end
OF the hall and back again. Another
evening as l came upstairs | found !
Archie and Quentin having a great
play, chuckling with laughter, Archie !
driving Quentin by his suspenders,
which were fixed to the end Of a pair
OF wooden reins. Then they would I
ambush me and we would have v;g.
orous pillow fight, and after five or
ten minutes of this we would go into |
mothers room. and would read them
the book mother had been reading |
them 1.-THE Legend of MontrOSe." We
just got through it the very last even |
ing. Both Skip and Jack have wei
coined mother back with frantic JOY,
and this morning came in and Lax on
her bed as soon as she\had finished
breakfast-ior she did not come Gown
to either breakfast or lunch, as she
is going to spend the night at Balti-
more with the Bonapartes.
1 was so interested in your read
ing "Phineas Finn that l ordered
copy myself I have also ordered De-
Qulncey's works, as find we have
not got them at the White House.
Ito Be Continued
copyright, 1919, Charles ScTib1 Frs
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