The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1919-04-10
If I Had
Known
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BY
MAY BELLRVlLLE BROWN
1918. by Mcclure Newspape
Syndicate.)


Luretta Fox asked Mariana Mark
She's as young as lot of your men
bers. and she's never been In anythin
but the Ladies' Aid and the Patriot
Sisters"
NO, indeed" replied Mariana. wit
toss Of her auburn head. "She1
have to stay with the Ladies' Aid 0
else organize League of Old Maids
She was born one anyway"
STUFF and nonsense |" exploded Aun
Luretta. carol never had chance
Her mother made her into an old won
an before she was through with he
teethlng ring. We older women can
help her. but she might catch the habi
Of being young from you"
"The Merrymakers wasn't organized
to do missionary work. :" shifted Ma
rianna. as she flounced away.
Carol felt bit wistful when word
of the Merrymakers reached her. II
was the first organization IN Sloan
Center which aimed TO combine pleas
ure With profit and work. But she was
very busy just then. as the Ladies' Aid
was arranging q living calendar, and
the Patriotic Sisters struggling to put
bust of Lincoln on the public library.
You are so much younger than the
rest of us was the stock phrase which
urged her on to effort In these socie-
ties
Carol was thirty-two. True. that
should not be considered old. but she
had been the child of age. and what
ever her masterful mother had thought
or read or been. Carol shared with her
The only appreciate difference made
In her life by the death of her mother
was that all of Mrs. Thurston's old
friends felt free to levy upon the
daughters time.
"The Merrymakers gave progress
sive dinner last night" Aunt Luretta
was making a morning call upon Carol.
you know-started with soup. that
was at Fanny Bonner's. and had one
thing at each house until they wound
up with ice cream and cake at Mari
Annals"
Carol, pretty picture in her pale
blue chambray. as she sat peeling
peaches on her shady back porch,
flushed a bit
"They seemed to be having a good
time when they passed here" she re-
piled. adding. to turn the subject, 1--WE |
have only five dollars more to raise
for our Lincoln bust Aunt Luretta"
rs that so?" Aunt Luretta asked |
absently. "They say that Mariana
has her eve on Edward Lindsay, the
new lawyer. and that he has his eye on
the nomination for congress from this
district. I fancy that Mariana would
admire running in and out of the
White House and meeting all the way
up folks down at Washington"
Mariana Is real good-looking."
Carol. half indifferently
dropping a peach in the blue bowl be-
side her.
"Mph If you like red hair and as
bossy a way as ever wasl" shifted
Aunt Luretta. Zone thing. she's got
enough brass 10 tell the president and
all of congress how this government
ought to he run. But am forgetting
ny errand. Old Mr.. Banks is worrying
about the Harvest Home entertain
nent. You know. it's his tenth year I
Is superintendent. and he's about out |
II Ideas, besides being 80 old. so he
wants help with the Sunday school.
farianna won't LET the Merrymakers b
axe 1t up-too poky, she says. So the v
aides Aid just had to promise to help.
nd when we talked II over we decid-
d, since we were all so busy and you /
eng so much younger than the rest b
( US"
Carol dropped the peach she was
ceiling and groaned =
"Aunt Luretta =" she rebelled 1.-THE d
ext time a Ladies' Aid or a Patriotic
lister says that to me, just to get me =
J do what she doesn't want to do her
If, Pll-Tll have my front teeth
1lled and take 10 crutches and ban
lgesi I might as WELL for all the be
g younger has ever brought me. eI
pit hard work"
"Why. Carol! :" stammered Aunt Lu-
tia. 81 didnt-why, nobody thought
YOU always"
Nditi. iuilN. MS site 1 II
Sumed her work. II always have
ID / suppose I always will. | didn't
can to fly of-only the monotony of
ings gets on my nerves. I will be at
e church-when did you say?-
lursday evening? Tell Mr. Banks to
pect me-"
Thursday evening was sultry with q
e choking dust suspended in the air.
was the last parched effort of sum-
r to assert It's reign, and Carol walk
with tagging steps, remembering
) hammock under her shady arbor,
the Ladies' Aid had promised Mr.
nks her help. She knew that IL
uld mean many hot evenings drill
restless children and decorating
church.
IN automobile passed her with Ed
I'd Lindsay at the wheel II shot
ad 10 the church door and stopped
let out passenger. and Aunt Luz
n had told her that he was to take
rianna Marks out TO Crystal Spring
/ evening.