The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-25
Renort Trims fn Camn

 thought out There are occasional spelling corrections and word will be spelled in various ways through the book The title as written was The | Young Viseters" But the publisher l thought it better to substitute an 1T l for the first "e" as the word was almost unrecognisable.
 1 The story finishes rather hurriedly on the last page of the account book l and in turning over the leaves in show l ing it to me Miss Ashford remarked: | should have gone on bit. There 1 was quite lot more to tell about
 Ethel. It all came back to me clear | ly when we ran across this amoung | others of our childhood rubbish in an old cupboard when our home was broken up last year. While Daisy was writing "The | Young visiters' Angela aged eight, | now married and living in South l hampton, was busy with "The Jellus Governess." or "The Granted Wish" l This astonishing story, so uncon- ventional that one or two in the au- dience were plainly scandalized, opens with a conversation between MT. and Mrs Hoze sitting before the fire. Mir Hoze is reading his paper Mrs. l Hose the Strand Magazine. She isl delicate and isn't paying much at tention to her magazine. She final ly lets it drop in her lap and says
 q want baby"
 Mir Hoze looks up and declareA. Its the one thing I've been wish Let's adopt one" says MT. Hoze. 'No, I want one of my own,' replies
 his wife. looking very frail. Net morning about eight o'clock. before they are up the maid comes to | l.- 4 te Hx IAA l Hoze. You don't mind his coming in to our room, do you. Charlie?f So the doctor with his bold step" enters the bedroom and lays a card board on the bed.
 I "I heard you wanted baby" says ] the doctor.
 | "Ts it boy or girl? asks Mrs. l Hoze.
 doctor, laying the box on the cider T don't quite know" says the 1 down.
 l The doctor goes out Kicking the door with his feet because he was ! holding his top hat in both hands, MT. Hoze suggests that they might l open the box.
 "Oh yes, let's do, says his wife
 and lovely fat baby rolls out onto the bed.
 1 Isn't it a pity it hasn't got it's eyes open, though" she complains. 1 Hadn't we better put something on it." says the proud father. 1 Mrs. Hoze wraps the new baby UT I in blue shawl she had when she was a baby and which she had kept i all this time on the top shelf of her l wardrobe. She sets the baby up on ! the pillows between them. | l MT. Hoze wants nursery governess I His wife says the baby is too young. l But he could be getting used to her l and she could help us in the evenings" he urges. So it's decided and MT Hoze 1 dresses up to go to town to Madame 1 Toinett's registry office to see about 1 one
 What do you think I've got on clean" asks MT. Hoze of his wife who isn't paying any attention to his l remarks" A nice clean shirt and scarlet socks. there's a hole in one but it doesn't show and my best black trousers There's a button off one side l which makes one leg longer than the other"
 Mrs. Hoze begins to take notice "I'll sew it on for you after break fast" Thank you kindly" says her husband.
 They choose a goyerneSs, Miss Ju- l nick, who has the reputation of talk 1 ing things that do not belong to her | She immediately begins to be .iellus'' \ of the baby She wants one, herself and finds ont how Mrs Hoze got hers 1 determines to pay visit to the doc I tor. But she doesn't know how to ex- plain her wish to go out in the even ing.
 Il Please may I go to the village to get some Beecham's Pills?' she asks her mistress
 Certainly" says Mrs, Hoze. Are l you unwellc"
 might be and perhaps I'll see some :, thing else need
 She waits in the doctors study and
 when he comes in with proud step" /, she says she wants a baby, too. But the point is are you married" says the doctor
 No" admits the gAverness.
 Then it can't be done"
 After further conversation in which the doctor says he'd marry her him self but he has a wife already, Miss
 Junick suddenly remembers that she
 is married after all. So the next morn ing baby is addressed to her is de- livered by the doctors page boy just l as she is bringing the Hoze baby in from walk.
 l She snatches the box from the boy.
 Challenged by Mrs. Hoze on the stairs she says. '"It's just box that has come for me-
 ! She hurriedly puts the Hoze baby to bed then rushes up to her room to
 look at her own baby But when
 she opens the box she finds that her
 baby is very ugly. She determines to throw it away. She murders it. throws it in dirty alley and then being still
 'jellus' she steals the Hoze baby and runs away with iJ to Chichester. where her parents live, who will be glad tn find that she has taken something