Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1920-01-08


oddly contrived betwean ss a
ladies without either Of Them 49,.
how odd it was.
At other times Lucy,s fsong
George were anything hut Nors - =
and weeks won't by when ~ 49,
consciously her mind at all ~
life was a busy one: she had 81 NJ,
house ito keep up" she hsd
to keep up, too, large and hes
garden; she represented her sbsr Y
director for half dozen pubic ebss
ity organizations, and aid
charity work Of her own, being
mother Of several large famiIes
she had danced down, a. Ne
groups from eight or nine clas
new graduates returned from -
versities, without marrying nv y
them, but she still danced-snS .,.'s
did not marry.
Her father, observing. This e,,
stance happily yet with some se
critical concern, spoke Of Il Il her ee.
day as they stood in her garden
suppose I'd want to shoot hisnp IS
said, with attempted lightness apns
mustn't be an old pig. I'd build ~,
beautiful house close by-juss
yonder"
mo, aoi That would be like IA
began impEisively; then checked bar
self. George Amberson's Compares.
Of the Georgian house to the Amberson
mansion had come into her mind m
she thought that another new honsa
built close BY for her, would 81 Ita
the house the Major built for Isabsl
Like whatr'
Nothing" She looked serious ma
when he reverted to his idea Of SONS
day. grudgingly surTendering her "a
TO a sutton, she invented q legend
'Did you ever hear the Indian name
for that little grove Of beech trees 81
the other side Of the hOuse?s Sic
asked him.
"No-and you never did eitherl" Is
laughed.
Don't be Sc surel read d great
deal more than used to-gettlng
ready for my bOokish days when mi
have to do something solid In the eYa-
nings and won't be asked to dance any
more, even by the very youngest boys
who think it's a sporting event e
dance with the oldest of the older
girls The name Of the grove vas
Loma-Nashah' and It means They.
Couldn't-Help-It.
Doesn't sound like It"
''Indian names don't. There was q
bad Indian chief lived in the grove be-
fore the white settlers came. He was
the worst Indian that ever lived, and
his name vast was 'Vendonah.
That means Rides-D own-Everything. p
II see" said Eugene thoughtfuIly.
he gave her a quick look and then
fixed his eyes upon the end Of the
garden path. tGo on.
'sVendonah was an unspeakabIe
case" Lucy continued. "He was 50
proud that be wore iron shoes, and he
walked over peoples faces with them.
He was always killing people that
way, and so at last the tribe decided
that it wasn't a good enough excuse
for him that he was young and inex-
perienced-he'd have to go. They took
him down to the river, and put him Ia
q canoe, and pushed him out from
shore and then they ran along the
bank and wouldn't let him land, until
1t last the current carried the canoe
Dut into the middle, and then on down
to the ocean, and he never got back.
rhey didn't want him back, Of course,
and IL he'd been able to manage It,
-hey'd have put him In another canoe
and showed him out into the river
again. But still, they didn't elect an-
)ther chief in his place. Other tribes
thought that was curious, and w0n-
Tered about 1t lot, but finally they
,ame to the conclusion that the beech
yrove people were afraid new chief
night turnsout to be d bad Indian, too.
ind wear iron shoes like Yendonah.
But they were wrong, because the real
'eason was that the tribe had led such
IN exciting life under Vend0nah that
hey couldn't settle down to anything
amer. he was awful, but he always
,ept things happening -terrible things,
4 course. They hated him, but they
weren't able to discover any other
Warrior that they wanted to make
hief in his place. They couldn't help
ceiling that way"
Il see" said Eugene. $50 that's why
hey named the place sThey-Couldn't.
Telp-ItT"
''It must have been"
And SO you're going to stay here f.
our garden he said muslngly "You
hink it's better to keep on walking
hese sunshiny gravel paths between
our flower beds. and growing to look
Ike pensive garden lady In Vie
Orian engraving"
Il suppose I'm ike the tribe that
we'd here, papa. / had too much Uns
leasant excitement. 1t was unpIeass
nt-but It was excitement. I dont
ant any more; in fact. dent vans
but you"
''You don't7p he looked at her keen.
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