The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-08-20

DArk Where tney nave clothes nnf
ash barrels. and a little grass SPOT
In front at one side OF the steps moi
big enough for our old cat To take d
nap In. hardly. But it's perfectly
lovely inside: and IT'S the fnsides OF
houses that really count. Just ~ II l,
the insides Of peopie--their hearts.
mean; whether they're good and
kind. or hateful and disa greeabie.
We have dinner nj night here. and
I've been TO the theatre twice al
ready In the afternoon. I've got &c
20 10 school next week. mother says
but no far I've just been having a
good time. And SOS mother. Hon
estly. II has just seemed as n moth
er couldn't crowd the days full
enough She hasn't been stll a
minute.
Lots Of her old friends have been
To sec her. and when there hasn't
been anybody else around she's
taken Peter and had him drive us all
over Boston 20 see things:--sil kinds
Of things: Bunker Hin and museums.
and moving pictures. and one play.
But we didn't stay At the play. II
started out all right. but pretty soon
a man and a woman on the stage
began TO quarrel. They were mar.
ried mot really. but in the play. l
msan). and I guc~~ II was some more
Of that incompatibiilty stuff. Any.
how. M they began 20 talk more and
more. mother began to fidset. and
pretty soon saw she was gathering
up our things. and the minute the
curtain went down after the nrs,
act. she says.
Come. dear. we're going homA !,
1t isn't very warm here"
/ A. II I didn't know what she was
really leaving fort Do old folks hon.
estiy think they are fooling us al
tho time. I wondery But even II l
hadn't known then. I'd have known
IL later. for that evening heard
mother and Aunt Hattie talking In
the library.
No. didn't listen I heard. And
that's n very different matter. You
listen when you mean 20. and that's
sneaking. You hear when you can't
help yourself. and that you can't be
blamed for. Sometimes It's your
good luck. and sometimes It's your
bad iuck--just according to what
you heart
Well. ! was IN the windcw-scat IN
the library reading when mother and
Aunt Hattie came In: and mother
was saying.
of course I came out. Do you
suppose I'D have had that child see
that play. after realized what II
VAST ~ n she hasn't had enough of
such ~retched stuff already In her
abort iife' oh. Hattie. Hattie. I want
that child TO laugh. to sing. TO fairly
tngie with the joy OF living every
Minute that she IL with me. I know
no wen what she has had. and what
she viii have--in that--tomb. You
know In six months she goes back"
Mother saw me then. 1 know: for
she stopped right off short. and after
moment began TO talk OF some
thing else. very fast And pretty
quick they went out into the hall
again.
Dear little mother. Bles. her old
heart lent she the ducky dear 70
want me TO have all the good times
possible now so as to make up for
the six months I've got to be with
fathcrY You see, she knows what IL
~ TO live with father even better
than I do.
Wen. ] guess she doesn't dread n
Tor me any more than I do for my.
self. still. I'll have tho girls there
and I'm dying to see them again
ana l won't have TO stav home
much. only nights and meals. or
course. and fathers always nre,ty
busy with his stars and comets and
things. Besides. IT'S only for six
months, then can come back To
Boston. ] can keep thinking OF that
but l know now why I've been
having such n perfectly beautiful
ume all this week. and why mother
mas been filling every minute SO fun
OF run and good times. Why. even
when we're at home here. she's nj.
ways hunting up little Lester and
getting him to have a romp with us.
But OF course next week I've rot
70 go to school. and II can't be
quito 80 jolly then. Well I guess
that's all for this TINA
About a month later.
didn't make a chapter Of that
last IL wasn't long enough. And.
really. don't know as I've got
much TO add to II now. There's
nothing much happened.
go to school now. and don't have
70 much time for fun. School is
pretty good. and there are two or
three girls most as nice as the ones
at Andcrsonville. But not quito. out
OF school mother keeps things Just
as lively as ever. and we have beau
tiful times. Mother Is having n love.
ly time with her own friends, too.
Seems ms II there Is always some one
here when ! get home, and lots OF
times there are teas and parties, and
people 10 dinner.
There are gentlemen. too. ! sup
pose one OF them will be mothers
lover by and bv: but Of course l
don't know which ono yet. I'm
awfully interested In them. though.
And Of 'course it's perfectly natural
that I should be. Wouldn't YOU be
interested In a man that was going
20 be your new father, Well. I guess
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