The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-14
Revelations
Ofu Wife
BY ADELE GARRISON

How Dicky's Mother Saw the Sights
Where shall we go first?"
! I asked the question patiently, ii
seemed to me, for the ninth or tenth
time Beyond saying that she wished
! to see some of the historic churches
J of New York, Dicky's mother had
given no indication of which particu-
! lar section she wished to visit first.
To my surprise she was ready with
an answer.
"Sdppose we go to the very end of
| the island first, and come back slow
ly," she said. I am so anxious to see
the harbor''
I glanced anxious at her wraps,
which were warm but not unusually
heavy. We stood just outside the
apartment, and I felt the rush of a
brisk wind. OF course, the trip down
to the harbor would be made in the
subway, but L knew, as the elder Mrs
Graham could not, the sharpness of
! the ocean wind sweeping up from the
bay, and dreaded the chill for her.
But I knew better than to make
any objection. Even my brief associa-
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taught me that the price of peace in
her presence was acquiescence IN her
plans.
Very well. then" I said. The sub
way will take us there but we have to
change to an express at Fourteenth
street.
Il have never ridden in the subway"
she remarked. They were talking of
it when I was in New York last, but
nothing had been done"
We made very slow progress to-
ward the subway. My mother in law
was almost child-li like in her curious
interest in the street sights. 1 was
surprised at her attitude. l had i'm
agined from the air of unbending dig
nifty she had worn ever since I met
her that she would move through the
streets figuratively holding her skirts
away from the people and objects she
met in her journey.
:. Positiveness a Characteristic. =.
But she paused before every shop
window and looked in frankly interest
ed fashion at the different types of
people crossing the streets. She stop
ped also to examine every building
. "lICu gave tNlucllCe Ol DelOISiIS 10
the regime of old New York, when
the brownstone fronts of Murray Hill
and Washington square were the last
word in the nations fashion annals.
There are number of such buildings
in the neighbOrhOOd lying between
our apartment and the subway, and
I began to fear that it would take US
an Internationally long time to reach
our destination.
This is a wonderful doorway" she
said, stopping before a house barred
behind the iron grille work which
marked the areaway of the old time
city house. You must mark that
house, Margaret, and find out when
it is to be torn down, as it eventually
will be. Richard could buy that door
for a comparatively small sum then.
1t would make a beautiful entrance for
the house he will build some day"
It is a characteristic of the elder
Mrs. Graham that she never says
Isn't it?" but at isl" never DO you
think So but Il think So and Il
know" never Ought you not" but
You must" 1 have never known a
more decided woman in my life. I
There ought to be stairway and
other fittings inside TO match that
door" she went on. Il think we will
go in and ask about them. l see sign ,
Furnished roOms!'
e. g. Merely a Po&tponement. e.. E.
Don't you think, Mrs. Graham" 1
interposed defereptially, that we had
better postpone this visit until some /
other time? The daylight does not I,
last very long at this time of the
year, and the trip to the old section .
of New York will take up a good deal (
OF time
MY mother in-law frowned quickly.
She evidently was about to make an
impatient answer. Then suddenly her
brow cleared.
Yes, I suppose we might as well
hurry on" she said. 4 shall want a
good deal of time to go through this
house properly. We will come down
some mor1 ing and say we are look
ing for rooms, then we will have a I
chance to look over everything thor
oughly."
I tried to keep the disray I fa!t ut
of nv face. The idea of pretending
to search for rooms, which we had
not the slightest intention Of taking,
was most distasteful to me. but 1 kept
silent, resolving to avoid the proposed
trip if it were possible for me to do
so.
Mrs. Graham made no more stops.
and we soon came to the Twenty
eighth street subway entrance.
"Oh, this is hideous," she said with
the quick decision which character
ICES all her remarks. Il have seen
pictures of these, and I thought when
I saw them that il was a pity to
spoil the streets with such structures,
but the reality is much worse than
imagined. Whatever possessed