Gunnison news-champion., 1922-04-28

thin else. now-sornethln' alive, that
she could love an live with an touch
an play with. Ike she could the How
ers an rocks and grass an tres
-Angryi Your pai Not much he
Was! He just laughed an caught her
round the waist an kissed her, an
said she herself was the brightest star
Of all. Then they ran OF hand In hand.
Ike two kids. too. All through those
first few weeks your pa was just q
great big baby with q new plaything-
Then when college began he turned all
at once into fuil--rOwn man. An
jus, naturally your ma didn't know
what 10 make Of IL.
-He couldn't explore the attic an
rig up IN the old clothes there any
more, nor romp through the garten-
nor go luBchln' IN the woods. nor none
OF the things she wanted him TO do. He
didn't have time An What made
things worse. one Of them cunet-tails
didn't take no rest for watchin' for
II. an then studyin' OF II when II got
here
AN your ma-poor little thing!
couldn't think Of anything but doll
that was thrown In the corner because
somebcdy'd got tired Of her. She was
lonesome, an no mistake. Anybody'd
be sorTy for her. To see her mopin'
round the house nothln' 10 do. Oh.
she read. an sewed with them bright
colored silks an worsteds: but course
there wasn't no real work for her to
do. There was good help In the kitchen.
an / took what care OF your grand
ma was needed: an she always gave
her orders through me, so ! PRACTICAL
~ run the house. an there wasn't
anything there for her 10 do.
AN SO your ma just had to NOPE It
out alone. Oh. don't mean your pa
was unkind. He was always nice an
polite. when he was In the house.
an I'm sure he meant TO treat her
all right. He said yes. yes. to be sure.
of course she was lonesome, an he
was sorry. Twas too bad he was
so busy. An he kissed her an patted
her But he always began right away
to talk OF the comet: an ten 10 one
he didn't disappear into the observa-
tory within the next five minutes. Then
your ma would look so grieyed an sor-
~ an go of an cry, an maybe not
come down TO dinner. at all.
We'll then. one day things got so
bad your grandma took hand. She
was up an around the house. though
she kept mostly TO her own rooms.
But Of course she saw how things was
goln' Besides. ! told her-some.
Twas no more than my duty. as /
looked at it, She just worshiped your
IN, an naturally she'd want things
right for him. So one day she told me
To tell her sons wife 10 come to her
In her room.
AN l did. an she came Poor lit
tie thingi couldn't help beln' sor-
ry for her. She didn't know thing
OF what was wanted OF her, an she
was So glad an happy to come. You
see. she was lonesome. I suppose.
"'Me7 Want me:-Mother Ander-
sonT she cried. oh. I'm so giadr
Then she made II worse by runnin' up
the stairs an bouncin into the room
like rubber ball. an cryin': Now.
what shall do. road to you, or sing
TO you. or shall we play games? I'd
love to do any OF them,' Just like
that, she said 1t. heard her. Then
went out. OF course. an left them.
But heard most everything that
was said. just the same, for was
right in the next room dustin and
the door wasn't quite shut.
First your grandmother said real
polite-she was always polite-but In
a cold little voice that made even me
shiver In the other room, that she did
not desire to be read to or sung to,
and that she did not wish to play
games. She had called her daughter
in-law In to hnve serious talk with
her. Then she told her, still very
polite. that she was noisy an child.
ish. an undignified. an that II was
not only silly. but very wrong for her
to expect to have her husbands entire
attention; that he had his own work,
an II was q very Important one. He
was going to be president Of the col.
lege some day. like his father before
him; an IT was her place to help him
In every way she could-help him to
be popular an weli-Iiked by all the
college people an students: an he
couldn't be that IL she insisted all the
time on keepln' him to herself, or look
In sour an cross II she couldn't have
him.
.'Of course that amt all she said:
but l remember this part particular
on account Of what happened after
ward. You see-your ma-she felt
awful bad. She cried a little. an
sighed lot, an said she'd try, she
really would try to help her husband
In every WAY she could. an she