The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-04-25

got 1 asked her why, and what she
meant
'Oh, la! Did you hear thaf?" Size
demanded, with the quick look over
her shoulder that she always gives
when she's talking about Father and
Mother. Well, little pitchers do have
big ears, sure enough"
Little pitchers" indeed. As If 1
didn't know what that meant! Tn no
child to be kept In the dark concern
ing things l ought to know. And
told her so. sweetly and pleasantly,
but with frmness and dignity. l made
her tell me what she meant, and /
made her tell me lot OF other things
about them, too. You see, I'd Just de-
cided to write the book, so 1 wanted
to know everything she could tell me.
didn't tell her about the book, of
course. l know too much TO tell Sc
crets 70 Nurse Sarah! But l showed
my excitement and interest plainly:
and when she saw how glad l was TO
| hear everything she could tell, she
talked lot, and really seemed TO en-
| Joy 1t, too.
You see, she was here when Mother
| first came as a bride, so she knows
everything. She was Fathers nurse
when he was a little boy; then she
| stayed to take care of Fathers mother.
| Grandma Anderson, who was an in
/ valid for a great many years and who
. didn't die till just after / was born.
bon, oh 3, -. -
always been in the family ever since
she was young girl. She's awfully
! old nOw-'mOst sixty.
! First l found out how they happened
/ to marry-Father and Mother. I'm
/ talking about now-only Nurse says
she can't see yet how they did happen
/ to marry, just the same, they're so tee
! totally different
! Blu this Is the story.
Father went to Boston to attend q
/ big meeting of astronomers from all
over the world, and they had banquets
and receptions where beautiful ladies
went in their pretty evening dresses
and my mother was one of them. (Her
| father was one of the astronomers,
Nurse said.) The meetings lasted four
, days, and Nurse said she guessed my
father saw lot of my mother during
that time. Anyhow, he was invited to
their home. and he stayed another four
days after the meetings We're over.
The next thing they knew here at the
house. Grandma Anderson had tele-
gram that he was going to be married
to Miss Madge Desmond, and would
they please send him some things he
wanted. and he was going on a we'd
ding trip and would bring his bride
/ home in about month.
1t was just as sudden as that. And
surprising = Nurse says a thunderclap
out of a clear blue sky couldn't have
astonished them more. Father was al
most thirty years old at that time, and
he'd never cared thing for girls nor
paid them the least little bit of atten
ton. So they supposed, of course, that
he was hopeless old bachelor and
wouldn't ever marry. He was bound
UP in his stars, even then. and was
already beginning to be famous be
cause of q comet he'd discovered. He
was professor III our cOilege mere
where his father had been president
His father had just died few months
before and Nurse said maybe that wa:
one reason why Father got caught il
the matrimonial net like that. (Thos'
are her words, not mine. The ide;
, of calling my mother a net Blu
nurse never did appreciate Mother)
But Father just worshiped his father
and they were always togethe
Grandma being sick so much
and so when he died my fathe
was nearly beside himself, and that
one reason they were so anxious h
: should 60 to that meeting in Boston
: They thought it might take his min
off himself. Nurse said. But the
never thought Of Its putting his min
on a wife,
| So far as his doing 1t right up quic
like that was concerned, Nurse sal
i that wasn't so surprising. For all tn
way up. if Father wanted anything b
Insisted on having 1t, and having