The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1922-03-30
asked her why, and what she

got 1 asked her why, and what she
meant.
"Oh, la! Did you hear that" she
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 enoughv'
Little pitchers" indeed! AS If I
didn't know what that meant! I'm no
child to be kept in the dark concern
ing things I ought to know. And
told her so, sweetly and pleasantly,
but with frmness and dignity. made
her tell me what she meant, and I
made her tell me lot Of other things
about them, too. You see I'd just de-
cided to write the book, 50 I wanted
to know everything she could tell me.
didn't tell her about the book, Of
course. I know too much to tell Sc
Nets to Nurse Sarah! But l showed
my excitement and interest plainly !;
and when she saw how glad was to
hear everything she could tell, she
talked lot, and really seemed to en-
Joy it, too.
You see, she was here when Mother
first came as bride, so she knows
everything. She was Fathers nurse
when he was little boy; then she
stayed to take care of Fathers mother,
Grandma Anderson, who was an in
valid for great many years and who
| didn't die till just after I was born.
Then she took care of me. So she's
always been in the family ever since
she was a young girl. Shes awfully
old now-'most sixty.
First 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 80 tee
totally different.
But this is the story.
Father went to Boston to attend
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. Tier
father was one of the astronomers,
Nurse said.) The meetings lasted four
days, and Nurse said she guessed my
father saw a lot Of my mother during
that time. Anyhow, he was invited to
their home, and he stayed another four
days after the meetings were 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 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 attes
ton So they supposed, of course, that
he was q hopeless old bachelor and
wouldn't ever marry. He was bound
Fup in his stars, even then, and was
already beginning to be famous, be-
cause Of comet he'd discovered. He
was q professor in our college here,
where his father had been president.
His father had just died few months
before, and Nurse said maybe that was
one reason why Father got caught In
the matrimonial net like that. [Those
are her words, not mine. The Idea
of calling my mother net! But
nurse never did appreciate Mother).
But Father just worshiped his father,
and they were always together
Grandma being sick so much;
and so when he died my father
was nearly beside himself, and that's
one reason they were so anxious he
should 60 to that meeting In Boston.
They thought it might take his mind
off himself, Nurse said. But they
never thought Of it's putting his mind
on wife!
So far as his doing it right up quick
like that was concerned, Nurse said
that wasn't so surprising. For all the
way up, If Father wanted anything he
insisted ON having it, and having 1t
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