The Holbrook news., 1922-05-12
SYNOPSIS

SYNOPSIS
 PREFACE.-'Mary Marie" explains her apparent double personality" and just why she Is a "cross-current and contra ais,ion. she also tells her reasons easeI Ss TSs diary Is commenced at Andersonville- e CHAPTER I-Mary begins with Nurse Sarah's account of her (Marys) birth. who Is & famous astronomer. less than new star which was discovered the same night Her name is a compromise. her mother wanted to call her Viola and her father insisting on Abigail Jane. The child quickly learned that her home was in some way different from those of her small friends. and was puzzled thereat. Nurse Sarah tells her of her mothers ar rival at Andersonville bride and how astonished they all were at the sight Of the dainty eighteen-year old girl whom wife.
 CHAPTER u.-Continuing her story, Nurse Sarah makes It plain why the household seemed strange one to the child and howher father and mother drifted apart through misunderstanding, each too proud to in any way attempt to smooth over the situation.
 CHAPTER Hillary tells of the time spent "out vest where the perfectly
 
 divorce was being arranged for, and her mothers (to her) unacountable behavior. By the courts decree the child is to spend six months of the year with her mother and six months with her father. Boston Is Mothers home, and she and Mary leave Andersonville for that city to spend the first six months.
 CHAPTER Iv.-At Boston Mary be. comes Marie" She is delighted with her new home, so different from the gloomy house at Andersonville. The number of gentlemen who call on her mother leads her to speculate on the possibility of prospective suitors.'' finally deciding the choiee Is to be between. 'the violinist" and a Mir. Harlow. A conversation she overhears between her mother and Mir. Harlow convinces her that 1t will not he that gentleman. and ito violinist" seems to be the likely man. Mrs. Anderson re- ceives letter from Aunt Abigail Ander- son. her former husbands sister. whi Is keeping house for him. reminding her that Mary Is expected at Andersonville for the six months she Is to spend with her father. Her mother Is distressed but has no alternative. and Marie departe for Andersopville-
 CHAPTER v.-At Andersonville Aunt Jane meets her at the station. Her ia ther is away somewhere. studying an eclipse of the moon. Marie-"Mary" now-instinctively compares Aunt Jane. prim and severe. with her beautiful. dainty mother. much to the formers disadvan- tage: Aunt Jane disapproves of the dain; ty clothes which the child is wearing. and replaces them with "serviceable" serges and thick k-coled shoes. Her father arrives home and seems surprised to see her. The child soon begins to notice that the girls at school seem to avoid her. Her father appears interested in the life Mrs. An derson leads at Boston and asks many Suszies Mary. She finds out that her schoolmates do not associate with her on account of her parents being divorced. and she refuses to attend school. Angry aS first, Mir. Anderson. when he learns the reason for her determination. decides that she need not go. He will hear her lessons. In Aunt lanes and her fathers absence Mary dresses in the pretty clothes she brought from Boston and plays the liveliest tunes she knows. on the little used piano. Then. ovefcome by her lone someness. she indulges in crying spell which her fathers unexpected appear anee interrupts. She sobs out the story of her unhappiness. and in a clumsy way he comforts her. After that he appears to desire to make he! stay more pleasant Her mother writes asking that Mary be allowed to come to Boston for the begin ming of the school term. and Mr. Ander- son consents. though from an expression he lets fall Mary believes he Is sorry she Is going
 And just threw those olu heavy shoes and black cotton stockings into the corner, and the blue gingham dress after them (though Mary went right away and picked the dress up, and hung 1t in the closet. Of course) but I had the fun of throwing it. anyway.
 Oh, how good those Marie things did feel to AIary's hot. dried flesh and bones. and how I did dance and sing around the room in those light little slippers! Then Susie rang the dinner bell and I went down to the dining room feeling like really truly young lady. can tell you.
 Susie stared, of course. and said, "My, how fine we are today." But I didn't mind Susie
 After dinner went out into the hall and I sang all over the house. Then I went into the parlor and played every lively thing that I could think of on the piano. And I sang there, too-silly little songs that Marie used to sing to Lester. And l tried to think was really down there to BOs- ton. singing to Lester; and that Moth CT was right in the next room waiting for me.
 Then 1 stopped and turned around on the piano stool. and the room was tust as still as death. And I knew l wasn't in Boston. 1 was there In Andersonville. And there wasn't any Baby Lester there. nor any mother waiting for me in the next room. And all the fluffy white dresses and silk stockings in the world wouldn't make me Marie. I was really just Mary, and I had got to have three whole months more of 1t.
 And then is when I began to cry. And I cried just as hard as I'd been singing a minute before. I was on the floor with my head In my arms on the piano stool when Fathers voice came to me from the doorway.
 Mary, Mary, what in the world does this mean?"
 I jumped up and stood "at atten- tion," the way you have to, of course, when fathers speak to you. I couldn't help showing I had been crying-he had seen 1t. But I tried very hard to stop now. My first thought after my