White County record., 1922-07-27
CHAPTER ll-Continued.

"An your ma-poor little thing! I couldn't think of anything but a doll that was thrown in the corner because somebody'd got tired of her. She was lonesome, an no mistake. Anybody'd be sorry for her, to see her mopin' round the house, nothin' to 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 1 took what care of your grand ma was needed an she always gave her orders through me. so l practical ly run the house, an there wasn't anything there for her to do.
 An so your ma just had to nope it out alone. Oh, l don't mean your pa was unkind. He was always nice an polite, when he was in the house. an Pm 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 to one he didn't disappear into the observa- tory within the next five minutes. Then your ma would look so grieved an sor- ry an go off an cry, an maybe not come down to dinner, at all.
 "Well then, one day things got so bad your grandma took a hand. She was up an around the house, though she kept mostly to her own rooms. But of course she saw how things was goin'. Besides, I told her-some. Twas no more than. my duty. as 1 looked at it. She just worshiped your pa, an naturally she'd want things right for him. So one day she told me to tell her sons wife to come to her in her room.
 An l did, an she came. Poor lit tie thing I couldn't help bein sor- " for her. She didn't know a thing of what was wanted of her, an she was so glad an happy to come. You see, she was lonesome, 1 suppose.
 "'Me? Want me?-Mother Ander- sonY she cried. Oh I'm so gladn Then she made it worse by runnin' up the stairs an bOuncn' into the room like rubber ball, an cryin': Now, what shall l do, read to you or sing to you, or shall we play games? I'd love to do any of them' Just like that, she said it. I heard her. Then went out of course, an left them. But 1 heard most everything that was said, just the same, for I 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 cold little voice that made even me shiyer 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 have a serious talk with l her. Then she told her. still very polite, that she was noisy an child l ish an undignified, an that it was not only silly, but very wrong for her l to expect to have her husbands entire attention; that he had his own work, an it was a 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 well-liked by all the college people an students; an he couldn't be that if she insisted all the time on keepin' him to herself. or look in sour an cross if she couldn't have him.
 "Of course that ain't 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 little, an sighed a lot, an said she'd try, she really would try to help her husband in every way she could; an she wouldn't ask him another once, not once, to stay with her An she wouldn't look sour an cross, either Shed promise she wouldn't. An she'd try, she'd try, oh, so hard, to be proper an dignifed.
 'She got up then an went out of the room so quiet an still you wouldn't know she was mOvin'. But heard her up in her room cryin' half an hour later, when l stopped a minute at her door to see if she was there. An she was.
 "But she wasn't cryin' by night Not much she was She'd washed her face. an dressed herself up as pretty