The Holbrook news., 1922-04-07

thin else. now-sOmethin alive tha she could love an live with an toucI an play with, like she could the ;flOw CTS an rocks and grass an trees.
 Angry? Your pa? 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 off hand in hand, like two kids, too. All through those first few weeks your pa was just a great big baby with a new plaything. Then when college began he turned all at once into a full-grown man. An just naturally your ma didn't know what to make of it.
 He couldn't explore the attic an rig up in the old clothes there any more, nor romp through the garden, nor go lunchin' 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 comet-tails was comin' up in the sky, an your pa didn't take no rest for watchin' for 1t, an then studyin' of it when it got here,
 "An your ma-pOor little thing! l couldn't think of anything but dell 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 mopir : 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 l took what care of your grand ma was needed; an she always gave her orders through me, so I practical ly run the house, an there wasn't anything there for her to Go.
 "An' so your ma just had to nope 1t out alone. Oh, I 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 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 I 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 I did, an she came. Poor lit tie thing! I couldn't help bein' sor- ry 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, I suppose.
 "'Me? Want me?-Mother Ander- sOn?' she cried. oh, I'm so gladr Then she made it worse by runnin' up the stairs an bOuncin' into the room like a rubber ball, an cryin': Now, what shall I 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 I went out, of course, an left them But I heard most everything that was said. just the same, for I was right ill the next room dustin,' and the door wasn't quite shut.
 First your grandmother said real 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 have serious talk with her. Then she told her, still very polite, that she was noisy an child ish, an undignified, an that it was not only silly. but very wrong for her 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 I 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