The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-12-31

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;id * sion of the world was of q
&i1 mysterious and extraordin-
:% airy world that revolved entirely
&3 about her father and that entirely
and completely belonged TO her
q father. Under her father, all
males had proprietary rights in
n the world and dominion over it ;
no females owned any part of the
,[ world or could do anything with it..
=:# All the males in this world-her
~ father, and Robert and Harold her
:#l brothers, and all the other boys
III and men one sometimes saw--did
" m Y t rious and extraordinary
: things; and all the females in this
81 world-her mother, and Anna and
II Flora and Hilda her sisters, and
III Ellen the cook and Gertrude, the
II maid-did ordinary and unexcit-
u ing and generally rather tiresome
n things. All the males were ike
HI story books to Resale: you never
# knew what they were going to do
#Is next; and all the females were
KS like lesson books: they just went
u on and on and on.
A Rosalie always stared at men
~ when she saw them. Extraordin-
N airy and wonderful creatures who
could do what they liked and were
IA always doing mysterious and won
III derful things, especially and above
I'll all her ia, er.
III Being with her father was like
&i being with magician or like
~ watching a conjuror on the stage.
n You nevcl knew what he was go
III ing TO do next. Whatever he sud-
II denly did was never surprising in
N the sense of being startling, for
Il (this cannot be emphasized too
~ much) nothing her father did was
n ever surprising to Resale; but it
81 was surprising in the sense of be
IA ing Rbsorbingly wonderful and en-
III thralling. Even better than read
III ing when she first began to read,
IA and far better than anything in the
if world before the mysteries in
"a books were discoverable, Rosalie
y liked to sit and stare at her father
u and think how wonderful he was
n and wonder what extraordinary
Il thing he would do next. Every
i thing belonged to him. The whole
"a Of life was ordered with q view
81 to what he would think about it,
81 The whole of life was continually
III thrown off its balance and whirled
into the most enhancing cOnvu!-
sions by sudden activities of this
y most wonderful man.
Enhancing commissions! Won
= derful, wonderful father with 4
~ bull after him! Why, that YVES her
J | very earliest recollection of him!
y That showed you how wonderful
n he was! Father, seen for the first
I time las it were) flying before a
n bull! Bounding wildly across a
81 field towards her with bull after
III hilni Wonderful father! Did her
- mother ever rush along in front Of
81 a bull? Never. Was it possible to
81 imagine any of the women she
! new rushing before bull? 1t was
not possible To see a woman
u rushing before a bull would have
\ alarmed Resale for she would
q have felt it was unnatural; but for
y her father to be bounding wildly
6 along in front Of q bull seemed
4 TO her perfectly natural and or
n binary and she was not in the least
Z alarmed, only, as always, en-
III thralled.
i: Her father, while Resale watch
y ed him, was not in great dan
ger. He came ballooning along
"A towards Rosalie, not running as
II ordinarily fit and efficient men
" run, but progressing by series of
enormous leaps and bounds, arms
{ and legs spread-eagling, and at
u each leap and bound always SEEM
ing to Resale to spring as high in
II the air as he sprung forward over
III the ground. tt would not have
s surprised Rosalie, who was then
(: about four, to see one of those
q stupendous leaps continue in a
+: whirling flight through mid-air
u and her father come hurting over
Il the gate and drop with an enor-
" nous PUNK at her feet like huge
\ dead bird, as & partridge once had
Il come PUNK over the hedge and out
of the sky when she was in lane
adjacent to q shooting party. II
ri would not have surprised her in the
81 least. Nothing her father did ever
III surprised Resale. The world WAS
"A his and the fullpess thereof, and
!. he did what he liked with it.
II Arrived, however, from the bull,
)I not as a ballOoning bird OFT
n of the sky, but as n headlong
NJ avalanche over the gate, Rosalie's
IN father tottcred TO a felled tree
N trunk, and sat there heaving, and
{ groaned aloud, internal parish;
n hateful parish; forsaken parishr'
X Resale, wonderingly regarding
II him, said, Mother says dinner is
Il waiting for you, father"
Her mother and her sisters and
the servants and the entire female
+ establishment of the universe
seemed 10 Rosalie always to be
- waiting for something from her
\ father, or for her father himself,
" or waiting for or upon some male
> other than her father. That was
n another of the leading principles
Y that Rosalie first came to know in
her world. Not only were the
~ males. paramountly her father.