The Nevada County picayune., 1922-03-30

And that's the way II vent, Nurse add, until everybody was just about cfAzy. Then somebody suggested Mafy." And Father said, very we'll, they might call ne Mary; and Mother SAjd certainly, she would consent to Mary, only she should pronounce 1t Harie. And so 1t was settled. Father called me Mary, and Mother called ne Marie. And right away every body else began to call me Mary Marie, And that's the way it's been ever since.
 Of course, when you stop to think Qf 1t, it's sort of queer and funny. though naturally didn't think of 1t, growing up with 1t as did, and always having 1t, until suddenly one day 1t occurred to me that none of the other girls had two names, one for tleir father and, one for their mother to chll them by. began to notice other things then, too. Their fathers and mothers didn't live In rooms at op- posite ends of the house, Their fathers apd mothers seemed to like each other, and to talk together. and to have little jokes and laughs together, and twinkle With their eyes. That Is, most of them did.
 And If one wanted to go to walk, or to party, or to play some game, the other didn't always look tired and bored. and say. "Ch, very well, if you like" And then both not do 1t, what ever Ii was That Is, never saw the other girls fathers and mothers do that way; and I've seen quite lot of them, too, for I've been at the other girls houses lot for long time You see don't stay at home much, only when have to. We don't have @ round table with red cloth and lamp on it, and children round fl playing games and doing things, and fathers and mothers reading and mending And it's lots jollier where they do have them.
 Nurse says my father and mother ought never to have been married That's what ] heard her tell our Bridget one day. So the first chance got l 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 enough v
 Little pitchers" indeed As If l didn't know what that meant I'm no child to be kept in the dark concern ing things 1 ought to know. And l told her so, sweetly and pleasantly, but with firmness and dignity. l made her tell me what she meant, and l made her tell me a lot of other things about them, too. You see, I'd just de cided to write the book, so l wanted to know everything she could tell me. I didn't tell her about the book, of course I know too much to tell se- crets to Nurse Sarah But l showed my excitement and interest plainly and when she saw how glad l was to hear everything she could tell, she talked a .ot, and really seemed to en- joy 1t, too.
 You see, she was here when Mother first came as a 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 lh valid for a great many years and who didn't die till just after l was born. Then she took care of me. So she always been in the family ever since she was a young girl. She's awfuliy old nOw-'mOst sixty.
 First I 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 so tee totally different.
 But this is the story.
 Father went to Boston to attend u big meeting of astronomers rom a'i over the world, and they had banquets and receptions where beautiS'l iao'es went in their pretty evening dresses and my mother was one of them ther fsther was one of the astronomers Nurse said.) The meetings lasted Tour Mays and Nurse said she guessed my