The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1922-08-31

Dor cried Mr.. piow. This gentle
fellow was always excited by life. ~
faintiy excited by hisn. and enjoyed In
presentation In any real form
Ntnisn had unerringly selected a
dwarf rocker. aud he was ovcrfowing
II ard rocking
TAKE this chair. coi" Ina begged.
"A big chair for q hig man" She
spoke as ~ he were about the age of
Monona.
Niuian refused insisted on his re-
fusal few years more aud human
relationships would have spread san
nv even 10 Ena's estate aud she would
have told him Why be should exchange
chairs. As " was she forehoFe. and
kept CHANGING anxiously al Tie over.
bursiencd little beast beneath him.
The child Monona entered the room.
She had been driven down by III and
Jenny ri0w. who had vanished up.
stairs and. through the ventllator,
might be heard in lifi and fall of
giggiinc. Monona had also been driven
from the Kitchen where Lulu was, for
some reason. hurrying through the
dishes Mcnona now ran to Mrs. nctf.
stoui beside her and stared about re-
seutfnlly Mrs Bett was In best black
aud ruches. and she seized upon Mo-
mona and patted her. as her own form
OF social expression: and Monona
wriggied ike puppy. as hers.
Quiet, petite said Ina. eyebrows
up. She caught her lower lip in her
teeth
"wsli, SIR" said Dwight. "you
wouldn't think II to look ~ us. but
mother had her hands pretty full. bring
ing us up
Into DwIght's face came another
look. II was always 80 when he spoke
OF this foster-mother who had tascn
these two boys and seen them through
the graded schools This woman
Dwight adoied. and when he spoke "
her he became his inner self.
I'VE must run upstate and see her
while you're here. Nm" he said.
To this N!nian gave casual assent.
lacking his brothers really tender mr.
dor.
Little" Dwight pursued. little did
she think I'd settle down into nice.
quiet, married dentist and magistrate
in my town. And Min lnto-say. Mn,
what are you. anyway"
They laughed,
That's the question" said Nlnlan.
They laughed
"Maybc," Ina ventured. 'maybe
Nlnian win tell us something about his
travels He Is quite traveller, you
know" she said TO the Piows. "a reg
ular CULVER"
They laughed respectfully.
How we should love It. Mr. Dea-
con-" Mrs. Plcw said. "You know
we've never seen very much.'
Goased ON. Ninlnn launched upon
his foreign countries as be had seen
them: Population. exports. Imports.
soil, irrigation. business. For the pop
nlations NInian had no respect. Crops
could not touch ours Soil mighty poor
pickings. And the business-say !
Those fellows don't know---and, say.
the hotels Don't say.forelgn hotel TO
Nlnian
lie regarded all the alien earth as
barbarian, and he stoned X. He wns
equipped for absolutely no intensive
observation. His contacts were negli-
gible Mrs. Plow was more excited by
the Dcacons party than NinIan had
been wrought upon by all his voyag-
Ing
"relI you said Dwight. "when we
rTn away that time and went to the
state fair, little did we think" He
told about running away to the state
fair. II thought" he wound up. ir-
relevantly. "Ipa and I might get over
to the other side this year. but guess
NOT l guess not"
The words give no conception OF
their effect. spoken thus For there IN
Warbieton these words are not com
monplace. In warbleton, Europe In
never SO casually spoken Of. Take q
trip abroad" Is the phrase, Or GO to
Europe at the very least, and both
with einpressemenf. Dwight had some
where noted and deliberately picked
up that "other side" effect. and his
Ina knew this. and was proud. Her
covert glance about pensively covered
her soft triumph
Mrs. Bett. her arm stlll circIing the
child Monona, now made her first OBJ
servatlen.
"Pity not to have went while the
--t..n go 4~~-~<4 y a.. rstx <s.<,1 ~.fa