The Hope pioneer., 1922-04-06
CHAPTER Il-continued.

couldn't think of anything but 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 l 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, 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 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 ut 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! couldn't help bein' sor-
ry for her. She didn't know thing
of what was wanted of her, an she
was so glad an happy to come. You
see, she was lonesome, l suppose.
"'Me? Want me?-NIother Ander-
son.? she cried. oh, I'm so glad =
Then she made it worse by runnin' up
the stairs an bouncin' into the room
like rubber ball, an cryin': Now,
what shall 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. heard her. Then
I went out, of course, an left them.
But l heard most everything that
was said, just the same, for 1 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
a 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
fsh, 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,
e.A ~ was f" SCAy AiApoA tuut OIlc. 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 amt all she said ;
but remember this part particular
OIL account of what happened after
ward. You see-yOur ma-she felt
awful bad. She cried little, an
sighed 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
She'd promise she wouldn't. An she'd
try, she'd try, oh, so hard, to be proper
an dignitied.
"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 ! stopped 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 hel
face an dressed herself I'm nc nratt =