The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-08-23
INVITING BOBBY
BY MoLLIE MATTER
Observation-Disclosures
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Bliss looked like human morning
gIory--If such might be--with her
soft pink cheeks and her violet eyes,
and the very dancing llghtness OF her.
The letter was from her stepmother,
who spent most Of the time abroad
with her husband, whose business az
fairs called him there. Bliss and the
stepmother were the best Of friends,
and II was this understanding friend.
ship which left the girl In sole pos
session Of her former home.
Lizzie, her own mothers trusted
helper, was also left in charge.
The girl had been given her moth
ers family name, and those who loved
her--and there were oh, no many
thought II the most appropriate name.
for surely the bright presence, was
as they said, "bllssfully happy one"
"Trying, TOO, to make others as
happy
Bliss seated herself on lower step
to read her letter. II was written In
behalf Of some new.fOund friend Of
her mothers. "a dear woman" the
letter said, from our own home city,
who, widowed, had come over here,
with her young daughter. have
talked with her about you, Of course,
Bliss darling, and she was moved TO
write you--her Enclosed letter speaks
for itself"
Bliss unfolded the accompanying let.
ter.
! MY Dear Miss Carmen: Your
mother has told me about you and
your pretty home in the country VII.
lage. l. who am far from home, wish
that It's hospitality might be extended.
through your kindness, 10 my poor
boy, left alone In the hot, dusty city.
know that Bobby is lonely without
his mother-for, YOU see, be is NY
baby, and I'm afraid my friends are
right when they say have made my.
self TOO necessary to him. But that Is
way OF mothers. My little girl Is
with me here. | wonder IL II il ask
ing too much to suggest that you write
hlm--iust little line, II you are
busIly occupied with other matters
and perhaps some time you will let
him come out To sun himself IN your
lovely old-fashloned garden; am see
, ing 1t through your mothers eyes |
know 1t would do my poor lonely
Bobby world of good, and I would
be always, Yours most gratefully,
N ESTHER GALE
Bliss bounced In to Lizzie Just
= think" she cried, In everready sympa.
thy, "of that poor boy left alone in
the city, while his mother and little
sister are away In Europe. | shall
: write for him 10 come, Lizzie, and
: you shall make him some OF -FOUR "a
nous cookies. II will really re pleas
> ant to mother the motherles' child
. So Bliss sat down to her letter
r one evening at sundowh Bliss was
, hanging a rope swing for her anticI-
, pated guest, beneath the apple tree,
and was looking very young herself,
J. when a man approached through the
hedge
lie smiled, as he came near, then
stopped TO adjust the swing board,
which lay AT the girls feet
"Will you tell me-" he inquired
where may find Miss Bliss Carmen
An elderly lady, would fancy her, as
: she Is a friend of my mother A we'll
meaning friend" added the man, and
y smiled again.
81 anu Miss Carmen she absently
i. replied.
: The man stared - rudely, she
thought "You!" he exclaimed.
Bliss nodded, you wanted to Sc,
o me?'
The man laughed. Then instantly
n he excused himself. ~ was certain
@ that II friend Of my mothers as you
It stated you were in Boobies letter
x must naturally he near my mother:
n age. Indeed--you are Just n little cir
u in swing"
!, Bliss slipped from the swing tC
; stand before him. "What do you
= know Of Bobby?" she asked
The man stood up. II am Bobby,
', he announced astpnishlngy, 81 sup
y pose mother is to blame for your mis-
d take" he said. She always refers
! to my sister as her little girl, though
g Sue has long been married. I. to m!
g confusion, am her baby because
L happen to have been the youngest II
the family. Butt did like my in
vitaton. it's true hospitality, the rea
thing all through"
From the open kitchen doorwN!
came spicy odor; Lizzie stood Their,
= curiously regarding the visitor.
" Suddenly laughing, Bliss put GU
y her hand to him. 81 must keep m,
y promise about the cookies" she said
& and the hammock afterward7" h,
. smiled into the violet eyes.
n AND the hammock" agreed tn
Z girl
u And as they walked to the house to
"a gether, he was thinking jubiantly
+ "Tnat matchmaking mother of min
y is on the right track at last"
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