The Holbrook news., 1922-04-07

Grandpa was dead, so of course he couldn't go, and there weren't any brothers or sisters, only Aunt Jane in St. Paul. and she was so mad she wouldn't come on. So there was no chance of seeing the bride till Father brought her home.
 Nurse said they wondered and won- dered what kind of a woman 1t could be that had captured him. q told her I wished she wouldn't speak of my mother as if she was some kind of a hunter out after game; but she only chuckled and said that's about what it amounted to in some cases.) The very idea!
 The whole town was excited over the affair, and Nurse Sarah heard 6 lot of their talk. Some thought she was an astronomer like him. Some thought she was very rich, and may be famous. Everybody declared she must know lot, anyway, and be wonderfully wise and intellectual; and they said she was probably tall and wore glasses, and would be thirty years old, at least. But nobody guessed anywhere near what she really was.
 Nurse Sarah said she should never forget the night she came, and how she looked, and how utterly flabber- gasted everybody was to see her llttle slim eighteen-year-O girl with yellow, curly hair and the merriest laughing eyes they had ever seen. Don't l know9 Don't I just love Mothers eyes when they sparkle and twinkle when we're off together some times in the wOOdsD And Nurse said came, and went laughing and dane ing all over the house. eXclaiming over everything. q cant imagine that so well. Mother moves so quietly now, everywhere, and is so tired, most all the time) But sine wasn't tired then, Nurse says-not mite.
 But how did Father act?" I de- manded. Wasn't he displeased and scandalized and shocked, and every thing?"
 Nurse shrugged her shoulders and raised her eyebrOws-the way she does when she feels particularly superior. Then she said:
 Do? What does any old fool beggin' your pardon an no offense meant. Miss Mary Marie-but what does any man do what's got bejuggled with pretty face, an his senses com pletely took away from him by chit of q girl? Well, that's what he did. He acted as if he was bewitched. He followed her around the house like Il dog-when he wasn't leadin' her to something new; an he never took his eyes off her face except to look at us. as much as to say: Now ain't she the adorable creature?"
 My father did that?" I gasped. And. really, you know, just couldn't believe my ears. And you wouldn't. either. if you knew Father "Why, l never saw him act like that!
 "No, l guess you didn't" laughed Nurse Sarah with shrug. And neither did anybody else-for long"
 But how long did it last?' I asked.
 "Oh, month, or maybe six weeks" shrugged Nurse Sarah. ''Then it came September and college began, and your father had to go back to his teach ing. Things began to change then"
 Right then. so you could see them?" I wanted to know.
 Nurse Sarah shrugged her shoulders again,
 "Oh, la. child, what a little ques- ton-boX you are. an no mistake" she sighed But she didn't look mad-not like the way she does when I ask why she can take her teeth out and most of her hair off and cant; and things like that (As if didn't know, What does she take me fora childO She didn't even look displeased-Nurse Sarah loves to talk. GAS if I didn't know that. toOD She just threw that quick look of hers over her shoulder and settled back contentedly in her chair. 1 knew then I should get the whole story. And 1 did. And I'm go- ing to tell it here in her own words, just as well as 1 can remember it bad grammar and all. So please re- member that am not making all those mistakes. It's Nurse Sarah.
 I guess, though. that I'd better put it into new chapter. This one Is yards long already. How do they tell when to begin and end chapters? I'm thinking it's going to be some job, writing this boOll-diary. 1 mean. But | shall love it, I know. And this is a real story-not like those made-up things I've always written for the girls at school.